Example sentences of "of [noun] 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 This debate has wider implications for the study of political science since it emphasised major features of the process of governmental decision-making — the plurality of values of participants in policy-making , the plurality of actors involved , the emphasis upon perceptions rather than ‘ objective interests ’ and the fact that policy outcomes seldom reflect the values and preferences of one group .
3 In this paper we describe a suite of programs for building the physical map of a genome , using data of hybridisations of probes onto unordered clone libraries .
4 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 ?
5 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 .
6 The support of 90% of blacks for Carter , even though he was a white Southerner , may well have been the crucial factor in his victory .
7 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 .
8 The regulations also give details of how the historic rights of inspection of accounts by the public , should be administered .
9 Of special interest to surveyors is the impact of chains of companies upon the retention and exercise of control .
10 It will prove useful in localising the embolic source in patients with stroke and may allow identification of subgroups of patients at risk of subsequent embolic stroke .
11 The method of election of members to the Special Reserved Seats has been changed .
12 [ 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 . ]
13 For these reasons , we can deduce that PABA-UDCA disulphate is a single pass type of compound in the gut for the evaluation of intestinal microflora , and the administration test results reflect the sum of activities of bacteria in the small intestine and colonic .
14 The Act provides a complete code of liability of shipowners for such occurrence and any common law liability is generally abolished .
15 The second survey was conducted in 1976 for the Committee of Inquiry into the System of Remuneration of Members of Local Authorities ( Robinson Committee ) .
16 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 ) .
17 Mr Evans came under attack in yesterday 's report of the official Jockey Club inquiry for standing too close to the starting line , and thus being primarily concerned with escaping the thunder of dozens of pairs of hooves for his own safety , rather than waving his flag .
18 It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words .
19 ‘ Could I buy a couple of pairs of greys from you ? ’ he asked , coming to a sudden decision .
20 A plan which creates a continuous supply of pairs of hands for each patient area is an impossibility and the sooner managers accept this , the better .
21 The allegations were dismissed on the same day by an Egyptian Interior Ministry official , who cited a small number of cases of abuses by policemen but claimed that they had been properly investigated .
22 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 .
23 In just the same way , evolution consists of genes spreading at each other 's expense , but many , perhaps most , genetic mechanisms are about enforcing common interest of groups of genes over the selfish ambitions of the few .
24 The progress of groups of students in the higher ( but not the highest ) parts of the class achievement range is often monitored particularly closely by the transmission teacher and used to ‘ steer ’ his or her judgements about the management and development of the lesson for the class as a whole .
25 She thought of blackened red brick , chalk dust , shoe boxes , muddy hockey boots , the smell of groups of girls in classrooms .
26 Perhaps the most important commercial change since the invention of incorporation itself has been the rise of groups of companies with interlinking control and ownership .
27 Military governors-general were to be put in charge of groups of provinces throughout the empire , not just in the imperial borderlands and in St Petersburg and Moscow .
28 Therefore , Piaroa boys are not constrained into learning the aggressive stance of young warriors to fight men of this world ; they do not learn to accept the dominance relationships of groups of men over other groups of men .
29 As for indirect taxation , estimated Engel curves relate the expenditure of groups of households on taxed goods to total expenditure .
30 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 .
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