Example sentences of "of [noun] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durrell took a slug of whisky and broke into an immediate ‘ I 'm not able to begin ‘ ta / praise the wondrous Araminta /I would like to say with flourish /what kind thoughts of her I nourish /A tangle though my thoughts get inta / describing love as Araminta ’ . |
| 2 | He was responsible for the exploitation of the mineral rights of the Crown — for example , for finding , mining and smelting iron in the forest of Chippenham and in the Forest of Dean and lead in the Forest of the Peak . |
| 3 | The greatest value of all such bulk matter , however , is not in the nutrient content , but in its effect on the soil structure , its retention of moisture and harbouring of the bacteria . |
| 4 | ‘ Big , Bold and Beautiful , ’ Alex said , ignoring this piece of egomania and looking at Helena . |
| 5 | The Forest Of Shadows encompasses most of the principality of Ostland and lies to the north of the Middle Mountains . |
| 6 | Where the issue of assessment and examining in the arts becomes problematical is in those instances where the justification can be seen to be overtly influenced by external factors . |
| 7 | With the introduction of National Vocational Qualifications , people undertaking training in the industry will have to become accustomed to new programmes of training and assessment , new City and Guilds numbers and new methods of assessment and testing as an essential part of their career pattern . |
| 8 | Although from West Bay to Abbotsbury the main shingle ridge hugs the coast , it departs from the coast south-east of Abbotsbury and leaves between it and the mainland the elongated lagoon known as the Fleet . |
| 9 | MCD spectra provide information about the degeneracy of states and help with the assignment of electronic spectra . |
| 10 | He probably shared Khruschev 's contempt for conservationists and the defenders of the national heritage , who stood in the way of progress and tried to suborn Communist officials from their duty to demolish the redundant vestiges of the old order . |
| 11 | Emissions which currently amount to nearly 500,000 tonnes per year will be cut to 73,000 tonnes as a result of modernization to be carried out on the plants , in the towns of Nikel and Monchegorsk on the Kola peninsula . |
| 12 | The cube dependence is not a precise match with the 3.4 exponent obtained from viscosity measurements of long chains , but it is acceptable , particularly as the model gives a satisfactory picture of how a polymer chain can overcome the restraining influence of entanglements and move within the matrix . |
| 13 | The hindquarters are the means of support and act as a leverage for locomotion . |
| 14 | Now I mean I am interested in this problem , and I have been involved in situations where teachers have sought help in trying to change their teaching style in the classroom , but in all these cases this help the initiative has been very much from the teachers themselves and they 've wanted to do it , they 've wanted to experiment with it and have been given a lot of support and help with it . |
| 15 | Teachers also received a great deal of support and help from both popular organizations and from communities to ease their situation . |
| 16 | Independence was not compromised , it was stated , and although the identification of causes deserving of support and finance from the advice agency might be questionable , in practice only those problems which gave real cause for community concern could be pursued successfully because of the need for public support . |
| 17 | The part of me that is a lesbian has always had a lot of support and nurturing from friends around . |
| 18 | Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties . |
| 19 | the primary sources of support and care for elderly people are informal and voluntary . |
| 20 | Whatever level of public expenditure proves practicable , and however it is distributed , the primary source of support and care for the elderly people are informal and voluntary … |
| 21 | In a lengthy study of Britain it addressed in particular what it described as the " rather fashionable " debate on the imminence of change and decline in the Anglo-American relationship . |
| 22 | a pattern of change and influence in considerable contrast to the more widely held image of the Georgian squire as a wine-swilling glutton intent largely on the pleasures of the chase . |
| 23 | The main work-load on programming , the implementation of change and steering through the necessary mass of procedures and consultation to successful conclusion has fallen to my department 's team leaders , and in particular to Ruth in Personnel and training . |
| 24 | Florian stopped his theatrically narrow-eyed scrutiny of Maria and grinned at Luke , who must have been telling the truth because he was all attention , no less than riveted . |
| 25 | There is evidence of large firms experimenting with flexible technologies and divisions of labour to produce a broader range of products and cater to speciality markets . |
| 26 | She was delighted with her bottle of champagne and admits to having to hazard a guess at a couple of the ‘ young managers ’ . |
| 27 | This Thursday the socialites — and socialists — will look in vain for the rivers of champagne and dancing until dawn of other election nights . |
| 28 | It is important to realise that you ca n't hope to include every type of warrior and machine in your army … there are just too many ! |
| 29 | Before you style your hair , lift sections of hair and spray with hairspray , concentrating on the root area . |
| 30 | The ‘ higher criticism ’ , examining the Bible as one would any other ancient text , only impinged on the Church of England in 1860 with the publication of Essays and Reviews by various authors including Frederick Temple and Benjamin Jowett . |