Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun pl] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said earlier , we now seem to be at a stage of development where the attitudes of linguists and educationalists to important language issues have become more compatible than hitherto . |
| 2 | And in a social context of too few well-trained and experienced mathematics teachers , where the parents of boys are more likely to complain if their children are badly taught , the girls ' classes may well be assigned the less competent or less experienced teachers . |
| 3 | Two centuries , thousands of lives , in a museum where the building is a part of the display , where the feet of visitors follow the path of the people who once worked the canals . |
| 4 | It provides an example where the relatives of victims are concerned about the lack of publicity . |
| 5 | Diagonally opposite the stove is the icon corner , although for a Belorussian peasant the most sacred spot is the stove column , where the souls of predecessors reside . |
| 6 | While firmly governed by the discipline of the market place , this would offer its own third way between the glaring inefficiencies of state capitalism , Italian style , and the short-comings of classic private enterprise where the interests of employees can be so easily trampled upon . |
| 7 | This can be seen in Fig. 3.13B , where the proportions of mandibles with the ascending ramus totally destroyed are plotted against maxillary damage , and this groups both the tawny owl and snowy owl with the other predator species producing less alteration . |
| 8 | Where the bearings of timbers are inaccessible , it may be necessary to drill deep holes for saturation of the buried beams ' ends by injection . |
| 9 | This way of describing interviews can be used to consider what the control is exercised over , and where the types of interviews can most usefully be employed . |
| 10 | John Cornforth notes a similar discrepancy in painting , where the outsides of houses , particularly in relation to their setting , are frequently recorded , their interiors rarely so . |
| 11 | Where the jobs of members are guaranteed then the rationality of opposition retreats . |
| 12 | There were certainly women employed in Aberdeen , and instances were also reported in Falkirk and Glasgow in the 1880s , and in Perth in the 1890s , where the numbers of women were at least such as to be reduced by seventeen " . |
| 13 | The convoy has already been through a Soviet Checkpoint at Marienborn on the West/East German border , Where the numbers of men and vehicles have been thoroughly checked . |
| 14 | If the traits of individuals were themselves determined by social groups of one sort or another , they would have to be construed as the playthings rather than the planners of institutions and practices . |
| 15 | Social scientists who have considered the phenomenon have all agreed that there are more important reasons for it than the attitudes of administrators . |
| 16 | As regards Yugoslav exports , the values reported by Yugoslavia were usually lower than the values of imports from Yugoslavia reported by the partner countries — but frequently so much lower as to be implausible . |
| 17 | First there are those theorists , notably Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe , who propose that the interiors of comets are much more likely sites for the formation of organic chemicals than the surfaces of planets . |
| 18 | In analysing political action — that is to say , struggles for power — we need to look primarily at the activities of social groups rather than the actions of individuals , although the influence of particular individuals may evidently be a significant factor in some historical situations . |
| 19 | What I think is more important than the reactions of others . |
| 20 | It puts a whole new perspective on the study of the past , placing the lives of ordinary people at the centre , rather than the activities of monarchs and politicians . |
| 21 | ( The fact that the meanings of sentences are more accessible to intuition than the meanings of words does not alter this . ) |
| 22 | Political philosophy is more concerned with objects as properties than the properties of objects , while phenomenology , as that branch or philosophy which claims more direct concern with everyday objects , considers these mainly as media for addressing the role of agency and the nature of subjectivity ( though see McCarthy 1984 for the contribution of Mead ) . |
| 23 | Financially , the slave traders had rather more reason to take care of the people they were carrying than the transporters of convicts or of indentured labourers did ; all of these groups were being taken over as a speculative venture on which the shipper got no return unless he delivered live bodies , but the slave traders had already paid out cash to purchase their slaves . |
| 24 | We could lie propped up against wide pillows edged with lace , the legs of the bed rooted in a froth of cow parsley , convolvulus thrusting through the wrought-iron bedstead , the blue sky and the clouds more solid than the rows of houses underneath . |
| 25 | The reports tend to be better at planning statutory services than the kinds of services that voluntary organisations tend to provide . |
| 26 | Processing times are also much reduced due to the lists of words being shorter than the lists of grams . |
| 27 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 28 | He wrote of it as seeds finer than the spores of fungi or dust caught in the sails of ships a thousand miles from land . |
| 29 | Decretal letters , in answer to queries about particular legal points , came to be the major source of declaration during the twelfth century , more numerous than the decrees of councils but not so easily disseminated for use . |
| 30 | The heads of these children were no larger than the heads of matchsticks . |