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

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1 This chapter examines issues of assessment confronted by practitioners in different settings .
2 I do not use only one type of filter , particularly undergravel , as this kind of flow-rate leads to problems with all the waste being drawn to the bottom where , inevitably , it finds its way into the nooks and crannies that a gravel cleaner just can not reach .
3 These were raised to the surface in a type of stretcher supported by floats .
4 It 's a boost , too , to read of support given by friends who are n't surprised and who continually to provide what friends usually do — acceptance and back-up through the difficult times .
5 This question can not be considered separately from the issue of how ‘ needs ’ for different kinds of support vary between generations and , for an individual , across a lifetime , and how both of these vary historically .
6 The general strategy was to make a 10 per cent cutback in all board activities , with the Council 's highest priority being the protection of support centred on scientists and engineers in universities and polytechnics .
7 Studies of old people 's clubs , homes and retirement communities show the kinds of support provided by peers in a youth-oriented society .
8 The Democratic party winner partied hard through the night in Little Rock after his message of change pulled in voters of all parties who feared the future and were fed up with Bush .
9 Next to her was a woman with long black hair , a stubby nose and the kind of jaw found on actors playing responsible sheriffs in cowboy films .
10 Instead , a stiff dose of mass picketing from miners on strike would soon persuade the ‘ spineless gits ’ or ‘ jellybabies ’ to join the struggle .
11 The highest probability of malignancy occurred in strictures proximal to the splenic flexure , where 6/7 ( 86% ) were malignant .
12 The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use .
13 The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use .
14 While the ratio of the excise duty on spirits to that on beers ( expressed on a per degree of alcohol basis ) has declined from 3.14 in 1979 to 1.78 , the degree of discrimination compared with wines has worsened — from 1.65 in 1979 to 1.87 as of today ( see Figure 3.1 ) .
15 But these resolutions represent an important public statement by trade union activists about the nature of discrimination experienced by lesbians and gays at work .
16 He never for example suggests that women should be allowed into the inner courts of the temple , or take upon themselves the obligations of prayer laid on men .
17 In the preceding chapters we saw that there are wide differences between the three major social science theories of power These approaches to the analysis of power in capitalist society operate with distinct methodological and substantive focuses Each of the theories can be differentiated in terms of the phenomena they study in order to locate power ; by their disagreement over where ‘ politics ’ begins and ends in society ; how their respective theories are to be substantiated and invalidated ; and the degree of freedom possessed by individuals in capitalism to shape and change their societies
18 Because of its size and cost , copies in folio were of necessity confined to persons of substantial means .
19 Two women whose work is of necessity confined to small-animals .
20 Furthermore , in recent years dozens of rivers have been contaminated by some 1,500 tons of mercury used by miners to extract gold .
21 Since 1970 the amount of noise allowed from cars has been cut from 82 decibels to 77 , and that has to drop to 74 by 1995 under new European Commission proposals .
22 The lengthy preamble makes it clear that this Directive is a harmonisation measure requiring member states to equalise the level of protection granted to consumers when they enter into contracts with traders , businessmen or professionals .
23 With ML1:ML2 , the level of protection achieved by levels of NCp7 or NCp7B which corresponded to 1 molecule of NC protein per 2.5 bp DNA was approximately 20–25% .
24 In 1981 , the Conservative Government , influenced by the collapse of four licenced dealers , commissioned Professor LCB Gower to undertake an inquiry into the degree of protection afforded to investors in all areas of the financial services industry and to make recommendations for legislation .
25 The Board claims that environmentalists have underestimated the degree of protection afforded by clouds and industrial emissions .
26 At first sight , the picture of word-meaning given by patterns of affinity and disaffinity is , at least in some respects , different from the picture given by semantic traits .
27 Whether it is the timidly smiling cleric having tea , the piously confident student talking about the way in which Jesus warms up his or her heart , or the aggressively confident know-all trying to recall the country to ‘ civilisation ’ , it is a similar picture of inability to come to terms with the way in which most people in Western societies live .
28 Northern blot analysis of mtRNA hybridized with probes srRNA and CO III .
29 Northern blot analysis of mtRNA hybridized with probes SE 162 and srRNA or CytoB .
30 Northern blot analysis of mtRNA hybridized with probes HE143 ( A ) or ND4 ( B ) .
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