Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the amount taken needs to be related to the type of job a person has and also the type of training he undertakes . |
| 2 | Hence the difficulty in establishing what ‘ the public ’ really wants and consequently the impossibility of knowing how far in excess of that the overall level of public-service activity really is . |
| 3 | For example an R & ID department can specify " the resources it needs and even the direction of its work . |
| 4 | But maybe he thinks Hollywood is less the big break he needs and more a kind of career prat fall . |
| 5 | Whilst the venue on this occasion was central and it was not the first time the A.G.M. had been held on a Friday evening , the Committee appreciates that perhaps the idea of holding the Meeting on the evening before the Dinner Dance to enable those travelling to London to attend both events was not a good one . |
| 6 | He admits that it may be possible to use reason to a limited extent , but he insists that ultimately the existence of God defies all proof and has to be based on faith which transcends reason .. |
| 7 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 8 | In a courtly song Bertrand says that only the beauty of the Duchess Matilda prevented him from dying of boredom ; her naked body would make night seem like day . |
| 9 | With regard to nuclear electricity , however , if we have nuclear electricity , which ca n't be turned down conveniently , then electric cars mostly would be sitting in garages overnight recharging , and that is when the natural trough in consumption of electricity occurs and therefore the use of electric cars could help to smooth the demand for electricity . |
| 10 | Our survey panel shows that about a quarter of the electorate thought BBC-TV news was biased in its treatment of the Conservative government , though rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties . |
| 11 | The report shows that almost a quarter of land protected as Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) , home to much of the country 's wildlife , are suffering acidification damage . |
| 12 | Concern exists that once a threshold of a certain concentration of chlorine in the Arctic stratosphere has been passed , a large Arctic ozone hole will become a regular spring feature which will grow and deepen annually to affect the highly populated regions of northern Europe . |
| 13 | When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees . |
| 14 | Goals for the future include trying some more dragon boat racing and getting fit again to be selected for next year 's rodeo World Championships in the USA , purely , she says , because it is fun and she wants to paddle abroad , though with a wry grin she concedes that maybe the spirit of competition also burns within her ! |
| 15 | In one small group Mrs M finds that alcohol helps her forget the noises and is in real danger of ‘ taking to the bottle ’ , whereas Mrs N finds that even a thimbleful of alcohol increases the head noises dramatically . |
| 16 | Further , when a covenant is taken for the benefit of property , the doctrine does not apply , but when it is taken to protect both property and a business , or solely a business , the doctrine applies and therefore the question of reasonableness arises . |
| 17 | It mentions as well the growth of new ways of accessing information , from online public access catalogues ( OPACs ) , through CD-ROMs and online searching , to the more recent network navigation tools . |
| 18 | Deep down , though , Eubank suspects that only the loss of his bitter enemy 's title during his next three fights could galvanise him into a repeat of their epic of two years ago — and commercially that would devalue the rematch . |
| 19 | With respect to the reason for Molla Fenari 's going on the pilgrimage , he writes that an invasion of Edirne and its environs by the combined forces of Seyh Bedreddin and Duzme Mustafa led Molla Fenari to seek permission to go on the pilgrimage , though it is not clear whether Husameddin means that simply the fact of the invasion or that Molla Fenari 's supposed complicity with Seyh Bedreddin led him to decide to " remove himself from the scene : in any case both the circumstances and the chronology of events in the period are too uncertain to allow one to evaluate the argument properly . |
| 20 | At the beginning of this year the Louvre became an établissement public administratif , which means that henceforth the director of the museum will also be solely responsible for the whole establishment , which will also have greater financial autonomy . |
| 21 | Milner implies that only the development of modern ( structuralist ) linguistics has made this possible , and certainly the work of Hockett ( 1977 ) , Milner himself , Nash ( 1985 ) and now Chiaro ( who draws quite heavily on Hockett ) provides detailed linguistic and structural analyses of the different kinds of word- and sound-play that are exploited in jokes . |
| 22 | The planning of operations to be carried out by L Detachment remains as hitherto the prerogative of L Detachment . |
| 23 | The conclusion is supported by a Research Ministry strategy paper , which argues that only the construction of eight new 1,300MW nuclear power stations in conjunction with the increased use of coal/gas combination technology will enable Germany to achieve the desired reduction . |
| 24 | Clear ( 1990 ) suggests that perhaps the size of a corpus is more significant than its composition although the two parameters are inter-dependent . |
| 25 | She seemed ready to attend one of those cocktail parties where she smeared her lips on cheeks and glasses and cigarettes and napkins and biscuits and cocktail sticks until barely a foot of the room was not decorated in red . |
| 26 | A significant difference between Phaistos and Knossos arises because virtually the whole of the first temple at Phaistos was replaced when the site was redeveloped after the 1700 BC destruction : only the Central Court remained . |