Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss of moisture makes the face cave in , look like a skull . |
| 2 | To check on your players ' health press Q while the game is paused and the ball is out of play to access the menu . |
| 3 | At most institutions , the preferred method of assessment combines the marks obtained by students in " continuous assessment " throughout the academic year with final examination results . |
| 4 | offer a consistent standard of good practice to users and to carers , whilst also recognizing that the process of assessment involves the exercising of judgement , whether professional judgement or subjective judgement of users and carers . |
| 5 | This form of assessment presents the student with the opportunity of displaying practical skills which may involve the completion of a specified task or procedure or the production of an artifact . |
| 6 | Those schemes which included " practical test " among their modes of assessment used the term to mean either a task using manipulative materials or one-to-one interactive interviews of the Assessment of Performance Unit type . |
| 7 | Not us not us , every time I speak to somebody about something , you know marketing can do it , y'know everybody 's d giving away free tickets as a way out of y'know compensate the people , re-dressing the situation . |
| 8 | Dr John Prescott of the CSIRO , Australia 's national research organisation , and colleagues at the Sensory Research Centre in Sydney looked at how different amounts of capsaicin affected the flavour and intensity of solutions of sugar and salt . |
| 9 | Although UN-mediated negotiations were resumed in April 1989 in Geneva [ see p. 36602 ] , the lack of progress led the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , to express on Aug. 20 ( the first anniversary of the ceasefire ) his " deep regret " that " the withdrawal of forces to internationally recognized boundaries [ had ] yet to take place " . |
| 10 | The distinctive characteristic of these writers was their belief in progress : the belief , in particular , that the system of international relations that had given rise to the First World War was capable of being transformed into a fundamentally more peaceful and just world order ; that under the impact of the awakening of democracy , the growth of the ‘ international mind ’ , the development of the League of Nations , the good works of men of peace or the enlightenment spread by their own teachings , it was in fact being transformed ; and that their responsibility as students of international relations was to assist this march of progress to overcome the ignorance , the prejudices , the ill-will , and the sinister interests that stood in its way . |
| 11 | Both the scale and rate of change affecting the operation of the company have been dramatic over the last nine months . |
| 12 | He envisages that a change in outlook may derive from appreciation of the complex event sequences that new techniques have now exposed in the Quaternary ; from appraisal of the classical models of change to accommodate the realization that extreme rapidity of change now has to be considered when evaluating chronological biotal and geomorphological processes ; from adjustment of geomorphology to new knowledge of Quaternary change such as rate of ice sheet growth and decay ; and similar adjustment of biogeography and of palaeoclimatology . |
| 13 | But if this process of change raised the issue of the care of the mentally handicapped the initial response was to seek their confinement . |
| 14 | The men 's fear of change took the form of vociferously defending the status quo in which after all they had everything to lose . |
| 15 | United by a sense of shared adversity , party leaders in Peking and East Berlin have now forgotten their past quarrels to confront what both see as their common enemy — the forces of change sweeping the rest of the Communist world . |
| 16 | Unless the promoter of change has the power to reward the new form of behaviour and/or penalize persistence with the old form of behaviour , schemas are unlikely to change whatever managerial symbols and signals circulate around the organization . |
| 17 | When the volume of work increased , as it did throughout central government , the wind of change hit the Lord Chancellor 's Office with particular force because it started from such a tiny base . |
| 18 | My own solution is a compromise : avoid precise repetition , but use enough repetitions with elements of change to keep the listener formally orientated and continuously interested . |
| 19 | Cut strips of interfacing to equal the width of the curtain fabric less the side hems , by the depth of the scallop plus 3cm ( 1 l/4in ) . |
| 20 | Next though to one of the top seeds , Korean Bang Soo-Hyun ; before the match Central South 's first lady of badminton knew the challenge ahead . |
| 21 | Next though to one of the top seeds , Korean Bang Soo-Hyun ; before the match Central South 's first lady of badminton knew the challenge ahead . |
| 22 | Below the urethral meatus is the orifice of the vagina , surrounded on each side by small folds of skin called the labia minora . |
| 23 | Whose drum of skin receives the breezes ’ whisper |
| 24 | This is because freckled skin indicates a pigmentary imbalance , and the area of skin surrounding the freckles has less ability to protect itself . |
| 25 | Hunter , seeing Vial remove the part without preserving a flap of skin to cover the wound , advised Vial , the next time he operated , to provide for this . |
| 26 | Just after Kathy left for London , David arrived with a bottle of champagne to spend the day and celebrate New Year 's Eve . |
| 27 | The " Widow Clicquot " is credited with inventing the " Pupitre " a slanting rack used in the making of champagne to settle the sediment in the neck of the bottle after fermentation . |
| 28 | So why not have another glass of champagne to put the seal on what will undoubtedly be a truly memorable and colourful day that will live forever ! |
| 29 | We had a couple of bottles of champagne to greet the travellers , and Gabby and her husband came in to help us with them and we all toasted Nigel 's ‘ recovery ’ . |
| 30 | Last week they 'd shared a bottle of champagne to celebrate the birth of the seventh grandchild . |