Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is noticeable that the Russell-Copleston debate became embroiled in a discussion of necessary propositions , a discussion made necessary by Copleston 's desire to show Russell that the world is such that it must be the case that it has a Creator . |
| 2 | Throughout his stay at Swindon , Macari became embroiled in a series of highly public incidents . |
| 3 | Dysentery became regarded as a norm of life at Verdun . |
| 4 | Rising real wages made subletting as a means of supplementing income less essential and , among the unemployed , the household means test made letting rooms a more difficult proposition . |
| 5 | If the former involves drawing on a richness of tacit knowledge the latter is necessarily concerned with reversing this process , ie with making explicit the tacit richness of design activity . |
| 6 | Trent had never heard of the President being a drinker , secret or otherwise , and it was the sort of habit that could n't stay hidden in a country of Belpan 's size . |
| 7 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 8 | Lectures about this type of library material tend to sound like a catalogue of unfamiliar names — the ‘ catalogue aria ’ . |
| 9 | Thus deadlock can occur if and only if the environment offers to communicate on a set of channels disjoint from one of the sets represented by the |
| 10 | Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions . |
| 11 | As indicated above , the Cuban revolution induced Soviet leaders to modify the view ( hitherto almost as firmly believed in the Kremlin as in the White House ) that the Latin American nations were destined to remain trapped in a position of subservience to the United States . |
| 12 | We have got to go to work with a lot of of of er tension and pressure on us . |
| 13 | ‘ Leo actually had to go to work in a pair of my knickers , ’ Emma said . |
| 14 | Maintenance grants remain frozen at a maximum of £2,845 for students in London and £2,265 for those studying elsewhere . |
| 15 | On 14 September 1982 Gemayel planned to meet with a group of Mossad officers , but was killed when a bomb planted by Syrian intelligence exploded in the local Phalangist party offices where he was speaking . |
| 16 | Her approach would be to treat spelling as a part of writing on the one hand and of pronunciation on the other . |
| 17 | They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations . |
| 18 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 19 | The teaching force , disillusioned and aggrieved at the treatment it has received from a succession of Secretaries of State , has been less willing in recent years to devote unpaid hours to community bridge-building . |
| 20 | Families and the law Investigators : Dr R W Dingwall , J M Eekelaar , M Maclean The Centre 's work in the field of family law has developed through a series of related projects clustered around a clearly focused concern with the interests of children as members of families and as individuals and with the economic and other consequences of marriage breakdown . |
| 21 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 22 | Though deregulation is a difficult concept to define , the reshaping process which has developed as a result of it is readily apparent . |
| 23 | In practice case management for people with long term mental illness has developed into a range of techniques that can be described along 12 different axes ( box 2 ) , which aim to ensure that patients with long term psychiatric disorders receive consistent and continuing services for as long as they are required and that services do not focus inappropriately on patients with less severe conditions . |
| 24 | ‘ Photography has developed into a weapon of resistance in the constant struggle for survival , ’ Mr Müller said . |
| 25 | ‘ Ince has developed into a player of substance and people forget he is still only 24 . |
| 26 | However , when the weathering mantle has developed to a depth of several metres the rate of water movement at the weathering front becomes very slow . |
| 27 | He points to the way in which the law has developed from a maze of individual sets of circumstances in which one or other of the prerogative writs would lie to a general principle under which courts will review decisions on the three grounds of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety : see per Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 410 . |
| 28 | Easily despised because of the promises he has broken without a word of apology . |
| 29 | Taylor saw for himself on Saturday how the 24-year-old Aston Villa flyer has matured into a player of genuine international potential . |
| 30 | The law says that British Coal has to go through a procedure of consultation before it can close pits . |