Example sentences of "[conj] of a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm The fraction going into civil research , of this speculative kind , or of a development kind , is very small compared to all the countries of Western Europe . |
| 2 | Er what I actually mean is whenever you have an idiom , you can substitute in the position of a whole sentence or of a verb phrase , but you ca n't substitute it for a subject and a verb , leaving the object of the sentence intact . |
| 3 | the idea that every form of avoidance of expenditure quite indifferently of whether it consists of really wasteful expenditure or of a capital investment in developing the nation 's productive resources , is alike ‘ economy ’ … . |
| 4 | At present hospitals and community services often use the translation services of a relative who is bilingual , or of a kitchen porter or nurse who may know nothing of mental health problems , or of anyone in the vicinity who happens to speak the language . |
| 5 | They can be used very effectively for gaining automatic control when problems are caused by mismatch of word order or of a function word . |
| 6 | The receipt a person of a share of the profits of a business is prima facie evidence that he is a partner in the business but the receipt of such a share , or of a payment contingent on or varying with the profits of a business , does not of itself make him a partner in the business . |
| 7 | times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now . |
| 8 | Mounting criticism of the inadequacy of the 1959 Act led to a number of proposals for a tax on betterment , by way either of a capital gains tax or of a betterment levy . |
| 9 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 10 | In short , local government 's future financial base will have to be a hybrid — either of two or more taxes or of a tax-and-grants kind . |
| 11 | You 'll hear nothing of Bert Green 's boating brains , or Heather Boxer 's cooking , or of a piano player called Kate Boxer . |
| 12 | The trick is if you go away it does n't look like you have , and erm the same thing happens in a design studio , or if you 're the art director of a publication or of a book publisher , that everybody works together so it looks like it 's not all the same person doing everything . |
| 13 | ( 10 ) In subsection ( 1 ) above , " the holder of a licence " includes the holder of an off-sale licence but does not include the holder of a refreshment licence or of an entertainment licence . |
| 14 | There are few public meetings now and fewer serious discussions in pamphlets , or even books , of a kind that would have made sense to a novelist like Disraeli , or a scholar like Gladstone , to both of whom the idea of a ‘ speech writer ’ or of an advertising agency to identify the issues would have been absurd . |
| 15 | That is , they do this in every case except that of an exorcism ritual where the point is to make a deliberate display of violence and aggression , in the sense of ‘ intentionally causing suffering to another being ’ , to frighten the predatory spirits . |
| 16 | Computer software licence fees should be deductible as trading expenses if of a revenue nature and incurred wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the trade . |
| 17 | Most administrators agreed with D. Storrs-Fox that the Masai were ‘ more intelligent than , and of a type superior to , the other native tribes around them ’ . |
| 18 | They were described as members of the monarchist opposition , of Savak ( the secret police service under the pre-1979 regime ) and of a Mujaheddin group . |
| 19 | Key elements of the new department will be the introduction of a national lottery and of a Millennium Fund . |
| 20 | A corporation tax deduction will be available to Newco for contributions made to a non-qualifying employee trust provided that : ( a ) the contributions are regular and of a revenue nature ; ( b ) the contributions are voluntary ( so as not to constitute annual payments within s337(2) ( b ) TA 1988 ) ; ( c ) the class of beneficiaries under the trust is confined to employees of the settlor company , so there will need to be multiple settlors if all the employees in a group of companies are to benefit and the various companies in the group that are contributing wish to ensure corporation tax deductions ; and ( d ) the companies themselves are entirely excluded from benefiting under the terms of the trust . |
| 21 | Bearing in mind some caveats below , it is possible to predict the relative difficulty of a writing task ( and of a language task more generally ) . |
| 22 | The court heard of royalties that vary widely between countries and of a Sony deduction for packaging in excess of the actual cost . |
| 23 | The novel is a curious mixture of autobiography , fantasy , speculation about poetry , and Welsh legends ( modelled obliquely on the Arabian Night ) that begins as a ‘ story of Balham and of a family dwelling in Balham who were more Welsh tlian Balhamilish ’ . |
| 24 | The papal envoy , Egidius , began the journey home after the death of Archbishop Conrad of Mainz — and , incidentally , after a double election to the see of Mainz of a Staufen candidate and of a Welf candidate . |
| 25 | The burgesses appealed to Parliament to confirm their ancient rights , while the ‘ rebels ’ were led by James Tillie of Pentillie , owner of Halton Quay and of a merchant fleet . |
| 26 | He said that he hoped that legislation would be approved by June for the establishment of a transitional executive council and of an election committee whose aims would be to create the conditions for free and fair elections . |
| 27 | More specifically , both the development of a home market for a variety of foodstuffs and agrarian raw materials , and of an export market — mainly for grain — undermined serfdom . |
| 28 | Labour offered a deeply dependent and conservative culture , one that derives from acceptance of the unalterable laws , not of the universe , but of a market economy . |
| 29 | The picture which emerges from research , from that of Dorothy Wedderburn in the 1960s to that of Sara Arber and her colleagues in the 1980s , on the relationship between pensioners and younger relatives , friends and neighbours , is not one of simple dependency of the old upon the young , but of an exchange relationship to which both sides contribute which shifts only gradually over time towards the younger participants being the predominant givers ( Cole and Utting , 1962 ; Gilbert et al. , 1989 ; Evandrou et al. , 1986 ) providing a significant volume of services which would otherwise be a costly burden on the state . |
| 30 | It could n't really be because of a home movie , could it ? |