Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lowered my head quickly , as if to acknowledge the truth spoken by the old woman Khadija when she heard of my decision to travel to London . |
| 2 | I would go out of my way to crunch on crisp , mustardy jellyfish ; an oily , tissuey-textured sea-slug , slipped into a congee of boiled rice , was my idea of a hearty breakfast ; and the pig , from the brains to the balls ( of the feet ) seemed like a gourmet 's theme-park . |
| 3 | Thrips or thunder flies as they are sometimes called because of their tendency to fly in clouds when thunder threatens — are minute midge-like flies that like to get into buds just as the bud scales ( sepals ) are opening and lay their eggs there . |
| 4 | Anger began to grow , fuelled by the possibility that because certain extremists seemed to go out of their way to look for signs of Satan in every aspect of everyday life , people living quiet , caring family lives had been put into a state of terror and agony . |
| 5 | Should we not ask whether it is right for people with high salaries to give up some of their income to give to pensioners the means to live with dignity ? |
| 6 | Here , Joanna , her mother and father John tell Penny Wark of their struggle to come to terms with tragedy . |
| 7 | This group of entrepreneurs would , in our imaginary world , immediately notice profit opportunities that exist because of the initial ignorance of the original market participants and that have persisted because of their inability to learn from experience . |
| 8 | However , there are two groups of women whose marital status can put them at risk of poverty in old age because of their inability to qualify for dependants ' benefits . |
| 9 | Of those extending additional credit , 55 per cent attributed it to the failure of their customers to pay on time . |
| 10 | It is likely that any ‘ advance ’ paid by a record company will be in excess of the minimum level of income for compulsory VAT registration purposes , so the band should be aware of their obligation to register for VAT immediately . |
| 11 | Miners may now keep 20% of their output to sell at free-market prices . |
| 12 | This gives a breathing space for people to establish a sense of their capacity to live without drink . |
| 13 | According to Adam Smith , attacks on machinery were symptoms of desperation on the part of workers nearing the end of their ability to remain on strike . |
| 14 | As mathematics educators , we may need to face our responsibility in encouraging pupils to have high expectations of their ability to succeed in mathematics . |
| 15 | Birds were held in high regard because of their ability to soar between heaven and earth , among them birds of prey valued as protective spirits because of their propensity to kill the small animals that damage crops , as well as phoenixes considered to be especially effective against the scourges of drought and fire . |
| 16 | One consequence of the rise in private asset ownership among elderly people is that many of them do not suffer any drastic reduction of their ability to consume on retirement : indeed , tax changes in the 1970s that encouraged pension schemes to pay out some of their assets as a lump sum mean that many retirees experience an increase in their consumption propensity in the first few years of retirement . |
| 17 | Many polar flavonoids are excellent enzyme inhibitors because of their ability to bind to proteins — eg the ability of narigenin ( 14 ) and catechin ( 15 ) to inhibit histidine decarboxylase , which catalyses the formation of the gastric acid stimulator histamine , is believed to be the basis of their antiulcer action . |
| 18 | Moreover , to achieve recognition within the legalistic and decentralised bargaining system in the United States a union needs to win a majority vote in a ballot , and although perhaps 40 or 45 per cent of the employees in a given enterprise may desire union services the union fails to achieve recognition because of the unwillingness of the majority of their colleagues to opt for unionisation . |
| 19 | This is the same set of attitudes which causes people to clear out the unwanted gear out of their lofts to send to Ethiopia rather than enabling the Ethiopians to get the best training possible as irrigation engineers , doctors and agricultural scientists and economists . |
| 20 | The Sinhalese were thought lazy because of their reluctance to work for planters , but the poor living conditions of estate labourers are ample explanation of the failure to recruit Sinhalese workers . |
| 21 | SIR — More and more goalkeepers are emulating Beasant and Grobbelaar by coming out of their area to act as sweepers . |
| 22 | At present , many health workers do not make use of the information that can take up to 60 per cent of their time to record on forms and in registers . |
| 23 | He points to the growth of unionism among junior doctors as evidence of their need to move beyond professionalism as a market strategy for protecting their interests . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that because Flodden was fought to serve French interests , Scottish hearts were hardened against their old ally after the disaster ; and indeed there were striking examples of their refusal to fight on France 's behalf thereafter , most notably the spectacle of the Scots sitting on the sidelines , as at a football match , while regent Albany 's French troops engaged the English at Wark in 1523 . |
| 25 | ‘ Like that one in Gulliver , ’ said Ann , and this started a discussion as to whether Scotland could engineer the flight of its islands to hover over England and starve her of sunlight and rain , like Laputa in Gulliver 's Travels . |
| 26 | The loco is 45106 which was to become the last of its type to remain in service . |
| 27 | Comprising over 200 pieces , the Larner collection is the largest single-owner collection of its kind to appear at auction . |
| 28 | Did the Unit never in fact settle on a simple enough statement of its function to entrust to journalists ? |
| 29 | The Group , which intends to operate nationally , does not set an upper limit on the size of customer , but expects 80 per cent of its work to come from companies with a turnover of between £0.5M to £5M . |
| 30 | The US administration on Oct. 11 , 1989 , formally notified Congress of its intention to sell to Saudi Arabia 315 M1-A1 battlefield tanks at a cost variously reported as between US$700 million and $3,000 million , and the Financial Times of Oct. 3 reported that Saudi Arabia , which was seeking to purchase a total of some 600 tanks to replace its current ageing fleet , was " close to signing a deal " with a Brazilian defence contractor , Engesa , for the acquisition of 300 light weight Osorio tanks . |