Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb base] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research shows 60 per cent of those in homes over the age of 70 have impaired hearing , yet less than one-quarter have hearing aids . |
| 2 | About 2 million of these have developed AIDS . |
| 3 | None of these have involved security considerations although they have tended to assume that the right to overrule the claim of immunity exists in all cases . |
| 4 | However , as described above , there are usually good commercial reasons for a hive-up , although most of these have related tax motivations . |
| 5 | Some of these have marked irritant properties and some 60 , including benzo(a)pyrene and dimethylnitrosamine , have been shown to cause cancer when applied to living tissue . |
| 6 | Some of these have marked irritant properties and some 60 are known or suspected carcinogens ( cancer causing substances ) , including benzo(a)pyrene and dimethylnitrosamine . |
| 7 | He noted that ‘ Somalia , Kenya , Oman , Zaire , Morocco , and Pakistan tightly cooperate with the USA and all of these continue to remain participants of the [ Non-Aligned ] Movement ’ . |
| 8 | Fortunately , there are now a number of assessment instruments designed to utilise spontaneous speech samples , and some of these suggest coding utterances direct from a tape without the need for transcription . |
| 9 | Whenever she had arrived before , with her mother , or on her way to stay with relatives and school friends , it had been full of innocent bustle presaging lunch at Marshall and Snelgroves and tea at Fortnums . |
| 10 | It is a small town , with a textile industry , and on the first Sunday of May each year it is the scene of the meeting of the Landsgemeinde — the formal assembly of all vote holding citizens of the canton and its law-giving governing body . |
| 11 | The high speed tow is just one of many video nasties police have filmed on the regions motorways . |
| 12 | Daedalus 's solar-wind satellite accordingly resembles one of those joke unrolling tube whistles . |
| 13 | Most of those have got P H D's . |
| 14 | Hundreds of thousands were displaced by the Gulf war and hundreds of thousands seek to escape misgovernment , civil conflict , wars , economic collapse and starvation . |
| 15 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 16 | If the government does not back legislation , banks will demand restitution : the unwinding of both open swap positions and hundreds of past deals too . |