Example sentences of "of [verb] [art] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will give you the opportunity of smelling the oils first , and buying only those you like . |
| 2 | ‘ Midlands and western region has been particularly concerned with the problem of targeting the resources available for public good advice . ’ |
| 3 | The changes made are quite subtle — instead of using the Windows internal print routines to access and control the printer ports directly , Windows hands control of the ports back to good old steam-powered DOS , which takes care of it . |
| 4 | The so-called ’ swan-upping ’ ceremony dates back to the fourteenth century … but nowadays its as much a fun day out as a way of keeping the swans healthy . |
| 5 | The use of a spectacle-case for protection and the habit of keeping the lenses clean helps to ensure that these aids to sight are kept in a usable , effective condition . |
| 6 | Mr Patten promises that the Government will ‘ allow ( sic ) the public to take local authorities to court if they fall down on the job of keeping the streets clean . |
| 7 | For some of the street entrepreneurs such as the bookie or brothel-keeper , the shopkeeper or publican , there were some minor ways of keeping the police sweet — rarely anything that could be dignified with the name bribe . |
| 8 | New policing strategies The commitment of large numbers of police officers to the task of keeping the pits open made it impossible for the National Union of Mineworkers to achieve a total shut-down in domestic coal production . |
| 9 | Here , legislation may be important in terms of widening the opportunities available to older workers . |
| 10 | Three of the fundholding practices arranged private contracts for this procedure paid out of their practice budgets as a means of improving the services available to their patients . |
| 11 | In terms of sampling the sounds necessary for speaking English , the designers of each of the two tests have taken slightly different approaches which reflect different priorities . |
| 12 | IT WAS not just the Stewart's/Melville players who celebrated their promotion-winning victory , but also the club treasurer who has had the impossible task of balancing the books this season . |
| 13 | It was pointed out that the Northern Ireland Council on Disability was in the process of investigating the services different agencies are providing for disabled people — not just in relation to physical access , but also in relation to access to the network of information on different services and projects which exclude disability interests . |
| 14 | ‘ We are working with both commercial and investment banks in terms of evaluating the alternatives available to us . ’ |
| 15 | A case of getting the priorities right ! — |
| 16 | But in Russia reform is not only a question of getting the principles right . |
| 17 | It 's one of the most dangerous and delicate areas of all , not in a moral sense , but just in terms of getting the words right . |
| 18 | She lived in a world of detail and precision , of getting the names right and the appearances correct , and had done ever since she joined the Security Service straight from Oxford fourteen years before . |
| 19 | Generations of lobby journalists at Westminster have had to tussle with the challenge of reconciling the remarks Tory politicians are prepared to make off the record with the ringing declarations of total loyalty and conformity they deliver in public . |
| 20 | For some time , Pool has been becoming less and less capable of performing the calculations necessary to create a private universe . ’ |
| 21 | The trick is to find a way of giving the Europeans enough of a feeling that they can pursue security policies of their own without at the same time forming a European defence association that would drive the Americans away . |
| 22 | Crime is the Conservatives ' ace-in-the-hole , claims Tory candidate Simon Fowler , with their record of giving the police greater resources , increased community-based policing in the North-East and tougher sentences for criminals , including joyriders . |
| 23 | Instead of counting the squares all you have to do is multiply the length by the width ! |
| 24 | ‘ Victor , I have evidence to suggest that they are now actually capable of creating the conditions suitable for generation on a global scale . |
| 25 | The win took Cambridge to the quarter-finals of the competition for the first time in their history , following their recent proud FA Cup record of reaching the quarter-finals each year from 1988-1990 . |
| 26 | You have the privilege of knowing the contents several hours before everyone else , but at this stage in the proceedings it is too late to influence the outcome . |
| 27 | He began to juggle , making it look as if he was just on the verge of dropping the balls each time he caught them . |
| 28 | This was Little Gidding , and , as she wrote , ‘ I shall never forget the experience of hearing the words new-minted as it were from the poet 's own lips ’ . |
| 29 | Recent studies rely on the one hand on techniques of transplanting tissues , or cells , or even individual genes , from one site to another , and on the other of identifying the genes concerned in particular processes . |
| 30 | There are various ways of assessing the damages recoverable for such extra expenditure . |