Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps most fundamental of all , however , was the climate of hostility and mistrust that existed between East and West during the ‘ new cold war ’ of the late 1970s and early 1980s ; and it was the dissipation of this climate , above all through a series of face-to-face meetings between the Soviet and American leaders , that contributed most directly to the resumption of progress in arms control and other matters . |
| 2 | Impact of Change on Personnel Policy |
| 3 | and that voters should create pressure groups committed to this purpose and the acceptance of policies of arms control with the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | There is , however , an irrefutable case for giving a greater degree of protection to fishermen resident in the Hebrides and the North of Scotland generally . |
| 5 | The impossibility of replication in police investigation is not as crippling as might appear at first sight because it is far less important , or even necessary , in the criminal context than in science . |
| 6 | They decided to capitalize on their success by putting up prices/ The official reason , worth of Pravda in hits heyday , was that champagne could not stay abreast of rising demand . |
| 7 | Optic atrophy , with its gradual deterioration in sight , complicates some 20 per cent of cases of tabes dorsalis . |
| 8 | Renewing calls for a ban on all nuclear weapons tests and for an end to the production of weapons-grade plutonium , Yeltsin proposed the creation of an international agency monitoring nuclear weapons " through the whole cycle " , from the extraction of uranium to weapons manufacture . |
| 9 | the famous removals firm still in operation , which had its origins in the reign of Charles I ( 1625–49 ) when a certain Thomas Pickford owned teams of pack-horses for goods traffic . |
| 10 | The option of settling a dispute rather than resolving it by going to trial can be described as a form of alternative dispute resolution , meaning methods of resolving a variety of disputes in ways alternative to court hearings . |
| 11 | The main areas , all closely related , in which biotechnology is being applied to plants are : Improvement of crop varieties Disease and pest resistance Nitrogen fixation Deletion of undesirable traits Tissue culture and cloning Production of compounds within plants Biodegradation of plant material |
| 12 | In the consultative document , the DTI proposes two courses of action : monitoring registration of branches at Companies House to ensure that the law is not abused by companies being incorporated in a lax jurisdiction to take over a British business ; or requiring branch accounts from overseas companies which conduct all or a substantial part of their business in Great Britain . |
| 13 | Be that as it may , we have more than once witnessed the potential of legspin in limited-overs cricket . |
| 14 | Her aim was to avenge the brutal treatment of comrades in police custody . |
| 15 | Terms of reference for Investigations Service . |
| 16 | Bruin of Mallion with daughters Lenlee Fern , Lenlee Delight and Lenlee Neeraum Brigitte . |
| 17 | Bruin of Mallion with daughters Lenlee Fern , Lenlee Delight and Lenlee Neeraum Brigitte . |
| 18 | Two pieces of 2″ × 2″ wood were cut to the length of the vat , painted with wood preserver and then screwed to the top of each side of the vat using self-tapping screws . |
| 19 | Two pieces of 1½″ × 1″ wood were cut to size , painted with a non-toxic wood preserver and screwed ( using self-tapping screws ) to the top of the vat at the end opposite the pump inlet . |
| 20 | Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability . |
| 21 | Therefore , ignoring transactions costs and taxation , an arbitrage profit of £547.60 per futures contract was available by selling futures and buying shares . |
| 22 | Princess Dechhen W. Wangchuk Agriculture Princess Sonam Chhoden Wangchuk Finance Lyonpo Dawa Tsering Foreign Affairs ; Secretary of Council of Ministers HRH Namgyel Wangchuk Home Affairs Lyonpo T. Tobgyal Social Services ; Communications ; Tourism |
| 23 | Dismissal of general over arms scandal |
| 24 | The Department of Transport on airports policy ; being a response to the consultative document Runway Capacity to Serve the South East ; |
| 25 | The alleged lack of virtues and sense of shame of women cotton operatives was deplored alike in parliamentary debate and government blue books , in contemporary novels and in newspapers . |
| 26 | Even so , in his mid-sixties and preparing to retire , he created more than a literary stir with the publication of a series of poems in vers libre on contemporary themes ( Fascism , war , pacifism ) which , in 1944 , were published in a volume entitled Y Dwymyn ( The Fever ) ( 2nd edn. 1972 ) . |
| 27 | Looking at the proportion of membership to Sports Council money over the last three years : |
| 28 | What kind of changes in police structure and ideology would be necessary before such regimes could influence actual police behaviour towards black people on the street ? |
| 29 | Super slick grooming with a hint of colour from Partners Hair using the Schwarzkopf range |
| 30 | The buyer , Financiere Sicli , controlled by a group of investors including Bankers Trust and Wasserstein Perella , was formed especially for the acquisition . |