Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This of course opens up possibilities of positive social change . |
| 2 | Lack of funding holds up railway upgrading |
| 3 | In another part of its robots programme , the Department of Industry puts up cash to help firms to pay consultants who advise them on robot applications . |
| 4 | Your windows are open and a gust of wind carries off loos papers left on your desk . |
| 5 | A continuous hum of talk flows around injunctions not to , like the inevitable tide over barely dried sand and everywhere there are rolled-back eyeballs and exaggerated mouthings of conspiratorial secrets . |
| 6 | The autumn/winter collection from Shi Cashmere , 30 Lowndes Street , London SW1 , dismisses the misconception that the use of cashmere revolves around twinsets and wraps . |
| 7 | Whenever Marx or Freud or any other thinker is used in such a way as an authority of revealed truth , then the community of sociologists opens up discussion on the basic aspects of the theory . |
| 8 | This piece of writing sums up Owen 's feelings of war and his poems , we see , are somewhat warnings of things to come . |
| 9 | A government committed to the abolition of the structure planning system , the progressive reduction of planning controls over businesses , and the privatisation of major public services seems an unlikely champion of the environment in their view . |
| 10 | The physical act of training breaks down part of the muscle exercised , and it is during the next 24–72 hours that the muscles recover and begin to grow . |
| 11 | A CONDITIONED REFLEX occurs when as a result of experience an associated stimulus brings about the response , thus where the taste or smell of food brings about salivation ; and the ringing of a bell does not ; after a series of experiences where both stimuli are given simultaneously , the ringing of the bell by itself results in an animal salivating . |
| 12 | ‘ All that kind of thing takes up weekends . ’ |
| 13 | A third branch of the communications flowing out of EUCOM goes over landlines to the European headquarters of the US Air Force at Ramstein , Germany , from here the messages split up , going directly to the control centres in the convoys and to main operating bases such as Greenham Common . |