Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would mean perhaps engines might be designed of ceramic materials so you could , conceivably see engine development along new lines , and in fact there are some designs already which do incorporate ceramic materials which will withstand the higher temperatures . |
| 2 | Certainly it is not to be supposed of all situations : for a start , we do not have a single conception of truth but rather at least two conceptions , those of analytic and synthetic truth . |
| 3 | Investigation may well be done by a sub-committee but the deciding authority must then be apprised of that material . |
| 4 | Leopold continued to keep Mozart and his mother apprised of all that was going on in Salzburg , including accounts of performances of Mozart 's compositions . |
| 5 | The mind though it be apprised of all the doctrines of the sects , knows nothing and is bewildered by the doctrine of love . |
| 6 | Never has so much been expected of general medical practitioners and practice staff ; general practitioners are being pressed to do audit , participate in commissioning , become fundholders , do research , improve consumer responsiveness , and develop new skills in the transfer of services from secondary to primary care and development of community care . |
| 7 | Many women with no desire to reject the social round and daily duties expected of middle class wives , but who still deplored idleness as the antithesis of duty , often made an explicit link between their idea of duty and their spiritual responsibilities . |
| 8 | No monastic or holy order within the Christian tradition demands greater dedication and discipline , and the basic requirements of a satyāgrahi correspond to the vows of poverty , chastity and obedience , that are expected of certain Christian orders of monks and priests . |
| 9 | Such understanding is necessary , not simply to assess realistically what can and can not be expected of such informal care , but also to develop the formal sector of care in a way which takes account of the prevailing norms of a given area . |
| 10 | Within the Rowdies group , there was some confusion as to who was and who was not an aggro leader and also with regard to the characteristic behaviours expected of such a person . |
| 11 | What he then writes almost gives the impression of avoiding the confusion which I diagnosed above : ‘ This is how self-consciousness arises , the capacity to locate oneself within physical and social space … to know where one is and whom one is dealing with and what is expected of one ’ ( 47 ) . |
| 12 | An offshoot of the ABCTG — the National Working Party on Secretarial Standards ( NWPSS ) has recently published the national standards of performance expected of competent secretarial and administrative staff at : |
| 13 | On the technical side , the outcome may well be some way from what would be expected of perfect contestability , even if the assumptions approximate to the conditions I have outlined . |
| 14 | What causes most distress , however , is not the total number of hours but the inappropriate work expected of junior doctors during this time . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the differences in fit from what would be expected of multifactorial inheritance are small and the pattern of familial aggregation indicative of a recessive influence ( with affected sibling pairs predominating over parent-offspring pairs ) could have occurred for other reasons , as discussed below . |
| 16 | Perhaps part of the problem is that far too much has been expected of positivist criminology or , alternatively , positivist criminologists have been responsible for fostering too grandiose expectations . |
| 17 | Much was expected of this Anglo-Italian four-place convertible , high on creature comforts as well as style , when it was introduced almost 20 years ago . |
| 18 | This was partly to save money ( since an ambassador had to live in a style and with an expense which was not expected of lesser mortals ) and partly to minimise the risk of quarrels over precedence . |
| 19 | The night-time loss of peroxide must be the result of dry deposition to the ocean surface , which is expected of any highly soluble gas . |
| 20 | ‘ You did all that could be expected of any man , ’ said the abbot firmly . |
| 21 | Now , this is , to some extent this is perhaps to be expected of any group which is erm which runs the risk of being persecuted and then , they will be |
| 22 | They do not have to be able to pilot a 747 or manage a public company share issue to comprehend the explanation of the standards expected of those that do . |
| 23 | One might interpret this in relation to stronger group orientation , as expected of those who are field-dependent , nevertheless the task might be expected to be easier for those who are more used to visual processing . |
| 24 | If she does not , they will have the consolation of knowing that they did all and more than could have been expected of those unfamiliar with the assistance which the court can give in such situations . |
| 25 | Some are further ahead than others , but what will probably be expected of most authorities is some sort of erm perhaps a handbook or certainly some advice to parents about the implications of the new Act . |
| 26 | But by the end of the childhood period , appropriately sex-linked behaviour is expected of both . |
| 27 | ‘ This is not just becoming more common , it 's actually expected of older , successful businessmen to take up with younger wives . |
| 28 | These images build up into stereotypes ; generalizations about what is to be expected of older people , which are based at best on partial information rather than the full diversity of their real lives . |
| 29 | John Lee , M.P. , made a similar point : ‘ This is , above all , an intimate field of emotional human relationships where rationality is not always to be expected of human beings . |
| 30 | By 1980 the succession of troubles along the Iran-Iraq border , combined with uncertainty as to the international behaviour to be expected of post-revolutionary Iran , was provoking a good deal of disquiet in the outside world , particularly among the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) states . |