Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandys hoped to reduce the risks of failure to reach this figure by making regular military service a more attractive long-term career . |
| 2 | HBsAg positive individuals ( accounting for 3% of our cirrhotic population ) were excluded because at the outset of the trial hepatitus B virus immunisation was not widely available to theatre staff and it was not deemed acceptable to expose such staff to the risks of infection undergoing elective surgery . |
| 3 | With this observation , I became increasingly interested in what other sorts of evidence alerts social workers to possible child abuse . |
| 4 | Reduced underemployment , mechanization ( spurred on in part by the exodus of family workers ) and improved methods of cultivation allowed agricultural output to grow significantly and employment to fall substantially . |
| 5 | Other methods of test use thioglycollic acid ( producing a pink colour ) and o-phenanthroline . |
| 6 | Important methods of control include budgetary control , break-even analysis , ratio analysis and Quality Control . |
| 7 | Most naturalists of my age just enjoyed wildlife of every kind and did not see the need for conservation until after the war when modern methods of farming made enormous changes in the countryside . |
| 8 | Predictably , different types of vessels and methods of shipment entail distinct bill of lading practices . |
| 9 | But most methods of filtration given good maintenance will work well . |
| 10 | It concentrates almost exclusively on the methods of financing advanced further education at the expense of the aims and philosophies which those methods should serve . |
| 11 | A rally was held in a field on an Uzbek-run collective farm on the outskirts of Osh to discuss rival claims for its use , a group of around 1,500 Kirghiz having illegally occupied the field and demanded the right to divide it into housing plots , and around 10,000 Uzbeks having arrived to oppose them . |
| 12 | THE ‘ shop till I drop ’ syndrome evident in the 1980s has all but left the scene and , as increasing waves of redundancy hit all ranks — and officers — a more penny-pinching approach is in order . |
| 13 | It is clearly the case , however , that although the lack of ties of affection liberates criminal tendencies , their existence does not necessarily guarantee conformity . |
| 14 | All the Secretaries of State had educational training and experience in government to fit them for their posts . |
| 15 | The heads of government had regional integration in mind when they formed the Caribbean Community ( Caricom ) in 1973 . |
| 16 | If such statutory clauses were ever intended to reflect the common law ( and this is not clear ) , the dichotomy drawn within them between the two heads of review makes little sense in light of the expansion of non-statutory review . |
| 17 | Heads of department acquired heavier responsibilities , but were at the same time often grouped in wider partnerships — often known , somewhat grandly , as faculties — to encourage more interdisciplinary work and greater flexibility in the use of resources . |
| 18 | He felt that bringing departments together to work towards a whole-school approach was going to be difficult and would be further complicated by the fact that some heads of department had unrealistic expectations of what the project might achieve . |
| 19 | Some heads of department involved other staff in producing their self-appraisal reports , either through discussing what was to be written at department meetings and/or asking members of the department to write parts of it . |
| 20 | head teachers ensure that all heads of department have clear job specifications |
| 21 | continuation of partnership work with Heads of Department to develop tailor-made staff development activities to meet departmental training needs . |
| 22 | The fact that seeds could be carried for hundreds of miles by strong winds allowed the supporters of dispersal to explain any case of anomalous distribution by invoking such an accidental circumstance . |
| 23 | The first consideration facing the most senior manager in the Authority is to determine the most equitable distribution of this budget between the units of management delivering nursing care . |
| 24 | In practice , a computer 's capacity is expressed in ‘ bytes ’ , which are units of measure comprising 8 bits . |
| 25 | Particular subjects of interest include changing levels and patterns of employment , the size and residential distribution of incomers both from overseas and other parts of the United Kingdom ; the changing demographic , occupational and social characteristics of the various city and suburban neighbourhoods ; and changes in social class and occupational patterns in the area . |
| 26 | The peculiar nature of this journey , that the willed progress is experienced as a divine gift , is a consequence of this theology : In chapter twenty-four Hilton uses the repetitions and cadences of rhetoric to convey this recognition of the activities of a God whose powers are conceived in Trinitarian terms of creating giving and responding in love at the heart of the self : At this point Hilton widens the scope of the metaphor of the journey to Jerusalem — the knowledge of Christ in the soul — by warning that the way from the light of the world to the light of heaven leads through darkness which he describes as " a tymeful space bitwix two daies " ( 24.89v. – 234 ) . |
| 27 | The sun twinkles off the money temples , the acres of glass echoing endless self-reflections . |
| 28 | 126 acres of parkland comprise ornamental flower gardens , rare trees , a scented garden for the blind , boating lakes and an aviary . |
| 29 | Some aspects of drowsiness fit this mould . |
| 30 | But behind the more bizarre , outlandish aspects of ufology lie some phenomena worthy of study |