Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as much in guilty reaction to the receptionist 's parting look of disapproval as in the hope of ordering his thoughts , he took himself off to the bath . |
| 2 | The prediction that Poisson deduced from Fresnel 's wave theory of light in 1818 , namely , that a bright spot should be observed at the centre of one side of an opaque disc suitably illuminated from the other , was novel because the existence of that bright spot was ruled out by the particle theory of light that formed part of the background knowledge of the time . |
| 3 | For example , Worrall 's study of the rejection of Thomas Young 's wave theory of light and the retention of Newton 's corpuscular theory in the early nineteenth century supports Lakatos . |
| 4 | But before God 's judgement seat of history , we remain responsible . |
| 5 | Ali 's skin smells of earth and of trees . |
| 6 | They increase the level of potassium in the body and this leads to a reduction in blood pressure , say researchers at Leicester General Hospital 's University Department of Medicine For The Elderly . |
| 7 | Connor McCaffrey ( 18 ) was taking the lift to his room at Queen 's University halls of residence when it became stuck between the third and fourth floors . |
| 8 | One particular area in which technical terms are likely to cause some problems is that of grammar : and here we shall follow the terminology and general view of grammar presented in Quirk and Greenbaum 's University Grammar of English . " |
| 9 | More usually it left him ashamed and angry , despite his wife 's kind words of consolation , and Ashi herself in an agitated state of dissatisfaction and unhappiness . |
| 10 | The IRR method implicitly assumes that a project 's annual cash flows can be reinvested at the project 's internal rate of return ; the NPV method assumes that the cash flows can be reinvested at the firm 's opportunity cost of capital . |
| 11 | Mafart 's illness can not have been very serious because he was well enough to sit the entrance examination to France 's elite School of War where he won a place in March 1988 . |
| 12 | This is an attractive perk , particularly in the light of last week 's Budget announcement of VAT on fuel and power from April 1994 . |
| 13 | Along with Graham Nearn of Caterham and Chris Smith of Westfield , Marsh — Marcos founder and mainstay of the UK 's cottage industry of component car makers — was exhibiting at the last motor show , where anyone could legitimately call him a ‘ kit car ’ maker . |
| 14 | Henry started his education at a boarding-school in Birkenhead but in the spring of 1887 the family moved to the Queen 's Park district of west London , where he continued his education at Beethoven Street School in Kilburn Lane until 1890 , when he left to work in the jewellery workshops of William Whiteley [ q.v. ] of Bayswater . |
| 15 | Underlying this whole approach is the fact that no account has been taken of Disabled people 's ow understandings of Disability or priorities for the arts . |
| 16 | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Salon School of Management , the Open Software Foundation , Bull Worldwide Information Systems and the European Community are pooling resources to co-host Enterprise ‘ 93 June 16 to 18 at the World Trade Center in Boston : the programme , aimed at top executives , aims to help them manage computing more profitably and effectively . |
| 17 | MIT 's Salon School of Management , the Open Software Foundation , Bull Worldwide Information Systems and the EEC are pooling resources to co-host Enterprise ‘ 93 June 16–18 at the World Trade Center in Boston . |
| 18 | Fifty miles inland , the remains of the wartime government 's fall-back line of defence still survives , mostly along the line of the Kennett-Avon canal . |
| 19 | This was to have been the debut the Divas had strived for … the women recorded this performance for Central TV 's programme Pot of Gold to be broad cast tomorrow night . |
| 20 | I wish to argue , following Mannheim 's relationist sociology of knowledge , that while Marx 's account of ideology is a useful introduction to the process of the social determination of knowledge , there is no escape from the form of ideology as the only available context of expression . |
| 21 | Thus science and technology become a leading productive force , rendering inoperative the conditions for Marx 's labour theory of value . |
| 22 | We may take it that the utilitarian in him could accept with Ricardo 's labour theory of value his hostility to landlords , who might be regarded as unproductive and bone-idle , and share with him a reluctance to extend that hostility to master-manufacturers . |
| 23 | It is enough to recall that Ricardo 's labour theory of value , on which it depends , is generally held to be fallacious in its assertion that the price of goods or services is solely determined by the amount of socially necessary labour required to produce or provide them , and so ignores the cost of other inputs and the effect of demand . |
| 24 | This sought to demonstrate a concept of surplus which , taking besides labour other inputs — land , skill and ability , capital — into account , did not rely upon Ricardo 's labour theory of value ; but went on to conclude that , under Capitalism , the inputs are not rewarded by reference to the parts they play in the creation of wealth and that labour in particular did not get its fair share . |
| 25 | I would suggest to you , in short , that erm just as Locke 's labour theory of property is a theory is not a comprehensive theory about what constitutes a legitimate claim to own something but is really a theory about how private property comes to be legitimately created erm so his theory of social contract is not a theory about how we acquire political obligations , it 's a theory about how legitimate civil societies come to be established . |
| 26 | His original ambition was to be a painter , and in 1933 he enrolled at Goldsmith 's College School of Art . |
| 27 | Studies at King 's College School of Medicine show that even a short period of hard pedalling on an exercise bike diverts blood flow from the uterus to the legs , ‘ stealing ’ oxygen from the foetus . |
| 28 | For the same reason , I fear that an accountant 's expert knowledge of tax havens may once again be a saleable commodity . |
| 29 | Even Gould 's expert methods of preservation , vested as they were with such personal concern , were susceptible to the ravages of nature and a long sea voyage . |
| 30 | The government 's core rate of inflation on consumer products , excluding food and energy prices , was rising at an annual 3.8 per cent recently while it was nearly 6 per cent just a year ago . |