Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That directness of involvement was signalled by each teacher at the first stage of assessment receiving from central government late in 1989 and early in 1990 packs of materials , descriptions of policy , examples of assessment and timetables . |
| 2 | The refraction and fusion of discourses accomplished by discursive metaphor provided Brooke-Rose with the technical means for the strategy of mimétisme with which she began to experiment in Between . |
| 3 | But the specific features and structural characteristics of the German socio-political culture in the short-lived and ill-fated nation-state , which conditioned the manufacture and appeal of the extraordinary ‘ Hitler myth ’ , were largely swept away in the whirlpool of change arising from total defeat , and were completely banished in the process of long-term change deriving from post-war reconstruction . |
| 4 | John Irvine , Ben Martin and Geoff Oldham at SPRU have found that most decisions about research grants are still based on the time-honoured ‘ peer review ’ system : a researcher 's proposals are sent to a handful of experts engaged in similar research . |
| 5 | Clifford Allen , who since 1934 had built up an all-Party group of experts committed to collective security and domestic reform , resisted pressures to take up the cause of the People 's Front , and , instead , devoted the last year of his life to actively assisting Chamberlain 's diplomacy . |
| 6 | It says it is looking to provide a full range of products ranging from low end consumer devices through to those aimed at users in vertical markets such as insurance or medicine . |
| 7 | With hundreds of products ranging from electric pencil sharpeners to diesel engines and nuclear plants , it is difficult to do an effective job of planning . |
| 8 | She repainted the figures in the foreground , each button and strand of hair etched with photographic precision . |
| 9 | In all , 29 teams contributed to a grand total of £16,200 raised by nuclear industry organisations , including AEA technology , NNC and Nuclear Electric . |
| 10 | National-scale data , which should be treated with caution , illustrate that the number of passenger-kilometres travelled by private vehicles increased from 60,000 million to 380,000 million per annum between 1951 and 1977 , while the number of passenger-kilometres travelled by public service road vehicles declined from 80,000 million to 50,000 million . |
| 11 | The two kinds of authority create an administrative dilemma , especially as the role of expertise increases in modern government : |
| 12 | They are a stark contrast to the derelict steelyards of Sheffield , where there 's nothing left but acres of scrap lying on flattened ground , or the old factories , which look either like the workhouse or satanic hangars . |
| 13 | Er , this production of good X , likewise inputs , huge variety of inputs used in agricultural production , er , may again , er , will have ramifications on the supply of any one particular good . |
| 14 | The countryside would be protected further by the reduction of inputs used in intensive farming , and there would also be a net saving of energy . |
| 15 | A mighty war host was assembled to protect the Elf homeland and not a moment too soon , for the armies of Chaos returned with redoubled strength . |
| 16 | The diagram below shows the position of solicitors working in private practice . |
| 17 | He joined a firm of solicitors specializing in show-business contract work , became a partner within five years and thereafter just made more and more money . |
| 18 | In particular the calculus of operations became in English preserve [ 96 ] . |
| 19 | Conferences , committees , grandiose planning of operations divorced from day-to-day contact with laboratories and clinics , and the blind screening of endless substances have not been notably efficacious . |
| 20 | Nevertheless the pursuit of policies based on national self-interest led to competitive depreciation and the introduction of tariffs and other trade restrictions . |
| 21 | It looks closely at the range of policies developed by local government and in so doing assesses the relative responsibilities of various professional and political groups for their initiation and enactment . |
| 22 | The long-term significance of CCT may be greater , therefore , than the relatively small proportion of contracts won by private enterprise would suggest , and certainly more important than the limited financial savings at first achieved . |
| 23 | Management thus had to respond to the rising expectations and social aspirations of a higher paid and better educated workforce , and felt obliged also to reduce the rising costs of apathy induced by meaningless work . |
| 24 | Only one part of cottage pointing in right direction , i.e. rear part , but even from kids ' bedroom only trees visible . |
| 25 | They knew that palladium soaks up deuterium ( a form of hydrogen found in heavy water ) like a sponge soaks up water , an electrical current from a battery forcing the deuterium atoms out from a solution of heavy water and into the spaces between the palladium atoms . |
| 26 | Consequently such apparently irrational attribution of responsibility exhibited by criminal law strengthens rather than weakens the claim that criminal law may be understood as positive morality . |
| 27 | However , because it groups entries alphabtically according to the areas of responsibility given to particular topic editors , it can be slightly confusing . |
| 28 | Cell divisions of the mammalian egg are unlike those of lower animals where the planes of division appear with military precision . |
| 29 | Sizzling shades of terracotta teamed with cool blue make a simple but eye-catching statement on crisp white walls . |
| 30 | The marriage between logical semantics and textual semiotics does not , however , prove equally felicitous when the approach to the truth-conditionality of counterfactuals developed within modal logic is extended to the semantics of fictional universes by means of the " Principle of Minimal Departure " ( Chapter 3 ) . |