Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right . |
| 2 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 3 | Soviet spokesmen could argue that although the USSR had for decades proselytised the notion of a national liberation or solidarity ‘ front ’ of Third World states , aligned at least politically to the Soviet bloc , it had not created regional groupings or coalitions of states militarily tied to the USSR or the Warsaw Pact and it had supported the opposition of the non-aligned states to military blocs . |
| 4 | Marx 's theory is an attempt to accept both types of accounts of the Orient and to explain the apparent unity of states often made up of previously independent units which nevertheless co-operated in great communal works such as road building ( among the Inca ) and large-scale irrigation ( in Asia ) . |
| 5 | As the number of states contractually linked to the Soviet Union in this manner increased , it became apparent that Moscow hoped to construct a network of loose understandings on military security with Third World states and establish Soviet relations with them on a firmer institutional basis . |
| 6 | The range of values normally found for σ is from about 1.5 to 2.5 as shown in table 10.1 . |
| 7 | Since our experience of institutions is frequently other than the idealistic way they strive to represent themselves , the solidity of values apparently inherited from the past are called into question . |
| 8 | The statement of reasons merely referred to the current situation of the world market in fuel and declared that regard had been had to the bids received . |
| 9 | A clutch of products recently launched indicates the way anti-ageing technology is likely to develop in the future . |
| 10 | Here 's the chance to be creative on fabric and knitwear with an exciting new range of products recently introduced into the UK by the yarn company F W Bramwell & Co Ltd . |
| 11 | In presenting it that night , Robert Naish would most certainly have expected it to be rejected by the weight of bondholders already known to oppose redemption . |
| 12 | He saw Maud once in the Kurfûrstendamm , eating alone in a cafe and looking a little desolate , with a stack of coins already piled beside her plate although her meal had only just come . |
| 13 | The stationary and mobile phases are both liquids , which prevents overloading and reduces the loss due to absorption and denaturation of molecules commonly incurred by the solid phase technique . |
| 14 | Similarly , studies of the international transfer of technology by multinational firms find that transfer costs ( and times ) vary inversely with the amount of host country R&D , its manufacturing experience , and with the number of projects already transferred to the host country ( see Mansfield et al. , 1982 , and Teece , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | The increased scale of operations also ushered in another fashion of the 1980s — new management structures . |
| 16 | The computer 's instruction set has evolved to provide the facilities required by the programmer , or to provide as one instruction a group of operations commonly found together . |
| 17 | The history of the Community is the history of the pooling of policies previously attributed exclusively to nation states ; so the same may well happen to foreign and security policy . |
| 18 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 19 | The ability of donors to turn off the tap is often cherished as a means of enforcing economic discipline , or more specifically the sets of policies now associated with structural adjustment . |
| 20 | Ben-Eliezer launched a review of contracts already signed for another 14,000 housing units , now in various stages of planning and construction . |
| 21 | The plaintiffs , alerted by claims put forward against Abbey by Wessex for damages and repayment of moneys wrongly extracted from Wessex carried out their own investigations and now by these present proceedings allege a large commercial fraud . |
| 22 | In effect , this level of service would have brought authorities close to self-sufficiency , an objective which most experts now agree is unrealistic in view of the very large numbers of titles now published ( 60,000 annually in the BNB alone , compared with the 24,000 of Bourdillon 's day ) , and the speed and efficiency of national interlending services in developed countries . |
| 23 | The higher stages include adaptations of a wide variety of titles originally published for native speakers . |
| 24 | St George 's Hill Gallery is owned by Danish collector Kurt Andersen and will be showing the work of a number of artists now represented in national collections , including H.A . |
| 25 | The best examples of mansiones yet excavated in the small towns are probably those at Chelmsford ( p. 20 ) , Godmanchester and Catterick ( cf. fig. 4 A–C ) . |
| 26 | Under it was a narrow bed covered with a brown army blanket and beside it a chair with a collection of objects neatly arranged . |
| 27 | On the question of provenance the V&A 's acquisition policy states : ‘ Every effort must be made to prevent the acquisition of objects illegally excavated , appropriated or exported ’ . |
| 28 | Thus , for instance , there were places within the lands held by the king-duke which were subject to a hierarchy of courts ultimately controlled by the Parlement , the supreme court of France which sat in Paris . |
| 29 | He glanced over at the mound of tablecloths hastily borrowed from the tables of the unused tea-stall , under which the body of the late Councillor Phipps was now reposing . |
| 30 | It may be that they are in fact onycophorans , a group of arthropods now represented by caterpillar-like velvet worms that burrow through dead wood in Australia . |