Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of using microbes for the early stages of such studies were well known and their biochemistry provided a convenient starting point for several investigators , especially in America . |
| 2 | In principle , any reasonably dry biomass can be gasified ; but the practical problems of using fuels with a high ash content or of low density are quite severe . |
| 3 | For some teachers , " database creation " might well bring to mind a class of using microcomputers as an efficient means of collating , storing and retrieving information about the local enviroment , about 19th century village life or about the class itself . |
| 4 | The meeting had been called by the party 's political bureau , which on Aug. 27 had accused the extreme right of using events in the Soviet Union to relaunch an attack on the party . |
| 5 | US President George Bush on Jan. 11 welcomed the move as " a very sound step " , and cited the announcement as a justification for his policy of maintaining contacts with the Chinese government [ see p. 37122 for visits to China by senior US officials in July and December 1989 ] . |
| 6 | Tatiana Rovkatch , 12 , remembers the shock of seeing pictures of the deserted villages around the plant . |
| 7 | Probably as a result of seeing photographs in the Great Exhibition in London and at the Société Héliographique in Paris , Fenton began his own photographic experiments . |
| 8 | Midland can process both Access and Visa transactions , providing retail customers with an efficient and effective means of accepting payments from a substantial consumer market . |
| 9 | Currently , there is an enormous need to use communication to heighten male leadership 's understanding of the importance of accepting women on an equal basis in development . |
| 10 | But in 1979 , to the Elysée 's amazement and consternation , Roger Gicquel , anchorman on TFI ‘ s 8 p.m. news , alluded — albeit prudently — to what was becoming a French ‘ Watergate ’ — ‘ l'affaire des diamants ’ , in which President Giscard was suspected of accepting diamonds from the self-styled ‘ Emperor ’ Bokassa . |
| 11 | The principle of including words of a former age in a modern rite is well established through the use of anthems . |
| 12 | R.S. engaged the spouses of relocating employees in the new location when this was appropriate and publicised employment opportunities in the surrounding area . |
| 13 | But the reason why Dworkin 's rights thesis appears too narrow to generate a right of participation is because it too is firmly grounded in a gesellschaft model of law and society in which virtually the only interests which are considered capable of generating rights in the strong sense are those appropriate for abstract individuals pursuing their own private interests . |
| 14 | Potten et al have recently described a software package which generates frequency plots of labelling indices against the exact cell position within the crypt . |
| 15 | The impact of the ending of job opportunities in an overcrowded London , combined with the effect of the Speenhamland system of subsidising wages under the old Poor Law , produced an underpaid , stable , demoralised and pauperised work force by the early nineteenth century which reached its maximum income relatively early . |
| 16 | Curricular novelties continued : the Headmaster , himself a Classicist , reported on Speech Day : we have made the experiment of allowing boys in the 5th to choose their own work for two hours a week , with the interesting result that a dozen boys have chosen to do Greek . " |
| 17 | It was n't just that copies of knitting patterns in a popular British magazine were regarded as subersive , or even that the border guards had strict rules about the permitted length of visitors ' hair . |
| 18 | Benny swallowed the barley sugar rather than be accused of eating sweets in the public view , and let herself in the back . |
| 19 | Later in the 1970s Idi Amin , then dictator of Uganda , was accused of eating parts of the human beings who , indubitably , died in his torture camps . |
| 20 | Maguire and Dunwoody both looked to have good chances of completing trebles in the concluding Chailey Handicap Hurdle , but Maguire 's mount Manhattan Boy has yet to win outside selling company and faded into third , while Dunwoody 's mount Ilewin found little under pressure after looking really dangerous . |
| 21 | One of the functions of grooming lies in the causal relation between interactions and mutual support . |
| 22 | Our high-flying 18-year-olds are superbly grounded in their specialist areas , compared to their counterparts in other Western countries , but we seem incapable of producing engineers with a fluent second language , or historians who understand information technology . |
| 23 | Hence in competitive equilibrium the price system no longer equates the social marginal cost of producing films with the social marginal benefit of consuming films . |
| 24 | This networking of previously lone individuals and groups will be highlighted through a number of networking facilities including the innovative Networking Game . |
| 25 | The emphasis on the desirability of academic detachment — however rarely achieved in practice — has had the effect of disengaging pupils at a personal level from what they are studying . |
| 26 | He moved his lips against the sensitive lobe of her ear , then trailed a row of devouring kisses across the high jut of her breasts to the erect peaks of her nipples . |
| 27 | Even so , the machine factor remained an important consideration , in particular what was seen as the growing practice of instructing boys in a single process . |
| 28 | Microtympanometry , a sensitive method of diagnosing effusions of the middle ear , could help them in this . |
| 29 | Amid allegations in early June that rebels loyal to the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) led by Charles Taylor were obstructing the deployment of peacekeeping troops of the Economic Community of West Africa States ( ECOWAS ) Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) , six Senegalese ECOMOG soldiers were reported to have been killed in NPFL-held territory . |
| 30 | In August 1899 , Joseph revisited his Valley of Winding Waters for the first time in twenty-two years . |