Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the Bishop has been fined three hundred pounds by Forest of Dean Magistrates for a speeding offence . |
| 2 | One concern is simply the common withdrawal of headquarters functions from the North when a firm is taken over from the South ( Watts , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | The decision by US President Bush in early November 1989 to reject a petition from the Timex Corporation challenging the duty-free import of watch movements for assembly in the Virgin Islands ensured the survival of about 600 jobs on St Croix . |
| 4 | There 's also a whole stack of CDROM titles including The Electronic Library of Art , Great Cities of the World , World Atlas , Chessmaster 3000 and a Sherlock Holmes interactive mystery game . |
| 5 | Two Oxford research groups under the directions of clinical pharmacologist Professor David Grahame-Smith and psychiatrist Professor Michael Gelder have used a substance called yohimbine which is specific for a 2 -receptors to study the number of platelet receptors before and after childbirth ( Lancet , vol i , p 495 ) . |
| 6 | In addition , microtubules may be involved in the internal alignment of platelet organelles before the release reaction and , furthermore , may help govern the degree of response to circulating agonists ( White et al , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Updating of a direct file by sorting a batch of update records into their physical order after using the algorithm , and so avoiding the typical random sequence of seeks , can provide rapid ‘ sequential ’ batch updating . |
| 8 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks among the warring Unix camps , which appear to be being sponsored by Unix International Inc , says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp with Windows NT , the initiative still lacks the compulsion that galvanised the part of the industry — led by those that saw Unix primarily as a threat — to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 9 | Mandel is right about its being ‘ unified powerfully ’ , but the principle of unity centres on ‘ freedom ’ , not the Sabbath ceremonies ( intrinsic , as they are , to Leonard 's conception of freedom ) ; which merely protects ( when allowed to do so ) that freedom . |
| 10 | Due to the much poorer state of play areas throughout other parts of the district it may be some time before improvements can be achieved . ’ |
| 11 | It may involve one or more of a range of assessment activities from informal observation to oral , practical , or written procedures . |
| 12 | The general criteria above suggest a range of assessment tasks in both practical and written test modes . |
| 13 | It is structured to provide information for those who have to ‘ flesh out ’ a module as well as discussing criterion-referenced assessment and choice of assessment instruments in more detail for those who might be thinking of developing their own module or seeking permission to vary the assessment instruments in an existing module . |
| 14 | Preparation of Assessment Instruments in a Criterion Referenced Assessment System |
| 15 | For this reason , both the GCSE and records of achievement are likely to require a much wider range of assessment techniques to be employed than was normal for more knowledge-based examinations , with oral and practical components figuring significantly . |
| 16 | Authorities on the cutting edge of independent care management will have to intensify their monitoring of assessment costs in order to get quick handle on their care managers ' expenditure . |
| 17 | Certification of Assessment Marks by Moderator |
| 18 | The findings will make explicit models of teacher assessment , teachers ' practical solutions to criterion referenced assessment systems and the use made of assessment results at school and LEA level . |
| 19 | The set of retroflex consonants in Tamil will also require special drilling for the English speaker , and the dental consonants will be difficult for him to hear as being different from his own alveolar consonants . |
| 20 | With what it reckons to be a higher proportion of ISDN lines per thousand of population compare with anywhere else in the UK , HIE clearly hopes to see a rapid expansion of inward investment and other forms of economic development on the back of teleworking . |
| 21 | Ergonomic features and acceptability of TMC functions by the driver , have not yet been assessed . |
| 22 | While there may be some uncertainty about what the future holds for Britain 's larger provincial cities , there can be little doubt about the massive strength of decentralization forces in the case of London . |
| 23 | He also constantly experimented with new designs , and the Thomas splint for compound fractures of the lower limbs was widely used during World War I , from 1916 , for the transport of stretcher cases from the front to casualty stations , and saved many lives and limbs . |
| 24 | The contribution of NMDA receptors to synaptic transmission alters radically in response to a high-frequency input . |
| 25 | ( It follows that there can be little activation of NMDA receptors by ambient or spontaneously released L-glutamate , otherwise LTP would be induced by depolarization alone . ) |
| 26 | The marked potentiation of NMDA responses by acetylcholine in CA1 neurons was reproduced by the flash photolysis of caged InsP 3 ( ref. 153 ) but was blocked by the IP 3 R antagonist heparin . |
| 27 | By the time that significant numbers of NMDA channels are in an open state the neuron has been hyperpolarized by the i.p.s.p. and this greatly enhances the block of NMDA channels by Mg 2+ ( ref. 22 ) . |
| 28 | However , emissions of NOx gases in the upper atmosphere have a greenhouse effect 100 times more powerful than C02 . |
| 29 | Grade 1=normal appearance with intact epithelium , small numbers of lymphocytes , plasma cells , and macrophages in the lamina propria ; grade 2=intact epithelium but increased numbers of chronic inflammatory cells in the lamina propria , occasional foci of polymorphonuclear leukocytes ; grade 3=mild epithelial changes , leukocytes within the epithelium or the crypts and ducts , pronounced inflammatory cellular infiltration in the lamina propria ; grade 4=severe inflammatory changes with evidence of crypt abscesses with destruction , inflammatory erosions , or frank ulceration . |
| 30 | In particular , for the purposes of this study , it can measure the S phase duration ( in hours ) of crypt cells in gastric mucosa . |