Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More satisfactory measures of total fertility can be based on estimates of the chances of women going on to have first , second , third etc. births ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) . |
| 2 | McBride said in early 1980 that Debendox , a remedy for morning sickness , was , like Thalidomide , ‘ capable of causing deformities in a small percentage of the embryos of women who took it early in pregnancy ’ . |
| 3 | On the other hand , Flourens ( in Phillips , Zeki , and Barlow 1984 ) removed various parts of the forebrains of birds and found that the degree of disturbance of behaviour was very much more a function of how much brain was removed than which part was eliminated . |
| 4 | As it is , when I use mine , I think of her , and of the generations of Merchants that have not been as lucky as I. |
| 5 | Kandel , trained as a psychiatrist , spent a period working on Aplysia with Ladislav Tauc in Paris in the 1960s , saw the potential of the organism , initially for the study of short-term processes such as habituation , and over the subsequent quarter-century in New York he has made its study peculiarly his own and that of the generations of researchers who have cut their teeth in this Columbia laboratory . |
| 6 | A series of archaeological studies in the 1960s ( e.g. Clarke 1968 ) proclaimed a science of the object based on systems theory and patterns of artefact change , or highly detailed examination of the properties of flints , bones and pottery . |
| 7 | One of the properties of particles of matter is that they influence each other . |
| 8 | Finally , the development of a semantic typology allows the identification of horizontal and vertical links between words , the tracing of hyponyms and hypernyms of given words , and the identification of the properties of premodifiers and postmodifiers . |
| 9 | Developing better and more precise measurement of the properties of phenomena is the key to the progress of scientific knowledge . |
| 10 | Effective measurement requires detailed knowledge of the properties of phenomena which are to be reflected or mapped on to some mathematical system . |
| 11 | The physical events that activate our sense organs are already imperfect versions of the properties of objects that we wish to know about . |
| 12 | In this respect , the study of the properties of objects in the social sciences is quite dissimilar to equivalent studies in physics or chemistry , where statements about these properties take the form of law-like propositions . |
| 13 | The main purposes of the Bureau , which was established in September 1983 , are to improve the accessibility of macroeconomic models ; to promote general understanding of the properties of models of the UK economy ; and to allow comparisons between models to be made more easily . |
| 14 | As an example of its consistency , if we put P(B) = I , giving unc then as before unc while if P(B) = B , then unc If we multiply ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) the result repeats ( 22 ) in view of the properties of zii and ( 19 ) above ; squaring ( 22 ) yields unc in accordance with ( 18 ) . |
| 15 | Knowledge of the properties of shapes means that any exemplars can be recognized as such and distinguished from non-exemplars However , some pupils recognize some exemplars of a particular shape as such and not others . |
| 16 | He rode the lift to the seventh floor and walked the length of the deserted corridor to the last of the suites of offices . |
| 17 | He was a sociable man of great ability , but courteous and unassuming , and with great kindness and understanding of the problems of others . |
| 18 | In order to appreciate this strong feminist stance that is being taken it is necessary to understand a few of the problems of women in the Developing World . |
| 19 | This illustrates one of the problems of judges making policy decisions . |
| 20 | The match was reminiscent of the problems of schools ' football — the big school with 11 good players will always beat the village school which has only six or seven . |
| 21 | A bus has been turned into a mobile information centre , giving details of the times of services and other facilities provided . |
| 22 | Make sure of the times of trains , the numbers of the buses , the line of the underground , the route if you are driving . |
| 23 | The choice of rent structures involved therefore a weighing of the interests of tenants as a whole ( including impoverished tenants ) with those of the general body of ratepayers . |
| 24 | When in pursuit of personal ambitions and interests , take account of the interests of others . |
| 25 | A number of English and Commonwealth decisions have recognised a duty ( owed to the company ) to take account of the interests of creditors where the company is insolvent or on the verge of insolvency . |
| 26 | The two members were required to be impartial ; they were not representatives of the interests of employers and employees . |
| 27 | The second criterion refers to the promotion of the interests of consumers and purchasers of goods and services via quality and variety . |
| 28 | Some stress that capitalism benefits a key group of workers — as in the theory associated with Lenin of a labour ‘ aristocracy ’ whose loyalty is bought by special privileges , or in O'Connor 's ( 1973 ) account of the interests of workers in the monopoly capital sector . |
| 29 | Economists may think of the interests of nations in terms of wealth , and lawyers in terms of adherence to legal rules working to one 's advantage . |
| 30 | The change occurred because of internal political reasons and for that reason alone and not out of the interests of clients . |