Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many headhunters see setting up on their own as an ultimate ambition , despite the risks of flying from the safe nest of a large firm with many clients and a high level of repeat business . |
| 2 | The MPs noted that health boards catering for dispersed rural populations ‘ face special problems in balancing the demand for local accident and emergency services against the possible risks of relying on a limited local service , particular for seriously ill or severely injured patients . ’ |
| 3 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , providing bindings between C++ and SQL3 ( SQL3 does not exist but is a label for the ANSI SQL standard that will emerge in 1995/6 ) is one of Beech 's chief interests and Oracle is investigating various styles of binding between the two languages . |
| 5 | Thereafter everyone will focus on practical aspects of dealing with an existing problem . |
| 6 | It indicates the significant aspects of budgeting in the public sector , the influences from the different social sciences , and the areas covered . |
| 7 | Aside from the practical aspects of caring for the young people , there was much talk of spiritual care and regeneration , so that the young men at Elpis Lodge would go out into the world ‘ imbued and enlightened with the hope of a better future ’ , and not embittered by the ill-treatment and injustice they had experienced . |
| 8 | We are also proud to be in the vanguard of training and safety initiatives for our Division as we place a great deal of importance on the safety aspects of working on a major construction site . |
| 9 | The point here , however , is that whatever kind of semantic theory is adopted , many aspects of meaning in a broad sense simply can not be accommodated if the theory is to have an internal coherence and consistency . |
| 10 | The main meal begins with words of blessing over the unleavened bread , which symbolises the urgency of the first Passover ( Exodus 12:11 ) . |
| 11 | By 1911 , Umberto Boccioni who was dead by 1916 , was grappling with the emotions of modern life ; the impact and anxieties of living in the stroboscopic uncertainties of a mechanised urban environment . |
| 12 | Though natural light was obviously not an amenity they thought much of , there are traces of glazing in a few of those infrequent and shapeless holes that howl in the wind ; elsewhere , of a primitive and not altogether unsuccessful stab at ferrocrete . |
| 13 | Make a simple plan of the area and trace or copy shapes of paving to the same scale . |
| 14 | Accommodation offices provide information on the types of housing available locally , on college policy regarding priority for halls of residence , comparative costings , lists of housing in the private sector and considerable back-up on your legal rights , housing law , etc . |
| 15 | They thought months of living in a cramped caravan was all worthwhile when the new house was finished and they finally moved in . |
| 16 | The shattered towns and cities of Croatia , bombarded and battered by months of shelling in the civil war . |
| 17 | And the only thing is that finally after three months of waiting for the received all their medals and things for so it can go ahead . |
| 18 | After some 30 minutes of driving towards the jagged mass of the Troodos Range , we turn and plunge down a steep trail to a river bank . |
| 19 | Over half the respondents acknowledged that dreams could foretell the future , and among those who believed in the literal truth of the accounts of dreaming in the New Testament , this proportion was much higher . |
| 20 | For the skills of interacting with the physical world the procedure summarised in Table 2.6 is appropriate . |
| 21 | The dependence/independence continuum in the model of living serves as a reminder that all people experience change of dependence/independence status for the Activities of Living in the normal course of the lifespan . |
| 22 | Out of the Frying Pan , a modern tale based on the Aladdin story , also saw the return of Frank Finlay and included Alan Howard , learning the ropes of acting as an assistant stage manager before later acclaim as a Royal Shakespeare Company member . |
| 23 | His old lady was bearing down in her chair and generally showing signs of getting off the psychic runway in double-quick time . |
| 24 | The lower hill-slope fields show signs of reverting to a semi-natural state . |
| 25 | SSDs are expected to show active signs of working with the voluntary sector , health authorities , families , gay men , and ethnic groups . |
| 26 | Only the chemicals and pharmaceutical industry have so far shown any signs of responding to the competitive advantage created by the devaluation of sterling last September . |
| 27 | It is very easy to be beastly if you are , say , Norman Tebbit or Dennis Healey — although the old bruiser does seem to be showing distinct signs of turning into a benign grandpa . |
| 28 | Minor jealousies and misunderstandings can fan the petty flames of bickering into the roaring fires of hatred . ’ |
| 29 | They not only face the dangers of living in a war-torn society , but also risk torture or death for wanting to tell the truth as they see it and for refusing to be a part of the various propaganda machines that are fuelling the present conflict . |
| 30 | The Bowie findings were by no means conclusive , but they were yet another sign of the hidden dangers of living in the nuclear shadow . |