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

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1 The only aspect of play where 'Mere could be said to have played to their ability was in the lineout where Gibbons and Daly won more than their fair share of ball .
2 If used in combination with the financial and management data which research units now collect , bibliometric techniques represent more rigorous , objective , methods of assessment than peer review alone can provide .
3 Allowing home and social lives to wither means that there are no other sources of support when work fails .
4 If one can demonstrate clear relationships between specific patterns of impairment and specific models of normal processing , then , one can use the patterns of impairment as evidence for or against the models , and one can use the models to explain how the patterns of impairment come about — why patients with language disorders behave in certain ways and not in other ways .
5 The Securities and Investments Board 's Retail review Committee recommended in 1990 that investment trust savings schemes should be allowed to be advertised with the same degree of freedom as unit trusts .
6 This realist definition of photography as truth and evidence was reworked in pornographic texts to consolidate the notion of male sexual desire as instantly aroused and requiring constant relief .
7 Tanks can differ from sinks more in terms of function than design as a sink can also be used as a tank .
8 There 's , there was quite a bit of apathy where horse secuirty is concerned .
9 We then had a stroke of luck as Filden I broke down in Dieppe and the owner was sent to see if he could locate the trouble .
10 I think Chancellor Kohl has indicated that he knows the risk to the Government 's chances of re-election if interest rates have to be raised in Britain .
11 My own area of responsibility as Director of Special Collections covers the Manuscript Collections , Map and Music Libraries , the Oriental and India Office Collections , and the Philatelic Collections .
12 The law makes no allowance for the fact that habitual drinkers do n't display some of the signs of intoxication until blood alcohol is above 80mg/ 100ml .
13 This method of knitting whilst shaping is so important that you might like to keep suitable time entirely clear to master the basics without interruption .
14 For larger areas of damage where soil is exposed , ram rubble into any soft areas , taking it at least 25mm below the path surface
15 Burying conceals the seeds from other predators , for which they are an important resource in Central America , while the agouti 's peeling off of pericarp before burial may remove any invertebrate larvae therein , before they can get to the seed .
16 This region is known as the Realm of Chaos ; a black zone of unreality where time and space have no meaning .
17 Little 's insistence that Darlington remain full-time ( ‘ more for advantages of preparation than fitness ’ ) won the support of the club 's new chairman , Richard Corden , director of an industrial scaffolding company — and also , to his chagrin , a worthy candidate for the title of the unluckiest man in football .
18 Since he did not commit himself unreservedly to any party he earned a reputation for political inconsistency , and had to confront the hazards of non-alignment when war broke out in 1642 .
19 Nor should we ever underestimate the capacity of old people to alter life-long patterns of interaction when need arises .
20 This kind of heart-to-heart conversation is quite different from a form of interaction where solidarity is established around common causes , or against common enemies or threats .
21 The conflicts that I referred to earlier commonly occur at the level of technique when operation is implemented in dissociation from appraisal , in the form , for example , of prescribed teaching materials which have the appearance of novelty .
22 There is no mention of faith because faith is not an important truth in this narrative .
23 All our discussions of faith as trust , venture or wager have accepted that to subscribe to theism must represent a reasonable commitment on the part of the believer .
24 Although there are many periods in the history of literature where biography is quite irrelevant ( Shakespeare is an exemplarily anonymous figure in literature ) , there are also periods where biography becomes an integral element of literary works .
25 And of course because mathematics is n't directly attached to anything else , any other subject area , it can follow the whims of individual researchers , so at that level things come and go .
26 But of course when Mum had the stroke someone had to look after her .
27 These were the years of course when money-making became respectable again in Britain .
28 Of course if determination is as open-ended as I have argued it is , absent any criterion to distinguish the genuine from the false determination , then no positive law could be unjust because every positive law , whatever its content , being a determination of the natural law , will necessarily be consistent with the natural law and therefore valid .
29 the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line .
30 I was given the option to have him put down at any time , but of course as time went on his recovery was more and more likely and my hopes got higher .
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