Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What acts may be considered usual for a firm of solicitors will change with the times . |
| 2 | A goal is a set of assertions which includes one of the form ’ A certain sequence of operations will lead to a goal of the original task ’ . |
| 3 | It might be the setting for A Midsummer Night 's Dream , thought Sara ; sleepily stretching herself , and any minute now Titania and her train of fairies might glide across the grass and into the trees . |
| 4 | The same survey showed that the majority of meetings would fall into the 100–280 delegate bracket , and that provincial hotels would be the greatest beneficiaries . |
| 5 | The agenda of meetings should arise from the interests and concerns of the group . |
| 6 | That is to say , the crests of one set of waves may coincide with the troughs of the other set . |
| 7 | ( Later Hymes also distinguishes audience , since the presence of overhearers may contribute to the specification of the speech event . ) |
| 8 | He would not see his bride before the wedding night so all sorts of pictures could float in the mind . |
| 9 | Yet the Nazis knew that they could not behave too outrageously because there was always the threat that the League of Nations might call in the Poles to annex the city and suppress the NSDAP in the name of European peace . |
| 10 | In others still , some factor in the development of relationships may lie at the root of paedophiliac tendency . |
| 11 | However , the basis of relationships might change from a continuation of historical commitments to performance . |
| 12 | A population of animals will evolve to an ESS and then remain there : we should expect to see animals in nature behaving according to an ESS . |
| 13 | When a group of female mice is placed with a male their oestrus cycles become synchronized and the majority of animals will mate on the third night . |
| 14 | Two sets of words may amount to the same thing , but one set may be caught by the Act and another set not . |
| 15 | Sense-based definitions of words could contribute to the subsequent overlap process by providing more concise , pertinent definitions and reducing the chances of spurious overlaps due to inappropriate but co-incident word senses . |
| 16 | First , it allows that many kinds of circumstances can contribute to the course of events , and secondly it enables us to understand how these may combine to bring about dramatic and unexpected social changes which Althusser calls ‘ ruptures ’ . |
| 17 | Accepting that a group of countries should proceed to a political or monetary union would be to accept the creation of a Greater European Superstate on the continent of Europe over which the non participants would have minimal control and which would be dominated by Germany . |
| 18 | A gable roof is implied by such an arrangement and the number of posts may relate to the presence or absence of vertical side-walls as much as to the size and weight of the roof ( Figure 2.2 ) . |
| 19 | In a hyperbolic plane an unlimited number of lines can pass through the point and not meet the given line . |
| 20 | There is , of course , something risible about proposing that armies of 70-year-olds should come to the rescue of those older still , and by no means all of those who will be among the young elderly in the year 2010 will want to perform that role . |
| 21 | If a key includes fields to indicate district , stock classification or the like , runs of keys will occur in the key sequence . |
| 22 | " A lot of composers will forget about a work once it 's up and running , but Andrew is n't like that . |
| 23 | Hundreds of pilots will retire over the next two years and all the signs are that the airlines are poised to grow strongly from now on . ’ |
| 24 | As we discussed earlier , a managers approach to motivation , direction and control of workers will depend on the assumptions he makes about them . |
| 25 | The list of libraries will come as a shock to anyone who is unaware of what has been happening . |
| 26 | social choice over a set of alternatives must depend on the orderings of the individuals only over these alternatives and not on ‘ irrelevant alternatives ’ ; |
| 27 | An anticipated 60 per cent of costs will fall on the privatised water companies , 30 per cent on commerce and 10 per cent on agriculture . |
| 28 | Hodgskin 's enthusiasm for free trade was rooted in a belief that the power of governments would wither as the relationships within society became subject to economic laws rather than arbitrary legal systems . |
| 29 | Poor timing of spoonfuls can lead to the child 's feeling frustrated and angry . |
| 30 | The king 's concession that the cost of troops should fall on the rich and powerful rather than the poor of the community was insufficient to placate the commons , and in the October parliament of the same year they presented a petition entitled ‘ La demande de la Commune ’ in which they called for the abolition of the maltote , the punishment of purveyors who took prises without making payment , and pardon for debts . |