Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may involve phosphorylation of NMDA channels to alter the extent of the Mg 2+ block of these channels . |
| 2 | Again it will be they who will become the cutting edge when it comes to the readiness of woodland owners to offer the use of their woods and premises for other business . |
| 3 | The Act also attempted to deal with the problem of the tendency of defence lawyers to pillory a woman if she had had any non-marital sexual experience . |
| 4 | We made a cash donation of £200,000 , fitted 16 pledging sites with nearly 2,000 lines at our expense , and installed 2,000 miles of computer circuits to drive the scoreboards . |
| 5 | The clubs could attempt the task , and indeed their origins include the desire on the part of settlement workers to preach the virtues of citizenship , just as Scouting did more than twenty years later . |
| 6 | The use of contract armies to fight the war depended , of course , not just upon the readiness of men to serve but also upon the willingness of parliament to vote taxes to pay for the war . |
| 7 | In Denmark , although there is assessment and provision of interpreters there is no training course but a series of starter courses to support the skills that the interpreters ( usually people with deaf parents ) already have ( Hansen , 1980 ) . |
| 8 | Cholesterol gall bladder stones may be initiated by precipitation of calcium salts to form a nidus , with subsequent laying down of cholesterol from its supersaturated state on this nidus . |
| 9 | These were the introduction of majority verdicts to avoid the necessity for new trials when juries could not reach unanimous verdicts , and the extension of firearms certificates to shotguns . |
| 10 | On Dec. 20 , 1989 , agreements had been reached with commercial banks for the rescheduling of short-term debts , and shortly afterwards agreements were concluded with the " Paris Club " of creditor countries to reschedule the country 's debt to countries and international institutions . |
| 11 | This would allow a larger number of glucose units to enter the gut , thereby allowing uptake of sodium ions via the sodium ion/glucose cotransporter at a higher rate , and hence allowing speedier reabsorption of water from the gut lumen . |
| 12 | A concordat between Anderson and the horror genre was ruled out not only by Andemson 's fastidiousness , but by the inability of Hammer Studios to provide an environment in which filmmakers with a strongly defined sense of individuality could flourish . |
| 13 | We recommend a course of protein treatments to reinforce the hair structure , making it firmer , stronger and more receptive to the colour service . |
| 14 | The purist will point out that every aircraft accident results from human error of some kind ; even the most complex technical failure has its origin in the work of a designer , manufacturer or maintenance engineer somewhere , and so-called ‘ acts of God ’ such as structural failure in extreme turbulence beyond the limits of airworthiness criteria are no more than failures of airworthiness engineers to assess the limits correctly . |
| 15 | The research is policy-related and involves the organisation of study groups to tap the expertise of those with operational experience of naval deployments . |
| 16 | Many of the big vipers possess fangs that are about an inch long , but the gaboon 's huge teeth are nearly 2 inches in length , penetrating well into the deeper tissues where there is a rich supply of blood vessels to carry the poison away . |
| 17 | It was reported to the Group that their request to the Council of the Law Society to commission a firm of management consultants to make an examination of the property market in Scotland had been remitted to a Special Committee of the Society comprising representatives of its Purchase and Sale of Heritage and Professional Practice Committees . |
| 18 | The RMCs would have four main functions : to be the focal point in the regions of further growth in the provision of full-time higher level courses ; to provide a wide range of management courses to meet the needs of industry , commerce and the public service ; to meet the needs of industry and commerce through consultancy and applied research ; and to act as resource centres for further education colleges in their regions . |
| 19 | The encouragement of joint planning at area/regional level has brought together inter-agency groups for the elderly , though only in some areas has this led on to the formation of specialist sub-groups to consider the needs of dementia sufferers . |
| 20 | The prosecution 's only witness on the main charge that Beattie had convened and presided over a meeting of UDA officers to plan the murders was an anonymous Special Branch detective who claimed to be reporting evidence of a paid , anonymous informer . |
| 21 | In the six years since the Mulla Committee 's report , there has been a certain amount of further progress , including increases in the prison budget , some new instructions from the central government to the states , and the setting up of a small policy section within the Ministry of Home Affairs to consider the implementation of the recommendations . |
| 22 | JOHN Major is ready to unlock £1 billion from the sale of council houses to ease the plight of council tax payers , it emerged last night . |
| 23 | Whereas the British , in their old-fashioned way , have stuck to the general term " Carboniferous Limestone " to cover all the varied carbonate facies of this age , the Americans — for very good local reasons — have allowed the proliferation of formation names to obscure the unity of the whole . |
| 24 | Second , semi-structured depth interviews with a cross- section of opinion leaders to define the pattern of a marketing- orientation ( such individuals as the Directors General of the CBI , Institute of Directors , BIM and the General Secretary of the TUC ) . |
| 25 | Put yourself in Fifties or Sixties costume , throw in a couple of vintage cars to set the scene , and you 've got it made . |
| 26 | They made realistic models of different types of cuckoo eggs ( realistic enough to fool a leading British ornithologist who unwittingly recorded one as part of a clutch he discovered ) and placed them in the nests of reed warblers to examine the response of the hosts . |
| 27 | Will he particularly look at what the French are doing in terms of tax concessions to encourage the viability of such an environmentally friendly fuel , and will he perhaps have a word with our right hon. Friend the Chancellor on that subject ? |
| 28 | The unions have attempted to accommodate work group aspirations by allowing local unions a greater say in employment practices and — via legislation — expanding the role and powers of shop stewards , including the right of safety stewards to order a work stoppage in certain circumstances ( Forsebäck , 1980 ) . |
| 29 | The unions have attempted to accommodate work group aspirations by allowing local unions a greater say in employment practices and — via legislation — expanding the role and powers of shop stewards , including the right of safety stewards to order a work stoppage in certain circumstances ( Forsebäck , 1980 ) . |
| 30 | It is good practise , if you are not familiar with the syntax of module headers to use the scan option within LIFESPAN first , option 1.4.0 — Scan A File . |