Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this , the third issue of Update devoted to general SVQs , we also report back on the seminars held recently for external verifiers and for centre co-ordinators from new piloting centres . |
| 2 | The signs of progress came in recent bilateral negotiations between America and the EC over tariff barriers — big cuts are crucial in winning industrial backing for a successful round . |
| 3 | For example , the average frequency of bingeing fell from four or five time a week to once a fortnight at the twelfth session . |
| 4 | Pledges of support came from other institutions of higher education and there were reports of demonstrations and boycotts elsewhere . |
| 5 | The wave of change continued throughout 1990 . |
| 6 | As social workers have always known , the ‘ product ’ is in fact a ‘ process ’ — an explanation and acceptance of change mediated through social relationships — not a standardized item of service . |
| 7 | A fringe of hair plaited with tiny Belial clay beads bobbed gently in the reduced gravity , obscuring her dark skin and brooding eyes . |
| 8 | The degree of formality ranged from elaborate and schematic written documents to a simple mental rehearsal of what would happen next . |
| 9 | While some of the clearest evidence for localization of function came from neurological studies on humans with damaged or disturbed brains , some of the best evidence against it came from experimental studies on animals . |
| 10 | The idea of inspection started with national inspectors ( Her Majesty 's Inspectorate ) , but increasingly local inspectors are being used at local education authority ( LEA ) level . |
| 11 | The severity of damage ranged from small islets in which the surface remained completely denuded ( Fig 5C ) to areas in which the continuity of the surface epithelium was nearly complete ( Fig 5D ) . |
| 12 | More training of young members should be provided as well as distribution of literature aimed at young people . |
| 13 | Confidence in the civilising effect of the study of literature waned during this period . |
| 14 | Station improvements , and most of the reopenings , of course resulted from that new pragmatic combination of railway , municipal and industrial sponsorship . |
| 15 | The LCC grant aid scheme offered £2 million to local authorities to buy up land for green belt purposes , and a vigorous period of purchase ensued between 1935 and 1939 . |
| 16 | In the twelfth century , when the issue of coin had in many areas ceased to be a royal prerogative , this sort of charge was known as seigniorage — a valuable perquisite of controlling a mint . |
| 17 | The member of parliament saw in this ambition an opportunity to strengthen his own interest in the burgh by detaching the schoolmaster 's brother-in-law , the bailie , from the opposition party in the council , for the bailie was at that moment firmly attached to that faction by a promise from Dempster 's rival that he would procure a kirk for the bailie 's son . |
| 18 | A week of action began on 13 June with a mass picket , at which 84 people were arrested and there was large scale police violence . |
| 19 | Again , the relatively popular policy of the privatization of industry fell on stony ground when it was proposed for extension to the electricity supply industry and to water services . |
| 20 | Desperate villagers who searched the area around Cerska on Monday for 21 tonnes of aid parachuted from C-130 cargo planes were reported to have been killed by Serb snipers . |
| 21 | What I 'm trying to say is , when you 're in the state of consciousness triggered by sexual stimulation , you should be able to breach time and space . |
| 22 | Like the mark of a slap , an arc of pink sprang across each of the boy 's whitened cheeks . |
| 23 | Williamson 's got five million years of more or less continuous deposit , which he can date pretty accurately erm and he 's got twenty one species of mollusc fossilised in that material . |
| 24 | Areas of loss fell into two broad categories . |
| 25 | For us two the war meant , as for so many others , a break in physical contact : but if , as Simone Weil said , ‘ every separation is a link ’ , such a break is not a breaking off , but a period in which , at least in my case , that ties of friendship continued in another form . |
| 26 | Many simply went in and out of the factory without showing any emotion at all , relieved that weeks of uncertainty had at last come to an end . |
| 27 | The deep sapphire of violence speared from all their heads . |
| 28 | The greatest rates of deforestation occurred in Latin America , followed by Africa and Asia . |
| 29 | The pig feeding scheme was so successful that even with rationing , the amount of bacon consumed in nineteen forty one was greater than the annual pre-war consumption per head . |
| 30 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |