Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In conducting this review the University has taken into account the feasibility of raising the necessary funding from outside sources . |
| 2 | In Climate and Life he recalls the work of his collaborator O.A. Drozdov on ‘ Changing the Climate in Connection with the Plan for Transforming Nature in the Drought Regions of the USSR ’ ; and studies by others on the feasibility of melting the polar ice with nuclear energy and by damming the Behring Straits and pumping water from the Behring Sea into the Arctic . |
| 3 | And in thinking of replacing the reverend with a ‘ thrusting businessman ’ , which Waddington believe ‘ is more than suitable for the 1990s ’ , they have shown themselves to be even more out of tune with modern times . |
| 4 | Participants in the rally , held by a coalition of opposition movements called the National Salvation Front , waved red Soviet and Czarist flags as speakers accused Yeltsin and his administration of destroying the former Soviet Union and Russia . |
| 5 | We have to use credit vouchers rather than gift vouchers , since the accountancy and administration of controlling the latter , would be cumbersome and impractical . |
| 6 | Because of the consciousness of using the correct level of language in a conversation or discussion , any interpreter one engages may unconsciously modify statements going from English to Japanese and back to English again , according to the rank of the people involved . |
| 7 | Unless the records are stored singly there is no corresponding improvement in speed of finding the desired record , because the access comb will reach the track at a point decided by chance , and there will be an average delay of at least half a revolution before the start of the record is reached . |
| 8 | The vertical distance between the marginal social cost MSC and the marginal social benefit as given by DD shows the marginal social loss of producing the last output unit . |
| 9 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
| 10 | Given that this was a risk-free hedge we can make a check on the process by comparing the outcomes from states 1 or 2 with the result of investing the initial capital at the risk-free rate of return : . |
| 11 | If the pattern of formal equivalences and differences of a language cuts across the categorical distinctions as they are usually interpreted , the result of using the traditional categories will be a confusing description , despite careful redefinition of the familiar terms to suit the unfamiliar forms . |
| 12 | Suppose that , in multiplying A by B , the initial partial product is some non-zero value C. Then the final result of using the above multiplication algorithm is AXB+C . |
| 13 | Mr D. Ling from Colchester in Essex has won a trip to Club St. Lucia as a result of entering the exclusive competition in the Feb/March issue of Tennis World . |
| 14 | Suppliers are asked to identify all payments that OUP will be expected to make , and all revenues which OUP may expect to receive as a result of entering the proposed relationship . |
| 15 | After spending two years in Paris trying to establish a French edition of his newspaper , New York Herald owner James Gordon Bennett , as a result of watching the increasing popularity of motor racing , put up a magnificent trophy to be contested annually by national " teams ' in an effort to help promote the motor industry . |
| 16 | Indeed , at one time it was believed that requiring a natural left hander to use his right hand for writing would induce speech defects , such as stuttering , as a result of coopting the left hemisphere into language functions in competition with the right hemisphere ( Travis , 1931 ) . |
| 17 | We can now state the central result of applying the rational expectations hypothesis to the aggregate demand — aggregate supply model that we have been using in this chapter . |
| 18 | Table 4.8 shows the result of ranking the hypothetical investments on this basis . |
| 19 | table 4.8 shows the result of ranking the hypothetical investments on this basis . |
| 20 | I think we should see this pessimism as a direct result of adopting the representational theory of the mind . |
| 21 | It will be their aesthetic appreciation , economic system and technological abilities which will be the real determinants on any settlement changes that take place as a result of exploiting the new material . |
| 22 | We have an excellent reputation in Oxfordshire as an Education Authority erm and a reputation which extends around the country , so I do see it as a vote of confidence , and I am very pleased about it , but I do think that the whole exercise was somewhat premature in the light of the erm research and investigation that was going on into the tertiary college , and indeed the consulting process actually ran through at the same time as the campaign was running on whether the Banbury School should opt out , and erm regrettably I think has lost something as a result of having the two run together . |
| 23 | So none of the experiments take account of the possible errors and ambiguities that can arise as a result of processing the acoustic waveform by the acoustic-phonetic front-end . |
| 24 | Since average yields on non-irrigated land could not rise much above fivefold the seed , the increase must have been the result of extending the cultivated area by ploughing marginal land : Jovellanos in the eighteenth century , Fermin Caballero in the 1850's , and the Report on the agricultural crisis of 1887 all accuse the farmer of ploughing up more than he could maintain in cultivation . |
| 25 | It was strange how good and bad could run into each other , could appear as interchangeable : not the good of succouring the sick , nor the bad of shooting the helpless , but in the subtler regions of morality where things blended together and seemed to make the business of living easier . |
| 26 | IN those circumstances , the nuclear element could remain between 20 and 25 per cent — based on a programme of replacing the older Magnox stations as they reach the end of their useful life — while the balance would be taken up by renewable energy . |
| 27 | At the same time a fleet of lorries equipped with a device called SCRIM ( Sideways Force Coefficient Routine Investigation Machine ) began a three-year programme of monitoring the skidding resistance of Britain 's major roads . |
| 28 | But , in his distinctly supply-side programme of aiding the wealthy and ‘ achievers ’ in general with tax cuts , his relative disregard for social inequality and the mounting costs for the unemployed and other socially disadvantaged groups , and his hedonistic endorsement of private gain , Lawson 's financial methods became the pivot of government policy . |
| 29 | In September he startled Italians by lashing out at one of Sicily 's most popular fighters against the Mafia , Leoluca Orlando , an ex-mayor of Palermo , who was guilty in Mr Cossiga 's mind of damaging the Christian Democratic Party . |
| 30 | So it was without surprise that he found himself sharing with her one of the tinny , open-sided cars of the creaky old funicular that saved tourists the toil of climbing the seven hundred and more steep stone steps up from the Marina Grande . |