Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Longstanding racial tensions and complaints of persistent police harassment of young people underlay the incidents . |
| 2 | I 'm concerned about the loss of the access of parental rights panel and the handing over of this work to the Courts and the lawyers . |
| 3 | Comparisons are with restated figures to reflect the acquisition of Advanced Telecommunications Corp on a pooling-of-interests basis on December 1992 . |
| 4 | AST is set to hit $1 billion in revenue in 1992 despite the recession , according the Michael Krieger , AST 's director of advanced systems marketing . |
| 5 | She has written a very full report which will assist us with a review of advanced courses policy in the light of the development of general Scottish Vocational Qualifications ( of which more later ) . |
| 6 | There are a few signs of that fierce screwing up of feudal payments characteristic of the later stages of the ancien régime in France ; in Catalonia , for instance , a steady increase in the price of the farms of feudal dues overtook the rise in agricultural prices . |
| 7 | And it has made it clear that any attempt to organise a system of regional arms control or supervision should exclude Israel . |
| 8 | The supply from waste/recycled resources is expected to increase to over 70% of regional aggregates consumption by 2011 . |
| 9 | advised by the New Works Manager of Regional Railways North East that work from him |
| 10 | FISH Fish has now slipped loose of progressive rockers Marillion , but the title of his forthcoming album ( Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors ) suggests he 's still thinking on the grand scale . |
| 11 | The recent Institute of Economic Affairs publication , A Discredited Tax — the Capital Gain Tax Problem and its Solution , examines the present UK taxation of capital gains ( TCG ) and concludes that it should be repealed or at least levied at greatly reduced rates . |
| 12 | The explicitly anti-democratic nature of the radical Right project was put succinctly in an Institute of Economic Affairs pamphlet : |
| 13 | There is considerable dispute over the precise definition of this term , but we shall use class to refer to a group sharing a similar position in a structure of objective material inequalities , produced by a particular system of economic relationships characteristic of a particular mode of production . |
| 14 | Subsequently , selected documents were released from the presidential archives , apparently implicating Gorbachev in taking part in or in concealing information about various episodes of Soviet history , including the shooting down of Korean Airlines flight KAL-007 in 1983 [ see pp. 32513-7 ] , the order for the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 , and direct orders from Stalin for the murder of Polish officers in 1940 ( the Katyn massacre — for April 1990 Soviet admission of responsibility see pp. 37383-84 ) . |
| 15 | These include the theories of durable goods monopoly , rent seeking , investing in a monopoly position , oligopoly , cartels , price stabilisation , and commodity bundling . |
| 16 | According to Mr Kell Gatherer , managing director of London-based scouts Location Work Limited , the pleasures of seeing your house on film can be outweighed by the inconvenience . |
| 17 | This last is a significant source of infection in those areas where five to ten per cent of pregnant women hasve been recorded as HIV positive . |
| 18 | Reference article pp. 36919-21 ; April 1990 announcement of political reforms p. 37366 . |
| 19 | Introduction of political parties law |
| 20 | SG Guest speaker at 10th Annual Dinner of Rural Pharmacists Assoc , Stratford-upon-Avon |
| 21 | His written output was immense , including two textbooks on seismology , Earthquakes and Other Earth Movements ( 1886 ) and Seismology ( 1898 ) , and a Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes A.D. 7–A.D. 1899 ( 1912 ) . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment . |
| 24 | The structure of the vegetation was interpreted as determined by regeneration cycles directed by T. repens and L. perenne — the species themselves appeared to be the prime determinants of each others distribution ( Turkington and Harper , 1979a , b ) . |
| 25 | This is a DTI-link grant funded post of 32 months duration . |
| 26 | cos it was only like sort of eight inches difference and I thought well when I wash 'em they might shrink anyway |
| 27 | Part-time courses which are available for similar periods of study as for full-time courses usually involve an average of eight hours attendance at college each week , predominantly on a ‘ day release ’ basis . |
| 28 | Margaret , daughter of the illustrious Lord Florent Count of Holland and Mathilde , daughter of Henri Duke of Brabant , Sister of William , King of Germany , being forty-two years of age , was delivered on the Friday before Easter , at nine o'clock in the morning , in the year 1276 , of 365 babies male and female which ( in the presence of several great lords and gentlemen ) were arranged in front of the font and were all baptized by a bishop , the males being christened the same name , namely Jean , and the females Elizabeth . |
| 29 | Evidence for an association between unemployment and imprisonment has , however , been presented in , various studies from different countries ( Braithwaite 1980 ; Inverarity and Grattet 1987 ; Inverarity and McCarthy 1988 ; Montgomery 1985 ; Laffargue and Godefroy 1987 ) and has been most strongly supported by time series data analysed using some variant of least squares regression . |
| 30 | At different times , and in different ways , the spatial divisions in economic organization have played a role in the national patterns of short-term fluctuations characteristic of the successive historical periods . |