Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1982 the Institute of Hydrology carried out trials on the Trannon , and in 1986 was able to come up with a number of constructive lessons to be learned from this sorry story . |
| 2 | If no question of change arises then evaluation is deprived of point and becomes instead a public relations exercise service to induce feelings-of-being-consulted in the course consumers , or feelings-of-being-valuable in the course presenters . |
| 3 | This field is situated at the edge of the Zechstein salt basin and thin beds of halite extend over part of the structure . |
| 4 | For the change of heart came only hours after Mr Fallon met priests in Darlington and discussed the future of church schools with a national delegation of bishops . |
| 5 | She had made her a cool and sweet-smelling bed of grasses inside a circle of powder to keep away ants and other insects . |
| 6 | By antecedent , in terms of the example , I of course mean only R and C. In virtue of this fact of generality with respect to independent conditionals they are not tied to a particular situation , as are dependent conditionals . |
| 7 | This of course opens up possibilities of positive social change . |
| 8 | Dr Roger Harrison , director of product development for Eli Lilly 's subsidiary Dista Ltd in the UK , told New Scientist that after five years of experience scaling up Lilly 's genetically engineered insulin ‘ we have not perceived any allergic reaction in the chemical processing or packaging units . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Grey ’ issues of money occur whenever enterprises that are short of funds to pay their obligations insist that the banks should make them the necessary advances to restore their ‘ liquidity ’ . |
| 10 | Lack of funding holds up railway upgrading |
| 11 | A frisson of fear scorched down Robyn 's spine and for the first time she recognised the potential danger of her situation . |
| 12 | In another part of its robots programme , the Department of Industry puts up cash to help firms to pay consultants who advise them on robot applications . |
| 13 | Between 1974 and 1979 , for example , the Department of Industry allocated about £250 million in regional assistance to Merseyside — almost all of which went to green-field locations ( Nabarro , 1980 ) . |
| 14 | It will also enable the British shipowner to compete more favourably with his foreign rivals as it is evident that if the English shipowner pays £pound4.15s a month whereas the foreign shipowners for the same class of labour pays only £pound2.10s a month , he must be better able to compete and members must therefore recognise the importance of the International Movement " . |
| 15 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 16 | Brother turns against brother as the devotees of the Cult of Pleasure stir up trouble in every city and town . |
| 17 | Your windows are open and a gust of wind carries off loos papers left on your desk . |
| 18 | He was convicted of conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts , of drug trafficking and of illegal possession of explosives . |
| 19 | In addition to discussion , therefore , each Head of Department wrote down reasons for their choice against each of the most popular titles ( for full details of all responses see appendix 3 ) . |
| 20 | Family feuds have given Punjab a tradition of violence dating back centuries , and in today 's permissive atmosphere people use guns , not lawyers , to settle disputes . |
| 21 | Thus the programmes of study represent not tablets of the law handed down by Kenneth Baker , but compromises . |
| 22 | In shades of kitchen mists , with eyes of light showing only murk and seams of film and grease , the air hung above and behind me like an old sink full of old washing-up . |
| 23 | Shafts of light picked out cones of cigarette smoke . |
| 24 | Oakeshott recognizes a morality inherent in the rule of law and suggests that to deliberate the jus of lex involves not deduction but a particular kind of moral consideration ; that the prescriptions of law ‘ should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility ’ of a people . |
| 25 | A continuous hum of talk flows around injunctions not to , like the inevitable tide over barely dried sand and everywhere there are rolled-back eyeballs and exaggerated mouthings of conspiratorial secrets . |
| 26 | ‘ It might do more harm than good , ’ he said , alarmed at the amount of blood running down Meredith 's face . |
| 27 | My point in this context is that in films of recent years ‘ spectacle ’ — especially if we expand the definition of spectacle to include also images marked by the aggressive instinct — does not any longer become subordinated to narrative . |
| 28 | Space added between lines of type to space out text and provide visual separation of the lines . |
| 29 | A working party of remote sensing specialists last year proposed a five year programme of work costing about £2 million a year . |
| 30 | The following examples of work illustrate how viewdata is being integrated into the work of the library and the school . |