Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a fee of whisky he will help mortals caught in Fairyland to escape , or show them antidotes to spells and curses . |
| 2 | Whilst we did not expect the same standard of play we should have expected something better . |
| 3 | I did n't know what kind of play she might have been pulling . |
| 4 | The theory of outcome measurement they constructed was then used to develop a comprehensive system of assessment which could monitor the development of all children for whom local authorities take responsibility . |
| 5 | Despite their differences , however , both initiatives are associated with an increasing interest in modular-based curriculum provision , and with forms of assessment which can take into account the wide range of outcomes they are designed to achieve . |
| 6 | What type of company/co-operative you should form . |
| 7 | By way of correction I can offer only the thought that the word comprimat in the third line of Musae Jovis is a jussive subjunctive ( ‘ let … crush ’ ) , not an indicative ( ‘ crushes ’ ) . |
| 8 | Against the background that people expected support for an elderly person to be reciprocated in some fairly immediate way , the pressure to exclude older people from the labour market was accompanied by a pressure to give them some independent means of support which would prevent their having to rely on their children or other relatives . |
| 9 | Or should policy concentrate more on clarifying the goals and outcomes of learning , and on providing the kind of support which will enable schools to identify for themselves the best possible ways of achieving such goals and outcomes ? |
| 10 | It is then necessary to market it , through lectures , seminars , and meetings with governments , business interests , and lawyers , in order to generate a groundswell of support which will help to ensure ratification . |
| 11 | Together with the right kind of support we could have fun together and achieve so much for ourselves and our diocese . |
| 12 | There are few restrictions on the type of support we can offer but the important feature is the idea ; once that is accepted we will help the researcher in whatever way may be appropriate to bring his idea to fruition . |
| 13 | When considering an offer of a job in the community it is worth asking a few questions about the day to day management of the service , and the kind of support you can expect to get from your colleagues . |
| 14 | Grief is not only a reaction , though , it is a process , so your bereaved parent will need your help through all its various stages of numbness , yearning , quiet or vocal distress , anxiety , depression and adjustment to her new situation ; and the way she behaves during the grief process will depend very much on her personality type , her previous life experiences and the strength of the tie that has been severed , as well as the amount of support you can give her . |
| 15 | ‘ So you need every bit of support you can get . |
| 16 | The complete absence of information makes it very difficult to uncover the processes of change which may have been at work among the peoples north and south of the Trent during the reign of Eadwine , but it is inconceivable that Eadwine was able to extend his hegemony southwards without first achieving domination of the Mercians . |
| 17 | To sum up this section , we can say that the first phrase of a theme may be followed by a second phrase to make a complete sentence , either through exact repetition , or by various degrees of change which can extend to the introduction of completely new material . |
| 18 | When we defend ourselves too rigidly against threatening aspects of change we can precipitate the very situations we seek to avert . |
| 19 | Mrs Johnson said : ‘ We left the bottle on a table in the communal lounge and whenever a resident had a pocketful of change they would put it in . |
| 20 | With the advent of videodisc we can expect to see an increase in video training materials and information databases of various kinds . |
| 21 | The nature and degree of insanity which will afford a defence to a criminal charge has from time to time been a matter of considerable discussion . |
| 22 | The arms may be covered by a thin covering of skin which may obscure the plates . |
| 23 | We had been advised that if we laid on a couple of bottles of champagne he might stay and chat for a while after the show . |
| 24 | The Australian honey-guide is so fond of hair it will pluck it straight from a horse 's back or even a human 's head . |
| 25 | But rest assured : in the longer term , giving reasons will certainly foster their compliance and , most important , the sort of reliability you can depend upon even when you are not there to keep an eye on things . |
| 26 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |
| 27 | Tell the customer the total cost of the purchase and ask method of payment she will use ‘ How would you like to pay for the saucepans ? ’ |
| 28 | And Melanie 's laughter trickled to nothing when she saw his pale , bony face half-hidden by hair and could see nothing there , no hint of a smile or inflection of tenderness which might mean she would be spared . |
| 29 | They issue an er they issue an annuity , which is erm er if you 're not sure what an annuity is , this is a temporary annuity , and they might say in the case of Miss they might say well what about a ten year annuity ? |
| 30 | Returning to Z we see that to prove the above assertion of coincidence we must show : ( i ) that every irreducible element of Z is necessarily a prime element ; and ( ii ) that every prime element of Z is necessarily irreducible . |