Example sentences of "[verb] of [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shift of emphasis of module towards young people . |
| 2 | Yet how could she think of love in connection with this ruthless , powerful man ? |
| 3 | Thirdly , Lyons points out that if one thinks of anaphora as reference to entities already established in the domain of discourse , then the ways in which they are referred to in anaphoric reference commonly make use of the order in which they were introduced by the discourse itself . |
| 4 | Some hive worlds consist of shell upon shell of plasteel braced by great pillars , as if the planet has grown a metal skin and then another skin and yet another , each successive skin being home to billions of busy human maggots , fleas , lice . |
| 5 | Green expert warns of risk to coastline from oil spill |
| 6 | X disposes of property by way of gift to Y in 1993 . |
| 7 | It would not be possible to talk of error of law at all unless such elements did have a ‘ given ’ meaning because , says Gould , such language implies a departure from a criterion laid down by the courts . |
| 8 | People were deemed to consent to the system of government they were born under when they came of age by virtue of the fact of their remaining within that particular society . |
| 9 | Comparisons will be made of output per employee in selected operations , workforce qualifications , incentives to employers and to individuals to invest in training , and type of machinery installed . |
| 10 | No evidence was seen of restriction of digestion to the tips of the incisors . |
| 11 | The latter was accused of treason on account of a letter he had sent to Euric , advising him not to make peace with the Greek emperor , that is Anthemius , but rather to attack the Britons who were stationed on the Loire , and to divide Gaul with the Burgundians . |
| 12 | Then , some time later , Francis Greenway was accused of forgery in connection with a building contract made shortly before the failure ; and , tried at Bristol assizes on 23 March 1812 , he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to transportation for life . |
| 13 | Mrs Marcos — improbably described by her lawyer as ‘ a small , fragile woman ’ — is accused of fraud in connection with her purchases of property in New York . |
| 14 | Firstly , the UK is often accused of intransigence in relation to the growth of EC expenditure . |
| 15 | We read of rescue by helicopter of the Pladda Lighthouse Keeper , of an around-Arran sponsored walk , of the twenty-three goals scored against Southend United by the Lam lash football team . |
| 16 | This was the part he had dreamt of night after night in that living room and now — astoundingly — it was to come true in the birthplace of Shakespeare with a great company all around his son . |
| 17 | Equality before God leads of necessity to equality before the law . |
| 18 | Treatment for all these patients was standardised and consisted of correction of dehydration by the administration of World Health Organisation glucose oral rehydration solution supplemented by parenteral fluids where necessary . |
| 19 | Voorhies ( 1969 ) suggested that much of this difference is due to body size differences and that differences in sorting of bone by ease of transportation might give an indication of distance travelled . |
| 20 | A. sutural separation further advanced than that seen in Fig. 1.4B ( ×12 ) ; B. advanced splitting of occlusal surface of vole molar ( ×19 ) ; C. enlargement of same ( ×112 ) ; D. chipping of vole molar after initial splitting ( ×38 ) ; E. splitting of femur shaft ( ×300 ) ; F. cracking of femur head ( ×34 ) ; G. splitting of epiphysis of head of humerus ( ×30 ) ; H. enlargement of same ( ×75 ) . |
| 21 | Its membership and its political weight varied of course from time to time with the personality of the monarch and with changing circumstances . |
| 22 | One died of loss of blood on his way to hospital in Co . |
| 23 | Later I was questioned by a journalist as to how I would reply to those who spoke of lack of respect in the way Nigel 's body was handled during the twenty-four hours after his death . |
| 24 | Impossible if you think of painting as image of piece of world . |
| 25 | So just think of resistance as sort of something that stops the current , and as you increase it the current gets less . |
| 26 | Everyone thinks the implicit extension includes one or the other of these latter propositions , but they disagree which , because they disagree which solution best interprets the abstract goal on which they agree of equality of opportunity in court . |
| 27 | It would require his more frequent presence in the constituency , presence all the harder to contrive of course in proportion to distance from Westminster . |
| 28 | In Court The following appeared before Thirsk magistrates and were convicted of trespass in daytime in pursuit of game , namely hares : Robert Paul Hanson , 32 , of Thomas Street , Shildon , fined £150 plus £40 costs ; John Houlahan , 32 , of North End Gardens , Bishop Auckland , fined £100 plus £40 costs ; Malcolm Dugdale , 29 , of Busty Terrace , Shildon , fined £100 plus £40 costs ; James Guy , 27 , of Morpeth Close , Spennymoor , fined £150 plus £40 costs and Mark Quinn , 21 , of Eden Close , Coundon , fined £100 plus £40 costs . |
| 29 | Those who kill and are convicted of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility are no less dangerous than those convicted of murder , and yet the judge has sentencing discretion in one case and not in the other . |
| 30 | ‘ On sentencing any person convicted of murder to imprisonment for life the court may at the same time declare the period which it recommends to the Secretary of State as the minimum period which in its view should elapse before the Secretary of State orders the release of that person on licence under section 27 of the Prison Act 1952 … |