Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seafront hotel , newly refurbished with most rooms enjoying panoramic views of sea and Palace Pier , all doubles en suite , tea and coffee trays , colour TV , movie channel , ground floor and four poster rooms available . |
| 2 | The second step in recreating a market economy is to restore private ownership of capital . |
| 3 | It was anticipated , however , that at least during the first stage Gorbachev would make extensive use of emergency powers , granted to him in September , to introduce reforms by presidential decree . |
| 4 | The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers . |
| 5 | The objective of the course provision is to produce office professionals who can make extensive use of technology but who are able to accept responsibility and operate heuristically as well as technically within organisational systems . |
| 6 | In spite of this , we are left with perhaps one in five who appear to have made sensible revisions of their choice , given total cost of credit and/or APR information . |
| 7 | In the gut , the main symptom of candidiasis is said to be bloating and wind , because as the yeast ferments its food it produces prodigious quantities of carbon dioxide gas . |
| 8 | Some houses remain frail structures of cardboard and plywood , but most are the scenes of energetic activity : people bring loads of red-tile bricks , mix cement , fetch stone chips and sand . |
| 9 | ‘ Even with respect to the equality issue there will still only be a difference of degree ; the Conservatives might not want the income distribution to become far less equal than it is , and the Labour Party might not want complete equality of income distribution . ’ |
| 10 | Moreover , subsistence plots produce goods at competitive prices by the working of long hours , using unpaid household labour and accepting low standards of subsistence . |
| 11 | After her outburst , she now remained silent , darting odd looks of triumph at her betrayer . |
| 12 | Percentage change in ozone on 25 March at 56mbar resulting solely from chemical processes acting from the start of the simulation in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations . |
| 13 | Change in the total ozone ( Dobson Units ) due to heterogeneous processes for the period 15 December to 25 March from the simulation in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations . |
| 14 | Percentage of the model domain north of 25°N covered by polar stratospheric clouds at 56mbar for the simulations in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations ( run 1 ) , present-day levels of CO 2 but with model-calculated ozone concentrations ( run 2 ) , doubled CO 2 with climatological ozone concentrations ( run 3 ) , and doubled CO 2 and model determined ozone concentrations ( run 4 ) . |
| 15 | Britain 's industrial revolution made ample use of child labour . |
| 16 | LORD Whitelaw , the former deputy prime minster , warned yesterday of the danger of producing low-quality acts of parliament by overloading the 15-bill Queen 's Speech programme with additional ‘ instant legislation ’ . |
| 17 | Apart from taking the Japanese surrender and recovering Allied prisoners of war , General Gracey 's third task was to maintain law and order ; and in this he was to recognize the sole authority of the French . |
| 18 | The most useful effects are that groups develop strong ties of loyalty ( cohesiveness ) amongst their members , and that there is a high regard for the task . |
| 19 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
| 20 | Having switched to engineering , he became technical director of Blease Anaesthetics Equipment and two years later was appointed managing director . |
| 21 | There were some differences between the groups , mainly in the recognition of black speakers who were not using Creole features of syntax or segmental phonology . |
| 22 | Every living organism is thus constrained as a result of selection to live in what John Bowlby terms its ‘ environment of evolutionary adaptedness ’ , using stable strategies of exploitation which are the best available to it . |
| 23 | By massing overwhelming artillery strength on a short front , and replacing prolonged duration of fire ( which had hitherto given ample warning of attack to the defenders ) by the number of guns employed , he hoped so to disrupt French trench lines that , when the bombardment ceased ; a relatively small German force could advance with little loss . |
| 24 | This would result in a shorter report and give useful encouragement to companies that develop innovative forms of reporting . |
| 25 | Broadcasting objectives and market data among technical people , rather than channelling specific kinds of information to individuals , and being non-directive in work assignments might be an appropriate management strategy here . |
| 26 | For private medical insurance premiums for someone aged 60 or over to qualify for tax relief , the contract may only cover specific types of charge . |
| 27 | The Inland Revenue raised £79.4 billion , down 3½ p.c. , while Customs and Excise receipts rose by only 11½ p.c. to £61.8 billion despite a 17 p.c. increase in the rate of value added tax to 17½ p.c. , reflecting low sales of consumer items attracting VAT . |
| 28 | The man schooled to regard policy questions in technical terms and to see controversial matters of principle in terms of party management has been learning that he is a Tory . |
| 29 | The Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 also imposes broad standards of reasonableness . |
| 30 | In Hollywood , McDevitt , a would-be screenwriter , had been trying to generate interest in a film script about two thieves who hide stolen works of art in a cave in Germany . |