Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We 're not talking about individual members saying I wan na go here or I wan na go there , we 're talking about groups of memberships within these sorts of branches .
2 Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general .
3 Correlations between pairs of measures across the 40 junctions were calculated for each subject individually , the 30 correlations obtained in each case were then averaged using Fisher 's z transformation ( Silver and Dunlap 1987 ) .
4 It was comparatively rare for cases of assaults against females to receive sustained coverage and , indeed , there were only three cases where at least one newspaper covered the case on three or more separate days .
5 Requests for copies of items in the bulletin should be made to Fred Penfold or Anne Elliot .
6 Differences between subgroups of subjects for each continuous variable were compared using two tailed Student 's t tests and analysis of variance where appropriate .
7 For accounts of mires in Lewis , see Goode and Lindsay ( 1979 ) , Hulme and Blyth ( 1984 ) and Hulme ( 1985 ) .
8 Those responsible for programmes of visits in the three Overseas Groups then reported on visits made since last October .
9 The correlations for subtests of groups of items on a particular topic were mostly between 0.6 and 0.8 , although two were 0.4 and 0.5 respectively .
10 But in moving to a second order analysis they looked at the relations between groups of signs in discursive systems .
11 While at one level a functional difference was probably intended , the relationship between groups of buildings at certain sites strongly suggests that there is a social distinction cutting across the functional dimension .
12 Even when age of acquisition and age at time of test are controlled there is a consistent gap in favour of production over comprehension of BSL for groups of signers with average six , 12 and 20 years ' experience ( Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones , 1981 ) .
13 In a number of other areas the national perspective was maintained either by mini projects which provided a framework within which colleges could operate and develop their units , or by SCOTVEC providing advice , assistance and initial leadership ( together with on-going administrative support ) for groups of colleges in consortium — so called Nationally Led Consortia .
14 The other one erm is within the university itself because we do have a support organisation here for teaching within the university , and it is possible for groups of teachers in any part of the university to ask for some help and support in looking at one of the courses they 're involved in teaching .
15 As this is often linked up with annuities , endowment policies and private pension plans , several of the major life assurance companies , such as the Legal and General Assurance Society ( address on page 155 ) run their own courses as a service for their prospective pensioners , for groups of employees of large companies , or for individuals from smaller companies .
16 Programmes can be organised for groups of schools via an LEA representative such as TVEI , Equal Opportunities , Careers , or other Educational initiatives eg EBPs , SATROs , Neighbourhood Engineers etc .
17 They ride to war alongside their fathers , and join together with other young nobles to fight as units of pistoliers on the battlefield .
18 Their performance against Rangers was inexplicable and one can not believe that the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders , which lasted eight hours on the day before the match , with bickerings between cabals of directors over the club 's future , had no effect on the players .
19 The IBA has been particularly active in relation to programmes about Northern Ireland , and its interference has ranged from banning an entire programme ( eg a This Week report about RUC brutality ) to cutting provocative scenes lasting a few seconds ( such as pictures of flowers on an IRA grave ) .
20 The second is that they include not only pedigrees and arms but also , in many cases , ancillary material such as lists of persons to be summoned , correspondence , church notes and lists of disclaimers .
21 Animal Painting in Britain was the title of a book by Basil Taylor , where he explained in his first chapter that the topic had been neglected since it was either assumed to be about sporting pictures , or about pictures of horses by such specialists as Sartorius .
22 Players were grilled about methods of payments in an exercise lasting over two hours .
23 There sellers and buyers , sometimes after hours of negotiations with the aid of the mediatore — men like Signor Grignaffini , who well knew the value of the bestiame in question — would eventually agree on a price .
24 After months of trips to the Dahran air base in the war for Kuwait , the journey 's become distinctly routine .
25 After months of negotiations between the Russian , Chilean and German authorities the former East German leader , Erich Honecker , was flown on July 29 from Moscow ( where he had lived in the Chilean embassy since December 1991 — see pp. 38687-88 ; 38782 ) to Berlin where he was imprisoned .
26 It mattered not that after weeks of interviews with 35 Palestinian families in Lebanon , I chose to write about the experiences only of those who had no immediate connection with the Palestinian guerrilla movement .
27 5 years ago she was fined for a breach of planning laws after years of complaints about noise .
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29 A CHARTER for parents of children with special educational needs has been launched by Schools Minister Michael Fallon .
30 The mandate for prayers of thanks for the capture of Caen in 1346 also ordered the publication of the king 's itinerary ‘ for the comfort and consolation … of the entire English people ’ .
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