Example sentences of "of [verb] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and therefore erm I think we 'd like to some degree wait and see a bit still because er I think that you know economic circumstances of this particular moment mean that we may just have to consider that further of seeing how things progress really between now and October . |
| 2 | The tape is said to run in a continuous loop , a method of speeding up access time to data . |
| 3 | With appropriate allocation of profits from year to year the company partner could be used as a means of building up partnership capital at the more favourable tax rate . |
| 4 | German technologists have developed a system of filtering out sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from the flue gases of coal-fired power stations . |
| 5 | The value of subcontracting out translation work raises questions of quality control , continuity , and speed of reaction ( especially where no in-house monitoring team exists , as in C2 ) . |
| 6 | Nevertheless the problem remains of explaining why sex differential rules arise and are followed in a language at all . |
| 7 | It is in this general climate that community policing has been reintroduced in recent years in many forces in Great Britain with the expressed intention of improving both crime prevention and relations between the police and the community ( cf. Gordon 1987 ) . |
| 8 | The archetype of these harridans is the Glasgow clippie of c'm on gerraff fame . |
| 9 | Shortly afterwards he identified inflation as , ‘ Public Enemy Number One ’ and urged a tax increase upon congress as a way of damping down consumer spending . |
| 10 | A 24-year-old man has been cleared by a Liverpool Crown Court jury of possessing about £1.5m worth of ecstasy tablets . |
| 11 | He describes how in the midst of turning around Ebury Press to a £5 million enterprise , she would still wake up early enough to devote the early morning hours and after work to their children , Georgia , four , and Grace , one . |
| 12 | The orderly shrugged as he went about his task of switching off Company Shock Trooper ( Third Class ) Jason Curtis Dommer 's life support machine . |
| 13 | The preferred spot is in the lee of a tall hedge ; it does a marvellous job of breaking up gale force winds . |
| 14 | From this it is clear that the idea of breaking up L Detachment had been floated at headquarters , using the excuse of a shortage of manpower . |
| 15 | The aggregate of called up share capital and all reserves , excluding minority interests . |
| 16 | The aggregate of called up share capital and all reserves , excluding minority interests . |
| 17 | STANDARD LEVEL OF SERVICE : These amounts are the Government 's view , for the purpose of sharing out Government Standard Spending Grant ( see next note ) , of the appropriate level of spending for the authorities in your area to enable them to provide broadly a standard level of service , taking into account the particular circumstances of the area . |
| 18 | The Nickles amendment , passed by Congress last November , gave Yugoslavia until May 6th to end the repression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo , on pain of losing about $5m worth of technical aid in the fiscal year 1991 . |
| 19 | And we 've tried to get something for everyone , we 've got 2 classical music concerts , for instance , the Johannis Piano Trio , and then a specially sort of brought together rainforest orchestra , where professional musicians all over the county can come together to create a programme . |
| 20 | He added he would willingly forego a trip to the United States and play in the Jersey Open with the hope of collecting more Ryder Cup points . |
| 21 | there were dishes of chopped up spring onion and all like that and you put your own mixture int middle and then rolled it up . |
| 22 | Private customers are typically individuals and small companies who are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; non-private customers are , typically , " ordinary business investors " but also include expert private customers who agree to be treated as non-private customers . |
| 23 | Unless they agree to be treated as experts ( see page 37 below ) , individuals will always be private customers if they are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business . |
| 24 | The typical individual who is not a private customer because he is carrying on investment business is a " local " on a futures exchange ; ( 2 ) Small business investors , if they are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business . |
| 25 | The main categories of non-private customer are : ( 1 ) Ordinary business investors ( see page 36 below ) ; ( 2 ) Individuals who are acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; ( 3 ) Expert private customers ( whether individuals or small business investors ) who have agreed to be treated as non-private customers ( see page 37 below ) ; ( 4 ) Small business investors who : ( a ) are acting in the course of carrying on investment business , or ( b ) the firm reasonably believes are ordinary business investors ; or ( c ) are trade customers ( see page 38 below ) in relation to the transaction concerned ( who are technically treated as ordinary business investors ) . |
| 26 | The main categories of non-private customer are : ( 1 ) Ordinary business investors ( see page 36 below ) ; ( 2 ) Individuals who are acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; ( 3 ) Expert private customers ( whether individuals or small business investors ) who have agreed to be treated as non-private customers ( see page 37 below ) ; ( 4 ) Small business investors who : ( a ) are acting in the course of carrying on investment business , or ( b ) the firm reasonably believes are ordinary business investors ; or ( c ) are trade customers ( see page 38 below ) in relation to the transaction concerned ( who are technically treated as ordinary business investors ) . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) Where the portfolio or account is not specifically established for the purpose of carrying on derivatives business , a statement , if relevant , that the firm may enter into transactions which may result in the customer having a short position . |
| 28 | WEAR AND TEAR — These risks are considered uninsurable and relate to the cost of carrying out maintenance work generally . |
| 29 | SEE-SAW DIAGNOSIS The see-saw is a good way of showing how weight transfer works . |
| 30 | One possible explanation is that because early growth exerts a greater effect on reproductive success in males than females ( see above ) , selection favours increased investment by young males in growth at the expense of laying down body fat to assure survival during periods of food shortage . |