Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any standard form of building contract incorporates two elements : the basic agreement between the parties that the contractor will carry out and complete the work and that the employer will pay the contractor for doing so ; and detailed conditions which define how this will happen and procedures which are to be followed . |
| 2 | The BAeSema Ltd joint venture of British Aerospace Plc and Sema Group Plc won a UK Ministry of Defence contract to equip five frigates with command systems : no price was given but a source told Reuter that it was about £30m . |
| 3 | But a Ministry of Defence spokesman said last night that neither was in immediate danger . |
| 4 | His successor displayed no great competence for the job even though he had been a member of the House for twenty-four years and had successfully met the demands of peer review to achieve major leadership posts in the legislature . |
| 5 | At the Grand , magistrates are two a penny , bankers of the sort who never lent Maxwell a farthing can be seen sipping sherry , chairmen of publicly quoted companies compare salaries , and retired officers of field rank renew old NATO friendships . |
| 6 | This multisubunit enzyme resembles the RNA polymerases of eukaryotic cells , and the two largest and the smallest subunits of vaccinia virus have similar amino acid sequences to their cellular counterparts ( 2-4 ) . |
| 7 | This offers a very high level ( up to eighty per cent ) of grant aid to repair those field barns in Swaledale that remain unconverted . |
| 8 | Modern methods of teaching reading avoid this stage , as is shown in Chapter 4 . |
| 9 | The new pattern of teaching practice gives increased coverage of the secondary age range in a split system , but it is not without its own difficulties . |
| 10 | However , plasmid sequencing is largely dependent upon the quality of plasmid DNA to be sequenced and the alkaline denaturation of plasmid DNA to produce single-strand templates of high quality . |
| 11 | During the prefabrication boom of the fifties and sixties some contractors used many times the permitted level of calcium chloride to help speedy setting in concrete — it also helped speedy corrosion . |
| 12 | Newspaper accounts of the latest national round of university funding had welcome news for Bristol . |
| 13 | Professor Stubbs provided a much lengthier example of class-room discussion to illustrate good practice in the teaching of linguistic terminology . |
| 14 | I can confirm that there is no SNP Member of Parliament present to hear this debate today . |
| 15 | The implications of demographic trends for problems of labour supply received considerable coverage in the last few years , with analysts predicting fierce competition for new entrants to the labour market and serious shortages of skilled and educated staff . |
| 16 | He expanded the area of cut grass to encircle nearer trees — this was his own idea and it pleased him hugely . |
| 17 | The significant lack of this advantage in the tasks of dot location reflects right-hemisphere specialisation for the processing of visuo-spatial stimuli . |
| 18 | Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) . |
| 19 | For example , it has often been argued — most notably by Stanislav Andreski — that the common shared experience of blitzkreig bombing brought many civilians into the front line , producing a high ‘ military participation ratio ’ and thus a large amount of social change . |
| 20 | Methods of co-ordination and formal consultation were needed ; deputy heads acquired a new significance , and their number increased ; headship itself changed in character , more rapidly than in any of the last four centuries , and the language of management science supplanted simpler models of leadership or autonomy . |
| 21 | Earlier this week , the other directors failed in a Court of Session action to block last night 's meeting , called by the Deanses . |
| 22 | On the one hand , setting and enforcing more adequate levels of child support goes some way to redressing the balance of the current situation where the costs of supporting children fall almost entirely on the mother . |
| 23 | Not all cases of child cruelty have similar implications to those which Kempe and his associates have discovered . |
| 24 | To get rid of garlic breath try strong coffee , cloves , honey , yogurt , or parsley . |
| 25 | The stylised confrontations of adversary politics produce heated debate and a flood of legislation but rarely encourage reassessment of the conventional wisdom or result in agreed and constructive change . |
| 26 | Chapter 17 examines the court 's policy in denying challenges to experts ' decisions and considers the consequences of this policy in the context of the growing use of expert determination to resolve general disputes . |
| 27 | This is a common type of dialogue box containing more information than the box can display at any one time . |
| 28 | Out of bravado Fleury dismissed these fears as groundless , but he was secretly rather alarmed . |
| 29 | The most advanced type of stave church has another row of poles or pillars inside the four which frame the external wall and this row supports its own part of the divided roof . |
| 30 | It may be more of Home Guard proportions these days , but it retains its enthusiasm . |