Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Forest of Dean has suffered many abuses in the past . |
| 2 | Moreover , when these societies become industrialised and urbanised another set of values begins to undermine these time-honoured traditions . |
| 3 | ‘ Letters of support have outnumbered any critical or questioning letters by more than 10–1 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Letters of support have outnumbered any critical or questioning letters by more than 10-1 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm glad to see that the cause of freedom has acquired such energetic support in Edinburgh , ’ she said . |
| 6 | The success of policies designed to develop this sector of the economy depends in large part on the knowledge and awareness policy makers and the small businesses have of one another . |
| 7 | They challenge two assumptions commonly made , either implicitly or explicitly , in conventional organisation theory : ( a ) that an institution adopts that form of organisation which best fits its technology , environment , and other contingent factors , the ‘ best fit ’ being in terms of that organisation structure most suited to co-ordinating the tasks performed by members of that institution ; ( b ) that members of the institution have entered freely into a contract with that institution to provide a service to that institution in return for reward , and that they accept as legitimate both the institutional goals and the means of co-ordination used to achieve those goals ( rational/legal authority ) . |
| 8 | The men of Ruthyn had abandoned all caution , spurring their horses furiously , lengthening out in their turn into a long frieze parallel with the edge of the forest , every man mad to be the first to lay hand on the arch-enemy . |
| 9 | Most crucially , the National Union of Seamen refused to allow any of its members on board the ship . |
| 10 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |
| 11 | The study of literature had become little more than a loose aggregate of philosophy , history , psychology , aesthetics , ethnography , sociology , and so on , and the Formalists felt that any specificity it might have had had been swamped by its adjacent disciplines . |
| 12 | Fewer of course had seen all of it : 71 per cent , 49 per cent , 19 per cent and 5 per cent , respectively . |
| 13 | And that is quite simply that I of course need to read all of these documents . |
| 14 | A recognition of these instinctive processes and relations does not of course entail envisaging all social behaviour as an unmediated result of underlying primordial processes . |
| 15 | The seller will of course wish to restrict these conditions as far as possible and sometimes the conditions are restricted to events which fundamentally affect the business or value of the offeree and which can not be adequately compensated by an offer of financial or other compensation which the seller may be prepared to make . |
| 16 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 17 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 18 | Trade union involvement can of course help to alleviate some of the difficulties suggested above . |
| 19 | Several groups of birds have done this . |
| 20 | Although he received a standing ovation from the delegates , supporters of Keating continued to predict that — the denials of the former Treasurer notwithstanding — a second challenge to Hawke 's position would be delivered before the end of the year . |
| 21 | One pet theory of mine is that the decline in the study of Latin has accentuated this interest . |
| 22 | With all of its interconnecting tubes , rarely can the concept of a leakage from the circular flow of income have assumed such a liquid manifestation ! |
| 23 | - You find postal charges mysteriously a penny higher than you thought they were , so you buy a sheet of 1p stamps to upgrade all the old ones you have left , and then you find you have n't got any old ones left , only this big sheet of 1p stamps . |
| 24 | It would be well into the 1920s before the majority of geneticists began to concede that natural selection might have a role to play by regulating the spread of mutated characters within the population . |
| 25 | Although recognition of handwriting has received much less attention the task is simpler and promising results have been obtained . |
| 26 | The tradition of the theory of ideology has attempted this , though with perhaps little effect on practice . |
| 27 | The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view . |
| 28 | The Offer to placate Dixon with such a large sum of money does suggest that be possessed a legitimate grievance . |
| 29 | So it 's not a progression all in one way but I have to say that even by the standards of the Lloyd George era , the battle by memoir which we now see for considerable sums of money has become more than a cottage industry , it 's a production line industry . |
| 30 | Surveys of provision have indicated that this still falls short of a desirable level . |