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

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1 The issue of decentralization of services to local bases in the community has inevitably brought with it questions of the decentralization of budgets .
2 Do you find that erm the likes of yourself and your workmates do you have a lot of kind of views in common and things , do you think that you 're maybe kind of the same political persuasions or whatever ?
3 She was involved in the London Women 's Film Group and the setting up of Cinema of Women in the late seventies ; then there was a sense of a political project , opportunities for women to meet and discuss ideas and motivations .
4 While there is sufficient evidence of protection of prisoners within the prison system itself , questions must be raised about the use of pre-trial detention .
5 The regulations also give details of how the historic rights of inspection of accounts by the public , should be administered .
6 The method of election of members to the Special Reserved Seats has been changed .
7 [ Archives at Kedleston ; T. H. Taunton , Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses , vol. i , 1887 ; L. Harris , ‘ The Picture Collection at Kedleston Hall ’ , Connoisseur , July 1978 ; L. Harris , Robert Adam and Kedleston , 1987 ; J. C. Sainty , ‘ Origin of Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords ’ , House of Lords Record Office Memorandum , no. 52 , 1974 . ]
8 The Act provides a complete code of liability of shipowners for such occurrence and any common law liability is generally abolished .
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 A study of a bakery in south-east England uncovered a highly organised system of stealing from work and of fiddling of customers by the bread salesmen ( Ditton , 1977 ) .
11 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 .
12 But the big bonus for Morrissey fans disappointed by his no-shows at June 's Glastonbury festival and the second day of the Madness/Finsbury Park weekend last month is that , on proof of purchase of tickets for either of the cancelled gigs , they can get a £20 discount per ticket for the French trip .
13 So that the annual average rate of provision of dwellings in North Yorkshire is something like three thousand one hundred and eighty two dwellings .
14 The Management Studies Board was to be reconstituted appropriately , and was ‘ to report to the Council and the two Committees upon the machinery which may be necessary to ensure a continuity of standard and of provision of courses at diploma level ’ .
15 The seeds of conflict were sown and , despite offers of mediation from several quarters , the employers issued notices of reduction of wages on 24 July 1925 .
16 Costs include : buying or leasing the new property ; building and refurbishment ; staff costs ( including redundancy/severance payments , retention payments if staff are to be encouraged to stay until the move goes ahead , recruitment and training costs for new staff and relocation and removal allowances for those moving ) ; communication costs ( including the installation of telephone and telex facilities and changes to stationery ) ; occupancy costs ( including rent , rates , lighting , heating and security ) and other costs ( such as new machinery and the cost of removal of goods from the old to the new site ) .
17 When a current is applied to the gold film , direction of spin of electrons in the device can be switched up or down .
18 This level of autonomy will result in a changed role for the school from one of administration of policies to one of management of local resources .
19 The problem is going to be the sheer weight of administration of schemes like this , and that 's going to make it very difficult for the small firm , because the solicitor sitting at his desk is his own manager , his own salesman and his own factory floor worker .
20 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 ] .
21 The outcome was The Mode of Action of Drugs on Cells , 1933 , and an immensely influential monograph on general pharmacology ( Heffter 's Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie , vol. iv , 1937 ) .
22 Often it is a response to increasing international competition and may take the form of closure of branches of multinational corporations .
23 Contemporaneously with the CMI's adoption of its Sea Waybill rules , the English and Scottish Law Commissions prepared a report with respect to ‘ Rights of Suit in Respect of Carriage of Goods by Sea . ’
24 There was a printed form of recommendation of patients for admission to the benefits of the infirmary , and it was emphasised that no child under seven years of age , except in case of an operation , and no person without decent apparel and a proper change of linen , or labouring under any infectious disorder whatever could be admitted as an in-patient .
25 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 .
26 The report 's authors said : ‘ The data reflects a continuing and concerning lack of evidence of partnership of parents in this process . ’
27 The report 's authors said : ‘ The data reflects a continuing and concerning lack of evidence of partnership of parents in this process . ’
28 Whether these findings were a result of stagnation of secretions with increased CCK release in the afferent jejunal loop , a changed alkaline gastric content , or both is unclear .
29 That we advocate the immediate implementation of the Scottish Old People 's Chapter , to strive to maintain and improve the standard of living of pensioners by ensuring that the pension will rise according to the cost of living or er or livings or earnings , which er whichever is the most advantageous .
30 That we advocate the immediate implementation of the Scottish Old People 's Chapter to strive to maintain and improve the standard of living of pensioners by ensuring that the pension will rise according to the cost of living or earnings , whichever is er is the most ad advantageous .
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