Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thais campaign for protection of western forests |
| 2 | Sir : Did Sarah Helm ( 3 October ) attend the same Society for Protection of Unborn Children ( SPUC ) conference as I did ? |
| 3 | In combination with the alkaline lysis method for preparation of bacterial lysates , this constitutes a rapid and effective method for the isolation of plasmid DNA for sequencing and other purooses . |
| 4 | The Association will carefully monitor the take up of Vocational Qualifications by the industry and the country-wide acceptance of NVQs as nationally recognised qualifications : in the meantime it is apparent that there is a well defined need for flexible and modular provision of learning support and underpinning knowledge for those who are working towards competences , which can be assessed for award of Vocational Qualifications . |
| 5 | The policing of CND rallies and the miners ' strike could hardly be said from the Government 's point of view to have failed , and certainly the police did not suffer for want of legal powers . |
| 6 | However , the airline 's firm orders for 20 Airbus A321 medium-range jets and 28 McDonnell Douglas jets will not be delivered until the mid-1990s , and unlike some other European airlines , Alitalia is thought vulnerable for want of international partners and a strategy for deregulation of the European market after 1992 . |
| 7 | A proclamation was issued in 1718 against " unlawful Clubs , Combinations , etc. " of wool combers and weavers : … which had illegally presumed to use a Common Seal , and to act as Bodies Corporate , by making and unlawfully conspiring to execute certain Bylaws or Orders , whereby they pretend to determine who had a right to the Trade , what and how many Apprentices and Journeymen each man should keep at once , together with the prices of all their Manufactures , and the manner and materials of which they should be wrought ; and that , when many of the said Conspiritors wanted work , because their Masters would not submit to such pretended Orders and unreasonable Demands , they fed them with Money , till they could again get employment , in order to oblige their masters to employ them for want of other hands . |
| 8 | The Eddie Aikau was supposed to be an annual event , but it had not been held in three years for want of perfect conditions . |
| 9 | ( Growth rates of two per cent per annum , as experienced by Poland after 1978 , do not produce EEC-style sluggishness , but breakdowns in deliveries and services and factories unable to function for want of necessary parts . ) |
| 10 | To do so would not , on Mr Miller 's terms , increase the penalty ; it would merely mean that the criminal could escape the more easily for want of key witnesses . |
| 11 | Gabriel let the sing-song rise and fall of Garvey 's voice lull him into a stillness , while his eyes travelled ( for want of interesting faces ) over the even rows of brick cladding the manor house , and the iron-outlined figures of the saints in the stained-glass chapel window . |
| 12 | Tawney wrote of the great waste of ‘ exceptional talent , which is sterilised for want of educational opportunities ’ . |
| 13 | It is amusing but totally unhelpful of understanding to regard all these events as legally ineffective for want of constitutional vires . |
| 14 | The Algerian League for Defence of Human Rights ( LADDH ) was quoted on Nov. 7 as alleging that the security forces were using torture against detainees . |
| 15 | See the Blind identikit ( page 317 ) for description of available types . |
| 16 | Through co-ordination of international activities , ITS provides an essential link towards achieving consistently high standards for all of United Distillers ' portfolio . |
| 17 | He called for removal of religious images , causing much vandalism in parish churches . |
| 18 | The reasons for removal of intrauterine devices were bleeding or pain in nine women , sterilisation in five , planning pregnancy in three , unplanned pregnancy in two , and other reasons in three . |
| 19 | The main opposition party is the National League for Democracy ( U Aung Shwe ch. , U Lwin gen. sec. — see below for removal of previous leaders ) which won 392 out of 485 seats in the May 1990 elections . |
| 20 | Billmaier indicated SunSoft had little difficulty with six of the eight points , non-controversial items such as support of open systems , industry standards interoperability and maintaining ABI compatibility between Solaris and Destiny . |
| 21 | Successive commissions and reports amplified the case for provision of social services — especially baths and canteens — and recreational facilities , through a levy on coal , during the inter-war period . |
| 22 | Part of the new BHM universal series of metallurgical microscopes the BH2-MJLT has been designed for inspection of large wafers and photomasks in the IC industry . |
| 23 | We did two things to offset this : first of course we reduced the book fund [ the money for purchase of new books ] . |
| 24 | A pro-forma service agreement for purchase of individual places and information on organisations where block purchase arrangements exist will be available for April . |
| 25 | Dr Nakajima , accompanied on his tour by Dr Jo Asvall , head of WHO 's European regional office in Copenhagen , said that he had been asked several times if Yugoslav funds frozen in the US and other countries could not be used for purchase of medical supplies . |
| 26 | Time out is another example of punishment as removal of rewarding events . |
| 27 | Erm so have a go at that stuff and work through it and think about think of new words for yourself and I 've suggested that he gets a notebook to put some spelling in . |
| 28 | The Order does not include separate provision for liability of certain officers of a corporate body in the case of an offence by the body against the Order . |
| 29 | A greater number than would be expected have spent long periods in plaster casts because of bone injuries , or for correction of congenital malformations . |
| 30 | Transgenic animals with deleted or mutant tumour suppressor genes provide an elegant model for correction of inherited predispositions to cancer by gene transfer either into particular tissues or into the whole organism . |