Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There 's a , I mean there 's a school shop and they sort of sell back pack , might have got back pack there .
2 Thirdly , rule-specification is a means of ‘ job enlargement ’ , a process of elaborating housework tasks so they take up endlessly increasing amounts of time .
3 Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time .
4 Many teachers — and parents — believe that the core of mastering reading skill lies only in individual contact between adult and child .
5 For someone in the early stages of mastering Coke throat-burn like myself , this is impressive .
6 The development of different methods of handling land transfer , especially inter-generational land transfer , introduced further variations within the cultural mosaic .
7 It will be capable of handling Hercules aircraft , A rock runway , will be built at Davis , which will take planes up to Boeing 707 size .
8 Given the personalities involved and problems of handling union funds , conflicts of this kind were inevitable .
9 The coffee stall proved to be very successful and R. T. Smith , who had a heart of gold and a knack of handling welfare problems , gave up his job with Thornycroft 's , in order to found , in 1880 , the Chiswick Mission and he was successful in finding homes for children who had been left motherless , but were not eligible to be accepted into orphanages .
10 Further work may clarify the differences between these two methods of handling overflow records over a wider range of conditions .
11 On another the conflict is sometimes portrayed as between older , established ways of handling pollution control and newer , more ‘ scientific ’ approaches in which environmental impact in its widest sense is the primary concern .
12 The 238S is also capable of handling MIDI/FSK sync tones and SMPTE time code for syncronising MIDI sequencers , and there 's an optional remote control and footswitch for hands-free operation .
13 ‘ It offers them an environmentally responsible means of handling sodium sulphate while providing overall economic benefits , ’ said product development manager Sarah Galbraith .
14 The Welsh Office has shown itself barely capable of handling planning matters referred to it under the appeals system .
15 The espousal of informalism as the answer to critiques of the effectiveness of judicial methods of handling family disputes is likely to give rise to disappointment .
16 Salton has reviewed the methods of handling information retrieval , while a number of authors have described specific techniques that offer advantages in particular situations .
17 However , error introduced into digital map databases through the digitizing process is often ignored because the characteristics of digitizing error have not been fully defined and because no practical means of handling input data uncertainty exist within proprietary GIS software .
18 A full ‘ test ’ ( assuming that such a notion of ‘ testing ’ is meaningful in this context ) of Freudian theory would have to bring in the hypothesis about the causal links between the nuclear family , the Oedipus complex , the methods of handling infant sexuality in middle-class , Western culture , and the personality types which are needed in advanced industrial society .
19 a particular focus on how and how far central-local relations are a means of articulating service policies ( objectives , goals and service paradigms ) — as opposed to resource controls , financing planning ( capital and revenue ) , and capital project design specifications — and the interaction of these different components of central-local relations ;
20 Propping up the bottom of the top 100 was , you guessed it , another compilation of repeat film footage .
21 Not just the fun of zapping Space Invaders , or defending the Earth from noxious aliens , but the fun of challenging the computer to brain puzzlers .
22 Nevertheless we saw in the context of rotating Couette flow ( Section 17.5 ) that there are some cases ( summarized by curve A of Fig. 17.6 ) for which there are marked similarities between the unstable modes and the observed motion when the critical condition is just exceeded .
23 Under the system of rotating leadership Mesic was due to assume office on May 15 as the first non-communist president .
24 Overhead the sky still scintillated , but there was a film of green up there among the pinks and blues , an avocado tinge of beautifying city sickness
25 Hopefully , further research may lead to a way of quantifying tendon strength and thereby possibly being able to identify animals at risk from tendon injury prior to starting training .
26 Once in he could lose himself among the excited household , and never be in one place long enough to be an object of suspicion , until he could find a means of encountering Ralf Isambard alone .
27 At least she was not in imminent danger of encountering Fen Marshall .
28 And now that she was free of the fear of encountering Gareth Davis on her walks , she revelled in exploring the grounds of her home .
29 A policy of targeting money supply is also criticized by Keynesians for similar reasons .
30 A policy of targeting money supply can therefore add to the volatility of the velocity of circulation ( V ) .
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