Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forecasting for periods of three to five years ahead is as much a part of the corporate planning activity . |
| 2 | 63% of those managing directors and IT directors interviewed had heard of DTI 's Open Systems Technology Transfer programme , with 47% having read or heard about aspects of Open Systems through DTI material — beating ‘ Technical Press ’ ( 44% ) into second place . |
| 3 | The provincial landscape of factions and fractions — localities squalling in impotence , absurdly competing for crumbs of resources , with no incentive to collaborate — is of course its own creation . |
| 4 | The point appeared to be taken on board by UK energy minister Tim Eggar who acknowledged that there were other areas competing for shares of hard-pressed oil company budgets as the world oil prices fell back in real terms to pre-1974 levels . |
| 5 | The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography . |
| 6 | In central and eastern Europe remedial measures must be taken to clear up environmental problems developed through years of neglect . |
| 7 | ‘ The rest of the band we got through friends of friends on the Glasgow scene , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Julian was fond of steaks : we got through jars of mustard . |
| 9 | There was a heap of sales catalogues from all over the world to be sifted through , magazines to be trawled for items of interest … |
| 10 | As I listened to him fumbling for words of explanation , I wished he could have said boldly that what was thought to be so heinous today was not thought to be so then , but that looking back now , he deeply regretted what had happened . |
| 11 | However , the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment , which reviewed the matter thoroughly in the early 1950s , and later law-reform committees have accorded preference to the ‘ general principle ’ that ‘ persons ought not to be punished for consequences of their acts which they did not intend or foresee ’ . |
| 12 | FLYING wingers John Hendrie and Stuart Ripley swapped starring roles in Middlesbrough 's promotion push for rolls of wallpaper yesterday . |
| 13 | Resentments may persist between members of staff who belonged to different unions , and in particular the goodwill between headteacher and staff seems in some places to have been almost irreparably damaged . |
| 14 | Such agreements have financial benefits as the cost of development is shared , but friction and disagreement can sometimes arise between members of the agreement . |
| 15 | And , I applied for loads of jobs and nothing ever came back . |
| 16 | A bank of video monitors cunningly disguised as sacks of cargo show films of interviews with living Indians , maps of the regions covered and other backup material . |
| 17 | There were no tanks , no Fifth Columnists disguised as Sisters of Charity . |
| 18 | Trade sanctions had to remain as promoters of environmental protection , he argued . |
| 19 | the Board considers the B R employe employees who transfer involuntary involuntarily to the private sector should return an indefensible right to remain as members of the joint industry |
| 20 | There are three bedrooms for visitors all with private bathrooms and individual character — one has an iron-framed antique rose-painted four-poster bed with lace hangings and a Victorian screen , another has oak beams and a closet ( now a shower ) where priests are reputed to have hidden during times of persecution . |
| 21 | Attempts to explain relationships between emotional arousal and memory have frequently used frameworks which were originally developed as descriptions of the general relationship between arousal and task performance . |
| 22 | Reactive oxygen species have been implicated as mediators of inflammation in ulcerative colitis . |
| 23 | CYTOPLASMICALLY inherited microorganisms are widespread in insects and have been implicated as causes of female parthenogenesis ( females developing from unfertilized eggs ) and cytoplasmic incompatibility . |
| 24 | Its meaning has begun to leak away through indiscriminate extensions beyond its original significance , extensions to cases which would normally be distinguished as cases of non-violence . |
| 25 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 26 | ‘ The one thing I learned is that no one does any building during times of political instability . ’ |
| 27 | The community care reforms will produce a new kind of key worker who will organise and budget for packages of care : the care manager . |
| 28 | Resochin was not pursued at that time , but both compounds were duly registered for purposes of patenting . |
| 29 | ‘ ( 1 ) The register may be rectified pursuant to an order of the court or by the registrar , subject to an appeal to the court , in any of the following cases , but subject to the provisions of this section : — ( a ) Subject to any express provisions of this Act to the contrary , where a court of competent jurisdiction has decided that any person is entitled to any estate right or interest in or to any registered land or charge , and as a consequence of such decision such court is of opinion that a rectification of the register is required , and makes an order to that effect ; ( b ) Subject to any express provision of this Act to the contrary , where the court , on the application in the prescribed manner of any person who is aggrieved by any entry made in , or by the omission of any entry from , the register , or by any default being made , or unnecessary delay taking place , in the making of any entry in the register , makes an order for the rectification of the register ; ( c ) In any case and at any time with the consent of all persons interested ; ( d ) Where the court or the registrar is satisfied that any entry in the register has been obtained by fraud ; ( e ) Where two or more persons are , by mistake , registered as proprietors of the same registered estate or of the same charge ; ( f ) Where a mortgagee has been registered as proprietor of the land instead of as proprietor of a charge and a right of redemption is subsisting ; ( g ) Where a legal estate has been registered in the name of a person who if the land had not been registered would not have been the estate owner ; and ( h ) In any other case where , by reason of any error or omission in the register , or by reason of any entry made under a mistake , it may be deemed just to rectify the register . |
| 30 | On-farm collection of semen can now be arranged for owners of males and the semen , frozen , can be stored by COBS . |