Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adv] [verb] " 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 | In addition , while referring in his letter to his interpretation of s 74(a) , ICTA 1988 , the inspector of taxes completely ignores the provisions of s 401 , ICTA 1988 . |
| 3 | But can you imagine your average suddenly-made-redundant collector of taxes happily spending the rest of his or her working life scraping the scraps off the dinner plates of the overfed rich ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | It was known that a change was taking place and Perhaps it was felt the more because of the very success of the Concert ; humanitarian impulses and liberal assumptions had disguised the fact , axiomatic to professional diplomats , that the interests of states often conflicted . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The range of values normally found for σ is from about 1.5 to 2.5 as shown in table 10.1 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 12 | ( It is worth noting that titles of discourses often supply a broad explanatory context ; we might , for example , have called this extract ‘ The Piano Movers ’ , and immediately made it much more meaningful by doing so . ) |
| 13 | Lots of hairdressers now have accessory counters so why not have a rummage ? |
| 14 | HL lists consist of three highly positive followed by three highly negative adjectives ; LH lists consist of three highly negative followed by three highly positive qualities ; GD lists consist of adjectives gradually descending from highly positive to highly negative traits ; and in GA lists the order of adjectives is reversed ; R lists are random in terms of the adjective evaluation . |
| 15 | for a variety of reasons only work certain days . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A large number of products already incorporates the marks , and all new products , or those with redesigned packaging , will now display them . |
| 18 | The upward trend in the market as a whole indicates the arrival both of products effectively exploiting the utilities of electronic media and a growing acceptance and appreciation among information users of the value of these utilities . |
| 19 | The range of products previously tried on the current leg ulcer demonstrated not only the unsuitability of one product through every stage of healing , but also the frustration experienced by some nurses desperate to find the right product for a particular patient . |
| 20 | In the second half we 'll be describing how our er new generation of products really seek to address each of those challenges . |
| 21 | A clutch of products recently launched indicates the way anti-ageing technology is likely to develop in the future . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Finally , one of the students whom I had worked with a couple of summers previously came back to me just before I left post to discuss his third year project at Shrivenham and I was able to arrange for him to do a project involving the linking of a commercial graphical package to the expert system developed as part of the war time operation aid mentioned previously . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Modification of tRNAs normally occur in the nucleus on pre-tRNAs that are trimmed before passage out to the cytoplasm ( 11 ) . |
| 28 | Strip Search Two : An exhibition of the new breeds of comics also features characters as diverse as Tintin and Sid the Sexist , Krazy Kat and Biffa Bacon . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | He was sleeping with one arm encircling his head , small podge of fingers just touching his cheek . |