Example sentences of "[verb] of [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In school , teachers show what they expect of children in terms of work and behaviour , they provide models for children by their own conduct and they feed back to children what they judge to be acceptable performance . |
| 2 | Killing of " infiltrators " from Jordan — Stabbing of Israelis in West Jerusalem |
| 3 | During the course of the meal we 'd reduced the blighter to the proportions of a couple of pillows , not to mention disposing of portions of chicken kalija and fish pakora to start , followed by garlic chilli chicken , lamb pasanda , a single portion of pulao rice , and side dishes of Bombay potato and sag panir to accompany . |
| 4 | Excellent progress was made in disposing of properties in Arizona when the market was considerably more bullish . |
| 5 | In the play , which was to tour Britain before running in London 's West End , Crawford was cast as Runnicles , a bank clerk given the task of disposing of piles of pornography that is delivered to the manager and his wife . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , intense lobbying was reported of deputies from Estonia , Georgia and other strongly nationalist-minded republics who were threatening to boycott the vote on the grounds that strengthening centralized executive authority ran counter to recent official proposals for restructuring the Soviet Union into a looser confederation of sovereign republics . |
| 7 | Last June 's vote led to the creationof a 17-strong block called the European Right , consisting of members of Jean-Marie Le Pen 's National Front from France , the Republicans from West Germany ( led by a former Waffen-SS officer , Franz Schonhuber ) , and a Belgian from the wilder shores of Flemish nationalism . |
| 8 | At this meeting the delegates agreed to set up a steering committee consisting of members from Germany , Holland , Italy and Great Britain , with John Young as Chairman . |
| 9 | Dredge crops , consisting of mixtures of oats , barley , and peas , with sometimes a little wheat , are also fed in this way . |
| 10 | The male rate croons a post-coital song consisting of bursts of sound between one and three seconds long that are only just above human hearing . |
| 11 | DURLSTON BAY , consisting of layers of Purbeck limestone and clay , is the result of faults and numerous landslips caused by underground water and unstable conditions . |
| 12 | It should be possible to generate lists consisting of subsets of elements that are unambiguously defined in the text e.g. authors , headwords , sense-sections . |
| 13 | Ayesha reintroduces the central figure reborn from the apparent death at the end of She and now the sole survivor of the cult of Isis , living in a volcanic mountain fortress , this time in Tibet , and with some difficulty holding her power against a wild tribe in the valley , partly consisting of survivors from Alexander 's army , under the control of Queen Atene , who proves to be a reincarnation of the Egyptian princess , Amenartas , beloved of Kallikrates . |
| 14 | He puts forward an ethic consisting of habits of mind and of behaviour to which he thinks one will inevitably move to the extent that one has rational insight into the human situation and is under the control of that rational part of one 's nature which gives one unity as a personality . |
| 15 | One suggestion is to create a European Parliament senate or upper house , consisting of delegations of MPs in proportion to their strength in their national parliaments . |
| 16 | The Supreme Council , consisting of heads of state of member governments , has met four times to date ; it is the highest policy-making body and appoints the Secretary-General ( currently Helmi Mahmud Namar ) . |
| 17 | The Supreme Council , consisting of heads of state of member governments , met four times during 1989-90 , but the organization effectively disintegrated in the aftermath of Iraq 's invasion and annexation of Kuwait in August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] . |
| 18 | He explained that the British envisaged that the union , having at its apex the European Council consisting of heads of government , would have beneath it distinct pillars of co-operation , with the Treaty of Rome and intergovernmental pillars representing respectively foreign and security policy co-operation and actions against drugs and terrorism overseen by interior and justice ministers . |
| 19 | Castello is a wood in which the markings are usually very distinct , consisting of stripes of light and dark wood , varying in width and of a wavy character . |
| 20 | These are established through national joint councils , consisting of representatives of employers and employees , supplemented by local variations and agreements . |
| 21 | Payment would be made only if the unemployment was involuntary ; disputed claims would be referred to newly appointed local committees consisting of representatives of capital and labour ; workers would be entitled to refuse work under conditions inferior to the norm for their occupation . |
| 22 | There is considerable local liaison and there is a support group that meets regularly with the welfare worker , consisting of representatives of JCWI , the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service ( UKIAS ) , NACRO , Hounslow Law Centre , GLCABS and the probation Service . |
| 23 | Leaf crowns consisting of rows of papillae occurring as fringes round the rim of the buccal capsule ( external leaf crowns ) or just inside the rim ( internal leaf crowns ) . |
| 24 | One of the 8 Group airfields , I think it was Graveley , had had FIDO burners installed along each side of the main runway — that is , ‘ Fog Intensive Dispersal Operation ’ — consisting of pipelines of oil which were lit up in foggy conditions . |
| 25 | At very low tide , remains of a forest are revealed , consisting of stumps of birch , fir , hazel and oak trees . |
| 26 | The examples given of settlements in Canada , Australia and New Zealand demonstrate the influence of a few of the colonisers who went out from Ayrshire and give an indication of the varied circumstances and locations in which the emigrants started their new lives . |
| 27 | Using appropriate scaling factors , one can think of materials as structures and use the analysis appropriate , for example , to the description of the forces and displacements in a bridge or an aeroplane for describing the moduli of a semi-crystalline polymer . |
| 28 | On a broader canvas , many of us can think of moments of encounter , of blessing , of poetry , of art , of music , of sunsets and dawns which were to us deeply sacramental . |
| 29 | One can think of companies like Hanson Trust which , though still present in transport , its original roots , is now a mighty conglomerate in two continents , or companies like W. R. Grace , far away from shipping now , or Allied in the States where chemical activities are now only a small part of the whole . |
| 30 | His position is that we should think of rules as practices , as ways of behaving , and not suppose that to support this way of behaving there must be some internal interpretation of the rule which tells the rule-followers how to work the rule . |