Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inspector of taxes wished to hold a meeting with my clients who were reluctant to attend the Tax Office for this purpose . |
| 2 | The number of hybridisations required to order a library is a function of the insert size of the clones and the depth of coverage of the library . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A team of experts hopes to create a blueprint for the development of countries moving from Communist control to the free market . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This set of essays has sketched the development , from small but imaginative beginnings , of a major Modular Course with significant institutional support . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It will be spent on a number of projects intended to make the town centre the hub for commerce and culture . |
| 12 | Since interest rates started falling millions of homeowners have had the chance to remortgage their home and pocket lower interest deals . |
| 13 | However , there is no doubt that the majority of authorities do favour an examination of reasonableness at the time of contracting . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A year after a referendum failed to endorse proposed sweeping restrictions on hunting [ see ED no. 35/36 ] , the Italian Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill cutting the hunting season by three months , restricting hunters to designated reserves and limiting the number of species which can be killed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Families of servicemen returning found a system not geared up to help . |
| 19 | For sociological grouping of religions has encouraged an attitude of defining each over against others . |
| 20 | All other objections apart , the equalization of preferences suffices to condemn the STV . |
| 21 | The Once-Over tillage system was one of the earliest attempts to use engine power to reduce the number of cultivations needed to make a seedbed . |
| 22 | A team of researchers has completed a tour of more than four hundred public houses across the country . |
| 23 | Two independent groups of researchers have reported the presence of a rectal motor complex , but no patterns of cyclic motility have been reported from the anal canal . |
| 24 | The lingering of the ‘ frontier ’ myth and the easy availability of firearms have led the police often to shoot first and make enquiries second . |
| 25 | A swarm of midges decided to make the climb with me , enjoying the fresh blood of an Englishman . |
| 26 | Some species of birds have developed the ability to distinguish between model and mimic and will feed on the imposters . |
| 27 | A large number of pickets have manned the factory gates over the last eight weeks . |
| 28 | They were exactly characteristic of the era of ‘ modernization ’ ( I am grateful to Tim Blackman , 1987 , for this usage ) in which the leadership of the local Labour and Trade Union movement actively collaborated with regional capital , regional representatives of trans-national capital and the central state in promoting a series of strategies designed to facilitate the operations of trans-national capital , while simultaneously providing jobs and improving the environment . |
| 29 | Such was this sailor 's quality of draughtsmanship that he had to develop a technique of etching and aquatinting to multiply the number of views required to satisfy the demand . |
| 30 | The decision caused uproar , with thousands of Anglicans threatening to leave the church . |