Example sentences of "of events [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , if an error of judgement or a bad decision has been made , the vital thing is to recognise that , admit it and take immediate action to break the chain of events while a safe course of action is still possible . |
| 2 | Then logic became distorted , and the sequence of events since his arrival began to look like a conspiracy . |
| 3 | Mr Smith used the opening speech of Labour 's first European conference in Brighton to criticise John Major for his handling of events since the UK took over the presidency of the European Council of Ministers in July . |
| 4 | History was no longer a sequence of events but a drama in which scene followed scene and act followed act , the whole process being rational , but understood only to the extent that the particular was related to the whole . |
| 5 | Sometimes Matthew or Luke depart from Mark 's order of events but never at the same time together and they always return to it . |
| 6 | Myklebust ( 1964 ) claimed there was an ‘ organismic shift ’ , at least producing a different experience of events but probably producing different thought . |
| 7 | It is possible that Richard 's letter to York did mark the beginning of a planned chain of events but that something then forced his hand and he found himself having to deal with Hastings before his plans had matured . |
| 8 | ‘ We ca n't be absolutely sure of the sequence of events but the victim was hit from behind and fell against the door leading into the garage , so the killer must have been in the house . |
| 9 | It is possible that Richard 's letter to York did mark the beginning of a planned chain of events but that something then forced his hand and he found himself having to deal with Hastings before his plans had matured . |
| 10 | This was partly because of events that were going on around me : Kathleen building towards her retirement and , as was to become highly significant , Katrina deciding that she wanted to make a move as well . |
| 11 | Mrs Postance recorded 29 governors ' meetings between November last year and May — a sequence of events that has left parents on the governing body reeling from an onslaught of Key Stages and Attainment Targets . |
| 12 | But the political spite it betrayed must at least rank as a contributory factor in the sequence of events that led to Clapham and King 's Cross . |
| 13 | A list was drawn up of events that had , prior to depression , given her a sense of achievement and pleasure . |
| 14 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |
| 15 | It 's vital that everyone has a sense of belonging to the school and is kept fully informed of events that are taking place . |
| 16 | There are limits to the sort of events that deserve attention . |
| 17 | It was the start of a series of events that led finally to his fast exit from America , never to return , and many close to him believe to this day he was eventually ostracized by powerful Hollywood money for bringing the film industry into such disrepute . |
| 18 | For example , he did not treat the Punic wars as repetitions of events that had already occurred in the past and would occur again in the future . |
| 19 | Except perhaps , another New Zealander , Professor Ernest Rutherford , who , at Manchester University , succeeded in splitting the atom and in the process started off a chain of events that would be even more shattering than that set off by two shots . |
| 20 | She was apt to confuse the past with the present , talking of events that had happened forty or fifty years ago as though they had happened only the day before . |
| 21 | There 's always the danger of the learner 's experience looking more like a patchwork quilt than an ordered and informative sequence of events that builds knowledge on knowledge , experience on experience . |
| 22 | In fact they succeeded and there followed a sequence of events that has never been thoroughly recorded in full detail , though Stillman Drake has done his best . |
| 23 | The surface chemistry of the hydrogel governs the complex series of events that lead to a variety of possible deposits on the surface when the lenses are worn . |
| 24 | By entering the forest she and Allen had launched themselves into a stream of events that carried them with it . |
| 25 | The Action Committee office bearers were confident that the characters of those adults accused , and those of their children , as well as the sort of events that could and did occur in their community , were better known to them than to Orkney 's Social Work Department . |
| 26 | It combined with a pattern of events that rocked local life for the next twenty years and reiterated a strong belief in Sussex 's particular backwardness . |
| 27 | Conventionally we regard myth as being a story , or even a fable , but certainly a coherent account of events that are believed to have happened in the past . |
| 28 | The signal box is the setting for an unexplained sequence of events that to this day have puzzled the local authorities . |
| 29 | To disturb the resting place of any person is regarded as defiling the dead and fortunately , not too many cases are recorded , but one type of archaeological exploration can quite accidentally set off a very volatile and dangerous sequence of events that , on this occasion , cost a man his life and left a whole community in a traumatic turmoil . |
| 30 | Preston referee Jim Parker appears at the FA this afternoon to explain his version of events that led to the West Brom players reporting him for swearing . |