Example sentences of "[noun] of [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stated that almost everyone was ‘ supportive ’ and ‘ welcoming ’ , apart from ( a ) some general practitioners who were a little anxious about severely dependent elderly people being sustained at home , and ( b ) a few people concerned about the risks of bringing unqualified support workers into people 's homes with all the attendant risks of exploitation , etc . |
| 2 | The risks of catching vaccine-related meningitis were minimal compared to the benefits of immunisation against the other diseases . |
| 3 | The report of a five-year study into the risks of transporting dangerous substances by rail and road has been published by the Health and Safety Commission ( HSC ) . |
| 4 | ‘ But nobody knows what the long term risks of eating irradiated food will be . |
| 5 | Aware of the risks of losing this argument , a confidential briefing document from central office was today sent to Tory MPs with advice on how to answer the crunch question , Have n't you broken all your promises ? |
| 6 | The CLPD secured remarkable success by the tactics of lobbying influential trade unionists and local party members and also by drafting model resolutions carefully designed to promote its aims , which could then be proposed by supporters at a wide variety of meetings . |
| 7 | The remedy of using tough policing is merely tackling the symptoms of the disorder , and is liable to exacerbate the underlying malaise . |
| 8 | But tipplers should forget the traditional hair-of-the-dog remedy of having another alcoholic drink the next morning . |
| 9 | The team is currently investigating the feasibility of installing direct dial facilities . |
| 10 | The latest developer claims to have carried out extensive research into the feasibility of providing medical treatment in Darlington . |
| 11 | On Nov. 27 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 721 , requesting a report on the feasibility of sending peacekeeping forces to Yugoslavia , conditional on the observance of the Nov. 23 ceasefire agreement . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , at some future data an exercise would be undertaken by the Organization and Methods section to examine the feasibility of using one document to produce the updating information required by both the Payroll Master File and the PMIS . |
| 13 | For example , related experiments which measure elastic collision cross-sections of ultracold caesium atoms point to the feasibility of using evaporative cooling of magnetically trapped caesium to reach the temperatures required for the observation of the much-sought Bose-Einstein condensation of atoms . |
| 14 | It wants the rail link to be built ( if nothing else , as a demonstration of the feasibility of privatising British Rail ) but Mrs Thatcher has stated quite clearly that ‘ users of the new line should pay for the full costs , including environmental costs ’ . |
| 15 | In recent years there has been considerable interest in assessing the general feasibility of predicting future violence and dangerousness in individuals and families ( see Parton and Parton , 1989 ; Parton and Small , 1989 ) . |
| 16 | In addition , a study of the feasibility of devising criterion-referenced tests rather than norm-referenced ones was to be undertaken : that is , tests which give a description of the achievement of pupils who take them rather than placing the pupils in a relative order of achievement . |
| 17 | The brief of the NFER project was to investigate the feasibility of devising graduated tests according to the principles listed above . |
| 18 | As a way of reducing the cost , the Department of Education and Science , where the Minister for Sport presently resides , have been looking at such extreme measures as the feasibility of turning primary classrooms into temporary swimming pools . |
| 19 | Lee visited Hong Kong in January 1990 , when he expressed doubts about the feasibility of introducing democratic structures before assimilation by China in 1997 . |
| 20 | It had already invested £33 million in drilling projects to assess the feasibility of pumping cold water four miles below the surface into fractured hot rock and drawing it up sufficiently heated to generate power . |
| 21 | From a purchasing perspective no- one seriously questioned the feasibility of changing existing patient flows substantially . |
| 22 | The study concluded that ‘ … combining free-range poultry production with trees could make free-range systems more practicable and profitable and improve the feasibility of keeping some forms of poultry in free-range systems , notably chickens for eggs and meat , and turkeys ’ . |
| 23 | All these factors led the LTC to propose a pilot project to the DES aimed at investigating the feasibility of recruiting unemployed German and French language teachers and offering them a one-term induction course at the LTC prior to their applying for posts to teach in schools in the UK from September 1990 . |
| 24 | This project was designed to study the feasibility of recruiting unemployed French and German teachers and retraining them for jobs as teachers of their native languages in Uk schools . |
| 25 | DESMOND DOUGLAS has accused the English Table Tennis Association of giving preferential treatment to Carl Prean , the son of the ETTA chairman . |
| 26 | I do think that you 're , when you 're doing it , thinking of doing two bits , |
| 27 | Some , who have experienced only the old-style rote learning of facts and dates , may well believe that the subject is already educationally bankrupt and will take a great deal of persuading that history is not only educationally solvent and viable but is vital to the balance and well-being of the curricular economy of the 1990s . |
| 28 | ‘ We certainly do a good deal of counselling these days , ’ Rachel agreed . |
| 29 | The experiment of giving hard-currency incentives [ see p. 36855 ] had not worked properly because it had been introduced too late in the year and people did not know how to operate it . |
| 30 | The children in groups of two , three or four , tackled an experiment of mixing hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide and then testing for the result and boiling the outcome to see what was left . |