Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pressures of racism have led to black people using dangerous skin bleaches , and having plastic surgery to change their features ; and to black children playing at miming peeling off their skin or pulling out their hair , in ‘ what I like/do n't like about myself games . |
| 2 | Motion is still restricted at this stage , but as the temperature increases further a larger number of chains begin to move with greater freedom . |
| 3 | Let us now return to consider the kind of assistance one might expect from computers in relation to the particular areas of personnel work referred to earlier . |
| 4 | Many of course have come to that conclusion before , and those who have tried to reach a naturalistic morality which transcends it have had to read the historical record , or read beyond the historical record , in ways which seek to reveal a partly hidden human nature which is waiting to be realized or perfected . |
| 5 | A number of researchers have concentrated upon public relations to ceremonial occasions ( Bocock , 1974 ; Dayan and Katz , 1985 ; Shils and Young , 1975 ) . |
| 6 | In those words the Neath guru encapsulated the debate that has raged and lurched from one side to another while a succession of coaches have sought in vain to establish a definitive Welsh style , during the years of consistent defeat since the 1988 Triple Crown . |
| 7 | The guidelines envisage that over the period to 2011 the proportion of aggregates supply met from primary land-based sources in the region will decline from 85% to just over 20% . |
| 8 | The guidelines envisage that over the 20 year period to 2011 the proportion of aggregates supply met from primary land-based sources in the region will decline from 65% to around 45% , despite a net increase in output . |
| 9 | In these cases , both sets of kittens continue to develop alongside one another , with the later group three or six weeks behind the early one . |
| 10 | Last , in terms of performance , the outturn for most intermediaries has been rather poor in terms of profitability , while borrowers of funds have gained from lower commissions and margins . |
| 11 | Similar characteristics are piece mobility ( the number of squares open to attack by one side 's pieces ) and the control or occupation of the centre four squares . |
| 12 | Programmes of Study require re-write for all targets . |
| 13 | A number of readers have asked for more advice on entries that cover matches in pairs and trios . |
| 14 | All 23 single attacks of pouchitis have responded within three days of treatment with metronidazole orally . |
| 15 | Attempts to delay stent clogging by prescribing long term antibiotics or by the mucolytic action of aspirin have met with little success , though recent studies suggest that silver impregnation of the stent and omitting side holes may be helpful . |
| 16 | However , this volume , which appeared in 1916 , can remind us how techniques of archaeology have changed over this century , since the volume included hardly any of the small and often illegible coins which have been found and published in the more recent ( 1981 ) volume of Sardis finds . |
| 17 | Although the classification of countries in Table 8.1 suggests that a large majority of countries have opted for stable exchange rates , in fact this is not so ; those countries which are pegged to the US dollar will find their exchange rate moving against other currencies , because the US dollar itself is an independently floating currency . |
| 18 | Since the early eighteenth century the red wines of Ambonnay have ranked alongside those of the now more famous Bouzy . |
| 19 | A number of companies have gone to great pains to point out to the shareholders that the goodwill adjustment does not affect the company 's net asset value , but Company Reporting named a number of companies that have actively avoided showing the full extent of losses on disposal . |
| 20 | What is more surprising , when considering what advocates of testing have to say on this subject , is the lack of ideas on how such information could ever help schools . |
| 21 | If they are , will they honour their own commitment by recognising that the overwhelming majority of parents want to stay with local authorities and that therefore local authorities should be given all the backing and support possible by the Government to make a success of their role in the future . |
| 22 | Generations of visitors have delighted in this exquisite little town 's beauty and in the stunning views it affords . |
| 23 | Total emissions of lead have plummeted from 127,900 tonnes in 1978 to 7200 tonnes in 1989 ( figure 8.12 ; table 8.5 ) . |
| 24 | Four inches of rain have fallen in four days in the south-west , making it the region 's soggiest November since 1940 and Britain 's wettest autumn since 1984 . |
| 25 | It is plain that these general principles of the laws of war do apply to nuclear weapons . |
| 26 | In some respects they use new language and embody in a formal text rules that have not been specified in that way before ; this has indeed been the way the laws of war have developed for 150 years . |
| 27 | Nearly half of black teenagers in the city of Chicago fail to graduate from high school . |
| 28 | Four sets of changes have contributed to this : |
| 29 | Generation upon unnamed generations of writers have revelled in this fact : they put pen to paper , do the literary equivalent of the ‘ Wham Rap ’ , and get endlessly celebrated by the media . |
| 30 | Anti-vivisection campaigners say that scores of monkeys have died in cruel and unnecessary experiments at Oxford University . |