Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computationally realised models of word form realisation for these languages will be constructed in order to get some insight into the precise nature of the formal mechanisms needed to account for the range of possibilities that languages display in this area . |
| 2 | Two of the boys from amongst these pioneers went on to study Mathematics at Cambridge , with great success , to Daniels ' pride : J. G. Adshead of Caius College , who eventually became Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University , Nova Scotia , and W. L. Edge of Trinity College , who held a similar post in the University of Edinburgh . |
| 3 | Existing comprehensive schools in Coventry , for example , had successfully developed forms of organization based upon the ‘ house ’ — a unit in which a pupil would remain throughout his school career , and to which also belonged a group of teachers . |
| 4 | This is not to say that all members of an epistemic sub-culture — say economics or anthropology or even nebulous professionally oriented clusterings of knowledge such as pharmacy or business studies subscribe to the dominant concepts , theories and approaches of the corpus . |
| 5 | This would allow a larger number of glucose units to enter the gut , thereby allowing uptake of sodium ions via the sodium ion/glucose cotransporter at a higher rate , and hence allowing speedier reabsorption of water from the gut lumen . |
| 6 | But Stanley Baldwin was sent to Hawtrey 's , near Slough , which was almost exclusively an Eton preparatory school , although there followed a not wholly explained change of plan and he went to Harrow in 1881 . |
| 7 | That is , they were more highly concentrated in the older staple industries which were in acute and widely recognized need of restructuring , the labour shortage was most acute in some of the highly skilled sectors of these very industries , and their loss would be acutely felt , at least in the short term . |
| 8 | Why had Shirley Brown had to mention the point on her brief visit to him earlier that morning , and sowed those slowly germinating seeds of doubt ? |
| 9 | A funeral procession from the workhouse had had the temerity to pass through his Lordship 's private grounds , thereby producing feelings of outrage . |
| 10 | Wedging itself in between Texas Instruments Inc 's announcement of the Tsunami Sparc chip on October 9 ( UX No 406 ) , and Sun Microsystems Inc 's expected introduction of the first Tsunami box on November 10 , MIPS Technologies Inc , now a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics Inc , is due to upgrade its 64-bit R4000 chip to the R4400 this week with a major performance boost . |
| 11 | The PEP invests exclusively in the Capital House Income & Growth Trust , an authorised unit trust managed by Capital House Unit Trust Managers Limited [ Member of IMRO , Lautro and AUTIF ] , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital House Investment Management Limited ] |
| 12 | Among the many things we hear in that oracular phrase is , against the odds , a bitterly won conception of language as rescue . |
| 13 | If the following sequence is carried out with sensitivity , not only will it relieve tension but it will also effectively stimulate clarity of thought . |
| 14 | Exuberantly believing that he alone was responsible for the separation and still moved by a powerfully purifying sense of goodness and rightness , Hope paid his modest bill the next morning , left a parting note for George , checked himself from asking to see Mary , promised — though he lied — to return and set off at a tremendous pace for Hause Point . |
| 15 | This AE recalls a sales manager who tuned in to AEs ' telephone conversations , thereby gaining snippets of information about their private lives which he would not hesitate to use . |
| 16 | This reply read : ‘ I duly acknowledge receipt of correspondence sent in respect of children in care and confirm that the mail has now been forwarded accordingly . ’ |
| 17 | The Federal Assembly on April 20 voted by a large majority to accept a proposal to rename the state the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( CSFR ) , thereby ending weeks of controversy over the issue . |
| 18 | Peru is suffering from two epidemics : one is the recent and widely reported outbreak of cholera which has infected over 200,000 people . |
| 19 | Wilson ( 1991 ) argues that in reality most old people can live well and independently with properly targeted inputs of help at times of crisis or illness . |
| 20 | I had to keep on signing bits of paper which were meant to list my property , but I had no opportunity to read anything . |
| 21 | Postmodernism points to a more organic , less differentiated enclave of organization than those dominated by the bureaucratic designs of modernity . |
| 22 | Above all , it has been unable to bring the highly differentiated elements of strategy and social constituencies together behind a convincing vision of a more deeply democratic and at the same time thoroughly 20th-century , socially just society . |
| 23 | The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) once described the rates as ’ an irrational , inefficient , highly resented form of taxation . |
| 24 | One wind turbine at Trimblemill on the Isle of Thurso , Scotland , only produces 7kW of power a year , but that is still enough to provide electricity for lights and appliances for the island population . |
| 25 | In the graphic image taken from contemporary devotion of the lord who aspires to kiss Christ 's mouth in spiritual devotions and in doing so neglects acts of charity and so treads on his feet , Hilton skilfully combines all the strands of thought on the roles of action and contemplation in the Christian life as the means by which the individual works out his full spiritual potential ( 25 – 6.273 – 88 ) . |
| 26 | The end product of this highly devolved system of decision-making was an escalating penal crisis that was stubbornly resistant in the face of attempts at reform . |
| 27 | As Bateson ( 1973 ) argues , the psychological frame appropriate in discussing play or games is more akin to a picture frame than to the logical frame of a mathematical set : what is outside the picture frame is irrelevant and one can only make judgements of comparison and contrast on matters within the frame . |
| 28 | The rather pompous periphrasis " the candidate for the honour of taking his education in hand " doubtless represents the boy 's self-centred view of Pemberton , but in language quite above the boy 's apparently limited powers of expression : what it seems to express is Pemberton 's image of himself as he sees it reflected through the mind of the child . |
| 29 | Talks on privatising Deutsche Bundespost Telekom have entered a critical phase , with a key decision due next month , Germany 's postal and telecommunications minister Wolfgang Bosch told Reuter at Hannover on Friday : ‘ In a few weeks we will know whether or not there will be a change to the constitution , ’ he said , noting that decision will not only affect privatisation of Telekom but also Bonn 's position at the upcoming talks with the European Commission — an agreement on privatisation would pave the way for Bonn to approve the Community plan to open domestic and international telephone calls to competition ; the current strategy to get agreement from Germany 's opposition socialists is to win over the postal union , which so far rejects turning Telekom into a joint stock company for fear of massive job losses . |
| 30 | But , as Heseltine 's private secretary , the highly regarded Ministry of Defence official Richard Mottram , put it during the trial of Clive Ponting , ‘ In highly-charged political matters , one person 's ambiguity may be another person 's truth . ’ |