Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , since power is an aspect of most , if not all , social relations , the field of political sociology threatens to engulf many other areas of the discipline .
2 Those involved are attempting to come to grips with the injustices , the inequalities and the prejudices of a political system in which the practice of representative democracy appears to have little relevance to their plight as they battle against the social and economic problems briefly outlined above .
3 The leaders who went out to any area of European expansion had to make all their own decisions because it would take months , if not years , for their sovereign to reply to any request for instructions .
4 The lack of strong leadership served to exacerbate these disasters , and the nobility of France was obliged to endure strong criticism for its failure to protect the kingdom and its people in their hour of need .
5 And I think that the , just giving the example of Ross Macdonald , that this other kind of popular literature manages to avoid that .
6 A few men of high principle refused to take any private patients at all and practised exclusively within the NHS .
7 I checked the documentation which implied that a 2Mb version of this machine needed to have all four SIMM sockets occupied for it to work .
8 The rest of this book seeks to outline some of the lessons that I have learnt in my service in this world .
9 The Select Directory at the end of this book seeks to make this choice more systematic and to reduce , at least partially , the inevitable element of risk .
10 We should state at the outset that it is not the purpose , nor within the scope , of this book to try to answer such questions in their entirety .
11 How significant that his response to the overwhelming evidence that the people of this nation want to have some form of democratic control over their own destiny is to propose anything other than a democratic solution .
12 It is not the purpose of this paper to attempt to redress this historical balance , there are others at work already far better qualified to do this .
13 Charges were never pressed and the image of Scottish football lived to die another day .
14 Then the smell of warm grass came to join that of the roses and gunpowder and he fell asleep for a few moments , dreaming of cricket fields and meadows .
15 The theory of limited government appears to demand more than simple majority rule .
16 The Electricity Boards ' defence ( that the offers reflected their costs because small consumers were expensive to supply ) was plausible in principle , but in a few Boards collapsed under more careful probing , and allegations of unfair competition continued to flow both ways between the industries .
17 This is hardly the sort of catchy title guaranteed to get most of us rushing to our desks in search of pen and paper , nor is it easy to imagine squeezing into packed village halls to listen to speeches demanding a rewrite of the rules on deferred taxation .
18 The provision of factual information seems to alleviate some of the initial anxiety on immediate arrival at the ward and many hospitals send to those who are being admitted from the waiting list , some type of preparatory material ranging from a leaflet to an illustrated brochure , the latter in particular for children .
19 But that fell far short of the five hectares of decent land needed to support each family .
20 Apart from the face that consideration of scenic impact seems to carry little weight in the decision making process , there is another distressing angle to these applications .
21 To date very little practical use has been made of such general relations because of the vast amount of experimental work required to test any but the simplest expansion in two or three terms .
22 In this way , the amount of digital information needed to code each image was cut by 120:1 to 0.8 per cent of the broadcast quality original .
23 Intensive help over the course of one year started to show some therapeutic effects .
24 The tax system of any country has to perform several functions which are not always compatible .
25 And now , as Stephen looked at his watch , the tide of red colour crept to touch that central point where the rune was .
26 Characterised by confusion over aims and changes of membership , the panel made a number of false starts and fresh starts with the injection of new blood to try to give more direction to its work .
27 Body fat distribution in women of reproductive age seems to have more impact on fertility than age or obesity .
28 While the methods of structural linguistics seem to have some role to play in studying the structure of meaningful systems , they have nothing directly to offer the unravelling of meaning .
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