Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Letters of support have outnumbered any critical or questioning letters by more than 10–1 . ’
2 ‘ Letters of support have outnumbered any critical or questioning letters by more than 10-1 .
3 ‘ I 'm glad to see that the cause of freedom has acquired such energetic support in Edinburgh , ’ she said .
4 They challenge two assumptions commonly made , either implicitly or explicitly , in conventional organisation theory : ( a ) that an institution adopts that form of organisation which best fits its technology , environment , and other contingent factors , the ‘ best fit ’ being in terms of that organisation structure most suited to co-ordinating the tasks performed by members of that institution ; ( b ) that members of the institution have entered freely into a contract with that institution to provide a service to that institution in return for reward , and that they accept as legitimate both the institutional goals and the means of co-ordination used to achieve those goals ( rational/legal authority ) .
5 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 .
6 The study of literature had become little more than a loose aggregate of philosophy , history , psychology , aesthetics , ethnography , sociology , and so on , and the Formalists felt that any specificity it might have had had been swamped by its adjacent disciplines .
7 Fewer of course had seen all of it : 71 per cent , 49 per cent , 19 per cent and 5 per cent , respectively .
8 And that is quite simply that I of course need to read all of these documents .
9 A recognition of these instinctive processes and relations does not of course entail envisaging all social behaviour as an unmediated result of underlying primordial processes .
10 The seller will of course wish to restrict these conditions as far as possible and sometimes the conditions are restricted to events which fundamentally affect the business or value of the offeree and which can not be adequately compensated by an offer of financial or other compensation which the seller may be prepared to make .
11 It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap .
12 I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford
13 Trade union involvement can of course help to alleviate some of the difficulties suggested above .
14 One pet theory of mine is that the decline in the study of Latin has accentuated this interest .
15 With all of its interconnecting tubes , rarely can the concept of a leakage from the circular flow of income have assumed such a liquid manifestation !
16 Although recognition of handwriting has received much less attention the task is simpler and promising results have been obtained .
17 The tradition of the theory of ideology has attempted this , though with perhaps little effect on practice .
18 The Offer to placate Dixon with such a large sum of money does suggest that be possessed a legitimate grievance .
19 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 .
20 Surveys of provision have indicated that this still falls short of a desirable level .
21 Other countries with more pluralist systems of provision have recognised this problem and dealt with it .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 However , the all too familiar constraint of funding has prevented much progress to date .
25 ‘ But I thought the recent Act of Parliament had stopped all that , ’ Catherine said .
26 Today , of course , the importance of political parties makes it difficult for members of Parliament to claim to represent all their constituents ; but equally makes it difficult for them to assume delegate roles .
27 ‘ 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 . ’
28 The indirect mechanism of action proposed to explain such an effect implicates the sequestration of bile acids or other acidic lipids , such as fatty acids .
29 The reasons for this should not be obscured by the fact that the short term objectives of aid have undergone several changes over the last thirty years .
30 This line of reasoning appeared to excite more criticism abroad than it did in France .
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