Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way of achieving this is the means of using nurses ' personal and life experience in the learning situation . |
| 2 | These officers were accused by complainants of failing to remain impartial , of adopting hostile and dismissive attitudes towards them and of using complainants ' own statements as evidence against them in court . |
| 3 | He accused the Supreme Council of allowing citizens ' political and social rights to be flouted , and of using " slogans of democracy as a cover for a policy aimed at restoring a bourgeois system " . |
| 4 | ( b ) The problem of sustaining pupils ' independent use of the library after library induction , since it was only manned for 60% of the time , and often there was no one there to mediate between pupils ' needs and the resources . |
| 5 | The lesson of this period is that this type of legislation by itself , even when backed by executive exhortation , is insufficient to change sentencing outcomes ; and that unless sentencing discretion is restricted there is little hope of modifying sentencers ' own objectives in the pursuit of policy goals favoured by the executive ( Sabol , 1990 ) . |
| 6 | In the second half of the 1850s the Ministry of Education abolished enrolment quotas , exempted the badly off from the payment of fees , readopted the principle of despatching promising scholars to western Europe for postgraduate training , allowed women to attend lectures , ended the practice of monitoring students ' off-campus behaviour , reintroduced contentious subjects like west European law and the history of philosophy , and appointed broad-minded officials to the headships of the empire 's educational districts . |