Example sentences of "of [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oil price and supply uncertainties of the 1970s and more recently in 1991 triggered awareness of the problems of depending on imported energy supplies . |
| 2 | Intense personal involvement is another outcome of depending on local knowledge ; and that also carries costs , as we have shown . |
| 3 | It brought a new level of handling to front-wheel drive that 's never been equalled . |
| 4 | The grass has been destroyed by the effects of trawling in shallow water and the dumping of waste by the chemical plants at Gabes and Skhira . |
| 5 | ‘ A good teacher of drawing with great style and panache . |
| 6 | To teach , to take the initiative , to impose what shall be attended to , puts the student in the position of reacting to external pressure . |
| 7 | Picture a teenage girl in Morocco for whom premarital loss of virginity is culturally intolerable and who faces the ‘ choice ’ , under male duress , of tolerating anal intercourse , or of submitting to vaginal penetration knowing that she will thereby have to leave home for a life of prostitution ; she may even know that both are related to acquisition of HIV . |
| 8 | Among the Jewish population of these areas there was a section of the opposition which had no intention of submitting to Fascist aggression . |
| 9 | Mind you , as that would increase the likelihood of seeing in real life what 's on the cover of Jilly Cooper 's Riders , maybe it would be detrimental to showground safety . |
| 10 | The Unit was established in 1982 with a primary aim of experimenting with Primary Health Care , using strategies around : |
| 11 | So let us promote better health for the population that we have at present instead of experimenting with high-cost technology . |
| 12 | The company is then faced with the prospect of stepping from private ownership to public ownership to ensure future prosperity . |
| 13 | Now any research given funding is small scale with the intention of competing with high cost fossil fuels such as diesel . |
| 14 | They concluded that the importance of allowing for stochastic interest rates varies over time , depending on whether or not large changes in interest rates are expected . |
| 15 | The irony , however , is that in fact the new system is more likely to increase central control over , and funding of , local spending , instead of allowing for local variation , accountability and choice . |
| 16 | Whereas some Orcadians see certain advantages in living in one of the Mainland 's urban centres there are many more who appreciate the benefits of building a house of their own in their home parish , not only as a means of maintaining their links with family , friends , and neighbours but as a means of benefitting from cheap family or friends ' land for building . |
| 17 | The research will describe various styles of policing by careful attention to police/public interaction and will identify the criteria constables apply when attributing ‘ competence ’ to police conduct in events on patrol . |
| 18 | It also carried a behind-the-scenes look at the fire in a nuclear reactor at Windscale that flamed into the headlines in 1957 and , almost by accident , discovered , via Dr David Jones , that Napoleon died the victim of poisoning by arsenical wallpaper . |
| 19 | Fitzgerald 's warnings apply to the difficulties of generalising about global readability from a small number of samples of an extensive text . |
| 20 | On the sons and daughters of the farming family was imposed the strict necessity of abstaining from sexual activity other than for the first born , so as not to impair the integrity of land succession . |
| 21 | Probably he was unused to such directness from lowly individuals such as herself — individuals incapable of producing at short notice trifling sums like three and a half thousand pounds ! |
| 22 | For musical production , this transition has the effect of revealing with increasing clarity that any would-be homogeneity of industry , form and audience can not permanently disguise the fact that in reality the form is ‘ squeezed out between two conflicting pressures ’ ( Ian Birch all , quoted in Laing 1969 : 189 ) — and this marks its mode of existence as immanently contradictory . |
| 23 | One positive result of a newly motivated group would be that some might see the advantages to themselves of returning to full-time education at the age of sixteen . |
| 24 | Their hopes of returning to full strength were again dashed with defender Chris Moore a victim of German measles , recently signed midfielder Steve Cox unavailable , and Tony Scofield still out of action and facing an operation on his knee . |
| 25 | The concept of a constitutional amendment as a means of returning to fiscal probity had gathered momentum throughout the first half of 1992 . |
| 26 | the adjustment of spacing between certain letter pairs , A and V for example , to obtain a more pleasing appearance . |
| 27 | Rather , while they showed the same pattern of alternating between slow wave sleep and REM sleep about every ninety minutes , the proportion of light sleep stages ( I and 2 ) was low . |
| 28 | We are reminded of the controversy caused by Lord Kelvin 's incorrect estimate of Earth 's age based on models of cooling without radioactive heating . |
| 29 | I had been quite spoilt by now and anyway I had had my fill of walking alongside modern day roads , so I took the bus to Lochranza . |
| 30 | It is reflected throughout Europe , and in Tervoort 's extensive study of 20 countries in Europe we can see the move toward the incorporation of signing in educational methodology : ‘ There is no change in favour of oralism and there is an atmosphere of change in the other direction all over Europe ’ ( 1983 : 143 ) . |