Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She has found that she can interest modern teenagers , and develop attitudes of stillness and attentiveness and reflectiveness , through detailed study of certain masterpieces .
2 Crowds of celebs are having to have a laugh and raise loads of cash for children .
3 Nevertheless , because of the wilderness value of the national forests and the adoption of multiple use policies by the US national forest system , there remain conflicts of interest which arise because actual timber production is often uneconomic and many conservationists have argued against the commercial production of timber , proposing instead that such areas should be maintained as wilderness for recreation and conservation .
4 They can avoid their friends and , when they see them , hide signs of distress , not wanting to be a ‘ nuisance ’ .
5 The ability to design , execute and evaluate plans of patient/client care , based on appropriate models .
6 In such circumstances actual results influence judgments of responsibility and culpability even though the agent did not contemplate the result which occurred .
7 Factors which undoubtedly influence judgments of seriousness , such as the existence of provocation , or the difference between premeditated and impulsive violence , are accorded no legal significance and are left to the sentencing stage .
8 Organizations which set great store by behavioural conformity often develop patterns of operation which can appear ridiculous in their manifestations .
9 In this way , they develop patterns of behaviour which conform to the social norm .
10 I ca n't really understand that , since I exercise regularly ( I walk to the sweet shop at least twice a day ) and I eat loads of fitness foods ( like Mars bars and Diet Coke for instance ) .
11 But however solidly we build , our lives remain huts of straw and mud , at the mercy of the River and the Sun , thought Huy .
12 In particular ? these two teachers ' job appointments and day-to-day activities highlight aspects of gender and feminism and the way this operates in interaction with religion to influence their work .
13 Well we do n't really actually have any schools si I mean schools of psychology were a thing of the fifties really , there 's no identifiable school of psychol
14 Leprechauns are extremely wealthy and hide crocks of gold and jewels about the countryside .
15 This shift in the centre of gravity from the rich North to the less developed world will increase the Third World 's influence in the denominations and certainly change aspects of faith .
16 It has to incorporate a wide range of factors and develop methods of investigation other than laboratory experiments .
17 The USPCA say birds of prey in the province are also being shot or poisoned , and in the latest incident a buzzard starved to death after being maimed .
18 actors ( including Chaplin ) , cricketers and cricket-writers provide snippets of humour that mix into a rolling chuckle .
19 They report cases of contact dermatitis after handling hydrangeas and alstroemerias .
20 We mentioned in the Introduction that earlier sociological studies of deviant behaviour provide notes of caution about investigating phenomena like heroin use .
21 The question now to be answered is whether endogenous hormones similarly regulate patterns of growth and the formation of haustoria in the intact dodder and if so , how the stimulus of contact with the host is coupled to the action of hormone .
22 Provide copies of Investment Overview to all Network members in advance of distribution to the purchaser marketplace , and include a transmittal memo which :
23 I 'd distinguish between cases which clearly involve relationships of authority , institutional relationships of authority , from those which involve people whose relationships are social or informal .
24 For classifications involve considerations of reason and policy over and above mere empirical data .
25 Process aspects of mathematics may prove to be particularly difficult to express in criterion statements , but little work has yet been undertaken in this area .
26 This procedure will ensure that the individual measures tap aspects of school life and children 's activities which are significant for their gender development .
27 The aim of this research is to investigate the extent to which different reading patterns are related to different patterns of strength and weakness in performance in tasks which do not involve reading per se , but tap aspects of cognition which are relevant to the acquisition of reading .
28 Another justification advanced is that social deprivation variables tap aspects of need for resources not adequately represented by morbidity measures — for example , that it is more difficult to provide services in a deprived area or that effectiveness is reduced by adverse conditions .
29 What I like about Making Out and South of the Border is how they celebrate aspects of femininity — a celebration of excess .
30 The federal army has this week strung a massive presence of men , artillery and tanks along the road from Serbia as it surges into Bosnia to help local Serb barons grab swathes of territory .
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