Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Extending the range of visits to library and related establishments beyond the London area to which we are limited through lack of funds ’ … |
| 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 | Those who eschewed colour and decoration , like Spurgeon , and built what were really mammoth meeting-houses with a Greek front , were criticized for lack of taste and for concentrating too much on the preacher . |
| 4 | Sociolinguists who present their data using the simple graphs and frequency tables popularized by Labov in his early work have often been criticized for lack of statistical sophistication . |
| 5 | The study has been criticized for incompleteness of data , but it was a major step forward , and the results obtained were so positive that further research was stimulated . |
| 6 | Despite a long tradition of education , there is still a lack of qualified teachers : in 1986 almost 400 teaching posts were not filled for lack of trained applicants . |
| 7 | The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography . |
| 8 | In central and eastern Europe remedial measures must be taken to clear up environmental problems developed through years of neglect . |
| 9 | You may keep travel and subsistence expenses paid during jury service , but as your normal salary will have been paid in your absence , any payments received for loss of earnings must be made over to the Company . |
| 10 | A time should be prescribed for exercise of any option , though that could be extended by subsequent agreement and the court would readily imply a reasonable time if none were in fact specified . |
| 11 | Global Marine were enrolled as part of the subsurface team and managed drilling operations under a novel performance-related contract . |
| 12 | There was a heap of sales catalogues from all over the world to be sifted through , magazines to be trawled for items of interest … |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Continuity was assured by the performance becoming enshrined in a religious ritual which could never be broken for fear of offending the gods . |
| 15 | Reservoirs at Sulby and Naseby , both in valleys of feeders to the Avon , were completed as part of the main construction programme in 1914 and 1921 respectively ; the head of Naseby was raised in 1934 and ‘ New Sulby ’ , better known as Welford Reservoir , came into use in 1837 . |
| 16 | Applied geology mapping Engineering geological interpretations of the soils and rocks of the Wrexham and Stoke-on-Trent areas were completed as part of the applied geological mapping of these areas for the Department of the Environment . |
| 17 | Certain of these units will be regarded as core units , requiring to be completed as part of the course , other units being options , the student being able to select those units which would be best suited to his/her own particular needs . |
| 18 | A work-based project will be completed as part of the programme . |
| 19 | A community based project will be completed as part of the programme . |
| 20 | Eight properties have been completed as part of the first renovation phase . |
| 21 | A two-year study of the conservation value of ponds in Central Region has just been completed as part of the Operation Brightwater Campaign organised by the Scottish Conservation Projects Trust . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There were no tanks , no Fifth Columnists disguised as Sisters of Charity . |
| 24 | Such large quantities of water have been diverted for irrigation of the crop that the rivers which once ran into the sea no longer reach it . |
| 25 | ‘ It is not necessary to suggest that there will be conscious unfairness ; but it is , I submit , possible that such judges will , particularly in cases where the liberty of the subject is concerned , find themselves unconsciously biased through over-appreciation of executive difficulty … |
| 26 | The canteen ran in this form , with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960 , when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was developed as part of Project Athena at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and goes under the unexciting name of X Window . |
| 30 | During the second phase of the UGIX project a new interface ‘ shell ’ is being developed as part of a generic GIS-independent approach to GIS user interfaces ( Raper and Bundock 1991 ) . |