Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although no official statistics exist , local doctors estimate that 90 per cent of the population of the town of Nikel have suffered serious damage to both nervous and respiratory systems . |
| 2 | We shall return to this issue later in this chapter , but before we do we need to take a brief look at the way in which ideas of change have influenced other aspects of education , in particular curriculum development and innovation . |
| 3 | Customers , suppliers and other parts of ICI have shown great interest in the C&P quality materials . |
| 4 | Mr Howard said : ‘ All but a tiny minority of authorities have set affordable budgets and council taxes . |
| 5 | However , a number of researchers have investigated semantic processing applied to related NLP problems , and some of the techniques and resources used have shown direct relevance to text recognition . |
| 6 | The point at issue is that both sets of disciplines tend to have different conceptions about the domain and status of proof in the pursuit of knowledge . |
| 7 | The continuance of these traditions and the continuing dominance of the academic tradition bear testimony that the fundamental structures of curriculum have withstood comprehensive reorganization . |
| 8 | Other countries with more pluralist systems of provision have recognised this problem and dealt with it . |
| 9 | The excesses of Vathek do have some emulators — in Matthew Lewis 's The Monk ( 1796 ) , and even in the Victorian novels of Sheridan Le Fanu — but it is the polite feeling of Otranto that flourishes in the hugely popular Gothic novels of the Regency . |
| 10 | In August the Slovene delegation to the Skupština launched a strong criticism of the new system , which , it maintained ( EP , 24 August 1987 ) , had ‘ irrefutably shown for a year and a half that it is inefficient , and that the centralization of foreign exchange , the administrative allocation of import entitlements , and priority for the servicing of debts have brought disastrous results for exports and for the inflow of foreign exchange ’ . |
| 11 | The reasons for this should not be obscured by the fact that the short term objectives of aid have undergone several changes over the last thirty years . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the activities of TNCs , wherever they are and in whatever industry , are increasingly being integrated into global processes of supply , production and marketing and the theorists of the new international division of labour have rendered great service by highlighting these phenomena even if they have done so in a rather one-sided manner . |
| 13 | It may be preferable to be silent regarding the date for expressions of interest until such time as a number of parties have expressed such interest . |
| 14 | Sixty per cent of secretaries want to develop another career but only 15 per cent feel opportunities exist . |
| 15 | A number of clergy have expressed high regard for their contribution to the provision of homes , stipends and index-linked pensions . |
| 16 | ‘ Both sets of supporters have brought great credit to their clubs and to the reputation of British football by their exemplary behaviour . ’ |
| 17 | Do the assumptions of heads have to attach less weight than might be reasonable to , for instance , a colleague 's attitude of reluctance ? |
| 18 | Salton has reviewed the methods of handling information retrieval , while a number of authors have described specific techniques that offer advantages in particular situations . |
| 19 | For years companies who have fleets of cars have used this method of payment instead of buying outright . |
| 20 | There is a straightforward relationship between the resolution of a particular type of screen and the amount of data need to support that resolution . |
| 21 | In Central and South America at least twenty kinds of frogs have developed this defence still further . |
| 22 | All later forms of religion have to handle this problem , and do so even though they use different means . |
| 23 | During the last few years an increasing number of schools have adopted agreed policies for handwriting . |
| 24 | The burning oil wells of Kuwait continue to cause widespread air pollution , notably in the form of " black rain " , which has been reported as far away as Bulgaria , Afghanistan and Pakistan . |
| 25 | Ninety four per cent of Scots want to see more Police on the beat . |
| 26 | But the gypsies and geourgos but er a lot of gypsies have got one geourgo parent but , they would reckon that there must be some sort of descent , er er erm that , where they 're aware of to qua , to qualify as a gypsy . |
| 27 | In the former the ideas of theology seek to transform concrete experience into something which transcends the material world and sees abstract forces within material objects . |
| 28 | Since that time the Halifax Building Society and the Bank of Scotland have become Appointed Representatives and in future will sell only Standard Life 's products through their branches . |
| 29 | Environmentalists have complained that in contrast to road-building programmes , for example , no attempt has been made to assess the cost of intangible environmental losses to the community , as against financial benefits to the farmer ; that calculations of benefit have assumed unrealistic yields and excessively speedy rates of take-up by farmers ; that there is a reluctance to design low-level flood protection , even when farmers are getting by with an arable crop in most years ; that the inevitable patching of eroding banks as a river reacts to the engineering constraints put upon it is never allowed for in the costs ; and that the benefits anticipated from a drainage schemes are based on what are known as ‘ farm-gate prices ’ received by farmers for their crops . |
| 30 | These deficiencies give rise to dissatisfaction in those who can see increasing inequalities in a society where suburbanites and those in the smaller towns and cities of the south of England have experienced large material gains through house-price increases and tax changes . |