Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
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| 7 | Among the many things we hear in that oracular phrase is , against the odds , a bitterly won conception of language as rescue . |
| 8 | Peru is suffering from two epidemics : one is the recent and widely reported outbreak of cholera which has infected over 200,000 people . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Postmodernism points to a more organic , less differentiated enclave of organization than those dominated by the bureaucratic designs of modernity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) once described the rates as ’ an irrational , inefficient , highly resented form of taxation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
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| 17 | Some medium-sized schools had shifted to a three-tier model , while some large schools were still operating a rather unsatisfactory and somewhat stressed version of Type 2 or even Type 1 . |
| 18 | He signs off : " Loo , Margarete , I have schortly sayde forme of lyvyng , and how may come til perfeccion " ( 12.119.76-7 ) , using the phrase to denote a pattern of life . |
| 19 | SUPEREAL : ‘ Elixir ’ occasional Meat Beat Manifesto members issue their eagerly awaited debut of trancey house rhythms , co-produced by former ABC and Unique 3 collaborator John Crosley |
| 20 | All the emerging nations ( at least nominally ) acknowledged the spiritual authority of the Roman pope ; the church was seen as the divinely instituted ark of salvation , riding the storms of the world and history , and mediating to men both the infallible truth of God and the sacramental means of grace as guide and nourishment to their souls upon the pilgrimage to the life beyond ; and theology was regarded — and not only by theologians — as ‘ the queen of the sciences ’ , the supreme intellectual discipline . |
| 21 | Silk is categorised as a luxury import into western Europe and , it is assumed , arrived as ready made lengths of braid . |
| 22 | It may be that , even if the final stages of bringing the marriage about had temporarily overshadowed the making of the First Band , the Protestant threat thus created had sufficiently alarmed Mary of Guise and Hamilton into reacting with swift and exemplary violence once Mary was safely married . |
| 23 | It was bonfire night and townships had long prepared stacks of driftwood and domestic combustibles . |
| 24 | Community is part of the job but it needs good management ( paying teachers , costing the use of premises , the division of time other than that which is needed to provide the national curriculum ) as well as a personally felt sense of value . |
| 25 | It was a staple of the revenge tragedy as Kyd , Tourneur or Shakespeare conceived it , and plays by Dekker , Lyly , Webster , Ford and Middleton all made use of madness on stage , and of actors specially trained for the parts of madmen . |
| 26 | With the change from a nomadic and food-gathering to an agricultural and more highly organized form of society , man 's anxiety about himself and the animals that he hunted merged into a wider anxiety about nature . |
| 27 | We 've all seen pictures of Page 3 girls and pornographic images of women showing the female body in a constantly inviting , sexual way just walking into a newsagent 's on a Sunday morning often means you are surrounded by them ) and it is hardly surprising if girls themselves , as well as men , sometimes feel confused ; believing that girls might ‘ want ’ to be raped , or are asking for trouble , if they dress up to go out , or behave independently by going out or walking home alone . |
| 28 | He had long shown traces of absent-mindedness . |
| 29 | The situation with schistosome sex determination is quite different in that it is the female that is heterogametic ( ZW as opposed to the male ZZ ) and the primers used amplify a highly reiterated set of tandem repeats on the W chromosome ( 4 ) . |
| 30 | This policy gives them a much needed spread of risk of buyer and of export market and gives the policyholder the best ‘ rate on line ’ : ie the percentage ratio between the amount of premium and the level of cover provided . |