Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unusual for a person to lose the sight in both eyes at the same time , but loss of sight in one can be followed later by loss of sight in the second eye . |
| 2 | But the non-instrumental argument shows that consent does extend the bounds of authority beyond what can be established without it . |
| 3 | In addition , the Six noted ‘ that there is a divergence of views on what should be done in the event of a failure to reach complete agreement ’ , but that ‘ this divergence does not prevent the Community 's work being resumed in accordance with the normal procedure ’ . |
| 4 | In the course of examining how film-makers portrayed Northern Ireland , Spotlight treated four local politicians to bushels of popcorn in what used to be known as the one-and-nines , as they witnessed a screening of The Crying Game . |
| 5 | If there were not sufficient expectation that a failed , conventionally organised enterprise could be restored to viability as an industrial co-operative , the injection of resources into it would divert them from more promising projects . |
| 6 | Trevor Wishart ( 1977 ) , for example , stresses the abstracting , analytic properties of notation , which reduce the infinity of sound to a small number of discrete , systematically permutational elements , limit our very perception and conception of music to what can be written down and rationally described , and result in an idealist account of the relationship between the ‘ real ’ music in the score and the performance — an inevitably less than perfect representation . |
| 7 | Clearly , the largest surfaces to be covered in any room are the walls and the floor , and there are invariably two schools of thought about which should have preference in the budget . |
| 8 | We do the same for the submatrix bordered by the first row and column , and so on , so that finally we reach the unit matrix as the canonical form for A. It is to be observed that , since in using elementary operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) on A we are effectively at each stage multiplying together determinants neither of which vanishes , the reduction of A to I must be possible when A is on-singular . |
| 9 | A questionnaire on smoking in the Library is under preparation by a working group of the Health and Safety Committee — and they will shortly be seeking the views of staff on what could turn out to be a contentious issue . |
| 10 | I got the old metal detected on , but , of course it could always be a bit of grit in it could n't it |
| 11 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 12 | Rico d'Agostino started up the same kind of place in what used to be Hogan 's Bar only a few blocks away . |
| 13 | The danger of this is that the fear of an award of damages against it would unduly encourage the authority to reach the same decision again , thus creating an appearance of bias . |
| 14 | It was in the interests of the men , of capital and the state that the institution of the family and the division of labour within it should continue . |
| 15 | I dislike using them in conversation , for they can add a measure of artificiality to what should otherwise be casual . |
| 16 | These diverse possibilities alert the practitioner to consider sensitive areas of life beyond what can be comprehended through functional assessments of current performance . |
| 17 | The Springbok all-rounder of the 1960s and 1970s has been appointed coach of Transvaal in what can be seen as a determined bid by the lions of the north to regain their position as the top dogs of South African domestic cricket . |
| 18 | For specific item searches , Okapi presented the user with a form-filling type of screen on which could be entered a title and/or an author 's name . |
| 19 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 20 | This contains the experience and depth of the insider 's knowledge , which Holdaway ( 1979 ) recognizes is unlikely to become readily available , simply because ‘ there is a lack of impetus within contemporary sociology to spend lengthy periods of observation in what may be uncomfortable research situations [ with the police ] ’ . |
| 21 | Likewise , where the footings on eaves of a building project beyond the edge of an external wall they will be included in the demised property , although the column of air between them will not ( Truckell v Stock [ 1957 ] 1 All ER 74 ) . |
| 22 | Finally , the guidance note contains an intriguing exchange of views on what should happen for NIC purposes where an employer reaches an informal or ‘ voluntary ’ agreement with the Revenue to settle income tax on employees ' benefits in kind and expenses . |
| 23 | Choreographers today choose to interpret a vast range of subjects through what can be termed the purely physical movements of the body , sometimes coloured by moods ranging from the tragic to the comic and even the ridiculous . |
| 24 | Thus , as long as the marriage between the husband and wife ( assuming them both to be domiciled in the UK ) is not dissolved , transfer of property between them will not incur a liability to inheritance tax . |
| 25 | But I have n't gone really as I hoped cos I 'd envisaged having the membership list with sort of names of who 'll make cakes , who 'll help on the stall and then know who to phone |
| 26 | Access to this flood of information about ourselves will eventually transform medical practice , and the first signs of this are already apparent . |
| 27 | The first record of elephants in what used to be called Assyria is dated 1700 BC . |
| 28 | He had made the point : he was going to strengthen the musical possibilities of his opera by creating a sound picture of paradise from which would bleed the eventualities of the real and actual world . |
| 29 | The revival of interest in what can only be described as a strategy of import led growth began in the late 1950s as uneasiness over the optimistic , autarkic assumptions of the Khrushchev period increased . |
| 30 | The first card you turn over is the matching ace , so it seems that you have had the first strike of luck for you can clearly get the first pair . |