Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As you can imagine there were a lot of champagne bottles opened that night , but perhaps the most pleasurable glass of all came the next morning from the bottle in Peter Wycherley 's office at the headquarters of Dunlop Slazenger who are my main sponsors . |
2 | A packet of Jaw Breakers cost 15 pence for four.But they could have cost an eight year old boy his life . |
3 | A packet of Jaw Breakers cost 15 pence for 4 . |
4 | Floyd Hunter ( 1953 ) crystallized the use of elite concepts to debunk pluralist myths about open and democratically controlled city politics . |
5 | Taken together with the replacement of the solid , load-bearing external walls by rows of brick piers flanking narrower infill panels , this development allowed the area of window relative to wall to increase to a maximum in the 1900s when the façades of mills became more glass than brick . |
6 | A shortage of building workers and of building materials compounded escalating costs . |
7 | Any standard form of building contract incorporates two elements : the basic agreement between the parties that the contractor will carry out and complete the work and that the employer will pay the contractor for doing so ; and detailed conditions which define how this will happen and procedures which are to be followed . |
8 | The Chronicle series of dip pens includes five specialist sets : Roundhand I and II , Italic , Craft and Poster . |
9 | The BAeSema Ltd joint venture of British Aerospace Plc and Sema Group Plc won a UK Ministry of Defence contract to equip five frigates with command systems : no price was given but a source told Reuter that it was about £30m . |
10 | But a Ministry of Defence spokesman said last night that neither was in immediate danger . |
11 | His successor displayed no great competence for the job even though he had been a member of the House for twenty-four years and had successfully met the demands of peer review to achieve major leadership posts in the legislature . |
12 | In order to simplify access to the data , a set of computer programs enables prospective users of the data not only to obtain data , but to tailor their excerpts from the database precisely to their own requirements . |
13 | The European Council Directive on the legal protection of computer programs recognizes that programming languages , at least to the extent that they comprise ideas and principles , should not be protected by copyright . |
14 | The exclusion from patent of computer programs reflects international trends . |
15 | An improvement in technology leading to increased efficiency in food production would have helped , but as yet there seems little evidence for this , unless intensification of field systems to open common fields is a manifestation of this . |
16 | In a job with a high degree of autonomy and unpredictability , the control of field staff assumes considerable importance , for ‘ the behaviour of the members of an organization ’ , as Blau ( 1963:2 ) observed with studied understatement , ‘ does not precisely correspond to its blueprint . ’ |
17 | At the Grand , magistrates are two a penny , bankers of the sort who never lent Maxwell a farthing can be seen sipping sherry , chairmen of publicly quoted companies compare salaries , and retired officers of field rank renew old NATO friendships . |
18 | Assignments of backbone resonances using through-bond coupling . |
19 | An examination of settlement certificates confirmed this pattern , with three-quarters coming from within 10 miles . |
20 | Article 25 should be changed to widen the remit and representation of Monitoring Committees to include environmental interests . |
21 | The DSS note states : ’ There is also the practical problem that the routine destruction of case papers means that evidence no longer exists in many cases . ’ |
22 | The principal method of investigation is a series of case studies involving extended interviews with significant political figures , supplemented by analysis of statistical and documentary data . |
23 | The application of these models and techniques to a representative range of case studies to derive empirical estimations of likely error levels in GIS output ; |
24 | However , in accordance with the principles of credit accumulation , full-time students can make use of Course regulations to take additional modules , at their own expense in the part-time mode , to get back on track . |
25 | Of course America produces wonderful dancers , great soloists as the term goes . |
26 | Of course women use these terms too — with each other and with men . |
27 | But of course teachers have extra commitments . |
28 | This multisubunit enzyme resembles the RNA polymerases of eukaryotic cells , and the two largest and the smallest subunits of vaccinia virus have similar amino acid sequences to their cellular counterparts ( 2-4 ) . |
29 | In fact , the relationship between two record types is again one-to-many , but the construct of link records enables convenient representation of many-to-many relationships . |
30 | This offers a very high level ( up to eighty per cent ) of grant aid to repair those field barns in Swaledale that remain unconverted . |