Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] of [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons of space the diaries are limited to those of the school secretary , school social worker , head of primary department , supply class teacher ( juniors ) and welfare assistant ( infants ) . |
| 2 | For reasons of economy the population of individuals approached is usually a small sample of the total relevant population . |
| 3 | I do n't know what was the reason in this case , but in any event when ops were cancelled like this , late in the day when it was getting dark , for reasons of safety the armourers waited for daylight before de-bombing the aircraft . |
| 4 | Children were screened for signs of xerophthalmia every 4 months . |
| 5 | After hours of deliberation the court failed to rule on the constitutionality of Mr Yeltsin 's measures . |
| 6 | After months of preparation the move went remarkably well , marking the start of a new chapter for Baricol . |
| 7 | August 1990 After months of discussion the five permanent members of the UN Security Council transform the Australian plan into a comprehensive " framework document " [ see p. 37654 ] . |
| 8 | After months of debate the Federal Assembly on Feb. 21 approved legislation returning nationalized property to former owners or their heirs . |
| 9 | After months of debate the Australian government announced on Nov. 23 that it had lifted a ban on homosexuals in the armed forces . |
| 10 | After months of debate the National Assembly on Dec. 17 adopted a new abortion law replacing that in force under communist rule ( and suspended in 1990 ) which effectively allowed abortion on demand . |
| 11 | After months of restoration the two hundred seat auditorium will have an audience for the first time in thirty years . |
| 12 | Antall declared that " after decades of dictatorship the political reflexes of the Hungarian people have not changed " , since the centrist alliance of the HDF , the Christian Democratic People 's Party and the Independent Smallholders ' Party had together " achieved the same result as the Smallholders in 1945 " ( which had then won 57 per cent of the vote ) . |
| 13 | Even after years of marriage an ex-wife will get no benefit from this if her former husband dies . |
| 14 | After days of peace the door would crash open : ‘ There 's six men here with lorries . |
| 15 | It states that during periods of confinement the locum costs arising will not be reimbursed if the locum is a member of the practice . |
| 16 | If the x coins of year a were made , for example , a hundred years before the 2x coins of year b , it would be unwise to conclude that twice as many coins were made in year b , since to do so would take no account of the gradual wastage or erosion of coins of year a from circulation ( by accidental loss , hoarding , export of coinage , melting down , etc . ) . |
| 17 | It is important that all the possibly infected sites are sampled , since in a small percentage of cases of gonorrhoea the rectum or urethra may be the only site involved . |
| 18 | It is the ratio of the number of moles of gas a to the total number of moles of gas present . |
| 19 | In the EEC , food surpluses are commonplace , leading to disposal of thousands of tonnes of food every year . |
| 20 | To deal with such difficulties and unnecessary travel of pieces of paper the Bank of England announced in November 1988 that it would set up a Central Money Markets Office ( CMO ) to develop a book entry transfer system to enable money market instrument paper to be ‘ immobilised ’ and eventually be ‘ dematerialised ’ . |
| 21 | Until there is a change in the law , charity shops will continue to lose thousands of pounds of income a week because they ca n't sell most of the toys donated to them . |
| 22 | Fire chiefs say they were pumping out thousands of gallons of water every minute in an attempt to keep levels down . |
| 23 | Sharpness on the Severn estuary normally handles hundreds of ships and thousands of tons of cargo a year , but that all stopped at lunchtime when the dockers walked out . |
| 24 | There are a number of points of view the executive want to put and I 'll be calling Paul at the end of that debate . |
| 25 | The latter may provide a good approximation to actual savings behaviour , but in this section we consider for purposes of contrast the rather different approach based on individual life-cycle savings decisions , discussed at some length in Lecture 3 . |
| 26 | In Fig. 8–3 we show for purposes of illustration the Cobb Douglas case . |
| 27 | Rather similar to this apparent endorsement of insincerity is the distinction he draws between qualities of character the praise of which is useful and qualities of character which are useful themselves . |
| 28 | For viewers of video the location of a scene may provide many clues as to the content of an interaction , for example a shop . |
| 29 | Twenty employees from Columbia Gas attended the seminar , and were presented with certificates of completion the following month . |
| 30 | Under conditions of hyper-inflation no factory manager has either capital or financial stability to invest in any kind of serious modernisation . |