Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example ideas about more homely living environments can be traced to the early part of this century ( Roosens , 1979 ) , a concern with nature and form of assessment harks back to the Charity Organisation Society ( Sainsbury , 1989 ) , co-ordination of care was stressed in the Seebohm report and has featured in most subsequent discussions ( Cmnd. 3703 ; DHSS , 1982 ) and the need for planned hospital discharge has featured in critiques of the mental health services ( Cmnd. 6244 ; Jones , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 3 | This of course harks back to the much older debate about whether memories can be localized — something I 'll come back to later , ; much of the next two chapters will be taken up with the question of the localization of memory in space and time . |
| 4 | ‘ The concept of TQM dates back to the postwar period when a tried to persuade corporate heads that business should become service driven . ’ |
| 5 | Won agreements to end the dumping of chemical sludges in to the North Sea . |
| 6 | A flight of steps leads up from the courtyard and there is entry also from the house end . |
| 7 | And they really look like it and when you go a load of ash comes out of the end of it . |
| 8 | The debate over Matthew Maynard 's appointment as vice-captain of Glamorgan rumbles on in the pubs along the banks for the Taff , Hugh Morris , who was overlooked , remains tactfully silent . |
| 9 | The work of cataloguing goes back to the early years of Italian unification in the late nineteenth century when the first photographs were taken of archaeological sites and of celebrated pictures and monuments . |
| 10 | ‘ Echo ’ is a useful word , for that in a way is what the poem 's metric is based on ; there is no immediate similarity of stanza-form to Bilbo 's song , but once again the ‘ elvish ’ idea of poetry comes through in an unexpected subtlety . |
| 11 | A shout of laughter goes up from the room . |
| 12 | Well , I will have you know that the office of coroner dates back to the twelfth century , before civil servants were thought of ! |
| 13 | A pack of dogs swarms out of the entrance hall of some flats . |
| 14 | One group of Ps ends up at a very similar position to this . |
| 15 | A shoal of fish jumps out of the sea , a sight to quicken the heart as Tor says this often happens when the fish are being chased by orca . |
| 16 | This is so to the extent that the claim for a structurally distinct postmodernist mode of signification breaks down in the face of a variety of historical avant-garde practices ranging across Europe from London to Vienna and Moscow in the hands of such as Eliot , Joyce , the Cubists , Surrealists and others ( including , somewhat surprisingly , Kokoschka ) . |
| 17 | The occasional burst of singing wafts up through the yellow leaves , mixed with the mouldy astringent smell of rotting apples . |
| 18 | In the clinical literature , the word ‘ natural ’ is left undefined ( the medical description of this kind of shock goes back to the nineteenth-century discovery of ‘ hysteria ’ and its symptoms in women ) . |
| 19 | The first known use of carburisation and quenching of iron dates back to the eleventh and tenth centuries BC in Cyprus and Palestine . |
| 20 | CAMRA would prefer beer to be brewed solely from barley malt but the use of sugar dates back to the 19th century and many renowned beers , such as Marston 's Pedigree , have recipes that include 10 per cent or more brewing sugars . |
| 21 | THE PROPOSED international merger between Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Touche Ross is likely to be holed below the waterline this week when the French arm of Deloitte pulls out of the agreement . |
| 22 | A party of people sets out on a journey with all its different components like the jumbled up pieces of a jigsaw puzzle , Sophia thought , waiting for something — some event or just the passing of time — to fit them together into a whole . |
| 23 | This change of style ties in with the special regimes offered by EC member states , which again focus on the attraction of specific types of activity in return for low tax rates . |
| 24 | Alec Samuels , a reader in Law in the University of Southampton points out in the journal Medicine Science , and Law . |
| 25 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 26 | During the eighteenth century there were signs of the first rumblings of the tectonic upheaval which shattered the old order in Europe , and from its ruins created a group of nation states out of the submerged nations which lay under the surface of the great multinational empires . |
| 27 | Most of the exchange of information goes on before the Christmas holiday — like yesterday and today when 12 people were at their computers . |
| 28 | These vines overlook a small north-south running valley , on the other side of which a 170-metre high spur of vines drops down to the northwestern edge of the village . |
| 29 | Innocent 's sense of history breaks through in every line . |
| 30 | There is a moment of confusion while one elder fumbles to put his cakestand of individual cups back on the tier . |