Example sentences of "[prep] [det] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Geological Survey was one of the very few organizations employing men of science in Britain — Greenwich Observatory was one of the others — but their status was about that of clerks in the Civil Service , and this rankled . |
| 2 | For nearly a century and a half after the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 there was a tendency for the ratio of casualties to total numbers engaged in West European wars to fall and for that of prisoners to dead and wounded to rise . |
| 3 | A rapid review such as this of theories of knowledge and the curriculum can not hope to do justice to the various concepts and models , and risks inducing a kind of conceptual vertigo . |
| 4 | Households of professional status had a mean non-asset income of 252% of that of households of unskilled manual status but the percentage rose to 369 when the annuitized value of assets was added and to 382 when the value of employer welfare benefits in kind was further added . |
| 5 | But the desert lizard , Sauromaulus , loses only 5 per cent of that of crocodilians through the skin . |
| 6 | The median gross weekly earnings of women in full-time manual occupations was 50.2 per cent of those of men in manual occupations in 1906 , 47.4 per cent in 1938 , 53.5 per cent in 1960 , 54.0 per cent in 1974 and 63.1 per cent in 1978 . |
| 7 | A biology of hierarchy grounded in a metaphysically prior ‘ great chain of being ’ gave way to a biology of incommensurability in which the relationship of men to women , like that of apples to oranges , was not given as one of equality or inequality but rather as a difference whose meaning required interpretation and struggle . |
| 8 | Its author dispensed with the laconic and often uninformative methods adopted by many medieval annalists , writing at length and in a distinctive style not unlike that of homilists of the period , and with the same purpose — heightened effect . |
| 9 | They used a thermal imaging camera which gives a picture like this of bodies on the ground . |
| 10 | Mrs Thatcher found it more possible to assert her own right-wing views as against those of moderates like Prior or Walker , with a strong thrust towards monetarism emerging in the party 's The Right Approach to the Economy . |
| 11 | The Board will , at the concluding stage , test its own opinions against those of judges with long judicial experience in Hong Kong . |
| 12 | The power of the government is positively breathtaking in comparison with that of ministers in Westminster : ‘ the French parliament in the Vth Republic is modest to the point of being inadequate … |
| 13 | On occasion it interfered with the correspondence of French ministers or former ministers ( Choiseul after his fall in 1770 and Turgot during his period in office in 1774 – 76 ) , and even with that of members of the royal family . |
| 14 | Roger Bakeman and Josephine Brown at the Georgia State University have compared the social behaviour of preterm babies and their mothers with that of mothers with babies born at the end of the full nine months . |
| 15 | Contrasting Mr Donovan 's distress with that of victims of industrial injury , the judge said : ‘ You should have in mind it is not a case where you are awarding damages for someone who has suffered some physical injuries which will be with him for the rest of his days . |
| 16 | In new surveys he said , a ‘ multi-stress ’ approach would be needed , while ITE 's deputy director , Fred Last , commented , ‘ I do n't agree with some of Friends of the Earth 's conclusions . |
| 17 | I think I believe that every particle of ourselves , whether combined with those of others in normal electrovalence to make up this or that slice of us , or whether bombarded by those of others until this or that human element mutates into some other , every particle of ourselves returns . |
| 18 | This aborted attempt at developing an integrated approach illustrates that most statutory and local authorities in Wales recognise the need for , and benefits of , a coastal strategy for Wales , but that various key players ( especially the development agencies ) are unwilling to integrate their statutory objectives with those of others in the interests of achieving sustainable development , without being given a clear ministerial direction that they are required to do so . |
| 19 | Wherever possible such parameters should be compared with those of embryos of the same age recovered in vivo . |
| 20 | Moreover , a comparison of the names of all rural oil workers with those of fathers of children with leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma in 1979–83 ( ascertained for another study ) produced only a single match . |
| 21 | Since it is unlikely that the accounts of the Blood Transfusion Services will be compared with those of schools on a regular basis , this problem is of less importance . |
| 22 | The features of these patients were compared with those of patients without calculi . |
| 23 | χ 2 test was used to compare the pathological features of the idex polyps in relapsing patients with those of patients in whom recurrence was not observed . |
| 24 | The paradox was that Ryan 's starting point was no different from that of coaches in the prosperous days of the Seventies . |
| 25 | Labov ( 1972b : 73 ) has noted that in New York City the subset of short a items which is liable to tensing and raising is not predictable on phonological grounds , while in Philadelphia the behaviour of the items mad , bad , glad is different from that of others in the a word-class . |
| 26 | The distribution of age , waist-hip ratio , and body mass index of the 30 women lost to follow up was not significantly different from that of women with known outcome ( p>0.05 ) . |
| 27 | And the labour council — in reality a fragile and temporary alliance of Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ) , Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) , christian socialist , Irish nationalist and independent members — elected on a platform little different from that of progressives on the LCC , was never able to challenge effectively the accepted boundaries of municipal activity . |
| 28 | The accountability of directors to shareholders is very different from that of partners to each other . |
| 29 | During the early twentieth century and increasingly during the inter-war years the ideology of motherhood was reinforced legislatively by the marriage bar , which was applied chiefly to professional women and which served firmly to delineate the world of married women from that of men at a time when it was becoming widely acceptable for single middle class girls and women to go out to work . |
| 30 | At the time of the Han dynasty , when jade was still the only material fit to accompany the emperor , it was accompanied in the case of feudal lords and officials of grades 1–3 by pearls and in that of officials of grade 4 by gold.47 One indication of the status of pearls in Christendom is their use in iconography as symbols of regeneration , and the way they have long been used to enrich the crowns of sovereigns from the sacred crown of Hungary to the mitre crown of Catherine II of Russia and in our own day the State Crown of Queen Elizabeth II ( Frontispiece ; figs. 35 and 37 ) . |