Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [v-ing] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The panel of experts signing this letter were recruited by the pharmaceutical companies involved in Spain . |
| 2 | Surveys of houses showing this kind of distress should be left strictly to the structural engineer , as should prefabricated concrete houses , and those made of wattle and clay ( there are some ! ) . |
| 3 | A number of proposals addressing this issue have been considered including the " Fifth Directive " concerning company structures and the powers and duties of governing bodies . |
| 4 | As such it was to become inextricably bound up with a number of conflicts surrounding such provision . |
| 5 | On two occasions , the IBA has delayed transmission of programmes involving former security service personnel , fearing that the Authority might be joined in a prosecution under the Official Secrets Act . |
| 6 | In the follow-up work , which continued for several weeks , the class worked on the design of castles inventing all manner of ingenious devices to prevent unwanted intruders or attackers getting in , went on a site visit to a castle , produced drawings and models and carried out a great deal of oral work , all inspired by the original story . |
| 7 | It was possible to feel the antagonism and hatred of the two sets of guards facing each other across the frontier . |
| 8 | On the one hand one rather likes to find examples of animals helping each other , out of a confused feeling that it will somehow strengthen human motives for altruism to know that the lower creation can be altruistic too . |
| 9 | Only one entry is allowed per form , but a competitor may send in any number of entries providing each entry is on an entry form from Parents magazine . |
| 10 | We may have many hundreds of clients accessing that database all passing over large pieces of code , and obviously this Four G L code is not a message-based protocol , it is in fact a language which we 're using in the wrong manner . |
| 11 | ‘ In the first place , there is the doctrine , which may now perhaps be regarded as a rule of evidence , that , if a voluntary disposition in favour of the husband is impeached , the burden of establishing that it was not improperly or unfairly procured may be placed upon him by proof of circumstances raising any doubt or suspicion . |
| 12 | Twenty-three tonnes of clothes and blankets gathered by Oxfam , on their way to thousands of refugees facing another winter in the camps . |
| 13 | A series of articles outlining this strategy of revolutionary quality rather than quantity was published in Nationalism Today throughout 1987 . |
| 14 | These are series of movements following each other smoothly and in a logical fashion . |
| 15 | Campaigns have been held across a number of universities asking this question to raise awareness about AIDS and HIV . |
| 16 | A population of individuals adopting this strategy could not be invaded by any mutant . |
| 17 | The role of GDA 's Business Location Service is to deliver the best of Glasgow to meet the needs of organisations facing such location decisions . |
| 18 | Examples of organisations requiring such uniformity might be the armed services , or some government departments ( eg. those dealing with the payment of social security , supplementary benefits , pensions etc ) . |
| 19 | Due to the wide number of organisations providing this type of assistance Lothian Region Development Authority ( LRDA ) concentrate their direct grant aid on existing businesses wishing to develop , however , I have enclosed a list of the grant funds available from other organisations . |
| 20 | A module name can be specified so that only the the names of packages containing this module are shown . |
| 21 | At the end of this part of the presentation we 'll also see a short videotape which erm discusses the experiences of one of customers using this architecture . |
| 22 | The first band of earnings attracting this contribution should run up to what is now called the lower earnings limit . |
| 23 | The numbers of tenancies expiring each year are approximately equal . |
| 24 | This feature is called the Markov property and a sequence of observations possessing this property is called a Markov chain . |
| 25 | The spacious living area of his suite was as luxurious as everything else she had seen of this hotel — a pair of couches facing each other across a low table , two individual chairs at an angle close to the window , with a desk and a bar supplying practical touches . |
| 26 | The council grew so tired of lorries cutting this corner short and hitting the casement of the listed building next to it that it had to build a specially high kerb . |
| 27 | The office door shuddered behind her , and a baying , as of hounds savaging each other , filled the suddenly silent wards . |
| 28 | A number of stories using such imagery were run by both the quality and the popular press during this period , but similar arguments are to be found in parliamentary debates ( Hansard , vol. 84 , 21 October 1985 , cols. 30-.46 , 388 ) , and even in official reports produced by the police on the riots in Birmingham and London . |
| 29 | Apart from a general limitation relating to development which ‘ requires or involves the formation , laying out or material widening of a means of access to an existing highway which is a trunk or classified road or creates an obstruction to the view of persons using any highway by vehicular traffic at or near any bend , corner , junction or intersection so as to be likely to cause danger to such persons , particular conditions are also laid down for each of the different classes of development listed . |
| 30 | This would increase the proportion of patients attracting some deprivation payment to their practice from the current 9% to about 20% of the population . |