Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get an approximate feel for the size of the loss , in 1985 according to the National Income and Expenditure " Blue Book " , £4046 million was spent on gas , out of total consumers ' expenditure of £213,208 million . |
| 2 | On Nov. 4 , the 13th anniversary of Iranian revolutionaries ' takeover of the US embassy in Tehran [ see p. 30150 ] , the authorities announced the arrest of a US resident , Milton Meier , a travel agent , who was said to have confessed to spying . |
| 3 | These problems of prediction related to the definitional fallacy and the statistical fallacy are very evident in the Beckford Report , which was so critical of social workers ' lack of knowledge and use of predictive research . |
| 4 | Under the Institution of Civil Engineers ' Conditions of Contract ( fifth edition ) , retention money is repaid to a contractor in two stages , the first within 14 days after the certificate of completion has been issued , the remainder within 14 days after the end of the period of maintenance . |
| 5 | The parallel with developments in the documentation of casual workers ' conditions of engagement [ see Chapter 6 ] are to be noted . |
| 6 | If we put these fragments of information together , we can construct a picture of black adolescents ' perceptions of Creole use and attitudes which is similar to that given by Sutcliffe . |
| 7 | There was considerable suspicion , for example , of health visitors , deriving from their reputation for criticism of poor mothers ' conduct of their homes and families . |
| 8 | The man with the acoustic guitar and stupid headgear launches into an awful rendition of Dire Straits ' Sultan Of Swing , out-of-key hummings taking the place of the Knopfler guitar solo , while his florid chum scampers down the aisle embarrassing travellers to such an extent that they all toss loose change into the jumbo jamjar . |
| 9 | Magnum/Mayall/Nelson 's ( 1985 ) study of American employers ' use of temporary workers used the same " on-off " break in conducting its analysis . |