Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb base] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty years of communism have left Sternburg , one of eastern Germany 's biggest breweries , with a jumble of crumbling buildings that house decrepit machines fuelled by filthy lignite coal . |
| 2 | Promotional packs have been sent to over 100 organisations and a number of discussions have taken place with interested parties . |
| 3 | If they are considering a financial penalty , then they of course have to have regard to the defendant 's means . |
| 4 | Many polytechnics of course do have user education written into the overall aims of the library service ( eg Hatfield Polytechnic Library ) . |
| 5 | You could think of course do have children , dad , can I , can I , can I , bed you go , just to shut them up so if you have two small children there , the chances are you will lose the woman put them to bed or . |
| 6 | This has meant that some detailed provisions in standard forms of contract have required amendment . |
| 7 | the operations of cooking include moving things , heating , mixing ingredients , cutting , and breaking eggs . |
| 8 | Recently , numbers of researchers have made pleas to managers to get back to basics and be continually alert to counter-productive actions . |
| 9 | While simple imitation fails to explain the occurrence of such novel utterances , a number of researchers have presented evidence indicating that imitation may nevertheless play a significant role in the child 's mastery of vocabulary , syntax and pragmatic functions ( Bloom et al . |
| 10 | Recently , a number of researchers have drawn attention to the importance of providing language-impaired children with opportunities for learning language in contexts where language is both natural and appropriate ( Harris 1984b ; McClean and Snyder 1978 ; Nelson et al . |
| 11 | A number of researchers have investigated parents ' expectation , preferences and choices with regard to their children 's schooling . |
| 12 | Post-banding after hybridization can be achieved using Wright 's stain ( Gurr or Merck ) ( 22 ) but often , band definition is not detailed and , from hearsay , a number of researchers have experienced problems with the method and failed to obtain bands . |
| 13 | You may have noticed that recent issues of NOTES have given people with visual impairments the chance to have NOTES on a DOS text file on computer disk , to use with aids such as screen magnifiers , synthetic speech generators or electronic braille . |
| 14 | Contrary to the claims of the TUC , only a minority of employers have expressed reservations about the change in the law that we propose to make . |
| 15 | How you know , w what kind of views do do people have ? |
| 16 | Staff from International Paint of Gateshead have raised £500 to boost the town mayor 's charity fund . |
| 17 | There are no traceable physical defects , although around a third of cases have associated handicaps such as epilepsy or spasticity . |
| 18 | Authors are worried that Britain is moving in the same direction as America , where a wide range of groups have mounted campaigns to ban books from schools and libraries because they do n't conform to their particular view of society . |
| 19 | For example , a number of groups have described patients who can point to the location of briefly flashed stimuli , even though they deny seeing them . |
| 20 | However , the fact is that if the directors of galleries wish to raise money the Minister can refer them to the Bill and powers contained in clause 4 . |
| 21 | Long-term contracts for the supply of uranium have contained expert clauses for determining the price of the concentrate . |
| 22 | Recent historians of institutions have seen Anselm 's period as archbishop as a turning point in the relations between England and the papacy . |
| 23 | Smaller , but equally welcome amounts of money have changed hands for pieces of driftwood and other finds worked on by artists and later sold to tourists . |
| 24 | Before I examine some of the ways in which recent analyses of literacy practices in a number of disciplines have taken account of these political and ideological factors , and have implicitly challenged the model of literacy put forward by Goody , it is important to recognise the extent to which many of Goody 's arguments and those of the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy have derived support from assumptions within the specific field of linguistics . |
| 25 | Since 1934 the elections of the presidents of Czechoslovakia have taken place here . |
| 26 | I will expand on what I mean by discourse in Chapter 10 but here it is sufficient to say that ‘ discourse ’ refers to the structured features of cultural processes when groups of signs become signifying elements in themselves . |
| 27 | The two sets of metaphors have persisted side by side , not only in the West since the ancient Greeks , but in other civilizations as well ( Chinese ming ‘ bright ’ is the ordinary word for the enlightenment of the sage , which is often compared to a mirror reflecting things exactly as they are , while te ‘ get ’ is used of insight ; ‘ I 've got it ! ’ says the disciple to his master as he catches on to the Tao ) . |
| 28 | A P L O statement says , A series of meetings have taken place with the personal blessing of it 's leader Yassa Arafat . |
| 29 | It may be contended that members of parliament wish to ask questions in the House when major aircraft accidents occur and so it is necessary to have a particular minister to give the answers . |
| 30 | Alternative careers — a number of LEAs have mounted events involving school pupils in non–traditional activities providing girls ( and boys ) with the opportunity of ‘ having a go ’ at a variety of activities across the whole employment range . |