Example sentences of "of the [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although never completed , Beaumaris is the most perfect example of the concentrically planned castle in Britain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | '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 . |
| 12 | DAVID Pearce , 46 , of Tywyn , has been appointed sales director of the locally based Halo Foods Limited . |
| 13 | Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Thus , for example , inclusion of the frequently occurring item and , which shows high frequency deletion , skews the data considerably ; for this reason , Labov excluded and from his original study of final stop deletion ( Labov 1980 : xvi ) . |
| 17 | In contributing towards the creation of the properly trained worker , adaptability was also thought to be an indispensable element in the struggle to reduce unemployment , ( what Sadler called ‘ human waste ’ ) , though its direct impact was the subject of some discussion . |
| 18 | As there is no apparent difference in the digestion of gliadin in coeliac patients and control individuals , there may be a difference in the intestinal uptake and/or intracellular processing of the partly digested gliadin . |
| 19 | Initially Mitterrand pressed for a rejection of the Senate 's amendments on the grounds that they amounted to an attempt to elevate the powers of the indirectly elected Senate to those of the directly elected National Assembly . |
| 20 | If in time ways can be found to beautify the street further , then that would be a bonus on top of the already achieved traffic calming gains . |
| 21 | Some of the earliest known fossil vascular plants , those of the Rhynie Chert of the Devonian 370m years ago , show damage , which might be attributable to biting arthropods . |
| 22 | Opposite is the Spanish Synagogue , 1868 , the last synagogue to be built in this area , on the site of the earliest known synagogue or Old Shul . |
| 23 | The idea of a sea-journeying goddess may be the origin of the earliest known version of the legend of Ariadne , according to which she was abducted and taken to the offshore island of Dia , where she died . |
| 24 | When extracts from the fibroblast cell line BHK-21 were used in the band shift assay , a single complex formed on this probe representing binding of the constitutively expressed octamer binding protein Oct-1 ( Figure 2a ) . |
| 25 | It came from the direction of the strangely attired man in the dock , and the more observant members of the jury could see that this bell was attached to the end of the man 's hat . |
| 26 | Little relative movement between the Indian and Eurasian Plates seems to have occurred between the Middle Eocene and Early Miocene , but isostatic readjustment of the presumably thickened crust resulted in a withdrawal of the sea on the adjacent Indian continental lowland . |
| 27 | Their trick is to have a very loosely connected skin , so free from the underlying tissue that a sudden gripping pressure can break it away , leaving the killer with only a mouthful of the instantly shed skin . |
| 28 | and Duke Street and the shabby buildings immediately adjoining ’ and not wait until its improvements had enhanced the value of the privately owned land . |
| 29 | The proprietors of the privately owned press , however benevolent , were nevertheless wealthy and unrepresentative of the people as a whole . |
| 30 | If the military and civil branches of the East India Company 's service were the most attractive forms of Indian patronage , the appointment of surgeon , either in India itself or on board an East Indiaman , one of the privately owned merchant vessels which carried Indian trade , was considered a desirable place by many Scots with the necessary professional training . |