Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The office of Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests , created in the eighteenth century , has been discontinued , but ‘ Deputy Surveyors ’ manage the New Forest and the Forest of Dean for the Forestry Commissioners .
2 ‘ I assume you know the state of play in the admin assistants ’ dispute ? ’
3 to identify the range of values of a sale prices acceptable to you
4 The lack of support from the home fans , which has been a feature at Feethams for weeks , culminated on Saturday with calls for the dismissal of manager Frank Gray .
5 I noted , and we 've already had the flavour of it , in to some respect today , that initially you had almost unanimity of support from the District Councils er York City have changed their view erm and equally Hambledon are very luke warm , if I put it no more than that , er on the idea of a new settlement in the sense that they probably support the principle of the new settlement , but not in Hambledon .
6 Key to the work on markets are considerations of change in the world religions and in painting .
7 Our results thus indicate the importance of interactions beyond the dinucleotide steps in predictive models of DNA curvature .
8 The group has studied the role of interactions between the selenium atoms in different stacks of TMTsF molecules ( see Figure ) .
9 Oh , she had the bag of coins beneath the bedroom floorboards , but it was no fortune , and with four mouths to feed it would n't last very long .
10 Mr Murrell 's approach aims to combine a series of investments within a school fees portfolio .
11 The communication processes operating in these environments are characterised by a high degree of open-ness within the research centres , coupled with a desire to withhold significant research results from similar research centres elsewhere until the public release of such information can ensure that priority will be accorded to those making the announcement .
12 It was a great shock to him , though , after years in the House of Lords , to encounter once more the bear-garden of the Commons : he was unprepared for the shock of the sheer weight of noise from the opposition benches ( which were more crowded in those days ) .
13 She retreated into clouded vision , only half-saw the Ventoux , the Vallauris potteries , the evening games of boules under the plane trees in the timeless village square .
14 If the wind blows hard or an insect travelling at speed flies into the web , the bundles of thread in the glue globules unwind so that the filament can extend its length up to four times and still does not break .
15 and , in the case of a registered club , the occasional licence allows the sale of liquor outwith the club premises at an event arising from the club functions ( subs .
16 In 1970 the possibility of building on the tennis courts was discussed and this idea was favoured by the Connexional Church Plans Committee .
17 In alliance with the king , these bishops set out to impose both their theological preferences and their particular brand of ceremonialism on the parish clergy and the laity ( see Chapter 7 ) .
18 But there are attempts to link educational examples with key political and economic processes in the wider society , such as the institutionalization of racism within the Nationality Acts , with the differential occupational recruitment of women and black pupils , or the lack of child care provision which limits the realistic achievement of female career options .
19 Dr Ian Rolfe , then of the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow snapped him up as supervisor of YOPs on a Manpower Services scheme to develop fossils in rock which had been excavated in Australia in the 1960s .
20 The report highlights three issues : the amount of money to be transferred from the budget of the Department of Social Security ; the way in which housing benefit will be calculated after 1993 ; and the division of responsibility between the health authorities and the local social service departments .
21 Second , the division of responsibility within the county areas was seen as a weakness ; and many local authorities were seen as too small to accept the responsibilities appropriate to the needs of their areas .
22 A pressure group with membership composed of affiliates from the trade unions , friendly societies , Co-operative Society committees , the Free Church Council , and others , the Conference claimed at the outset to have the support of over ten million people .
23 The series focuses on the work of individuals working in remote cultures and in this programme the individual was a Cambridge mechanical engineer , Martin Ede , who is working in the Andean heights of Bolivia among the Aymaran Indians .
24 The aircraft would be taxied into position at the base of the tower and connected to two cables , attached by way of mounts at the wing roots .
25 The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division .
26 Although the Central Authority initially resisted the more direct encroachment of Whitehall on the Area Boards ( successfully insisting that communication should normally be through the Authority ) , the semi-political process which determined the Whitehall allocation of resources to electricity was mirrored within the British Electricity Authority .
27 to inform members generally of the level of settlement in the County Councillors under the transport , E F P grants arranged .
28 The operation carried with it a 1% risk of damage to the spinal cord and a 1-2% risk of damage to the nerve roots .
29 The surgeon had apparently told the plaintiff about the risk of damage to the nerve roots but not of that to the spinal cord .
30 Her flat had suffered a lot of damage in the autumn gales and some of her recent writing had been totally destroyed at the first-draft stage .
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