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

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1 Y'know kind of kind of comments or playful thoughts you might pass about somebody but you you try not to do it seriously as it were , you try not to let it affect your behaviour towards them , you try to not be surprised if they disclose they 're gay or heterosexual or whatever so er
2 Accordingly I have looked at examples from evolutionary biology , physiology and the study of groups of organisms or of habitats , In 1982 Darwinism was defended and neo-Darwinism re-affirmed ; Evolutionary Principles is Peter Calow 's contribution to the central concept of biology .
3 According to its preamble , which incorporates in part the terms of article 220 , the Convention seeks in particular to facilitate the recognition and enforcement of judgments of courts or tribunals and to strengthen in the Community the legal protection of persons therein established .
4 It is to include the date of removal of goods or of their arrival , a description of the goods sufficient to identify them , the value or consideration involved and , if the goods are subject to a process , then a description and value of the process .
5 Would be easing , so to speak in sort of units of horses or electricity .
6 The Awards announced on the Queen 's birthday are to recognise and encourage outstanding achievement in the field of export of goods or services from the UK , and together with Awards for Technological Achievement , were instituted by Royal Warrant in 1976 .
7 Communication should be mainly through the central command and control centre which may be no larger than the project leader and his small personal staff as may be a group of heads of sub-systems or both .
8 1.30 In a serious personal injury case or in a fatal case the initial calculations of loss of earnings or dependency may be made very soon after the accident , based on wage rates provided by the employers at that time .
9 Sometimes the name originally given is no longer apt , because of revision of genera or species ; and sometimes close species put on one plate , as with Lodge 's pictures ( which are of New Zealand birds ) , are now separated ; but these things do not seem to matter too much to the publishers and editors .
10 improve plant flexibility in terms of range of throughputs or types of material that can be handled ;
11 Only one in five departments is believed to keep a record of abuse of adults or the elderly .
12 To the Romanian audience for these trials ( which were broadcast live on television ) , the lists of cartons of cigarettes or kilos of refrigerated meat were as fascinating as the tales of the riches of the Sultan in One Thousand and One Nights .
13 Letters are often a hoped-for source of descriptions of events or of personal feelings about certain things ; and one source of written information which , though not in letter form but not wholly dissimilar , can be useful for the researcher , is the description written by children or young people of events in which they have taken part , or about given social situations .
14 In the absence of classes of phones or phonemes valid for all members of a linguistic community , all oral communication would cease , for every individual could talk intelligibly only to himself , because he could meaningfully use , actively and passively , only one set of phones , namely his own .
15 Mr Michael Spicer : ( May I ) ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the cases involving the United Kingdom in which there have been adjudications of enforceability of Declarations or agreements appended to international treaties , including EC treaties .
16 This includes a process of de-differentiation of fields or structures , and de-differentiation of agency , or the habitus .
17 He could not identify the Fairy Topic , either , and this gave him a not uncommon sensation of his own huge ignorance , a grey mist , in which floated or could be discerned odd glimpses of solid objects , odd bits of glitter of domes or shadows of roofs in the gloom .
18 For patients with severe hypertension and an expectation of life of months or at most a year or two , the benefits of lowering the blood pressure were soon seen .
19 it is able to take advantage of economies of scale , which in turn may call for the establishment of departments of specialists or experts ( eg. research and development , management scientists etc ) ;
20 Whatever arguments there may be in favour of the independence of members of assemblies or parliaments , it is hard to see what they have to do with representation as it is commonly understood .
21 On the other hand , it is often possible to compare the degrees of falsifiability of laws or theories .
22 A party to a contract " deals as a consumer " in relation to another party if — ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act [ ie other contracts of supply ] the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption .
23 Section 7 provides : 7 – ( 1 ) Where the possession or ownership of goods passes under or in pursuance of a contract not governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , subsections ( 2 ) to ( 4 ) below apply as regards the effect ( if any ) to be given to contract terms excluding or restricting liability for breach of obligation arising by implication of law from the nature of the contract .
24 Section 12(1) of UCTA 1977 provides as follows : 12 – ( 1 ) A party to a contract " deals as consumer " in relation to another party if ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act , the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption .
25 Whatever length of time is given , though , it will be difficult for an employer to justify dismissing you on the grounds of lack of skills or basic ability within that time unless something exceptional happens .
26 Moreover , some of the best qualified people in South Africa , Australia and elsewhere have sought openings for training in Europe or America because of lack of opportunities or resources at home .
27 But he or she would also be able to initiate the sort of actions which , under the present system , might never be brought because of lack of funds or problems of co-ordination , or because prospective applicants , by reason of social deprivation or lack of education , do not have the human resources to speak for themselves .
28 Did did they have to wear lots of Do you remember your aunties or your your mother Did they have to lots of layers of clothes or they seem to be .
29 Can you just not bring a packet of packet of biscuits or something ?
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