Example sentences of "of the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prospect of the widely reviled Khmers Rouges regaining a position of predominance in the country led to a re-orientation in traditional diplomatic policy prosecuted towards Cambodia by some Western states towards accommodation . |
| 2 | use this data to challenge some of the widely cited research findings from the Equal Opportunities Commission ( 1984 ) , that men carers receive a disproportionate share of the statutory services . |
| 3 | As a result , it is common to find many of the widely supported objectives not explicitly recognized in assessment procedures . |
| 4 | Liverpool City Library The local studies group has manorial and estate papers of the widely spread holdings of the earldom ( later , marquessate ) of Salisbury . |
| 5 | The fells above Coniston have long been a source of the widely used Westmorland slate ( see Borrowdale ) , but the mountain known as Coniston Old Man and its associated fells are equally interesting as an area of copper-mining activity , and one nearby location is known as Coppermines Valley . |
| 6 | And she believed the whales would remain at Laspi Bay at least for the summer , and had not heard of the widely criticised plans to take them on a travelling display . |
| 7 | When Baulig , between the wars , was strongly advocating worldwide eustatic changes of sea level the only possible reasonable explanation , namely deformation of ocean basins , seemed very unlikely in view of the widely held view of the permanency of ocean basins current at that time . |
| 8 | The fact that he chose not to do so was seen as a tacit admission of the widely held view that the foreign policy successes of President George Bush had made his re-election an inevitability . |
| 9 | If that series were up and running today , one of the widely held myths it would have to counter would be the one which holds that our ‘ generous ’ overseas aid means money is flowing from the rich world to the poor . |
| 10 | In Chapter 3 , we examined in some detail Pearson 's review of the history of street crime in Britain , and his criticism of the widely held belief that such crime is a unique feature of present-day society . |
| 11 | John Gordon , representative for Lancashire and Cheshire , was also presented with a cheque as runner up of the closely fought contest narrowly beating Robin Saunders , Alan Calver and James Thomas . |
| 12 | It was a far-reaching and radical attack on the powers of the legitimately established authority , not only of those who ruled kingdoms but also of those who ruled localities . |
| 13 | Finally , there is the tension in the design process between the sense of design as a transformative activity , a positing activity , transcendent of the givens of a problem ( in the sense of both breaking with context and with the form of the immediately perceived requirements — design as defining needs as well as solutions ) and design as a posited activity , that which works from the given which deals with what is real not with what is merely planned or speculated or imagined . |
| 14 | The site has no obvious Iron-Age antecedents ; more probably it originated as a civilian vicus outside the fort , which aerial photographs show as a multiple-ditched installation enclosing c. 2 ha ( 5 acres ) on a gravel terrace north-west of the later defended nucleus and the Billing Brook . |
| 15 | Although never completed , Beaumaris is the most perfect example of the concentrically planned castle in Britain . |
| 16 | Mary Miller meets Gian Carlo Menotti , the new director of the financially troubled Rome Opera |
| 17 | Their involvement with parts of the Stop The Clause campaign , their support for AIDS-related benefits , their meetings with the Metropolitan Police , their re-vitalization of the financially flagging London Lesbian and Gay Centre , all testify to some commitment to the community . |
| 18 | Allowing for the categories omitted ( not to mention possible undercounting in some of the slackly administered sub-gaols ) , the true total could be several thousand higher . |
| 19 | The ragged edges and surfaces of the freshly inflicted wound become smoothed out within an hour to give a more regular cellular organization that persists until the wound is closed . |
| 20 | She reached for one of the freshly laundered robes which were supplied each day for users of the pool . |
| 21 | Most of the federally owned land in the area is run by BLM , which has apportioned it for extensive commercial mining and ranching as well as for recreational use . |
| 22 | 's announcement came a month after California 's two newly elected Democratic senators introduced a bill to preserve one-third of the federally owned desert land in their state , a measure that is expected to become law by this summer . |
| 23 | In a formal sense a Nayar taravad was the matrilineal equivalent of the patrilineal joint family homestead that is to be encountered in many parts of rural India but with the peculiarity that the incoming spouses ( i.e. , the " husbands " of the locally domiciled women ) had no legal standing . |
| 24 | DAVID Pearce , 46 , of Tywyn , has been appointed sales director of the locally based Halo Foods Limited . |
| 25 | Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire . |
| 26 | This sudden and violent less of the abbey , its Abbot and three of its Brethren is perhaps the cause of the locally reported transmutations and the essence of the profoundly poignant atmosphere commented upon by so many visitors so the site — that overwhelming peace , tinged with a hint of sadness . |
| 27 | Outside the large conurbations , which were the province of the locally financed Passenger Transport Executives , Provincial inherited a disparate collection of routes linking various centres or branching to less populous places . |
| 28 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 29 | No notice should be taken of the frequently reiterated statement that Wordsworth lacked humour : of course he had a sense of humour — ‘ sly humour ’ , Hazlitt called it in 1825 , and added , ‘ he has a peculiar sweetness in his smile ’ . |
| 30 | ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading , they should learn about some of the frequently occurring words and roots that have been absorbed into English from other languages , so that they become familiar with the common word-building processes and spelling patterns that derive from them . |