Example sentences of "of a [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Identify , through unstructured interviews , the primary health concerns of a spectrum of women in South Wales ; 2 . |
| 2 | Analysis of the velocity distribution will reveal a ‘ vibrational spectrum ’ in the form of a spectrum of energy-losses by the particles . |
| 3 | While such simple dichotomies are misleading — all categories of music live in the world of capitalist cultural production , while none can be entirely reduced to it , and a more accurate picture is of a spectrum of possibilities marked by internal conflict — their existence not only confirms the influence of the critique of mass culture in musical practice and popular consciousness , it also indicates that within the premises of such a critique , Adorno draws the net too tightly . |
| 4 | Four ‘ change-facilitating factors ’ are picked out by Ramon ; heavy and unchanging reliance on segregated institutions ; the existence of a minority of psychiatrists prepared to act politically ( while not having the desire to act in a party political framework ) ; the autonomous nature of the regions leading to more enthusiastic reform beginning in socialist and communist areas ; and perhaps most importantly for the concerns of this book , |
| 5 | Two of the agreements even noted that the job satisfaction of a minority of employees might be impaired by new technology but accepted this in order to maintain the security of employment of the majority . |
| 6 | This model acknowledges that social problems still arise , but the cause is located in the personal or social pathology of a minority of individuals and families whose behaviour or non-conformity must be controlled . |
| 7 | The principal difference between ECP and euronotes is that euronotes are issued with the backing of a syndicate of underwriters whereas ECP is issued on a non-underwritten tap basis . |
| 8 | General practice and primary care need to be centre stage to ensure that the rhetoric of a transfer of resources from secondary to primary care does not actually entail an overall loss of resources . |
| 9 | Note that in relation to the exemption of a transfer of assets by a company , the shares must be issued to the shareholders of the transferring company and not the transferring company itself in order to fall within the exemption . |
| 10 | Well , some time ago Jack Straw was supposed to have said that under the no new er Acts , or under a Labour government , that C C T would remain because of a transfer of undertakings we did n't er need to change . |
| 11 | Altman measured the food intake of a troop of baboons aged between 30 and 70 weeks , in Amboseli National Park on the border between Kenya and Tanzania . |
| 12 | Sun Microsystems Inc hopes to get one of its workstations on BBC1 's Tomorrow 's World science television programme in the UK tomorrow : Oklahoma State University 's Dr Marvin Stone has developed a hand-held device dubbed ‘ the thumper ’ which can measure the ripeness of a watermelon by delivering a blow to its skin and Sparcstations can put up a colour map indicating the ripeness of a field of watermelons from data downloaded to it from the thumper . |
| 13 | The whiff of a field of flowers can be uplifting and invigorating ; catching the smell of a cigarette or cigar can make you feel stuffy and uncomfortable . |
| 14 | The fact that such grammatically incorrect combinations are frequently systematic ( Berko 1958 ; Ivimey 1975 ) suggests that children are organising their utterances on the basis of a knowledge of rules , rather than simply in response to environmental contingencies , and that such rules are , at least to some extent , generated spontaneously . |
| 15 | The distinction , formed because of a knowledge of functions , is a useful one to make . |
| 16 | People in these positions did not consciously seek to become part of an elite , rather they were the unwitting members of a structure of institutions — the military , the industrial and the political — which had coincidental needs . |
| 17 | Organising This involves the establishment of a structure of tasks which need to be performed to achieve the goals of the organisation , grouping these tasks into jobs for an individual , creating groups of jobs within sections and departments , delegating authority to carry out the jobs , and providing systems of information and communication , and for the coordination of activities within the organisation . |
| 18 | It distinguishes it , because if the literary text is seen as a sign or set of signs in the Saussurean sense , then its meaning or content must be the product of a structure of relationships or differences whose connection with the ‘ real ’ world is purely arbitrary . |
| 19 | Virginia Woolf defined it inimitably when she wrote that ‘ for pages at a time he writes that terse springy prose which is the natural speech of a school of writers trained to the business of moving a large company briskly from one incident to another over the solid earth ’ . |
| 20 | ( If the mosaic was a product of a school of craftsmen based at Lindinis ( Ilchester ) — as seems likely — this might also suggest a mid-fourth century date ) . |
| 21 | The first of these is an intensive examination of the employees of a sample of firms to be included in the core survey . |
| 22 | In their study of a sample of divorcees , Thornes and Collard ( 1979 ) found that wives tended to believe that there were marital problems much earlier on in the marriage . |
| 23 | The original research was designed to investigate the subsequent labour-market behaviour of a sample of steelworkers made redundant from the British Steel Corporation , Port Talbot , South Wales , and to relate this behaviour to the type of domestic organisation of their households and the character of their local social networks . |
| 24 | A questionnaire survey of a sample of colleges was also used to bring a college perspective to the final stages of the development . |
| 25 | This project made possible : a ) an extensive literature review ; b ) an investigation of the availability for local labour markets of secondary data on training provision and ‘ skill ’ levels ; and c ) a pilot telephone survey of a sample of employers in Mid Glamorgan on their recruitment and training strategies . |
| 26 | National and regional patterns of change will be established primarily from official statistics whereas the principal methodology in Norwich and Ipswich will be interview surveys of a sample of employers and employees within the service sector . |
| 27 | Bottle reports that 41% of a sample of papers on chemistry contained citations to the thesis of one or more of the authors of the papers , or other references to that author 's thesis , such as the paper being ‘ in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Ph D degree ’ . |
| 28 | The research , involving observation of a sample of cases being investigated by Brighton CID , will replicate in every detail what was done in 1979 . |
| 29 | However , more detailed analysis based on an evaluation of a sample of companies within UDG schemes were less sanguine ( Aston University , 1988 ; Johnson , 1988 ) . |
| 30 | This involved designing a questionnaire and applying it to quantitative observations of a sample of companies in the same type of industry in each country . |