Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Couples stay together for any number of reasons other than happiness : questions of money , children , accommodation or idleness , depression , habit , fears above all : fear of what the neighbours will say , fear of loss of status — fear of going without sex being chief amongst them . |
| 2 | The majestic Schönbrunn and Belvedere Castles assume the attention of artists great and amateur , and locals sip coffee in timeworn cafés . |
| 3 | The laws of the state are not necessarily those of the church , nor of religions other than Christianity which are now represented in Britain . |
| 4 | A number of empirical studies of the volatility-volume relationship based on studies of futures other than index futures is summarized in Table 8.3 . |
| 5 | Some of the studies of futures other than index futures are summarized in Table 8.4 . |
| 6 | The Societies of Mines Royal and Mineral and Battery Works , incorporated in 1568 , had become virtually moribund by 1695 . |
| 7 | The first part of this research will develop a novel statistical methodology , which combines census , electoral and survey data , so that we can evaluate the relative importance of three possible causes of the polarisation : the changing social structure of the population in different regions ; the impact of the growth of parties other than Conservative and Labour ; and variations in voting behaviour between people in defined social groups but living in different regions . |
| 8 | At the back of my mind I was conscious of feeling very cold and of legs heavy as lead . |
| 9 | Studies of commodities other than index futures are summarized in Appendix 5 . |
| 10 | Moreover , as used in teaching machines or books , the method gave little scope for the use of senses other than sight , or of other media , or of the fruitful interaction between students and with teachers , which is the main justification of classroom teaching . |
| 11 | The first concerns the metallicity of the gas , the abundance of elements heavier than lithium . |
| 12 | A couple of years older than dad , she had lived in London for three decades , on and off . |
| 13 | We 're looking at sizes of nests bigger than dustbin bags , which service up to 25,000 wasps , which produce 4,000 to 5,000 Queens , which survive until next year . |
| 14 | Pollution , however , comes from a wide range of sources other than industry , such as domestic refuse and sewage , farming , mining , transport exhaust fumes and electricity generation . |
| 15 | But that list is very far from being exhaustive and does not touch on the much wider range of topics possible if aquarium facilities are available . |
| 16 | In particular he disliked the two-tier system of committees Ministerial and Official , with identical terms of reference , and attempted to cut away as many official committees as possible — twenty in a day according to a contemporary rumour — and also instigated a review of all committees in Whitehall and the Cabinet Office . |
| 17 | The growth of imports has been over 11 per cent p.a. whereas export growth has only been 7.7 per cent p.a. , and if one considers exports and imports of goods other than oil products then the figures are 13 per cent p.a. import growth and 9 per cent p.a. export growth . |
| 18 | Once one has recognised the importance of features other than pitch , it is necessary to devise a framework for categorising these features . |
| 19 | Feminists have used Lacanian ideas to extend their specific understandings of differences other than gender . |
| 20 | Recent studies have found an increased risk of diseases other than lung cancer in passive smokers . |
| 21 | Jim Corbett tells just such a tale in his Man-Eaters of Kumaon , and since his lead-in to the episode also tells of the mental abilities of creatures other than man , it is worth quoting in full . |
| 22 | The agreement , by which Merck will pay the Institute $1 million , is intended to provide an incentive for the conservation of Costa Rica 's remaining forest lands , by allowing them to serve as a sustainable productive resource of materials other than timber . |
| 23 | I want to progress to a 386 or 486 chip to enable me to take full advantage of Windows 3.1 and DOS 5 and of the increasing amount of software that requires this minimum . |
| 24 | This is not necessarily a central problem , but the Kingman Report does recommend that pupils should understand something of the systematic nature of languages other than English . |
| 25 | Take , for instance , the case of languages other than English . |
| 26 | For one thing , a functional sentence perspective approach may prove more helpful in explaining the interactional organization of languages other than English , particularly languages with free or relatively free word order . |
| 27 | The overall purpose of this Unit is to help teachers develop their understanding of the nature of language , and of its role in society , and on that basis to improve their classroom practice in teaching , through the medium of English , speakers of languages other than English , and speakers of varieties very different from Standard British English . |
| 28 | They also saw ethno-religious conflicts as ‘ more often the result of causes other than religion ’ . |
| 29 | There are only a limited number of tickets available and demand is expected to be high . |
| 30 | However , this seemingly beneficial aspect of acid deposition may be short-lived because , over the long term , forest productivity may be limited by the lack of nutrients other than nitrogen . |