Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | That hours of work were stated for many trades does not mean that they were always worked to the full . |
| 2 | Making predictions about the effects of new stressors is particularly difficult given that combinations of stressors may actually counteract each other rather than being additive in their effects ( Hockey , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | HEV differs from HAV in that outbreaks of HEV occur exclusively in countries with warm climates . |
| 4 | In these least months of 1978 almost all the golden people of Iran and international wheeler-dealers who had fed off them and with them have vanished — westward . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher has been fortunate in that retirements of several senior personnel in the early 1980s gave her the opportunity to influence promotions ; there were thirteen appointments as Permanent Secretary in 1982 alone and she has had a hand in appointing the great majority of Permanent and Assistant Permanent Secretaries since 1979 . |
| 6 | In a recent case , the police posed as ordinary civilians in order to trap a shop owner , licensed to sell liquor by the case only , into selling them a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine . |
| 7 | We were more used to being given a few cans of lager and that was it , ’ says Solowka . |
| 8 | I hoped that the off-licence opened soon because the journey to Dover could only be improved by getting drunk ; besides , a few cans of lager helped me through the morning pretty well , and killed off hunger till late afternoon . |
| 9 | He ( or she ) wo n't find a dead body in the foreshore , but he might well return home with a few cans of paint , a drum of oil , a host of seaborne lost offerings , or even a net of Spanish oranges tucked under his arm . |
| 10 | Quite a few cans of Coke and things like that , quite a few cans for relieving yourself ! |
| 11 | As M. W. Eysenck ( 1982 ) points out , unless studies collect data over a large range of different arousal levels , there are relatively few patterns of results which are actually inconsistent with an inverted-U relationship . |
| 12 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 13 | The Orthodox Churches have started to have some discussions of the issue , which suggests that they are not necessarily completely closed to the idea . |
| 14 | She earns between $800 and $1,000 a month , lives in one furnished room , and has just a few possessions of her own . |
| 15 | LONDON & SOUTH-EAST : There were few glimmers of encouragement for Mr Kinnock as the party picked up a dozen seats in the capital and a handful outside , writes David Millward . |
| 16 | There are a few glimmers of hope , however , since fewer firms are having trouble collecting fees and all but the larger firms are optimistic about increasing their client base . |
| 17 | The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day : |
| 18 | Seen from a hill , the dunes stretched as far as the deep blue of the horizon , above which were a few streaks of cirrus cloud . |
| 19 | The dilemma followed me through the publication of a few accounts of my researches . |
| 20 | The attention of the news media was firmly focused on the Falklands , and so few accounts of disturbances in British cities were reported . |
| 21 | A few accounts of total and partial eclipses of the sun also survive from Babylon and ancient China . |
| 22 | This means that if the calculations you give exclude the tail , another 48″ of fish should be removed to bring the stocking level down to a manageable size . |
| 23 | Interestingly , Anthony Easthope acknowledges the distinction at one point in Poetry as Discourse : ‘ Failure to distinguish clearly between signified and referent , the object it may refer to , has led to serious confusion in some accounts of the ideogram . ’ |
| 24 | There follow some accounts of Wordsworth by people who knew him , mainly in later life , as a way of pointing up , and perhaps correcting , the poet 's own version of himself . |
| 25 | The term ‘ support ’ is used in a way analogous to the notion of ‘ scaffolding ’ in some accounts of language acquisition ( Bruner , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | In the meantime we must consider some accounts of knowledge which seem less fruitful . |
| 27 | Some accounts of Heracles ' exploits stress his misogyny , applying the epithet misogynos to him ; and it is notable that women were excluded from his shrines . |
| 28 | Secondly , that it is politically naive , because such an argument could be said to justify the kind of political move I have just mentioned , in which some institutions of higher education might be denied research funding . |
| 29 | It is entirely right , therefore , that we are beginning to see the signs of peer assessment being employed as part of the formal assessment procedure in some institutions of higher education . |
| 30 | Not only is this the explanation given to thousands of schoolchildren but I have to tell you that it also finds its way — in a more sophisticated form — into the curricula of some institutions of further and higher education . " |