Example sentences of "of [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 you know that s some do n't really have a great deal of problem , others really do have a sort of off work for two or three days every month and it 's not a bundle of laughs because , you know , that really must be difficult , but they , they get a rough idea of how it for them
2 There are measures being taken to reduce the amount of through traffic in George Street , which will benefit the pedestrians in that street .
3 Thus took place the earliest known vaccinations , although the treatment was thought of as inoculation with cowpox until the term vaccination ( from the Latin vacca for cow ) was coined in 1802 .
4 Therefore the flower is ultimately linked to the earth itself , which is thought of as part of a ‘ sphere ’ — this refers to the Ptolemaic system , already out of date in the seventeenth century .
5 The price paid for a warrant can be thought of as part of the subscription price for a share which may ( or may not ) be issued at a future date .
6 The notion that language development is best thought of as part of a process for regulating joint activities , rather than as a subject , has profound implications for helping children with language difficulties .
7 However , description is not a privileged area of objective study , and the presentation of socio-cultural conditions of other societies can not be viewed as a final explanation of other institutions and values , but must be thought of as part of the observer 's reconstruction of their own understanding of the institutions and values .
8 In the social sciences at large the word has often been used very loosely for any approach which applies scientific method to human affairs , conceived of as part of the natural order .
9 Among these he included the educational system and also many institutions that are not usually thought of as part of the state , such as the family , churches , the media , trade unions and political parties .
10 Erm , he has stripped away from these true selves everything that we normally think of as institute of , of a self .
11 Within a couple of weeks all the important wreckage was at Farnborough and the rest was disposed of as scrap at Lusaka .
12 Hart in his book Law , Liberty and Morality ( 1963 ) argued that the law was not and ought not to be a tool for ‘ the enforcement of morals ’ , in particular in the field of sexual morals , where the activities condemned may ‘ involve nothing that would ordinarily be thought of as harm to other persons ’ .
13 A couple of comments on that Chair , the first one , on the reduction in carry forwards , my understanding is that , in fact it 's quite amusing in some ways , because this , this is something I was accused of as Chair of Resources Management during my year .
14 Cos it came on sort of about middle of the day .
15 The main opposition to this came from developer builders who were significant landowners on the urban fringe , but there was a recognized tension between Tyne and Wear 's intentions and the Northumberland Structure Plan 's continued commitment to the growth of Cramlington on the basis of out migration from Tyne and Wear .
16 Somebody wants a single bed moving , somebody might want a chest of drawers moving , somebody wants some packages so there were there 's quite a lot of of work of that nature wanted .
17 was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big
18 I ca n't quantify these , I ca n't tell you how many there 'll be , but there will be questions on motivation but before that there 'll be some questions on the basics of of kind of y'know studying , work , psychology , the sort of thing you 'll find in an introductory chapter er not only of the Arnold book but in other books as well .
19 The honourable member for Perry Barn I 've again referred to what , part of what he said er but Gibraltar I have considerable amount of of sympathy with the remarks that he made .
20 These are just examples of er of of of question of answers to questions Burn asks the question which I 've just asked , why then does low turn out persist , cos he 's just made the point above that there are big issues in local government .
21 Back to front , cos he 'd be carrying a lot of of hay on his back and that was to stop the hay seed , going down between it shirt and his skin .
22 Yes Mr Chairman I 'm not clear erm about something that Mr Gordon said in his opening remarks that I 'd like clarified and that is that he gave the committee the impression that there were er certain of the of the partners that were accepting erm a lower specification in other words , omitting from the what is the British best if you like , erm certain items of of equipment in order to reduce cost of the aircraft , both in development stage and at the production stage , final cost of the aircraft , unit cost .
23 It was achieved , erm , through reorganisation , it was achieved through careful planning of expenditure , but there was also an element of of luck in that erm , the staff vacancy level that we had pending the reorganisation , was was higher than we had had planned for .
24 Do you think that 's , do you think that 's what what you 've experienced there , do you think that 's untypical or do you think that 's a fairly good example of of of life in that part of Westerhailes ?
25 Yes I mean , I think that we had a big discussion at the last area committee on the scheme and the problem was of course that the detailed plans er , for the consultation erm to the , I 'm at , I 'm a bit worried that at this late stage there 's this new idea of of building on the green wedge at the back and I would n't like to think that the scheme should be delayed the important thing , it seems to me , is that it should press ahead and
26 to the alternative of of expansion of existing settlements .
27 It 's agreed that we should be looking at improving the standard in D risk areas etc etc etc etc but we should have a higher level of cover , not putting anybody into a suffering situation , quite the reverse that we would have an improved level of of cover within the County and the Chief Officer he 's said this time and time again .
28 I mean , he he , the next Prince of Wales , the present one , whatever one thinks of him , and perhaps , whatever one thinks of of of his alleged mistresses and so on and so forth , he 's done a terrific lot of of achievement in in interest in the arts ,
29 But you 're going to get a wider latitude and difference of i of of strength of economy by bringing in the eastern bloc in the short term .
30 So erm having an extra network and all of the administration that goes with it seems very much a waste of time especially when it creates another tier of of sort of quasar membership .
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