Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Chairman of governors of the local boys school , we 've er , as Mr knows only too well , have written on a number of occasions erm saying how soon will the er these measures be brought forward , and I welcome them and er hope that we will agree them . |
| 2 | The term ‘ cloning ’ refers to a method of asexual reproduction , such as grafting of varieties of apples , whereby all offspring are exact genetic replicas of the parent stock . |
| 3 | Product-container compatibility includes all possible interactions between product and container such as absorption of constituents of the product by the container , leaching of constituents of the container by the product , corrosion or other adverse effects of the product on the container and the barrier properties of the container ; that is , its effectiveness in protecting the contents from the adverse effects of atmospheric oxygen and/or water vapour and in retaining water and other volatile constituents of the product . |
| 4 | The agreement , subject to ratification by the Federal Senate , provided for payment of arrears of US$2,000 million in 1991 , of which 45 per cent was payable immediately and the rest in equal monthly instalments by December 1991 . |
| 5 | Another way of achieving this would fall short of a recognised qualification or certificate but could amount to the giving of credits for completion of parts of a training course . |
| 6 | On this hypothesis there was clearly no place for review of findings of fact , in the sense of determining whether the evidence justified the application of a statutory term to particular facts . |
| 7 | In 1918 , shortly after publication of Moments of Vision , he wrote to John Galsworthy , |
| 8 | Communication of research in progress is largely a matter of informal international personal contacts , rather than through publication of lists of completed theses . |
| 9 | The second survey was conducted in 1976 for the Committee of Inquiry into the System of Remuneration of Members of Local Authorities ( Robinson Committee ) . |
| 10 | The last straw was when a totally serious Westite Unionist remarked that , as it was a shooting matter , he recommended that it should be left to the army to investigate as it had a lot of experience of shootings of one kind and another . |
| 11 | Detainees included women and children , and were virtually all civilians , tending to confirm the numerous reports of shooting of prisoners of war [ for UN report by Tadeusz Mazowiecki see p. 39035 ; for statements by Non-Aligned Movement on Yugoslavia issue see pp. 38937 ; 39122 ] . |
| 12 | Often it is a response to increasing international competition and may take the form of closure of branches of multinational corporations . |
| 13 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 14 | First , that the loyalty of most rural and many urban people is still to tribe rather than nation ; second , in the continuous drift towards authoritarian systems of government ; and , third , in the failure to resolve peacefully a system of succession of heads of state . |
| 15 | Mills and Jordan ( 1980 ) examined timing sensitivity as a predictor of ASL learning , and discovered positive correlations between ability to discriminate patterns differing only in timing of onset of components of the pattern , and grade scores for sign language proficiency . |
| 16 | We have not filtered the annual data to avoid both a subjective decision on filter characteristics and the inflation of explained variance at the expense of loss of degrees of freedom . |
| 17 | He pleaded guilty to two charges of theft of articles of clothing . |
| 18 | Creation of Council of Heads of Republics |
| 19 | Meeting of Council of Heads of Republics |
| 20 | Er can I I started to comment on about the er , er bank accounts which are you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table and I think we would go further that er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names and all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of ownership of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would of er at least alerted these financial institutions , as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension fund and they still have ignored it in the case that er they did , but er er they would ha not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension funds assets . |
| 21 | At one extreme , the ‘ transformed cladists ’ , or ‘ natural order systematists ’ , argue that classification should be based solely upon the perceived patterns of distribution of characters of organisms . |
| 22 | The dynamic nature of the schema application is evident in the falling level of reportage of occurrences of " Mars ' as the text progresses . |
| 23 | Following the announcement of approval of elements of the SNMP2 proposal , Westford , Massachusetts-based consultancy Paul Freeman Associates says that a combined SNMP 1/2 version of its Universal SNMP Agent will be announced very soon . |
| 24 | Following the announcement of approval of elements of the SNMP2 proposal ( CI No 2,149 ) , Westford , Massachusetts-based consultancy Paul Freeman Associates says that a combined SNMP 1/2 version of its Universal SNMP Agent will be announced very soon . |
| 25 | Yes , it 'll be worth following that up , cos that 's , that 's one of the erm , they , they 've done quite a lot of work of Amnesty and general studies in the past , there was a sheet of sort of quotes of , how good the Amnesty was , and there was one from the teacher at Birchwood or what , what 's Margaret Dane School , so erm , yes , if , if you could definitely follow that up erm John |
| 26 | Notice of meeting of representatives of community education centre management committees . |
| 27 | Among the new provisions in the 167-clause bill is a government power of veto of members of the new Channel 4 Corporation , to be appointed by the Independent Television Commission . |
| 28 | But she insisted : ‘ It wo n't just be a ‘ cor look at that ’ -type of collection of photographs of nude men . ’ |
| 29 | Includes comment on the issue of new uses for old buildings in town and countryside stating that ‘ local authorities should , therefore , be flexible in dealing with planning applications for changes of use of buildings of architectural or historic interest ’ . |
| 30 | This unruffled progression fits perfectly the sort of chain of correlations of consequences which we disentangled at the start of this chapter but it does not seem to offer the prospect of the decisive determination of a particular result . |