Example sentences of "of [det] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newspapers could write of little else for days . |
| 2 | Nubenehem , her peace made with him , complained of this bitterly to Huy ; the attentions of the Medjays had cost her a day 's profit , with the following day well below average on takings , as frightened clients stayed away . |
| 3 | The declaration stated : " We are changing all of this now in order that tomorrow it will not be too late for socialism in Yugoslavia . " |
| 4 | The Maida Vale centre in London , for example , contains six music studios and has two of these regularly in use for pop and rock sessions . |
| 5 | The main kiosk has had none of these since before Christmas . |
| 6 | Can you do one of these please for Tuesday . |
| 7 | they do n't seem to have any of these here at Churchill these . |
| 8 | Put another way , certain elements are common to the corporatist perspective on politics in the West , and so , although there are different schools of theory , it is possible to fuse some of these together in order to recognise that we are looking at a perspective that bears on interests and the state within the contemporary period of economic development . |
| 9 | I like to keep one of those just in case they er . |
| 10 | But unless there is constant effort to innovate , unless new knowledge is applied more effectively , and unless research is more explicitly directed toward the problems of those most in need , there is little hope that societies will be able to overcome the difficulties they now face . |
| 11 | But the burden of satisfying private sector returns on loans and investments will fall upon tenants , through increasing rental levels risking the exclusion of those most in need of social housing provision or at least further enmeshing them in the poverty trap . |
| 12 | There is agreement , certainly in the mental health field ( Huxley , 1991a ) that case management works best when its purpose is clearly articulated in the form of service goals ; the outcome measures used actually assess progress in these target areas ; the theoretical model and content of the programme are consistent with the service goals ; and case management is focused on a narrowly defined target group of those most in need . |
| 13 | There now exists a variety of provision for education , training , work experience and advice supported by central government , local government and voluntary bodies , but experience suggests that some of those most in need of such services are relatively ill prepared to take advantage of the opportunities they offer . |
| 14 | This scheme seems to do the opposite by putting a vehicle way out of reach of those most in need . |
| 15 | Pigou argued that , in a competitive economy , unemployed workers would vie with employed workers in an attempt to gain employment , possibly at the expense of those already in work . |
| 16 | What was it that the lenders had to offer potential borrowers at this time , facilities which would help solvent individuals to meet ‘ special ’ capital expenditure — buying a boat , adding a conservatory — which they did not wish to , and maybe could not , take out of an adequate income without upsetting the household budget , and many credit traders ( mostly credit brokers , agents who ‘ arranged ’ loans from moneylenders in the style of stockbrokers ) highlighted as meeting the needs of those already in debt ? |
| 17 | Franco 's " Plan for economic recovery " recognized that , in order to feed the population , what was most urgently needed was " to increase the amount of land under cultivation " through " the creation of large areas of irrigated land and the improvement of those already in existence " . |
| 18 | About 10 per cent of the new jobs are likely to go to the self-employed , most of them coming from the ranks of those already in employment . |
| 19 | Asylum procedures exist to ensure the protection of those genuinely at risk , but they are in danger of being undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration . |
| 20 | The rural high oil category showed broadly similar excesses whether defined on the basis of all oil workers or of those only at Sullom Voe , at Flotta , or offshore . |
| 21 | However , Jones claimed to see only neutrons , and a few of those only at levels that might be interesting to science and geophysicists but of no relevance to making commercial fusion reactors . ’ |
| 22 | Father Martin now hopes to become a member of the Roman Catholic church , but admits that in this economic climate , he ca n't t many of those currently at odds will do likewise . |
| 23 | By this time , the Magdalene , the Virgin and others of those closest to Jesus had disappeared , and there is no further mention of them in scriptural accounts . |
| 24 | Added to this was the increase in real incomes of those still in work partly as a consequence of reduced inflation but also because of private sector wage rises running well ahead of inflation levels . |
| 25 | Great care has been taken in the current depression , for example , to construct the image of scrounging , fiddling , laziness and greed as characteristic of the unemployed who ‘ could find work if they really wanted to ’ or whose misfortune can be explained by ‘ the irresponsible pay demands and restrictive practices ’ of those still in work . |
| 26 | Housing benefit has also been drastically cut : many claimants have lost entitlement altogether and the majority of those still in receipt of benefit are worse off . |