Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As we have shown , it remained a separate establishment following the reorganization of public sector higher education in Wales and it is now widely recognized as a national institution offering full-time and part-time courses for professional performers of Music and Drama , together with honours BEd . |
2 | AMONG a host of prestigious contracts won by Corporate Wedgwood is an order for 18,000 pieces of tableware for a restaurant on-board the luxury liner QE II . |
3 | In such a climate of change the 29th Edition Rules for Automatic Sprinkler Systems can only indicate that required sprinkler protection for broad categories of commodity . |
4 | Very large window areas allow for broad sweeps of display which grab the eye from far away , as they do at Waterstones ' even grander premises round the corner in Union Street . |
5 | Nine-day Caribbean fly-cruises start at around £700 and £450 in the Mediterranean for lazy days of sunshine , and inclusive food and entertainment . |
6 | The book begins with some sound advice on factors to consider when deciding what sort of business to run , plus information on how to market your product successfully , and where to look for possible sources of finance . |
7 | It aims to present an autobiography of an Aymara-speaking peasant community , forged by its men , women and specialist historians , who , as social actors , construct their historical and cultural identity through oral traditions of song and spoken memory , as well as through their knowledge and practical use of written texts . |
8 | We need to know much more about specific cases of production and their effects on musical form . |
9 | However , there is still some need , especially in the earlier stages , to talk to those responsible for management information at central ( and perhaps also at departmental ) level in Whitehall , about data sources relevant to the kinds of indicator the investigators are working with , and to seek advice about specific problems of interpretation . |
10 | Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them . |
11 | In the context of the apparent marginalization of the cities , there is a central reformist tradition ( developed in both Britain and the USA ) that suggests that riots need to be seen as political statements of dissatisfaction . |
12 | In doing so the project will move from a generalized concept through progressive degrees of refinement and detail , removing uncertainty and increasing knowledge at each stage over the duration of the project . |
13 | The Hawaii Ironman is the original and ultimate triathlon , where the swim is through 2.4 miles of ocean , and is immediately followed by a 112-mile cycle ride up on the black lava fields , where by mid-morning the temperature will be over 100 degrees . |
14 | Tsu Ma was some fifty ch'i back , his mount straining , its front legs fighting for each ch'i of ground . |
15 | In Discipline and Punish Foucault demonstrates how the individual is constituted through specific technologies of power ; in the History of Sexuality , he shows the extent to which the human sciences , including medicine and the practice of psychoanalysis , facilitated the extension of control beyond the limits of the body in the construction of the inner realms of subjectivity , consciousness and experience . |
16 | A variety of texts on trade and industry , transport , finance , insurance and advertising for advanced students of English . |
17 | ‘ To help alleviate the situation , we have introduced a new tariff for low users of electricity , which has no standing charge , and have announced a discount for card meter customers . ’ |
18 | The generic mixings and mutations , however , towards which television may have an aesthetic and an economic inclination do seem to provide the grounds for specific forms of parody . |
19 | The materials , whether wool or silk , are second to none , and it is not uncommon for a mixture of wools from different regions — each noted for specific qualities of softness , springiness of durability — to be employed in better quality items to ensure a perfect blend of all the characteristics necessary to produce the best rug-making material . |
20 | The manager produces a whole hospital work-level profile for specific periods of time for a 7-day period . |
21 | Many of the ministries based in Moscow and responsible for specific branches of industry would be reconstituted as semi-independent corporations , according to the Financial Times of Nov. 6 . |
22 | Also , in the UK , it is extremely difficult to find who owns the mineral rights for specific pieces of land . |
23 | Future funding from the Board to law centres would be for cases done under the green forms and legal aid schemes , including any new arrangements that might be developed , ‘ and possibly grants for specific types of work where the law centres could demonstrate that they would provide a better and more efficient service in ways that did not lend themselves to payment on a case by case basis . ’ |
24 | These laboratories are then authorised to issue formal certificates and reports for specific types of measurement and tests . |
25 | The teaching task is to see that the techniques that are used are effective in promoting learning objectives , so they have to be designed to account for specific contexts of instruction . |
26 | Both were sponsored by the Metals sub-sector for specific categories of traffic , rather than by Railfreight Distribution for general Speedlink work . |
27 | Lastly , where the aim is to investigate the functional significance of particular phenotypic sex differences , it may be necessary to calculate selection intensities for specific episodes of selection , such as mating success at particular ages ( see Arnold & Wade , 1983 ) for the effect of particular traits on lifetime reproductive success may often be obscured by the influence of other variables or by random variation . |
28 | They also argued that , although the whole system of competition and pricing would possibly be appropriate for specific items of surgery based on short periods of acute illness , it ignored the nature of health care generally . |
29 | The whole country functioned upon the basis of a unitary and centrally-determined plan and budget , which greatly limited the scope for lower levels of government to choose their own priorities . |
30 | They are the rules which enable members to choose between possible modes of conduct available to them and to maintain a sense of propriety and social legitimacy . |