Example sentences of "[noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you assume that on politically sensitive issues as is normally the case the magistrates would not vote , and if you assume that the Secretaries er Secretary of State 's appointees would , as would seem entirely plausible , vote in accordance with the wishes of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State were indeed a Conservative Secretary of State , you would in fact have er in a area where the with the with the with the substantive Labour majority , you would have a Conservative majority on the police authority and you would you have the possibility of conflict between the police police authority and the local authorities er in the area who are jointly responsible with the police authority for many aspects of er of of policing by consent . |
| 2 | In 1532 , he again revealed the drift of his thinking by informing parliament that the clergy 's oath of allegiance to the pope was ‘ clean contrary to the oath that they make to us ’ . |
| 3 | In view of the scale and seniority of the clergy 's membership of parliament , it seems unwise to dismiss the possibility of their influence upon its procedures and business . |
| 4 | In residents ' association meetings , the clergy 's point of view received vocal support from one or two members of the older village community which preceded the housing estate . |
| 5 | Freedom of the press encompassed " journalists ' freedom of expression and of creation , access to sources of information , protection of independence and professional confidentiality , and the right to establish newspapers and other publications " . |
| 6 | " On Free and Latent Semantic Energy " , by Claes Schaar , is based on informants ' interpretation of fragments of language in isolation , such as literary quotations , maxims and sayings . |
| 7 | It could be argued that the weights reflect the decision-makers ' theory of investment desirability , but what theory could rate NPV 333 per cent more important than process yield and ten times as important as basic R&D ? |
| 8 | He was educated at Bridgnorth School , and then apprenticed to a London clothworker , becoming a freeman in the Clothworkers ' Company of London in 1541 or 1542 ( and its master in 1559 ) . |
| 9 | If others copy it , insurers ' loss of competitiveness will be short-lived . |
| 10 | Those of us who have criticised the Government 's and western nations ' lack of urgency in providing appropriate assistance to the Soviet Union will also welcome the new steps and the energy that is being shown in this area If , as the Prime Minister rightly says , the protection of non-proliferation is the absolute key to world peace , why are the Government seeking to increase the number of nuclear warheads that are carried on Trident , when they have the option of keeping the number the same , at a time when the rest of the world is decreasing them ? |
| 11 | Imran Khan , Pakistan 's captain , has hinted a nagging shoulder injury might prevent him from playing throughout the World Cup winners ' tour of England this summer . |
| 12 | Neither the government nor the consortium has consulted the area 's Indian peoples about the concession ; at least seven Indian communities of Caribs , Arawak , Warau and Akawaio lie within the concession and the Amerindian Peoples ' Association of Guyana has appealed for the concession to be suspended . |
| 13 | Third parties interested in moving product into the Peoples ' Republic of China on the back of this new Unix System Labs joint venture , Unix System Technology China Ltd ( UX No 411 ) , should get in touch with USL 's Far East operation , Unix System Laboratories Pacific , until such time as the China unit actually gets off the ground . |
| 14 | Their purpose is to convey the peoples ' mode of perception and suggest their interpretation of phenomena . |
| 15 | The effectiveness of metaphors of the type in which inanimates are treated as animate is shown in passages of narratorial description where they are deployed in a fully developed form , for example in a lengthy passage where the pre-Copernican view of the universe ( which still pervades the English language ) is exploited and combined with the peoples ' perception of animacy in all things : " The moon rose slowly and almost vertically into a sky where there was nothing but a few spilled traces of cloud . |
| 16 | Staff were asked to rate their overall impression of the Back Office system but , as can be see from the branch perception graph , at the beginning of this year the measure was split to get a clearer understanding of branches ' perception of availability and response times . |
| 17 | Manufacturers ' rate of return on capital has jumped from 2% to 10% . |
| 18 | We in the North owe him a considerable debt for the enthusiasm and perception he has shown in building up the schools ' collection of works of art now owned by the County Council . |
| 19 | The escapers ' sense of urgency was intensified by Tuesday 's decision by East Germany to end visa-free travel to Czechoslovakia . |
| 20 | This is well illustrated by the oral history of the Gilbert Islanders ' discovery of South America in the distant past . |
| 21 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 22 | Be sensible and try to see things from your pets ' point of view : |
| 23 | It uses movement and drama to develop the clients ' sense of self and to broaden their interests . |
| 24 | clients ' understanding of risk warn the Client of the extent to which he may be exposed to risk |
| 25 | Is this true from the clients ' point of view ? |
| 26 | But I think if we 'd made ‘ Rumours ’ then ‘ Mirage ’ then ‘ Tango ’ and then ‘ Tusk ’ it probably would have made more sense from the listeners ' point of view . |
| 27 | Few people have actually done experiments on listeners ' perception of attitudes through intonation . |
| 28 | On the advice of M Broussonet MD FRS , perpetual secretary of the Royal Society of Agriculture in Paris , he took the momentous step of obtaining six months ' leave of absence to visit England . |
| 29 | When he fell ill in 1857 he was granted £30 to enable him to get away for the winter , and six months ' leave of absence shortly afterwards . |
| 30 | Men only had to be 21 , and have 6 months ' residence/occupation of business premises . |