Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Hook claims that it takes expert knowledge and a great deal of patience to hack into a computer system . |
| 2 | Weight is the gravitational force of attraction exerted on a body . |
| 3 | ‘ They concern methods of construction used on a national basis , but mundic is a local problem . ’ |
| 4 | There is no good evidence for the widespread and effective use of any methods of family planning outside a few élite or urban groups until the end of the eighteenth century ( Wilson 1984 , Livi-Bacci 1986 ) , and even then appliance methods do not become important for another century . |
| 5 | The size of the state in the early days of the administration of justice led to a remarkable form of attempted committal to prison . |
| 6 | These rings could be the result of surface waves spreading out from the impact through the solid surface , or the result of a succession of wall slumps in a once deeper basin . |
| 7 | This room successfully combined the old and the new , betraying an appreciation of quality spiced with a stark , functional modernity . |
| 8 | ‘ The case is of importance both because of its possible effect on Mr Anderson and also because an allegation of murder made in a civil action , particularly after an acquittal , is a matter of justifiable public concern and interest . |
| 9 | They have suggested that the loss of associability suffered by a pre-exposed stimulus is determined not by the extent to which it is predicted by its antecedents but by the relationship it bears to subsequent events . |
| 10 | There is every reason to suppose that this loss of predictability occurs as a property of the Navier-Stokes and continuity equations , although these equations contain the determinism of classical mechanics . |
| 11 | The reconstruction of all the objects could not be completed ( this was later achieved by Bernard Rice and Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ) because of Stewart 's appointment as supervisor of technical education in Palestine in 1930 , but his name remains connected with the first attempt in Egyptian archaeology to restore objects which the loss of wood reduced to a mass of precious metal and faience components . |
| 12 | In several ways this loss of hope acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy . |
| 13 | Next , there is no reason to suppose that the loss of effectiveness suffered by a cue as a result of non-reinforced pre-exposure will be restricted to the case in which that cue is subsequently required to function as a CS ; no doubt the development of an occasion-setting function will also be retarded by exposure to the cue in question . |
| 14 | In addition , the Board of Inland Revenue must be indemnified by the people who were partners immediately before the first change , and by anyone joining the partnership on that or a later change , against any loss of tax arising on a partner 's claim that the election does not strictly comply with the provisions of s 113(2) and that the cessation basis should have been applied . |
| 15 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 16 | People 's cavalier attitude towards word boundaries can be seen in the derivation of the word tawdry , the result of syllable merging across a word boundary in St. Audrey . |
| 17 | Spy fever gripped the country and a couple seen sketching the Royal Albert Bridge were , as a result of information given by a boy scout to a sergeant of the Royal Scots , arrested in the nearby tea gardens and escorted to Devonport by the police . |
| 18 | For Leavis the study of literature led to a growth of intelligence and sensibility . |
| 19 | These were either the study of technology integrated within a general study of human adaption to the environment , which presupposed a particularly immediate relationship between society and the environment , or alternatively an anthropology of art which , by contrast , emphasized the greatest possible distance between people and their environment , in order to focus upon exotic and esoteric practices . |
| 20 | Its message was iconoclastic , even radical and certainly not at all the type of thing that one would expect to see emanating from a government department , with the seal of approval provided by a preface over the minister 's signature . |
| 21 | The Council of Heads of Government meets without a published agenda that we can discuss before meetings are held , and it meets in absolute secrecy . |
| 22 | President Ibrahim Babangida was forced to return early from the Commonwealth heads of government meeting as a result of the crisis . |
| 23 | All the species within any of the units of classification descended from a single , ancestral species . |
| 24 | Below it is the old palmerie , the Corbeille , nourished by channels of water running from a hot spring poetically named The Source . |
| 25 | The revelation comes as Thames Water is trying to isolate the cause of contamination that led to an outbreak of illness caused by a germ called cryptosporidium . |
| 26 | During the mela a slight outbreak of cholera occurred at a small station called Manickpore on the Jubbulpore line . |
| 27 | More recently work from the Boiron Laboratories in Lyon has suggested that a 7C potency of Arsenicum album caused a significant excretion of arsenic by arsenic-poisoned rats as compared with a 7C potency of water used as a control , thus confirming the earlier observations with the guinea-pigs . |
| 28 | When the adventurers get an chance to check the room out , they can find four surviving Books of Flesh cowering in a corner . |
| 29 | The images of youth arose from a society in which the middle class was reviving its claim to political and cultural leadership at the very time when it was being challenged by the new class politics . |
| 30 | Poetry alone is worldwide and limitless ; and even through the mangling of translation , the images of beauty come through a hundred tongues unsullied . |