Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography . |
| 2 | In central and eastern Europe remedial measures must be taken to clear up environmental problems developed through years of neglect . |
| 3 | There was a heap of sales catalogues from all over the world to be sifted through , magazines to be trawled for items of interest … |
| 4 | A bank of video monitors cunningly disguised as sacks of cargo show films of interviews with living Indians , maps of the regions covered and other backup material . |
| 5 | There were no tanks , no Fifth Columnists disguised as Sisters of Charity . |
| 6 | There are three bedrooms for visitors all with private bathrooms and individual character — one has an iron-framed antique rose-painted four-poster bed with lace hangings and a Victorian screen , another has oak beams and a closet ( now a shower ) where priests are reputed to have hidden during times of persecution . |
| 7 | Reactive oxygen species have been implicated as mediators of inflammation in ulcerative colitis . |
| 8 | Its meaning has begun to leak away through indiscriminate extensions beyond its original significance , extensions to cases which would normally be distinguished as cases of non-violence . |
| 9 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 10 | Albert Tarr , who was unmarried and lived with his widowed mother at the tiny Devon village of East Anstey , was subsequently posthumously awarded the Carnegie Bronze Medal — at that time before the introduction of the George Medal , one of the highest possible civilian awards that could be given for acts of heroism and bravery . |
| 11 | The registered office of a defendant limited company or any place of business of the defendant company which has some real connection with the cause or matter in issue must be given for purposes of service ( Ord 7 , r 14(2) ) . |
| 12 | Fretter and Graham ( 1962 ) should be consulted for details of shell formation . |
| 13 | In some societies the elderly are revered as holders of wisdom , who often pass on , in ritualized form , information that the community needs to know . |
| 14 | I 'd already posted off loads of stuff , but there was quite an accumulation from 6 months , including the tent and camping gear which was only used , in the event , at the Easter rally . |
| 15 | An interesting sensitivity exercise , developed for students of wing chun , is called ‘ chi sao ’ , commonly known as ‘ sticking hands ’ . |
| 16 | The relation between birth weight and blood pressure in the youngest age groups are thus being adjusted for measurements of weight only days or months after birth . |
| 17 | These may not be recognized as symptoms of stress — that is , until the stress is reduced and the symptoms disappear . |
| 18 | Yet , at the same time , the process of obtaining material through interlending schemes is expensive and time-consuming , and only to be undertaken for groups of material which are infrequently needed by the library 's clientele , or which — because they are out-of-print — can not be purchased for library stock . |
| 19 | ‘ WOOD Group realised through years of business relations in the Gulf area [ mostly related to gas turbine support of the oil , gas and petrochemical industries ] that there was a need for good quality support of general oil field equipment including hi-tech rotating equipment such as gas turbines , pumps and compressors . |
| 20 | I do n't mean learning facts like ‘ Lemur is the capital of Peru ’ or that ‘ St Tracy is the patron saint of the dormer window ’ ( we can learn things that are false : learning is not mere information pick-up ) , but acquiring concepts such as what is to count as a ‘ chair ’ , that weight is conserved through transformations of shape , that the earth is a heavenly body circling a larger heavenly body . |
| 21 | At the sectoral level , however , these choices can be more difficult , especially when powerful interest groups are directly affected , or when specific sub-sectors of industries have been designated as flagships of industrialisation . |
| 22 | But since the data needed to construct such a measure is difficult to elicit and interpret , a more easily verifiable and simpler measure was preferred ; for example a point was assigned for ties of kinship contracted in the neighbourhood . |
| 23 | The resources of the AIB and its equivalent organisations throughout the world are necessarily limited for reasons of economy , and the person in charge has to deploy his forces in the most effective manner he can devise while at the same time always keeping enough reserves in hand in case of a major catastrophe . |
| 24 | The communication strings now declare that other devices are accessible from the manager , although the number of parties on the network is limited for reasons of network efficiency . |
| 25 | Carbohydrates come in a variety of different forms , all of which are best regarded as sources of energy . |
| 26 | This reflects the fact that several kinds of considerations may lead to different and incompatible policies all of which are commonly regarded as policies of neutrality , because all of them demonstrate an even-handed treatment of the parties either by not helping one more than the other , or by not helping one more than the other to take special measures to improve his position in the conflict , and so on . |
| 27 | Consequently in the western world diamonds were at first not regarded as objects of beauty — other stones such as emeralds and red garnets were preferred . |
| 28 | In the New Testament those who do not enjoy salvation in Christ are regarded as slaves of sin ( John 8:34 ; Rom. 7:14 ) . |
| 29 | If , however , Morgan v. Palmer and Steele v. Williams are properly to be regarded as cases of extortion colore officii the same must be true of Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , which followed them . |
| 30 | The Editor has commented in previous editions of ‘ NG ’ that graduates of the former University College , Nottingham ( the University before it received its charter in 1948 ) and people who hold external Nottingham degrees are regarded as members of Convocation just as are those who have obtained their degrees after study on the Nottingham campus . |