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

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1 Strict rules about the handling of money should be agreed before the event with the emphasis placed on protecting those involved from any possible accusation of mismanagement rather than doubts about the level of honesty of individuals !
2 As with every system of national qualifications , it is the quality assurance and control of assessment of NVQs which is vitally important .
3 ( 2 ) Difficulty of assessment of damages is an indication in favour of categorising a term as a condition .
4 It is true that over a decade when the senior civil service was moving from being primarily regulatory in outlook to being primarily managerial , there was a lack of research , of assessment of situations before action could be properly planned .
5 Therefore an examination of housing management must consider the following : pointing schemes or other forms of assessment of applicants ; allocation and transfer policies ; building policies and sales policies ( Phillips and Williams 1982a , 1982c ) .
6 The issue of decentralization of services to local bases in the community has inevitably brought with it questions of the decentralization of budgets .
7 How else would I be able to think of states of affairs that are merely possible ?
8 A number of studies have attempted to do this both by comparing the rates of progress of children whose caretakers employ different styles of ‘ Motherese ’ and by deliberately seeking to modify adult input .
9 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 .
10 This system shows the role of external and internal factors in controlling the pathways of differentiation of cells .
11 The ‘ magazine ’ was a collection of photocopies of drawings and slogans that could be found on any underpass on the estate .
12 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 .
13 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 ?
14 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
15 The general form of the model employs the rate of change of prices ( ΔP ) , the rate of change of wages ( ΔW ) , the level and/or rate of change of unemployment ( U or ΔU ) , together with the ( lagged ) level of union density ( D&subt-1 ; ) as determinants of the proportional rate of change of union membership ( ΔT ) , i.e. with the anticipated positive ( + ) and negative ( - ) influences shown in brackets .
16 The data do appear to confirm the view that there was a relationship between the level of unemployment and the rate of change of prices .
17 This is the familiar result that the rate of change of prices , i.e. the inflation rate , is the difference between the rate of growth of the money supply and the rate of growth of the demand for money for transaction purposes .
18 directly on the rate of change of firms ’ profit margins ( k ) .
19 The general form of the model employs the rate of change of prices ( ΔP ) , the rate of change of wages ( ΔW ) , the level and/or rate of change of unemployment ( U or ΔU ) , together with the ( lagged ) level of union density ( D&subt-1 ; ) as determinants of the proportional rate of change of union membership ( ΔT ) , i.e. with the anticipated positive ( + ) and negative ( - ) influences shown in brackets .
20 Of the four basic variables utilised , the rate of change of wages is not significant and has the wrong ( negative ) sign .
21 Simply stated , it claimed — on the basis of long-run data on wages and unemployment — that there was a trade-off between the level of unemployment and the rate of change of wages ; and that union bargaining and other influences such as changes in the structure of the labour market — were of secondary importance in in the process of determining the level of wages and , presumably , wage-costs .
22 Returning to the question of reliability of numbers such as these in the absence of audit , the Post Office has addressed this question and in its 1990/91 Report and Accounts , alongside its performance measures ( ‘ quality of service' of the Royal Mail letter service ) is the following :
23 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 .
24 University regulations on the deposit of copies of theses vary considerably , even within single countries such as Britain .
25 Microsoft Corp says it has trouble estimating the number of copies of Windows NT it will sell , so what is the reasonable way to tell whether it succeeds ?
26 The fact is , there are millions of copies of Windows 3. x out there at the moment , and one survey has it that 33% of business PC users are currently computing under Windows .
27 He enclosed a number of copies of testimonials and requested one from his illustrious patron .
28 The Court heard that one of the directors had acted while an undischarged bankrupt , aided and abetted by the others , and that they had caused the company to trade without reasonable prospect of payment of creditors ' claims , to retain Crown monies to finance insolvent trading and to abuse banking procedures .
29 The warriors of Narok District were put to work in 1935 building a road , the work to count in lieu of payment of taxes .
30 The abbot of Fécamp put the same question to Ivo of Chartres , who produced the text of Pope Hyginus , misquoted by Anselm but available in the Canon Law collection of Burchard of Worms .
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