Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By February he was at least considering a retirement condition , though still sceptical about its effect on unemployment , and commissioned a paper on the feasibility of enforcing it from the Ministry of Labour 's representative on the Committee , P.Y. Blundun . |
| 2 | The CAR are studying the feasibility of converting them to electronic warfare trainers . |
| 3 | THE development of Britain 's atomic power programme could be resurrected under plans being considered by British Nuclear Fuels which is looking at the feasibility of establishing itself as a major player in the post-privatisation electricity market . |
| 4 | Trials for the signalling system have been accelerated as BR examines the feasibility of introducing it on the entire 11,000-mile network . |
| 5 | Thinking of Taking Someone On ? |
| 6 | For those thinking of saturating themselves in full-time tuition , a G.I.T. , B.I.T . |
| 7 | You do n't study these subjects at college : they are the incidental , unintended , beneficial result of submitting yourself to " the college experience " . |
| 8 | Plainly , individual journalists have individual styles but ultimately they have to turn the result of meeting you into the type of article their publication requires . |
| 9 | Any response which is offered as a result of reading it in a work of literary criticism would be unacceptable . |
| 10 | In complete contrast , Debbie 's unique brew of distorted guitar noise , which she likes to refer to as ‘ pure filth ’ , comes as the result of crashing everything through as many effects as possible . |
| 11 | For Loeb , it had the unfortunate result of committing him to too narrow a view of the mechanisms responsible for animal orientation . |
| 12 | Lothian Regional Council began acquiring the various disused lines in 1981 and the programme of converting them to cycleway/footpaths will be continuing until the early 1990s . |
| 13 | ‘ It requires a continuous programme of selling themselves to the Catholic community . |
| 14 | The first , noted by Labov with respect to the Philadelphia neighbourhood studies , is that however good the data there is no way in the absence of a supplementary broader study of locating it in a wider sociolinguistic context . |
| 15 | But doctors decided not to patch up her wounds in casualty for fear of scarring her for life . |
| 16 | But doctors decided not to patch up her wounds in casualty for fear of scarring her for life . |
| 17 | There is no need to introduce any technical terms for discourse types , nor should we hesitate to name them to our students for fear of burdening them with jargon . |
| 18 | Fear of hurting her in any way made him abrupt . |
| 19 | Admittedly , a hard-pressed politician could occasionally borrow a cadetship or other appointment from another director , promising to repay the loan in a future year , but the small size of the Indian official class meant that such a practice of burdening oneself for the future could be hazardous . |
| 20 | If you have n't done that yet do it now because the practice of writing it of actually copying it down is important . |
| 21 | Mrs Burnett seems to have taken marital and maternal duties lightly , and though she did not formally end the marriage until 1898 , from early days she made a practice of absenting herself from her family , often for months on end , travelling in North America and Europe , and spending long periods in England , where she moved in high society and had many literary friends , Henry James and Israel Zangwill [ qq.v. ] among them . |
| 22 | By this time the cutters were being kept in commission throughout the year , the practice of laying them in winter had been abandoned so that more crews were needed to maintain continuity . |
| 23 | The maximum fees that companies can charge for inspection or copies are now prescribed by regulations ( the former practice of stating them in the primary legislation did not work well in an inflationary climate ) and these regulations clarify the obligations of companies regarding inspection and copies . |
| 24 | No visit to Holland would have been complete without a study of the important Dutch bulb industry and soon after his return Miller produced a paper , read at the Royal Society , on the practice of growing them in water . |
| 25 | He had no intention of getting himself into a stew about that . |
| 26 | ‘ It wo n't kill your Dad at all , ’ he said , as he fished in his pocket , ‘ because I have no intention of getting you into trouble . ’ |
| 27 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 28 | The kitchen window was still open and I climbed in after crushing another handful of lavender with the intention of taking it to bed with me for an invigorating sleep , if such a thing is possible . |
| 29 | My life is here , and I have no intention of sharing it with you , not if you offered me an Empire , let alone a castle in Scotland and the fortune of a man whom I despised and who I warned you would treat you badly . |
| 30 | She relaxed , then became aware of disappointment from the knowledge that he had not had the slightest intention of kissing her after all . |