Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sometimes too much can be expected of an opportunity to put forward the company 's point of view . |
| 32 | By then it was inevitable , given such wide terms of reference and the thoroughness expected of an inquiry by a Royal Commission , that its report could not be completed and delivered until after a General Election had taken place and , as it turned out , a new Government had come into power . |
| 33 | The underlying problem was , perhaps , that too much had been expected of the Queen . |
| 34 | a lot is expected of the contract volunteers who work in schools . |
| 35 | The software company which supplied the package is not unsympathetic but claims that it was just not given clear and sufficient guidance as to what was expected of the software . |
| 36 | But in view of the difficulties , more would have been expected of the occasion : more in time — an extra day perhaps — and more in emotional commitment . |
| 37 | TOO MUCH , too soon is expected of the branch of computer science known as artificial intelligence ( AI ) . |
| 38 | Moving from what is expected of the education system , the next three articles look at aspects of the circumstances in which schools attempt to meet these aims . |
| 39 | Quite correctly , the ACS insists that such contractors produce the same standards of catering that are expected of the ACC . |
| 40 | This was because of past history when it was expected of the womenfolk , and the close family structure where others could be called on to assist if necessary . |
| 41 | The first step is to translate aims into objectives , that is to state exactly what is expected of the students . |
| 42 | It describes the performance that can be expected of the system . |
| 43 | This is perhaps to be expected of the man who is executive director of Mensa , traditionally know as the brainy people 's organisation . |
| 44 | But the Gospels themselves confirm that Jesus and his entourage , in keeping with what would have been expected of the Messiah , were militant nationalists who did not shrink from violence . |
| 45 | circulating employees with information about the work experience scheme and its purposes , ie what is expected of the employees towards the student ; |
| 46 | The view might be held that s3 has no application to such a clause , because s3 only applies to clauses under which the proferens purports to be entitled to a performance diffferent from that reasonably expected , whereas the effect of the clause quoted above is to define the performance which may reasonably be expected of the seller , so that the buyer can not reasonably expect any particular delivery date . |
| 47 | Prophecy is expected of the laibons . |
| 48 | That money was invested as might be expected of the Tysons . |
| 49 | Johnson 's qualities of superbly robust commonsense , coupled with the differentiation of minute subtleties to be expected of the lexicographer , are well suited to the investigator of crime . |
| 50 | Eliot , who was tolerant of eccentrics as long as he was not expected to join their ranks , sometimes deplored the degree of ascetic zeal that was expected of the supporters . |
| 51 | The really important provision is s 3(2) ( b ) ( i ) , restricting exclusion of liability to perform what is reasonably expected of the party concerned under the contract . |
| 52 | Those worth £5 — £19 were roped in for the second loan , in 1523 , so paying a total of 15 per cent , not so very much less than what was expected of the £20 men , and of course a proportionately heavier burden . |
| 53 | The crucial question under s3(2) ( b ) is what was the performance reasonably expected of the proferens ? |
| 54 | The Crimean Tatars , however , were officially exonerated of the charge of disloyalty much later , in 1967 , and they were given no general right to return to their former homelands , not least because the territories they had left had now been settled by other nationalities . |
| 55 | In fact , better finishing from the Den 's Park outfit would have increased Rangers ' embarrassment but they were let of the hook on a number of occasions , particularly by Dodds . |
| 56 | She had been reminded of a school outing , with the guide leading the party in a crocodile down man-made stairways protected by iron railings , stopping every few yards to bombard his audience with statistics or manipulate the complex lighting and communication system . |
| 57 | It was a kind of verbal display ; listening , she was disconcertingly reminded of a bird idly preening , limbering up with bursts of song , stretching a wing … |
| 58 | Skin tones varied , and scars like scarlet ropes ran about the anatomy , so that one was reminded of a butcher 's diagram . |
| 59 | Felix was reminded of a man in the grip of a terminal fever . |
| 60 | ( I am reminded of a passage in a book by Doris Lessing , where she says : ‘ I want this court to condemn Volyen utterly , root and branch , for failing to instruct its young in the rules that its own psychologists and anthropologists have extracted from research and study : for failing to arm its youth with information that would enable it — the youth — to resist being swept away with any system of ideas that happens to be available ’ . ) |