Example sentences of "of [det] [noun pl] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting to note that it is the present policy of some authorities to allow such a prisoner to die rather than to submit him to the indignity of forcible feeding . |
| 2 | Although the slump in financial markets affected the ability of some companies to raise cheap money , its impact on the economy at large was limited . |
| 3 | One example of this changed attitude to the role of the newspaper in the post-War period was the readiness of some newspapers to treat all political parties with equal respect . |
| 4 | Ex parte CM was one of several important cases in this field , and demonstrates the determination of some parents to secure appropriate provision for their child . |
| 5 | The grain size distributions of some sediments yield linear log-normal cumulative plots , but others deviate from the linear patterns to a greater or lesser degree , especially in the tails of the distributions . |
| 6 | The exchange closed down 9.5 points , with prices of some stocks falling 50 per cent . |
| 7 | Lowland areas were not only important for pasture ; seasonal flooding of such areas attracted large numbers of wildfowl which were an important source of food in such localities for a very long time . |
| 8 | Tests have shown that about half of the traditional folk remedies of such areas have pharmaceutical potential . |
| 9 | A bank with a Luxembourg branch holding euro-DM deposits will instruct its correspondent bank in West Germany on how to deal with its DM nostro account balance , as the euro-DM deposit is loaned to another bank or non-bank borrower for use ( for an explanation of the euro-currency loan market and diagrammatic treatment of such transactions see 5.4.1 ) . |
| 10 | The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo . |
| 11 | But the ability of such institutions to perform this role has become increasingly difficult . |
| 12 | The presence of such oases made human travel and nomadic existence possible in arid lands . |
| 13 | The ‘ structuralists ’ argue that the causes of such behaviours lie deep in the social organization of society , and particularly in its class divisions , and that they can only be radically modified by collective actions designed to curb the power of the purveyors of cigarettes and alcohol and to reduce social inequalities . |
| 14 | It seems that the use of such powers to obtain compulsory response to interrogation gradually faded away , and in practice were replaced by a caution , well before the caution became mandatory in 1848 . |
| 15 | But the users of such materials dislike that idea , arguing that they would then be undercut in third markets by rivals using free German rubbish . |
| 16 | The existence of such boundaries has important implications in nearly every sphere of organizational management . |
| 17 | Proponents of the view that Keynesian stabilization policies are futile have been quick to point out the key role that wage and price rigidity play in justifying such policies , and the need for advocates of such policies to provide some theory of why prices should be rigid in the way they claim they are . |
| 18 | The implications of such reforms caused growing social unrest and there were strikes in the public sector , which was threatened with mass redundancies . |
| 19 | In 1987 , 10 per cent of such women aged 25–9 were protected by sterilization , 24 per cent of women aged 30–4 , 46 per cent aged 35–9 . |
| 20 | The crude and splenetic expression and presentation of such views suggested irrational pathological prejudice rather than a coherent ideology . |
| 21 | Secondly , it is not even probable that she would have known much about the progress of the book at the time , except in the most general terms : she was not often in her brother 's company and his letters to her during these years do not suggest that details of such matters formed any part of their common ground . |
| 22 | The use of such systems involves high costs for telecommunications , database royalties and CPU time . |
| 23 | The purpose of such deeds seemed obscure — why carry a bike up a mountain only to have to push it down again ? |
| 24 | Several of the other known members of such groups had Arab connections or were opposed to Zionist ambitions in Palestine . |
| 25 | Advocates of such rights raise complicated legal questions and seem to be extending a legal status to non-humans . |
| 26 | But the possible role of antiviral drugs in the treatment of such cancers remains unknown . |
| 27 | The vast majority of such jurisdictions allow all forms of relevant evidence to be admitted , leaving the court with the task of assigning such evidence an appropriate weight , according to the circumstances . |
| 28 | The titles of such degrees bear this out : headings such as physics , geography , sociology , English and history refer to the well-established and familiar ‘ bodies of knowledge ’ discussed in Chapter 2 , which can constitute an ‘ internal ’ rationale for the course of study without any necessity to refer outside or beyond to the world of work . |
| 29 | The authors of such statements cite each other in support of their beliefs , but the criticcal reader is hard put to find reference to any systematic test of their accuracy . |
| 30 | In addition , a further 20% of such patients had non-tuberculous mycobacterial DNA in their lung washes . |