Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quicker than Sterland — but he was also quicker than a lot of defenders in those days . |
| 2 | It is hard to calculate the energies of ions with several unpaired electrons , and the effects of electron correlation and of relaxation are particularly significant in transition metal compounds . |
| 3 | A former cabinet minister , Toshiyuki Inamura , was charged with evading ¥1.7 billion ( $12.6m ) of taxes on some ¥2.8 billion of ill-gotten gains that he made in a shares racket . |
| 4 | The imposition of taxes in this model is relevant to the effect not just on prices but also on industrial structure . |
| 5 | Furthermore , pollinators are directed to suitable target sites for deposition of pollen by a series of rewards at those sites , whereas dispersers are not and indeed , jettisoning of the ‘ ballast ’ from their food as rapidly as possible is to their advantage : food may take 10 to 20 minutes to pass through a bat or small bird , though up to several months in animals like the rhinoceros . |
| 6 | The Latvian population was 51.8 per cent Latvian and 33.8 per cent Russian ( the highest proportion of Russians in any of the Baltic states ) , the remainder being Byelorussians , Poles and Ukrainians ( 1989 census ) . |
| 7 | The dazzle effect of grids can be subdued by establishing a hierarchy of one set of parallels over another . |
| 8 | The Dutch Parliament thought otherwise , and urged its government to pursue a federal association of states with more vigour . |
| 9 | This perspective is unduly restrictive of the role of law in its socially instrumental aspects and unduly kind to those who have power over the legislative and judicial functions of states in that to define law in terms of the pursuit of order seems unwarrantably to exclude the use of law to foment disorder when this seems desirable to the politically strong . |
| 10 | It follows that our practices and assessments in the disciplines carry ethical layers within themselves : were our choice of values at any of the levels to be different , our practices and our evaluations of truth claims would also be different . |
| 11 | A state is a set of values for all its switches ; so if the BM has N nodes , then it has 2 possible states . |
| 12 | Choose suitable scales on the x and y axes , and draw graphs of the following equations , First draw a table of values for each equation . |
| 13 | With inverted files the records are held in a data area on disk , but there is also an index which contains values or a range of values for some of the data . |
| 14 | Rather , it calculates a function : The function 's argument is the set I of inputs to the bottom layer , and its value is the resulting set of values of all nodes at the top layer . |
| 15 | This can be defined abstractly as the sum of values of both final goods and services and investment goods in a country . |
| 16 | D. There is a similar pattern of values within each city and town . |
| 17 | By having a very limited range of values in each compartment you can quickly locate the components you require , with minimal wear on the components . |
| 18 | If , however , one shifts the perspective , it can be convincingly argued that a ‘ democratic monarchy ’ with , at its head , an Emperor directly responsible to the people had need of a different set of values from those prevailing at St Petersburg or Vienna . |
| 19 | Through a local human rights group , to whom copies of appeals had been sent , he got hold of photocopies of all the letters from around the world that had been written on his behalf . |
| 20 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 21 | By pluralism , they meant the end of monopolies of any kind and the existence of the greatest possible number of publications reflecting the widest possible range of opinion . |
| 22 | Foreign Offices of a modern kind , specialized in their functions , subdivided ( usually on a largely geographical basis ) into departments with still more specialized duties and employing considerable numbers of experts of all kinds , now appear for the first time in the major European capitals . |
| 23 | Recognizing the need for the development of international law on liability and compensation arising from the transport or disposal of hazardous wastes , the resolution requested UNEP to set up a working group of experts on this issue . |
| 24 | The practical work of establishing comparability is undertaken by groups of experts from each member state . |
| 25 | The matrix approach is best suited for complex projects which require the simultaneous efforts of experts from several disciplines . |
| 26 | Now you know , wi with lots of experts in this field and so we 're we only simply put that forward as a , a general suggestion whether it should be one-third from them and two- thirds from the pension funds , you know , I do n't think is a matter of great importance to us , but we do think that the should perhaps be a bit spread , spread a bit more widely than just into the pension funds . |
| 27 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 28 | Sheila Payne suggests a number of reasons for this : the side effects of the drugs become more distressing ; patients are aware that they will have to go through further courses of similar treatment and feel gloomy at the prospect ; and they receive less support from health professionals than at the start . |
| 29 | There are a number of reasons for this . |
| 30 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |