Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That directness of involvement was signalled by each teacher at the first stage of assessment receiving from central government late in 1989 and early in 1990 packs of materials , descriptions of policy , examples of assessment and timetables .
2 The problem with trying to make any general evaluation of support teaching at this stage , however , is that no generally agreed definition of support teaching actually exists .
3 With that strength of support coming from far and near , the South Ronaldsay Parents Action Committee launched itself into the mammoth task it faced .
4 But the specific features and structural characteristics of the German socio-political culture in the short-lived and ill-fated nation-state , which conditioned the manufacture and appeal of the extraordinary ‘ Hitler myth ’ , were largely swept away in the whirlpool of change arising from total defeat , and were completely banished in the process of long-term change deriving from post-war reconstruction .
5 They are a stark contrast to the derelict steelyards of Sheffield , where there 's nothing left but acres of scrap lying on flattened ground , or the old factories , which look either like the workhouse or satanic hangars .
6 Only one part of cottage pointing in right direction , i.e. rear part , but even from kids ' bedroom only trees visible .
7 After the second treatment we saw by sonography a splitting of acoustic shadowing into three parts as a sign of fragmentation .
8 Because of its compatibility with this standard , it is claimed that Photo CD can be used with virtually any type of computer adhering to common industry standards .
9 As a consequence , the condition of the peasantry in twelfth-century France varied markedly from community to community' , the extremes of contrast coming between those villages on the royal demesne protected by the customs of Lorris , and those in Champagne where serfdom retained its original rigours , where peasants remained the property of their lords , their labour services heavy , their safeguards against exploitative lordship non-existent .
10 It seems to err in moving the death of Archbishop Lyfing to 1019 ( C and E together speak strongly for 1020 ) , but D adds that his other name was Ælfstan and that he was very firm in counsel whether in matters of church or state .
11 So long as it could prevent news of discontent travelling from one region to another and igniting a bush-fire of revolt , the Party was able to restore its control relatively quickly and with little loss of life .
12 These are the hallmarks of any system of decision making under any scheme of government regulation in a democratic society .
13 In theoretical terms this is also a study of agency and of decision making in everyday life .
14 But there are two further points which emerge from considerations of a wide range of literature relating to public enterprise : big investment decisions have been complicated and delayed as a result of having to be considered by a number of government departments ; such decisions have been easy prey to party political pressures when they have involved the location of new plants and/or closure of old ones [ Knight , 1974 ] .
15 He regrets the occasional difficulties on the sound and picture quality ( the pictures were of course bouncing across several satellites ) , and complains about the number of commentators .
16 ‘ But of course multiplying by two is a lot easier than some of the bigger numbers .
17 However , before we go any further with this rather depressing picture it is important to underline that we are not of course talking about all people over retirement age in some blanket category of dwindling power .
18 Finally , avoid concomitant oral and topical treatment with chemically dissimilar antibiotics to reduce the risk of resistance developing to both .
19 The North Junction signal box features hands-on displays illustrating the development , role and operation of rail signalling from 1840 to the present day .
20 As to Prussia , she had her own grudges against Vienna because of friction resulting from Austrian policy within the German Confederation .
21 Keywords : Any page of text containing between 250 and 350 words probably has no more than ten key words relevant to what you need to know .
22 Their method has been perfected after years of experience dealing with female victims of violence .
23 A comparison group of non-fundholding practices was essential to disentangle the effects of budget holding from any wider effects of the NHS reforms .
24 These appear to be the assumptions that Musgrave had in mind : ‘ that the size distribution of income originating in various industries is the same [ or ] there is a random relationship between the distributional origin of expenditures on any particular product and the distributional destination of factor payments ’ ( Musgrave , et al. , 1964 , p. 201 ) .
25 " Associated operations " is defined for the purposes of s739 ( and s740 ) in s742(1) and means , in relation to any transfer , an operation of any kind effected by any person in relation to any of the assets transferred or any assets representing , whether directly or indirectly , any of the assets transferred , or to the income arising from any such assets , or to any assets representing , whether directly or indirectly , the accumulations of income arising from any such assets .
26 This is an obvious area where the increasing pressures of FTE-led resourcing without due consideration of research performance and income must become seriously counter productive in the very near future .
27 The theft , which was believed to have taken place in May or June , fuelled alarm about the marked incidence of uranium smuggling from eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union [ see pp. 38987 ; 39170 ] .
28 The cases that are discussed in the report make fascinating and occasionally tragic reading , for example the illegibility of handwriting leading to wrong prescription and the death of a patient .
29 Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets .
30 It is essential that we resolve this question because it is relevant not only to the process of calcium entry but also to the mechanism of calcium spiking in intact cells ( see later ) .
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