Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillors from the Forest of Dean came to visit the site at Tidenham Chase , before deciding whether or not to allow the travellers to stay there . |
| 2 | Cabinets were therefore often divided by personal rivalries — the schisms in those led by Sir Robert Walpole ( First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer , 1721–42 ) are a good example — and this lack of unity tended to increase the influence the king could exert over individual ministers and the Cabinet as a whole . |
| 3 | The large values for Ct in the early periods of play do speed the rate at which the B t 's learn from the signal extraction process ( 4 ) . |
| 4 | But the pace of change has seen the introduction of controversial new techniques and men prepared to sabotage equipment underground . |
| 5 | His 1541 parliament issued a string of acts seeking to underwrite the authority of the pope ( despite his own highly cavalier and damaging treatment of the papacy ) , to insist on greater respect and reverence for the sacraments , for the Virgin and saints , and for statues and images , and to reform ‘ kirks and kirkmen ’ so that divine service might be properly held , and churchmen better equipped to hold it . |
| 6 | A troupe of experts has toured the country giving their views over periods of several days and as a result some courts have convicted and others have acquitted . |
| 7 | There , paradoxically , the complex of reasons had included the need to focus on the interests of minorities and avoid racism : presumably Una Marson 's poems would have been safe with them . |
| 8 | Indeed , where it has found that the statement of reasons fails to fulfil the requirements of Article 190 , the Court has in a number of cases annulled the measure in question . |
| 9 | John Evans ( 1990 ) in some research on Australian play times found that by far the greatest percentage of interactions recorded invoked the teacher in an authoritarian role , issuing requests and orders to children . |
| 10 | This set of essays has sketched the development , from small but imaginative beginnings , of a major Modular Course with significant institutional support . |
| 11 | The durability of coins has ensured the survival of these images from poorly documented periods and has thereby provided , as was realised in the Renaissance , a unique memorial to the achievements and history of the past . |
| 12 | Hence , far from seeing NHS provision evaluated on a basis broadly comparable with the private sector , the authors of WFP have swung the balance in favour of private hospitals . |
| 13 | It will be spent on a number of projects intended to make the town centre the hub for commerce and culture . |
| 14 | Arguments over using the ‘ Jarman index ’ to assess demand for services and the method of payment have obscured the principle underlying the payments . |
| 15 | Since interest rates started falling millions of homeowners have had the chance to remortgage their home and pocket lower interest deals . |
| 16 | The coming of Chaos had taught the Elves many bitter lessons . |
| 17 | The lashing rain had just started and as she spoke a great roll of thunder seemed to shake the house . |
| 18 | In the West , the notion of freedom seeks to increase the potential for action in the outer world while keeping the inner state as constant , and rational , as possible . |
| 19 | It was in the wake of the London conference on Germany that the Americans , British and French initiated a number of policies designed to resolve the future of Western Europe without Soviet interference . |
| 20 | The range of policies needed to counter the root causes that have given rise to the underclass and keep it firmly in place at the bottom of the social hierarchy are examined in Part IV . |
| 21 | John Smith may of necessity have toured the prawn cocktail circuit of the City but he represents those parts of the UK deeply suspicious of its working . |
| 22 | The upshot of all this was that in 1959 the State of Tennessee ruled to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School . |
| 23 | The financial circumstances of the company will determine which it is to be ; a creditors ' winding up will normally occur where the directors fail to register a declaration of solvency and the majority of creditors agree to petition the court for a dissolution of the company . |
| 24 | Furthermore , this lack of a detailed history of Conservatism has handicapped the study of Thatcherism itself , for the absence of a clear historical perspective has ensured that , in spite of the proliferation of literature , the ideological origins of the Thatcherite Revolution remain obscure . |
| 25 | Stockport was far from London and perhaps the burden of responsibility seemed to outweigh the £2 13 4d . |
| 26 | The Governor of Kenya and the Minister of Defence came to inspect the camp . |
| 27 | It was widely reported that the UK Ministry of Defence had reserved the right to dispose of its decommissioned nuclear submarines at sea , although the UK finally voted for the proposal . |
| 28 | But now the 95 workers are out of a job … the Ministry of Defence has given the contract to supply uniforms to workers in Morocco instead . |
| 29 | The Ministry of Defence has accepted the sacking was unlawful . |
| 30 | April 's inheritance of the winds of March had cleansed the air of London . |