Example sentences of "of a [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Support for a fixed Channel link soon emerged as a prime candidate for assistance although the British and French governments remained committed to the idea of a privately financed tunnel . |
2 | The French are as committed as the British to the concept of a privately financed Channel Tunnel but are also concerned to maximise its benefits for the surrounding region , and the economy as a whole , by the judicious use of public investment . |
3 | Nkrumah also claimed to be against the existence of a privately owned press . |
4 | The opening paragraph of The Autocar 's November 1965 test of a privately owned car ( to much the same spec as our example ) read : ‘ Few readers indeed will get this far before turning to the data page which follows , for the name of AC Cobra is synonymous with performance . |
5 | The study was based on structured interviews with some 370 former employees of a privately owned steel company in Sheffield who were made redundant in and shortly after the summer of 1979 . |
6 | Moreover , all the circuit properties of a line are distributed along its length , uniformly so in the ideal situation of a uniformly constructed line . |
7 | GREEN-eyed rivals tried to oust the reigning champ of a best kept garden contest — with a scorched earth policy . |
8 | Their vision was of a functionally differentiated society in which ‘ the individual is now created by the social organism of which he forms a part ’ and in which a state , founded on democracy tempered by respect for the expert , is required to co-ordinate the social order . |
9 | We have shown that TCR -β rearrangement or , more likely , expression of a functionally rearranged TCR -β gene , is not only necessary but also sufficient for driving most of the immature IL-2R-positive DN thymocytes to the DP stage and for expanding the pool of thymocytes . |
10 | It may be the more difficult case of a temporarily reduced capacity at the time when his decision was made . |
11 | In fact , it 's part of a shrewdly calculated subtext . |
12 | In fact the two-hour film due to be shown on ITV on Saturday April 18 is an extraordinary study of a little known period of T.E . |
13 | They consist of a clearly stated objective , which is feasible and practical , stated in terms of quantity when applicable and achievable in a definite time period . |
14 | A planned policy in relation to retirements from the firm is also more likely to strengthen the loyalties of junior partners by giving them sight of a clearly defined career progression within the firm . |
15 | This encouraged the growth of a clearly defined body of hereditary peers , for it eliminated the risks that an earldom would pass into other hands by marriage , that the lands would become separate from the title , or that they would be divided up amongst coheiresses . |
16 | A problem in studying acute renal failure is the lack of a clearly agreed definition . |
17 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
18 | Mother , daughter and father with son on his shoulders holding a toy gun at the apex of a neatly composed pyramid . |
19 | They stop the contents of a partially filled sack moving around , keeping the load close to the back which is easier to carry . |
20 | For many people this has the advantage of convenience but also for those who pay income tax at the standard rate there is the advantage of a partially hidden subsidy . |
21 | A less exclusive emphasis is now placed on tracheational studies and , in spite of the opposition of Needham ( 1935 ) , there is a tendency to emphasize the fact that among the lower , generalized orders the wings are longitudinally plicated after the manner of a partially opened fan . |
22 | Given that the Cockcroft foundation list can be turned into operational criteria , it would be an example of a partially ordered structure in terms of topic area . |
23 | Of course , the word ‘ teaching ’ traditionally has connotations of formal instruction of a closely supervised group of children , which is hardly appropriate to most family settings , although with recent trends in primary education towards informal individualized teaching methods , the parallel is much more valid . |
24 | A uniformly distributed load can be supported by a hanging , catenary chain one thirtieth the cross section of a simply supported beam . |
25 | This is that , where there is judicial uncertainty over the meaning of a legislative text , in the absence of any consequent overt expression of a contrary parliamentary view , certain categories of statement on the effect of the provision of a Bill by one of a narrowly defined group of parliamentarians , if not later withdrawn or varied , can be assumed to be an expression of parliamentary intention . |
26 | ’ This fragment from the dead planet Ichael , ’ Posi then added , ’ is part of a nearly forgotten data package held at a university on Quarley 's World , a planet located on the Rim Beyond the Rim ’ . |
27 | La Différence pays tribute to the American painter Joan Mitchell , who died recently , in the form of a lavishly illustrated monograph by Michel Waldberg ( FFr600 ) . |
28 | A half-inch of pop in the bottom of a wide mouthed beaker would have been far better . |
29 | He could hear the pipes chugging and banging together and from below came the rattling of pots in the kitchen , and the faint smell of a freshly lit fire . |
30 | The one we 're having is placed into a tiny gauze bag overnight with the calix of a freshly plucked lotus . ’ |