Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The producers of public expenditure have helped increase public spending since the competition for votes has led politicians to promise more and more spending ; moreover , since governments come into office with a vast amount of spending commitments inherited from previous governments , their ability to reduce these commitments substantially is limited through the length of time that would be required to make such reductions , and further , they are unlikely to court unpopularity through doing so . |
| 2 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 3 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |
| 4 | The expression the frog 's boon was also used by the old horseman in another way that is worth recording : it was heard as a kind of metaphor for ‘ being in control ’ . |
| 5 | Four elements here are open to criticism : ( 1 ) the term batteur de mesure had become discredited and much less used by 1790 , because of its association with the bad old days ; ( 2 ) the ‘ large stick ’ whatever its size in 1750 , got markedly smaller by 1790 ; ( 3 ) there was no unified body of opinion which attacked ‘ woodchopping ’ over the decades : in fact Rousseau 's text , and those of his epigones , aspired to make musico-political points in favour of Italian opera as much as about beating time ; ( 4 ) audible stick signals can not be said , at least after 1781 , to have ‘ co-ordinated ’ chorus and ballet , if that implies ‘ heard as a matter of course ’ ; the evidence shows that no audible signal was thereafter heard as a matter of course . |
| 6 | Four elements here are open to criticism : ( 1 ) the term batteur de mesure had become discredited and much less used by 1790 , because of its association with the bad old days ; ( 2 ) the ‘ large stick ’ whatever its size in 1750 , got markedly smaller by 1790 ; ( 3 ) there was no unified body of opinion which attacked ‘ woodchopping ’ over the decades : in fact Rousseau 's text , and those of his epigones , aspired to make musico-political points in favour of Italian opera as much as about beating time ; ( 4 ) audible stick signals can not be said , at least after 1781 , to have ‘ co-ordinated ’ chorus and ballet , if that implies ‘ heard as a matter of course ’ ; the evidence shows that no audible signal was thereafter heard as a matter of course . |
| 7 | Although Terminal courses would probably remain as the bulk of provision — ‘ the breadth of the base of the movement amongst ordinary folk ’ — ‘ the Tutorial Class must be the demonstration that real understanding , whatever the purpose , requires sustained effort ; and a significant expansion of activity at this level is the true index of a significant expansion of a genuinely informed public . ’ . |
| 8 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 9 | In the past there has been an assumption that pupils ' attainment will dip as a result of transfer and a settling period will be needed . |
| 10 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 11 | It may be suggested that we were inconsistent , or even guilty of unreasonable discrimination , in that we insisted on assessment in English in England for pupils whose mother tongue is not English , whereas in Wales we recommended that pupils being taught through the medium of Welsh be exempted from the key stage 1 attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment . |
| 12 | Modern beliefs , one might think , ought to be in the rationalist mould of the Enlightenment , but little or nothing is taught about the psychology of consciousness in schools , except in terms of religious studies . |
| 13 | There are large areas in which the normal agricultural yield is thoroughly adequate for the maintenance and accumulation of energy , a fact well shown not only by doubling of our population in the eighteenth century , but also by the evidence of energy to spare for the graces of life whether in the form of meteorological recording , tours to the Lake District , walnut furniture or epistolary accomplishment . |
| 14 | But this poses a dilemma for the vigneron because the vine , once pruned , is at its most vulnerable to frost , while to wait for the danger of frost to subside would be to waste the vine 's limited and precious energy : the decision of when to prune can prove an expensive one . |
| 15 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 16 | While Castells ' early work has usually been criticized for the absence of agency and consequent essentially functionalist explanation , this absence of connection between base and consciousness — an implicit dismissal of the notion that social being determines consciousness — is also a licence for action explanations in a Weberian tradition which completely sever the connection between the production system and social action around reproduction . |
| 17 | These may be provoked by the lowered self esteem that many suffer as a result of teasing and criticism by peers , parents , and teachers . |
| 18 | Let us pray for all who suffer as a result of war : |
| 19 | Let us now consider the requirements of a multiprogramming system , where we have a number of programs occupying main storage and competing for an allocation of time on the processor . |
| 20 | ‘ You will stay for a bowl of soup , Sir John ? |
| 21 | V6028 plunged through a hail of flak , dodging balloon cables and aiming at the centre of the docks . |
| 22 | And no matter how the experts argued about the legitimacy of descent through the female line , nevertheless the people recognised no bar , and the council had accepted it as just and right when Richard , in view of his childlessness , had been urged to name his heir presumptive , and had named Philippa 's elder son , Roger , earl of March . |
| 23 | ITED has been developed through a number of task groups , utilising the skill and experience of people from all sectors of the Group , and was piloted across a sample of UK businesses in 1991 . |
| 24 | Malcolmson has commented that a result of this withdrawal of patronage by the gentry and the better-off farmers as social distance increased was that " a solid barrier so developed between the culture of gentility and the culture of the people " . |
| 25 | He also put more emphasis on public worship , prayers , and the sacraments than most of his contemporaries , and played down the role of preaching as a means of edification ; for these reasons , Hooker has been seen by some ecclesiastical historians such as Peter Lake as ‘ close to the ideological origins of Arminianism ’ . |
| 26 | The paths through the graph are calculated through a process of graph reduction . |
| 27 | A claim may be received for a piece of jewellery or a valuable , which is not specified under the policy , but the value of the item exceeds the policy limit for unspecified items . |
| 28 | While this delay may not cause difficulties for the production of the final version of a map it is an inefficient way to proceed during the stage of map design . |
| 29 | The framework for services in Northern Ireland arose through the integration of health and personal services in 1973 , reorganising these services into four joint boards . |
| 30 | The Divisional Court in that case distinguished between the obtaining of evidence for use in a trial , ‘ direct ’ material , which constituted ‘ testimony ’ under that Act and which would be gathered in response to a Letter of Request , and the obtaining of ‘ indirect ’ material , which might lead to a line of enquiry pointing to actual evidence ; the English courts would not assist a foreign court to obtain such ‘ indirect ’ material . |