Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are deposits of sterling held by overseas authorities as part of their official reserves and/or for purposes of intervening in the foreign exchange market in order to influence the exchange rate of their currency . |
| 2 | With the widespread use of the telephone for both business and pleasure letter-writing is in danger of becoming a lost skill and probably the only letters which are kept in the home are those between sweethearts or between members of a united family . |
| 3 | Certain kinds of circumstances which are produced within or between groups of people . |
| 4 | To assess the impact of more differentiated media sources we can look for differences between their different audiences : differences between readers of highbrow or lowbrow papers , for example , or between readers of right-wing and left-wing papers . |
| 5 | Co-operation can work well between libraries of the same type or between libraries of different types , depending upon extent of joint needs , and practical factors such as proximity and location . |
| 6 | for delivering it from one part of his premises to another part of his premises , or for delivering it from his premises to the premises of , or between parts of premises of , another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles or removing it from the premises of another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles direct to his own premises ; |
| 7 | The reliability of a test is measured by correlation between the test scores , obtained at two different times , between different forms of the same test or between samples of questions in different parts of the same test . |
| 8 | Probably many of us have treasured letters containing gems of spiritual guidance which have come to us when the writer could not , or during times of personal need or crisis . |
| 9 | Such an approach enables active work to go on at all times , including those when no change of placement is contemplated or during periods of waiting for a suitable placement to become available . |
| 10 | An important advantage of this arrangement is the need for as small a portion as possible of this vital protection system to be inoperative in the period immediately following a fire or during periods of maintenance but , there is a further consideration . |
| 11 | The National Certificate concept of free standing modules introduced flexibility and openness into non-advanced provision by allowing students to enrol for one or two modules only or for programmes of modules to meet the needs of a particular employer . |
| 12 | Questions of design-society relations then appear of major significance — not only for society or for questions of " design-and-society " but for design itself . |
| 13 | In the second phase , small studies will be undertaken in a number of local authorities to assess the extent to which socio-economic factors account for variations in the rates of children in care in ‘ similar ’ authorities or for patterns of care that are at marked variance with national trends . |
| 14 | Enlarging the sample will allow for more reliable analyses at a school , neighbourhood or local level , or for groups of interest such as ethnic minorities or young people in particular occupations or courses of education . |
| 15 | The UK sales force fill in a weekly report form which includes questions about competitors — a successful campaign that somebody else has run , or a successful title — and room for suggestions for new titles or for areas of publishing . |
| 16 | Security Safe locations are to be preferred for expensive and/or specialized works or for titles of which only one or two copies are purchased . |
| 17 | All British universities allow access to theses for consultation purposes , although some universities may place embargoes on access for a five-year period , either to allow the author to publish , or for reasons of commercial sensitivity . |
| 18 | Charge codes provide a mechanism for organising the storage of modules according to teams and projects , or for reasons of security or accounting . |
| 19 | We should note that the description of a language in the terms of categories which theory provides may account either for types of linguistic element in the abstract , or for tokens of linguistic element as they actually occur in contexts of use . |
| 20 | This means that in particular colonial discourse analysis is not merely a marginal adjunct to more mainstream studies , a specialized activity only for minorities or for historians of imperialism and colonialism , but itself forms the point of questioning of Western knowledge 's categories and assumptions . |
| 21 | Government is concerned with ‘ doing things to ’ , ‘ taking things from ’ , or ‘ providing things for ’ society , or for parts of it . |
| 22 | Animal Painting in Britain was the title of a book by Basil Taylor , where he explained in his first chapter that the topic had been neglected since it was either assumed to be about sporting pictures , or about pictures of horses by such specialists as Sartorius . |
| 23 | They arrived at the restaurant , were shown to a table , handed menus and started a reasonably convivial conversation either about Ken 's rearend , the radio show or about Pieces of Eight which finally closed in the autumn of 1960 . |
| 24 | Assistance must likely be uncovered through direct observation , or through accounts of people who worked with the visionary . |
| 25 | You can use them to stimulate discussion , or as sources of data for tasks or projects . |
| 26 | Yet , for all that , many of these men , either singly or as members of a larger group , entered royal service and did well in it . |
| 27 | Secondly , a differential payment was introduced with a lower rate for visits made by deputising services and a higher rate for visits made by doctors in a partnership or as members of a non-commercial rota . |
| 28 | of plants and their cultivation , landscape design etc. , and many have overseas experience in other botanic gardens or as members of collecting expeditions . |
| 29 | I for one would not trust a lexicographer or philologist to determine whether the socio-economic profiles of eighteenth-century Scottish immigrants to the American colonies should be represented in social class terms or as indices of their pre- or post-industrial occupations . |
| 30 | The expenditure on science is another possible measure of growth , either nationally , or as numbers of research grants . |