Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb -s] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Forest of Dean has suffered many abuses in the past . |
| 2 | Moreover , when these societies become industrialised and urbanised another set of values begins to undermine these time-honoured traditions . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm glad to see that the cause of freedom has acquired such energetic support in Edinburgh , ’ she said . |
| 4 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |
| 5 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 6 | One pet theory of mine is that the decline in the study of Latin has accentuated this interest . |
| 7 | - You find postal charges mysteriously a penny higher than you thought they were , so you buy a sheet of 1p stamps to upgrade all the old ones you have left , and then you find you have n't got any old ones left , only this big sheet of 1p stamps . |
| 8 | Although recognition of handwriting has received much less attention the task is simpler and promising results have been obtained . |
| 9 | The tradition of the theory of ideology has attempted this , though with perhaps little effect on practice . |
| 10 | The Offer to placate Dixon with such a large sum of money does suggest that be possessed a legitimate grievance . |
| 11 | So it 's not a progression all in one way but I have to say that even by the standards of the Lloyd George era , the battle by memoir which we now see for considerable sums of money has become more than a cottage industry , it 's a production line industry . |
| 12 | It is an industry which even in times of recession has kept most of its 70 000 employees and taken on a welcome and regular flow of new recruits . |
| 13 | The research provides , through a lengthy national survey , detailed information on how the experience of recession has affected such matters as relations at the work-place , the structure of the labour market , de-skilling and the impact of new technology , the division of labour within the family and the effects of unemployment . |
| 14 | However , the all too familiar constraint of funding has prevented much progress to date . |
| 15 | Although the complex divisions in the DUP 's North Belfast branch accord slightly with the view that there is a basic conflict between old extremists and new ‘ moderates ’ in that McQuade , while he was alive , supported Seawright against the executive , the departure of Seawright has seen some of the founder members , who left when he became a force , returning . |
| 16 | ‘ Because of her role in reproduction , woman is regarded as a special case , a deviation from the norm represented by the male … since the 19th century the science of gynaecology has legitimised this view . ’ |
| 17 | In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’ |
| 18 | Any farmer or keeper of animals has observed this kind of behaviour . |
| 19 | The greater use of computers has brought more ‘ transparency ’ to the market place , transactors being readily discovered . |
| 20 | The easy availability of funds has led many Mozambican officials to view the formation of NGOs as a way to tap donor money . |
| 21 | The use of quantification in studies of crime tends to obscure this diversity . |
| 22 | The action stage of ASAP has included many student projects , such as peer teaching with lower grade students , developing videos on their own communities , writing a rap song to play on a local radio station , or testifying at tribal council meetings . |
| 23 | His range of roles has crossed many more adventurous and challenging boundaries , from the devil himself through to perhaps his now most famous portrayal of The Joker in Batman and when Nicholson insists that everything he does on screen is in some way autobiographical , delves into what makes him tick find contradictions and confusion at almost every turn . |
| 24 | The evolving genre of SF has mirrored this concern . |
| 25 | The pigs will be at sea for about a month and Cobbledicks of Torrington has supplied enough of their Supersow feed to last them until they reach their new home . |
| 26 | SIR — The European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS has urged all European countries to adopt its expanded AIDS case-definition , which includes pulmonary tuberculosis , recurrent pneumonia within twelve months , and invasive cervical carcinoma in HIV-infected individuals . |
| 27 | Here the quantum chemical theory of bonding has had some remarkable successes . |
| 28 | The Bank of England has lost some independence in recent years because of the formalisation of what were previously informal supervisory activities . |
| 29 | Inevitably , as a secular interpretation of morality has superseded that of established religion , so the activities of the social controller have become increasingly important in the drama . |
| 30 | Also more particularly because this particular bit of work has had such thorough examination by the presbyteries that it does n't seem to er justify further tinkering with it at this stage . |