Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The administrative model of case management fails to provide many incentives for the current generation of social workers . |
| 2 | Languages which have elaborate systems of case inflections tend to have fewer restrictions on word order than languages like English which have very few case inflections . |
| 3 | Marjorie Stone , general counsel at Sotheby 's , warned that more regulation of auction houses threatened to slow any recovery of the art market in general . |
| 4 | Rhodes considered that there had been an improved performance in services which were the sole responsibility of either the GLC or the boroughs : but of those services which were shared ‘ only the group of transportation functions seems to show any marked advantages ; over both housing and planning there hang certain question marks ’ ( Rhodes 1972:468 ) . |
| 5 | Putting ‘ managing legal rules ’ high on the agenda of management meetings helps to achieve this objective . |
| 6 | BERTIE CAMERON and JIM DAVIDSON of Transport Section wish to thank all friends and colleagues who contributed to their departure gifts and wish Dounreay all the best for the future . |
| 7 | Mention of celebrity concerts brings to mind another Vancouver personality , Miss Lily Laverock , who was the city 's first real impresario , bringing in many international artists on concert tours over the years . |
| 8 | One path of enquiry leads Gallop to repudiate this ‘ homosexual economy ’ and speculate thus : ‘ I wish to speak of radical heterosexuality , a true openness and love for the heteros , the other , an intercourse between two modalities … . |
| 9 | When path picks up line of iron fence continue to follow this , keeping it on left-hand side , to reach trig point on summit . |
| 10 | Thus the arguments for easier maintenance and greater longevity of plastic windows appear to have little foundation in fact — an argument often ignored by the brewers . |
| 11 | In other words , studies of television genre begin to reinvent some of the wheels which film authorship and genre studies set in motion some time ago . |
| 12 | Dustin privately entertained his friends with a wickedly accurate imitation of superstar McQueen attempting to upstage little Dustin . |
| 13 | Just a few yards away , people using the Matson dry ski slope have no idea of the tragedy that took place more than 50 years ago , but now a group of aviation enthusiasts aim to change all that . |
| 14 | During the second year of life children start to develop some understanding of what will upset and annoy a sibling . |
| 15 | at least begin the process of inservice training required to bring these ( successful ) methods into the professional repertoire of the science teacher . |
| 16 | Behind him were a crowd of men and horses ; Hearthwares in full armour , their breaths steaming in the coolness of the morning , Myrcans standing impassively , indifferent to the cold but nodding to Isay as he approached , and a pair of pack mules trying to bite each other 's manes . |
| 17 | Krashen 's ( 1978 ) ‘ monitor ’ model of language learning tends to reinforce this . |
| 18 | And once homeothermy had been accepted as a good working hypothesis , then other arguments relating to non-metabolic methods of heat control began to have more relevance . |