Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book is not designed to engage with exposition of doctrine though it will inevitably point to its importance ; rather it attempts a mode of appreciation of these texts to help readers , whether or not they have prior knowledge of the subject , to respond to them as literary witnesses to a life of faith understood as a game . |
| 2 | As a consequence we are still constrained to conform to standards of behaviour expected of us by the group . |
| 3 | The fiction of the family is the most powerful one in terms of unquestioned loyalties — children , parents , grandparents , siblings and spouses are traditionally expected to conform to codes of duty and right without question or gain . |
| 4 | Until recently , for example , it was not considered to apply between consumers of gas or water and the public industries which supply them . |
| 5 | However , as it was found to be the lack of care which followed the loss of a parent , rather than the loss itself , which explained the child 's increased risk of depression in adulthood , the same vulnerability can be expected to result from lack of care in intact family homes ( Harris et al. , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Subsidiarity was designed to operate under forms of government exercising undivided power , and the pretensions and ambitions to exercise this power are already clear for all to see in the plans for European integration . |
| 7 | P appealed to the High Court , contending that no part of his interest ‘ came to an end ’ within para 4(2) ; he had merely disposed of shares in Q. Similarly , para 4(2) was not deemed to operate by virtue of para 4(1) , which provided that a disposal of an interest in possession of any property was not a transfer of value , but should be treated as the coming to the end of an interest in possession , bringing into play para 4(2) . |
| 8 | Amount and type of strain are being studied in a range of settings , selected to differ in terms of job demands , discretion and support . |
| 9 | Questions should therefore be framed to look for attitudes of mind rather than simple quantity and frequency of use . |
| 10 | However , the inspectors were not empowered to deal with questions of compensation and other financial matters . |
| 11 | A young Frenchman , when in 1896 he entered his country 's diplomatic service , found himself trained as in the past , largely by being made to copy as models of style despatches dating from the pre-revolutionary monarchy . |
| 12 | In making manifest to a waiting public the final accomplishment of that ambitious design , Sheriff Irvine Smith has had to contend with vicissitudes of health to which he refers in his Introduction and from which all his many friends are rejoiced to see him recovered . |
| 13 | Yeah , but er , this is usually you 've got to work on top of course you 've got ta |
| 14 | However , none of the available approaches has been shown to lead to transfection of growth arrested cells in culture at an appreciable level . |
| 15 | It seems that he was only proved guilty on one count of perverting the actual course of justice , but even so , the practice of a judge receiving presents at all made perversion more likely , and Bacon 's ingenious distinctions may be thought to differentiate between degrees of corruption rather than between guilt and innocence . |
| 16 | So you 've got to think in terms of persuasion . |
| 17 | Broadly , the declines in the concentration ratio have tended to occur during periods of market growth , while the rises have corresponded to recessions , suggesting that high levels of bond issues lead to a more even spread of issues between firms as well as new entry , while in slack periods the dominant houses tend to take a larger proportion of issues , smaller houses being squeezed out . |
| 18 | The rather crude criterion that we have used to distinguish between types of eruption , the degree of violence of explosiveness , reflects two more fundamental variables , the viscosity of the lava and the gas content . |
| 19 | It was almost bound to lead to differences of opinion with almost all those around her who she viewed in an authoritative light . |
| 20 | The process usually employed to deal with allegations of teacher/pupil sex seems to be designed to protect those interests . |
| 21 | At the same time , a system which relies entirely upon departmental selection is bound to result in lack of balance . |
| 22 | Volvo has refused to comment on reports of merger talks with Renault . |
| 23 | ( 1 ) As he was obliged to do , the charging officer ( at a time when the Director was already interesting herself in the matter ) had told the applicant that he was not obliged to say anything ; yet only two weeks later the Serious Fraud Office was warning the applicant that he was going to be interviewed under compulsory powers ; and it was not much longer still before the office formally put him on notice that he would be asked questions which he would be compelled to answer on pain of punishment . |
| 24 | Work developed using a variety of apparatus , each with its own qualities , which was found to lead to freedom of movement , encouraging depth and breadth of swing , resilience and flow whilst stimulating enjoyment . |
| 25 | Those who are unhappy about calling Unionist Northern Ireland a democracy , or equally unhappy about not calling Britain as a whole a democracy , are compelled to return to questions of meaning and definition . |
| 26 | ( 123 ) Patriotic Englishmen have been known to strike in time of war . |
| 27 | Each part of the company has been asked to look for ways of doing more , with less , and the performance improvements now happening all over the company are starting to feed through to the bottom line . |
| 28 | The behaviour of the Rottweiler in the show ring should be controlled , willing and adaptable , trained to submit to examination of mouth , testicles etc . |
| 29 | Section 16(2) provides : [ t ] he cases in which a pecuniary advantage … is to be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where — ( b ) he is allowed to borrow by way of overdraft , or to take out any policy of insurance or annuity contract , or obtains an improvement of the terms on which he is allowed to do so ; or |
| 30 | Neither party was allowed to comment on matters of regionalism , ethnicity or religions and both were careful not to criticize the current economic austerity programme of the President , Maj.-Gen. |