Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success of ‘ Darwinism ’ shows that the majority of biologists recognized this point , and the only significant area of debate remaining centred on the problem of heredity . |
| 2 | And , most important of all , the number of states using primary elections to select delegates to the convention had risen from 17 in 1968 to 29 in 1976 , with the number of votes cast by delegates chosen or bound by primaries increasing from 37.5 per cent to 72.6 per cent . |
| 3 | The possibility of pairs of states allowing direct communication between their respective authorities , bypassing the consul , is also recognised , as it was in the earlier text . |
| 4 | Successful missionizing activities and the extending of the boundaries and powers of states led secular authorities to an examination of the sources of power and to its exercise . |
| 5 | They also agreed to set up consulates and to arrange a meeting of experts to discuss territorial disputes , including border issues and control of the Paracel and Spratly islands in the South China Sea . |
| 6 | Modrow did not return with more than a commitment to set up a joint commission of experts to consider monetary union ( which first met on Feb. 20 in East Berlin ) . |
| 7 | Sometimes this can tempt providence when the train demurs and falls off its rails ( opposite ) , however there are always plenty of experts to offer friendly advice to the professionals upon re-railing ! |
| 8 | The panel of experts signing this letter were recruited by the pharmaceutical companies involved in Spain . |
| 9 | The major part of the output is used within ICI , chiefly for acrylic plastics , paints and a group of products called functional methacrylates . |
| 10 | This created a business grouping , with a spread of research and technical facilities and sales operations , from which it was possible to forge a rationalized enterprise to attack international markets for a range of products to meet specific requirements in a spread of user industries — acrylics , urethanes , polyesters and a variety of novel surface-coatings and adhesive polymers . |
| 11 | The chemical supply industry has been remarkably adaptable in formulating a wide variety of products to solve specific cleaning problems . |
| 12 | The collection of essays entitled New Essays in Philosophical Theology , edited by Antony Flew and Alasdair McIntyre , is unmissable and full of ideas . |
| 13 | In practice , however , it is found that there are similarities between the frequencies of molecules containing similar groups of atoms , and this sort of information can be applied to the study of new compounds . |
| 14 | There will also be about 20 contemporary masks , bought or specially made for the display , and dozens of comics featuring masked characters . |
| 15 | This group of comics makes depressing reading indeed , because there is very little interest shown in scientific/technological reality . |
| 16 | A CLEVELAND town 's crime prevention panel is to get a £1,000 boost to help launch a range of projects helping young people to fight crime . |
| 17 | The inquiry said the deferment of projects involving large capital expenditure , frequency of reorganisation within BR , and lack of control of projects did not stem from any individual 's decision , but ‘ from the way in which the railway has come to do things . ’ |
| 18 | Nothing fancy here in the way of melons or artichokes , but damsons , gooseberries and apples were translated into wholesome and filling puddings , and a range of herbs provided simple medicines to use alongside those prescribed by the factory doctor . |
| 19 | The dazzling display of blooms took 18 months hard work to create and cost Newtownabbey man Edward Cooke £500 . |
| 20 | First , only about one-third of authorities hold annual elections and each year some councils change their electoral systems . |
| 21 | In Scotland 60% of authorities noted some courses offered by local authorities but it was comparatively limited in scope . |
| 22 | I have heard of the practice of solicitors buying local searches from the vendor 's solicitors , in order to save time , but I do not know whether this is widespread . |
| 23 | The evidence from European countries of attempts to implement these kinds of arrangements tends to support the view that while they help ease labour-management tensions they slow down decision-making and reduce management flexibility . |
| 24 | In February 1957 the Soviet Government sent the Western powers a note proposing the adoption of mutual obligations towards the Near and Middle East including an abstention from ‘ all kinds of attempts to draw these countries into military blocs with the participation of the Great Powers ’ . |
| 25 | The immense significance of the bureaucracy , politically , economically and socially , in the political systems of countries in the Third World has produced a variety of attempts to explain this phenomenon , including a theory of the post-colonial state which relates the pivotal position of the bureaucracy to the unique role of the state in conditions of underdevelopment ( Hirschmann 1981 ) . |
| 26 | It is interesting to note that the CBI , not for the first time , was critical of attempts to bypass local councils , and it called for partnership between business , central government and local authorities . |
| 27 | Thus , both radicals and élitists have severely shaken the early certainty about the worthwhileness of attempts to disseminate liberal culture as widely as teachers ' skills and school conditions permitted . |
| 28 | During the 1950s , Talcott Parsons made a series of attempts to integrate psychoanalytic theory into his social-action theory . |
| 29 | However , he does indicate that he would not approve of attempts to make ethical debate entirely a rational affair even to the extent that that is possible . |
| 30 | The history of the poor law between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries was one of attempts to make this formula work — for local initiative with broad guidelines laid down centrally — despite social changes . |