Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For he has realized something else , in the moment of inspiration between standing up and beginning to speak : that the aesthetic effect of honesty depends upon restraint in its application . |
| 2 | The ecological significance of these precipitation figures in terms of soil moisture may be judged by relating them to the amount of moisture lost through evaporation and transpiration over a given period . |
| 3 | The gastritis patients were given 50 mL of platelet concentrate at gastroscopy . |
| 4 | Complete specifications for each of the new general SVQs were being printed as this issue of Update went to press . |
| 5 | In addition to the poll tax , there was a complex system of taxes based on land and on crops , some paid in kind , which could amount to as much as 25 per cent of the harvest . |
| 6 | Outside there appear to have been two aisled barns of second- and third-century date respectively , which were probably used for the safe storage of taxes collected in kind or goods in transit . |
| 7 | Methods of assessment vary from department to department . |
| 8 | His personal preference for sculling over rowing assisted the introduction of quadruple sculls to world championship and Olympic competition . |
| 9 | The others were asked to taste and rate 32 solutions of capsaicin mixed with salt . |
| 10 | The number of passives produced in response to the different pictures varied considerably . |
| 11 | Are there a destructive set of values associated with family life in late twentieth-century Britain ? |
| 12 | If we ask why the ancestors of lions took to meat-eating , while the ancestors of antelopes took to grass-eating , the answer could be that originally it was an accident . |
| 13 | But a less obvious kind of evidence may , according to Labov , be provided by some kind of irregularity in the expected pattern of differentiation according to speech style , or sex or social class of speaker . |
| 14 | However , I take the view that , in the context of the right of establishment , a residence requirement does not necessarily constitute such a criterion of differentiation leading in fact to discrimination on grounds of nationality . |
| 15 | The band follow their string of support dates on Belly 's current UK tour with shows at . |
| 16 | I would suggest that this level of support given by child benefit would price many jobs into a claimant 's reckoning . |
| 17 | What is the actual percentage of support compared to fee earning ? |
| 18 | Only the weather was ominous — the usual generous gestures of support received from congregation and friends were heartwarming . |
| 19 | For example , the work of Stone ( 1977 ) is concerned with documenting the dominant pattern of change associated with family relationships since the sixteenth century . |
| 20 | In another study Frost and Spence ( 1984 , 145 ) also argue that industrial restructuring has had a negligible impact on changes in employment patterns , either positively or negatively , and that these are anyway offset by ‘ very rapid growth in certain service activities ’ , notably the health services , to produce the different patterns of change shown in Figure 5.7 . |
| 21 | The pace of change differed from country to country : Poland , Romania and Bulgaria were effectively Soviet puppets by 1946 , but Hungary was only brought under Moscow 's control in mid-1947 and a coalition government survived in Czechoslovakia until February 1948 . |
| 22 | Bearing in mind the three loci of change described in Section 3.3 ( curricular , extra-curricular and infrastructural ) , we suggest that change or its absence can occur through a number of different processes . |
| 23 | Agreement was reached on setting up a joint commission of experts to deal with minority questions and on working towards guaranteeing minority rights . |
| 24 | Poisonous beads , used to make hundreds of necklaces sold through charity shops , have also been used to decorate covers for food and drink . |
| 25 | Their Lordships accepted that there was no general duty to provide reasons but attached a caveat , that if the preponderance of reasons pointed in favour of taking action and the Minister gave no explanation for taking a different course , the court would infer that he had no good reason and that he was misusing his authority . |
| 26 | According to the settled case law of the Court of Justice , the statement of reasons required by Article 190 must be appropriate to the nature of the measure in question . |
| 27 | All too often husbands actually prevented their wives from coming to the picket line and there were cases where parents-in-law forced women to go on working for the sort of reasons described in Chapter 6 . |
| 28 | He notes the self-perpetuating nature of modern mass production : ‘ Thus vast supplies of products come into existence which call forth an artificial demand that is senseless from the perspective of the subject 's culture ’ ( 1968 : 43 ) , and argues that just as academic pursuits such as philology and archaeology , which start with certain aims , may develop as methods creating infinite classificatory refinements for their own sake , so people may become the mere instrument of that which they originally developed : ‘ The infinitely growing supply of objectified spirit places demands upon the subject , creates desires in him , hits him with feelings of individual inadequacy and helplessness , throws him into total relationships from whose impact he can not with-draw , although he can not master their particular contents ’ ( 1968 : 44 ) . |
| 29 | Redwood Shores , California-based Oracle Corp has joined the Greek chorus to say that it plans to convert its complete family of products to run on Alpha architecture under both OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 ; the conversion effort on the VMS products is under way and should be out by the time DEC starts ships . |
| 30 | It is seldom worthwhile or even practicable to submit to a formal test programme small quantities of products produced by formulation chemists in developing a new formula . |