Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of submitting his organisation to the will of party bureaucrats , he turned it into his own power-base and started bombarding the party with his own initiatives . |
| 2 | Although Burda talks of maintaining its share of the upper end of the periodicals market this has been interpreted as a delaying tactic , to allow the magazine to bow out gracefully . |
| 3 | ‘ A very challenging and exciting time lies ahead for Magnus and I am confident of maintaining its position as the ‘ investors ’ choice . |
| 4 | In the event that it could not locate a world in reasonable proximity which possessed both a breathable atmosphere and acceptable conditions of gravity and temperature , a pod was capable of maintaining its passenger in a state of suspended animation for an almost indefinite period . |
| 5 | If for some reason you can not or choose not to attend a course , then you will have to find some means of charting your progress with the limited help made available by colleagues . |
| 6 | It was not until August 1976 that the then Secretary of State declared his intention of accepting its argument for a single , national , validating agency . |
| 7 | He missed Aintree 's colour and clamour , the release of easing his mount to the first fence after the parade . |
| 8 | in the course of that business acquired his interest in the article or substance supplied to the customer as a means of financing its acquisition by the customer from a third person ( ‘ the effective supplier ’ ) , |
| 9 | BOWLS players yesterday accused Darlington Council of wasting its money on a new bowls hut . |
| 10 | If the horse is to be trailered , it should first have some experience of eating its dinner in the trailer . |
| 11 | Having created their masterpiece , they 're hardly going to just sit on it ( and spin ) — putting it into the Public Domain is a very cost-effective method of bringing their work to the attention of leading software development houses ( Ashley Routledge and David Saunders of Poseidon and St Dragon fame started out this way ) . |
| 12 | Could it be that he was aware of Van Butchell 's intentions and saw this as a means of bringing his technique to the notice of the public , being able , at the same time , to lay any charge of indecency at Van Butchell 's door , if it arose ? |
| 13 | In any event , and this is the real answer , Bismarck had not yet given up hope of bringing his scheme to a successful conclusion and even though it seemed difficult to envisage just how this could be done , he waited for his moment . |
| 14 | Since by definition the composition of phonolexical subsets is not predictable by a general rule , one way of revealing their presence in a body of data is routinely to record as both a lexical item and a phonetic value each putative token of a variable ( see tables 6.2 , 6.3 , 6.4 , 6.5 for examples ) . |
| 15 | Others seem increasingly to have thronged the court hoping to have a chance of pressing their suit upon the Queen or a courtier . |
| 16 | Had not his grandson Raymond V fulfilled his crusading obligation in his early youth , thereby freeing himself from the necessity of interrupting his career in the county , the principality of Toulouse might have disintegrated altogether . |
| 17 | To be sure , Khrushchev committed the obvious folly of challenging his rival from a position of weakness ; but the greater folly consisted of challenging the rival 's vital interests from weakness . |
| 18 | You ca n't do nothing about any of it , in any event , so what 's the use of banging your head on a brick wall ? |
| 19 | The prime advantage of a form of alternative dispute resolution such as family mediation or conciliation is that the parties are in charge of resolving their dispute in an atmosphere conducive to avoiding domination by one party or another . |
| 20 | Before a youth was apprenticed to the Sechem he was committed to a number of years of study of the Yasa , memorising the codex in its entirety so that he was capable of relating his knowledge of the law to science . |
| 21 | Farmers , generally speaking , like to grow crops and look after livestock rather than sell — and they prefer privacy ; but if they are to make a success of opening their farm to the public they need to be professional about it . |
| 22 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale was last night starting the tough task of rebuilding his squad for a promotion push next season . |
| 23 | It is a well-established convention that a minister should be an MP or a peer ; the Ministers of the Crown Act , 1964 ( in limiting the number of ministers and parliamentary secretaries that can sit in the Commons ) forces the Prime Minister to select a nucleus of ministers from the Lords ; leading figures in the majority party practically demand a Cabinet place — and a ministry of their choice ; new young members need to be nurtured ; and even leaders of factions within the party might have to be given office if only in the hope of softening their opposition to the broad drift of government policy . |
| 24 | The England squad — ranked fourth in the world — will be selected following trials in December , and the team 's coach , Betty Galsworthy , will relish the prospect of pitting her team against the world champions from New Zealand and second-ranked Australia prior to the 1991 world tournament . |
| 25 | Whether she was star struck , or simply just ambitious for her daughter , Patsy failed in her primary duty of protecting her daughter from a confused and selfish man . |
| 26 | Through sorcery , the Piaroa shaman leader is highly violent on a daily basis toward the end of protecting his community from the dangers of disease and death , both being considered to be attacks by cannibalistic beings from both this and other worlds . |
| 27 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 28 | This is not to say that a don must affect mannerisms or artificial eccentricities as a way of keeping his distance from the pupil — though many have done this . |
| 29 | He gave the impression of keeping his amusement on a tight rein as he turned to Caroline . |
| 30 | Making notes is the best way of keeping your mind on the task at hand . |