Example sentences of "[noun] of [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many headhunters see setting up on their own as an ultimate ambition , despite the risks of flying from the safe nest of a large firm with many clients and a high level of repeat business . |
| 2 | They spread the risks of lending by pooling funds and allocating them over a wide range of depositors ( e.g. unit trusts ) . |
| 3 | Management at Hunslet is acutely aware of the risks of operating in a sector acutely vulnerable to too much or too little government interference . |
| 4 | Management at Hunslet is acutely aware of the risks of operating in a sector acutely vulnerable to too much or too little government interference . |
| 5 | The MPs noted that health boards catering for dispersed rural populations ‘ face special problems in balancing the demand for local accident and emergency services against the possible risks of relying on a limited local service , particular for seriously ill or severely injured patients . ’ |
| 6 | This was even more embarrassing , for Donleavy 's strictures about keeping away from the embassy had focussed particularly on the risks of associating with the Drug Enforcement Administration 's ‘ cowboys ’ , the DIA 's contempt for the CIA under William Casey being exceeded only by its detestation of the DEA . |
| 7 | However great the risks of parting with one 's collection , Gould could not have hoped to carry with him from Hobart the enormous quantities of skins , skeletons , eggs , nests , plants , and seeds he had amassed . |
| 8 | More than 7,000 young men spent time at American air bases in Alabama , Georgia , Florida and South Carolina , learning the arts of flying at a time when Britain was desperately short of qualified pilots . |
| 9 | But when it suits them they choose not to be seen and seen you know sort of divide and rule tactics of seen as different entities really and I mean to be how dare and one one comment was how dare these men gang up against us . |
| 10 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 11 | The above ideas were generated mainly on the basis of experiments and it is not surprising that many of the key characteristics of thinking in real situations were not given sufficient weight . |
| 12 | To what extent are some of the so-called characteristics of ageing in fact social artefacts ? |
| 13 | The builders , unfortunately , were still upstairs , and her classes were still conducted to the loud clank of hammering with attendant dust . |
| 14 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 15 | Again last week we talked about the feasibility of going to Australia for a week and the impact it would have on you after things like jetlag . |
| 16 | The political feasibility of dangling before Indians a prize at which they might gaze but which they would never grasp was assured , Irwin told Salisbury , by the fact that Indians in their heart of hearts knew they would always need British administrators to guide them . |
| 17 | So I always sit up in bed for ages really wide awake , and I 'm reading and doing all sorts of thinking like things , and I 'd be talking to Ben , and he would say yeah , yeah , and he 's really vague as well , and I , I get really angry and then I think you can tell because then you tend to lean across and say , are you alright , are you alright , and I just find it makes it worse . |
| 18 | There are two possible explanations for the association of smoking with cervical neoplasia . |
| 19 | With the death of Fisher , ended the association of Halling with the Bishops . |
| 20 | BRAVE souls thinking of buying in London 's Docklands should get hold of a new free guide from the London Docklands Development Corporation . |
| 21 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 22 | Ten days and more of women 's films is a good way of recharging one 's batteries , and women thinking of going to next year 's Festival might like to know that the organisers will arrange accommodation with local families for 50F a night ( approx £5 . ) |
| 23 | My advice to young people thinking of going into catering is to gain as much information as possible , try it and judge for yourself . |
| 24 | Puffer , a nineteenth-century female psychology graduate thinking of applying for an academic post , is told by her college president , ‘ the rumor … concerning your engagement may have … affected the recommendation I sent ’ . |
| 25 | Thinking of Working for Yourself ( IR 57 ) |
| 26 | As well as running workshops and training events in different parts of the country to help individuals and couples plan constructively for the future , it also offers one-to-one counselling advice to those thinking of embarking on a new career . |
| 27 | Entitled ‘ See Yourself in Hair d-sign ’ this video is aimed to encourage those thinking of starting in the business from scratch . |
| 28 | [ In 1931 Andrew Mellon was accused by Congressman Louis McFadden of cheating on his 1931 income tax return and in March 1934 the Roosevelt administration duly announced that it would seek criminal tax evasion charges for $1.3 million . |
| 29 | This could be accounted for by an initial Hercynian episode of stripping of Carboniferous overburden . |
| 30 | From then on I did a great deal of telephoning to him ; but , as usual , he preferred contact de vive voix . |