Example sentences of "of [noun] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now one of the Russian physiotherapists has come to their home in Lydbrook in the Forest of Dean to work intensively with Stephen . |
| 2 | Generally they are border plants of the usual herbaceous nature , which although needing plenty of moisture to grow prolifically , can not tolerate standing water . |
| 3 | The potential of graphs to communicate effectively is consequently being undermined . |
| 4 | Increased co-operation between states has been a significant feature of the post-1945 world order , reflecting the reduced ability of states to act autonomously in the global arena . |
| 5 | The Petition Committee , set up in February to gain support for the memorandum , appealed to the Labour , Liberal and Cooperative Parties , for the " parties of progress to work together " . |
| 6 | To lay the foundations in North West England for a regional business of sufficient scale , depth of resources and range of products to compete effectively against larger operators . |
| 7 | Anglo-Welsh have stated that one of their principal objectives is ‘ to lay the foundations in North West England for a regional business of sufficient scale , depth of resources and range of products to compete effectively against larger operators ’ . |
| 8 | He did not yet know whether Edward wished him to bring to Wales any of his nobles of Champagne to serve there . |
| 9 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |
| 10 | The major implications of these sales of rural council houses will be an eventual reduction in the ability of authorities to meet even their statutory obligations , let alone to use housing as a tool of social policy ( Phillips and Williams 1981 ) . |
| 11 | We need a change of heart to become truly unpossessive in our love for God and each other . |
| 12 | There are , however , some examples where the individual appears unable to adjust to a 24-hour routine in spite of attempts to do so . |
| 13 | There have been a number of attempts to establish empirically whether any general conclusions can be drawn on the extent of welfare losses throughout the economy due to the presence of monopoly . |
| 14 | A thorough examination of the inflationary repercussions of policies to reduce both classical and Keynesian unemployment needs to be undertaken before such policies can be advocated safely . |
| 15 | Even when Bevin as British foreign secretary speedily found himself entangled in tough disputes with the USSR , this did not lead him to follow Churchill 's line that Britain had of necessity to work as closely as possible with the United States . |
| 16 | Waiting for pin-pricks of mercury to run together |
| 17 | To help you beat the irritation of bites and stings this summer , we have a 100 bottles of Stingose to give away . |
| 18 | She had made her a cool and sweet-smelling bed of grasses inside a circle of powder to keep away ants and other insects . |
| 19 | The daughter at home has her moment of decision to face too : when she has to make the choice between committing herself , or taking flight , which in these more liberated times is almost always possible . |
| 20 | Seb shouted up to tell him what had happened and it took Dolly no more than a couple of minutes to hurry downstairs and throw open the cottage door . |
| 21 | In the intervening five years the socialists have allowed the national stock of houses to deteriorate gravely , have allowed the building industry to drift into an inefficient and wholly artificial pattern , and have done their best to disorganise the building materials industries . |
| 22 | But it 's an act of faith to say well , i you know well , I 'll go into a P E P . |
| 23 | " They asked if they might come to see the palais , but they had of course to remain outside in the gardens with their nurse where they can do no damage . " |
| 24 | The research will also examine areas where there was a refusal to abandon sole national control over policy in the face of proposals to do so . |
| 25 | That 's an immense chunk of grant to allocate early on but it allows you to budget carefully the meagre remains . |
| 26 | The Villain is a bit buzzy , too , often a problem with 24-fret 5-stringers due to the difficulty of getting three and a half octaves worth of notes to perform equally . |
| 27 | 5000 words covered 95.5% of text and could be derived from 56000 words of text , 15000 words covered 99.0% and required 640,000 words of text to determine this many individual words . |
| 28 | This was still a sizeable amount of text to process manually . |
| 29 | 17.22 The full development of both reading and writing in the secondary years requires a broad definition of text to encompass both literary and non literary forms . |
| 30 | Scientists are using their most powerful source of X-rays to put together a new picture of the structure of glass , one of the most versatile and familiar of materials |