Example sentences of "of [noun pl] of this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed the effectiveness of policies of this kind depended largely on their flexibility and willingness to use a wide variety of instruments .
2 But an integrated set of policies of this nature is impossible in a period of political paralysis , because ( a ) nobody will take the initiative to devise it , and ( b ) nobody will take responsibility for implementing it .
3 As Buckley LJ said in Gillespie v Bowles : it is a fundamental consideration in the construction of contracts of this kind that it is inherently improbable that one party to the contract should intend to absolve the other party from the consequences of the latter 's own negligence .
4 Conveniently , the most comparable holding of objects of this type is in nearby Dartford : the Brooking collection at Thames Polytechnic is strong on windows , but not on plasterwork .
5 An exchange of views of this kind is extremely important to our work and the health of our society .
6 Secondly , a number of views of this procedure can be considered relevant , eg from the point of view of the individual who is concerned with the speedy settlement of claims , the administrative assistant who checks the claims for errors , and the boss who is concerned with the effect on his status if a large number of false claims were to be made , and discovered outside the section .
7 A number of cases of this type were noticed at Christchurch , Spitalfields , and St Marylebone parish church as well as in the vaults beneath St Paul 's , Shadwell , and St John 's , Wapping .
8 Mr. Levy has very great experience of cases of this type and Ward J. suggested that he be consulted .
9 A number of cases of this kind have been initiated before the Court .
10 There are a number of cases of this kind , and I would point out that air and rail journeys are only two of a number of service benefits which have a number of problems attached to them .
11 Sometimes effective land-use management and watershed management requires a number of institutions of this kind to agree , which may well be even more difficult because of unequal costs and benefits of conservation measures between different communities or villages .
12 Later , I reflected that to be in receipt of confidences of this kind , if my own experience was anything to go by , could be insufferably taxing to the patience .
13 But on second thoughts , that comparison also seemed obscenely trite when set against the greater contrasts in values affecting millions of fellow-inhabitants of this planet .
14 The elaboration of tactics of this kind is regarded as indispensable in the planning of any election campaign .
15 In fact a series of solutions of this type can be used having different values of c and d .
16 This arrangement was made more systematic in 1688 ; and after 1719 there was a good deal of discussion of the status and powers of secretaries of this kind .
17 The number of quarrels of this type decreased with age but still held the lead over other types for all ages .
18 In cases of long standing suppression this potency works marvellously ; this is because where one or two doses of the centesimal potency may fail to revive the suppressed symptoms , the repeated application of potencies of this scale can , and cure is begun .
19 There have been a number of analyses of this nature put forward .
20 This may restrict the set of operations that can be provided for some or all of the data.types ; it also makes it easy for the programmer to use an instruction on an operand with the wrong format , although assemble-time checks may help to reduce the number of errors of this sort .
21 ( 3 ) Even if the nature of these qualities of pleasure and pain are themselves unproblematic , it is said that what people want ( or want to avoid ) is not necessarily any kind of private experience , but just as often objective states of affairs in the public world , and it is thought no less reasonable to take account of wants of this sort than those for private experiences .
22 And yet we can offer a number of criticisms of this approach :
23 Now , as the chairman said we base the salaries of directors on two elements an element of base salary which looks at market levels and we ergo , have a fair base which reflects a sort of medium to upper level of companies of this size we then leverage , very carefully , a bonus scheme related to performance and I believe that is the right thing to do and I believe and so do my fellow directors who sit on that committee believe that it is one of the reasons that we 've seen the great growth in this company over the last five years which you 've achieved and which actually the Chancellor of the Exchequer would very glad about because it is increasing the wealth and the benefit of this country , particularly as a lot of those earnings are coming from overseas and will in , in time be repatriated in Britain .
24 Of companies of this sort only the liverymen , if indeed all of them , were likely to find their way into the returns .
25 There are a number of advantages of this system .
26 Apart from the obvious literary currency of descriptions of this sort , it is significant that a garden , palace , or type of paradise is always associated with the sleeping king or emperor , for this is the ancient motif found in classical mythology of the Titan Cronos , ruling in the Golden Age .
27 The frequent acceptance of ideas of this kind by monarchs helps to explain the lack of hostility , sometimes even enthusiasm , with which the French Revolution in its early stages was received by many of them .
28 The culmination of these claims to national identity and of sentiments of this nature came in the preamble to Henry VIII 's Act in Restraint of Appeals of 1533 : ‘ Where by dyvers sundrie old autentike histories and cronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this Realme of England is an Impire , and so hath been accepted in the world … . ’ ( 36 , iii , 427 ) Here one finds an explicit statement of views on the nature of England , as well as practical conclusions drawn from them concerning the government of the Church .
29 Most large commercial corporations and government agencies have assembled sets of tables of this kind .
30 Gorbachev invited the major capitalist countries to undertake a ‘ sober , constructive assessment ’ of problems of this kind , based if nothing else on their common need for self-preservation .
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