Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent weeks Bakatin had come under criticism from senior military and KGB officers for his perceived failure to tackle the current crime wave , and for suggesting decentralization of control of limited contingents of Interior Ministry troops to republican governments . |
| 2 | Turkish maritime experts are warning of the dangers of an increase in oil and gas traffic through the crowded Bosphorus and are calling for a revision of the 1963 Montreux Convention , which guarantees freedom of navigation through the waterway . |
| 3 | Therefore it is understandable that he won a commission at the turn of the century from a recently formed Board of Agriculture for 200 portraits of representative breeds . |
| 4 | As a result of seeing part of knowledge as the whole , ‘ rationalists ’ , Oakeshott contends , over-estimate their abilities to define and solve problems , whereas reason proper indicates the need for caution in assessing the scope of human capability . |
| 5 | The graphics are mean and moody , allowing freedom of exploration with the minimum of mapping , the setting is realistic and gives a real feeling of being there , and the puzzles — you 'll be scratching you head for weeks . |
| 6 | On Oct. 9 , 1989 , the then Economy Minister , Néstor Rapanelli , signed a decree allowing freedom of action for foreign companies to buy into Argentina without prior government approval ; however , areas such as the media were to remain closed to foreign investment . |
| 7 | A report from Israel on June 23 said that the remaining Ethiopian Jews were to emigrate on commercial flights , following the interim government 's decree ( on June 21 ) allowing freedom of movement for all citizens . |
| 8 | The UN Security Council met repeatedly during August in response to the Gulf crisis and passed five resolutions [ see box ] , moving on from its first and immediate condemnation of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait ( Resolution 660 on Aug. 2 ) , to impose mandatory sanctions ( Resolution 661 on Aug. 6 ) , and later to allow states to use their naval forces for " measures " to ensure implementation of such sanctions ( Resolution 665 on Aug. 25 ) , while also rejecting the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait ( Resolution 662 on Aug. 9 ) and demanding freedom of departure from , and consular access to , foreign nationals in Kuwait and Iraq ( Resolution 664 of Aug. 18 ) . |
| 9 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 10 | Judge Arbuthnot passed sentence of death by hanging , or exile to the penal colonies in the West Indies , on the men of Prosperous . |
| 11 | JM receives award of excellence from National Semiconductor Corporation by David Savage , Spokane |
| 12 | English Nature , the government 's official watchdog on nature conservation , was criticized at the time by environmental groups for entering into the deal with Fisons , and for allowing extraction of peat on a site of special scientific interest [ see ED 57 ] . |
| 13 | company standing orders and regulations revised to promote uniformity of practice throughout ships of the fleet |
| 14 | A tailor made programme of training to be run in-house is also under investigation |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | From 1908 till 1918 he was lecturer in metallurgy at Glasgow University , and became professor of metallurgy at the Royal Technical College , Glasgow , in 1918 . |
| 17 | His neat modern home — his study stuffed with the 100 or so original runners for the 1989 Booker Prize , whose judging panel he is chairing — is still close to the University of Birmingham , where he became Professor of English in 1976 , but he took early retirement two years ago . |
| 18 | He joined this university shortly after it was founded , in fact in nineteen sixty two , and he became Professor of English in nineteen seventy . |
| 19 | He became professor of anthropology in the University of London in 1927 , and taught there till he went on sabbatical leave to the United States in 1938 . |
| 20 | In 1885 Meldola became professor of chemistry at Finsbury Technical College . |
| 21 | In 1929 he was elected FRS and in 1931 became professor of bacteriology at London University . |
| 22 | 2 Brush a large , doubled piece of foil with the rest of the sesame oil . |
| 23 | So , although we can show that deprivation produces loss of function on certain tasks , these studies do not indicate how the loss may be combatted , if at all and , from a psychological point of view , they do not give any idea of how this changed processing affects other aspects of function . |
| 24 | The prospect of the North Sea quota of 54,800 tonnes running out this month has provoked talk of revolt by Shetland fishermen . |
| 25 | In conclusion , the segregation of colonised from non-colonised patients generates a fearful attitude towards those already colonised and encourages fear of acquisition in others . |
| 26 | ‘ Sellafield has made the Irish Sea the most radioactively contaminated stretch of water in the world . |
| 27 | Only I do want effect of possibility of getting lost . |
| 28 | The bishop followed up this preliminary scorching with a promise of eternal fire for the abbot of Glastonbury , upon whom he pronounced sentence of excommunication for the sin of damaging his property . |
| 29 | These are firstly the development of new forms of alternative homes or home-based care ; secondly the design of appropriate assessment procedures and techniques ; thirdly the creation of intensive case management services to provide co-ordination of care at home ; and fourthly the organizational and managerial response towards more integrated systems exemplified by such initiatives as the Care Programme Approach for people with mental illness . |
| 30 | Thus under the Treaty binding provisions seek to establish freedom of movement of workers ( Arts 48 and 49 ) , freedom of establishment ( Arts 52 – 8 ) , equal pay for men and women ( Art . |