Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many , the roads debate therefore rested on measures of speed restriction and road safety , but with 2 million motor cars on British roads in 1939 , and urban congestion a growing problem , this was scarcely a satisfactory situation . |
| 2 | List generally approved after explanations of why and wherefore . |
| 3 | Outside and inside also seem best treated as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 4 | During the 1970s , the government began a long programme under which medieval mosques would be restored and some of the glory of Iraq 's Islamic past reasserted , with Baghdad , Basra and Mosul again seen as centres of Arab culture . |
| 5 | Some of the subjects like science and history have attempted to be positive in the curriculum content so that the children attain the targets for the subjects , but also become better educated in terms of quality issues . |
| 6 | Whilst many voluntary and private child care organisations have diversified , the majority remain heavily committed in terms of both human and capital resources to the provision of residential care . |
| 7 | And , my guess is from , from what is being said , is that the Committee will be , the Policy Panel will see this budget book that , with all that entails , and will hear that , although if you look on page three , there are still carry forwards in hand , that they of thirty thousand , er , the Policy Panel will be told that you , you 've already thought of ways of spending er , I mean there 's thirty eight thousand in total that we 've talked about today , well erm , of , of that erm , fifty eight grant that erm , thirty eight of it is revenue , the other twenty thousand relates to the capital project of Centre . |
| 8 | Well it 's not as if you 've like come into loads of money when you suddenly turn sixteen is it ? |
| 9 | Barring a calamity erm they will retain their option with us to continue on a two year deal , erm they perhaps , and I have to erm be honest about this , I think they are probably in a marketing sense , the most aggressive erm marketing company that I 've ever witnessed in terms of the style , the panache , the charisma that they have from within . |
| 10 | We have all heard of examples of the deepest psychological states being cured with a 6c potency and at the other extreme a 50M being needed for a sprained ankle . |
| 11 | Discussions have already started with members of the SWAPO Women 's Council on how best to build support for Namibian women in this crucial period of Namibian independence . |
| 12 | Our particular strength is that we have progressively focused into areas of specialisation including pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 13 | ‘ He was the most generous person that I have ever met in terms of being prepared to share his ideas , his contacts , his know-how , ’ said Peter Wyman , chairman of the Institute 's Tax Faculty . |
| 14 | The concept of level , it must be said , is not an original metaphor to bring to bear on the topic of consciousness : mystics have always talked of levels of consciousness , and the nineteenth-century vitalists wrote at length of the emergence of a level of consciousness from a sufficiently complex lower level of organization . |
| 15 | Psycholinguists and AI researchers have both contributed toward theories of word meaning , and in recent decades a number of distinct theories have evolved . |
| 16 | Studies have been conscious of the work in other disciplines such as the Metropolitan Meteorological Experiment ( METROMEX ) which is based in St Louis ( Chagnon , Huff , Schickedanz and Vogel , 1977 ) and has greatly increased knowledge of atmospheric processes within urban areas and investigations have also led towards applications of knowledge gained from the way in which a city generates its own climate so that Chandler ( 1976 ) in a review of urban climatology in relation to urban design suggested : |
| 17 | Climbing expeditions into the peaks themselves have also left behind piles of rubbish , and Cullen ( 1986 ) points out that the problem is compounded by the fact that in such a high Alpine environment decomposition rates are very slow so that discarded materials may persist for several years if not decades . |
| 18 | Because of this , culture and identification have also shifted in terms of the sites in which subjectivity is constructed . |
| 19 | Twice recently , papers submitted to a journal have later appeared as sections of a book . |
| 20 | As my right hon. Friend conceded , they have unashamedly acted as architects of European integration . |
| 21 | Except for birds seen during severe winter weather , which have often associated with influxes of other geese , records of this species are open to the suspicion that the birds have escaped from captivity . |
| 22 | For research focused on formal aspects of code switching , much of the interest lies in the process whereby two widely divergent grammatical systems are made compatible in such a way that switching is possible between them : hence researchers in this area have mainly concentrated on pairs of languages that have no more than chance ( or universal ) similarities . |
| 23 | Admittedly we can discern glimmerings of intelligent thought involving the location of sub-goals and the execution of sub-strategies , a grasp of ‘ causality ’ , perhaps even a grasp of the internal motivational states of others , as disclosed by their behaviour ; and some experimenters have even looked for signs of a sense of self , and even of intimation of mortality . |
| 24 | Previous studies of MINTEC have primarily concentrated on aspects of science policy planning , which has neglected the question of procurement policy . |
| 25 | They have definitely asked for representatives of the Association to confer with their officers in order to discuss a circular which they are preparing on the teaching of English in secondary schools . |