Example sentences of "of [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The craft workers loved complicated and attractive patterns and looked constantly for new ways of elaborating old motifs , like the papyrus , and for new sources of artistic inspiration . |
| 2 | This refers to the tendency of attributing human motives to social institutions , in this case of thinking about organisations as if they were pursuing the goals in question . |
| 3 | Wittgenstein 's discussion is certainly not peppered with references to narrow-front migration , smoke-bathing , or Skinner boxes , ( nor is that of Regan , Singer , Frey , or Midgley herself , come to that ) , since his concern is to clarify the implications of our everyday ways of attributing psychological concepts like hope , fear , belief , understanding , and so on . |
| 4 | Far from being dry and insignificant facts , the questions of attributing particular pots to particular people and places are treated with real and infectious enthusiasm . |
| 5 | Yet let us always beware of jumping to conclusions , of assuming too readily that those experienced parliamentary draftsmen did not know their business and , perhaps above all , of attributing legislative intention too readily simply because we think that we , the judges , had we been the legislators , would have found such an intention sensible or morally or politically desirable . |
| 6 | Many district planning authorities in fact use standard conditions and some have a policy of attaching certain conditions to particular types of development , e.g. it is the normal practice of some local planning authorities to impose a standard condition on all hot food shops requiring that , ‘ No noise , dust , grit , fumes or odours shall be emitted from the development , which in the opinion of the local planning authority create a nuisance in the locality ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ You are ’ messages often have the effect of attaching negative descriptions or labels to the young person 's character : ‘ You are thoroughly bad ’ ; ‘ You 're the most conceited , selfish person I 've ever known ’ . |
| 8 | Although both James and Miller concern themselves with the effects of attaching verbal responses to the cues to be discriminated , there is no reason to restrict the analysis they offer to such responses . |
| 9 | It sees ways of making certain that small points of correction are dealt with speedily , and thus the chance of devoting extra energy to the broader guidelines and the delineation of greater issues . |
| 10 | It sees ways of making certain that small points of correction are dealt with speedily , and thus the chance of devoting extra energy to the broader guidelines and the delineation of greater issues . |
| 11 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |
| 12 | Instead of devoting more time and money to the inherently unlikely possibility that this organism alone among replicating particles contains no nucleic acids , researchers should concentrate on cracking its tough proteinaceous capsule . |
| 13 | It must be borne in mind , that after 14 months of lay each flock should be depopulated , and the house/s completely cleaned out and creosoted . |
| 14 | Mr. Nicholas Bennett : Does my right Hon. Friend agree that one of the major ways in which unemployment has been reduced in Wales is through the Governments regional policy of re-locating Civil Service and other Government agency jobs to the regions and Wales ? |
| 15 | But it is incumbent on us to transform man at the same rate so that he will be capable of mastering new techniques and new ways of thinking . ’ |
| 16 | Since subjects learnt at school have been codified and developed through written texts , and written texts are written in Standard English , it follows that children , to have any hope of mastering these subjects , must learn to read and write Standard English . |
| 17 | But getting the internal cost structure right for the 1990s has not simply been a case of manning level reductions . |
| 18 | The advantage of the Garrett system is that it is a convenient way of handling largish numbers of PP3s . |
| 19 | Wholesale and retail deposits command different interest rates partly because of the relative administrative convenience of handling wholesale funds on a large scale rather than handling large numbers of small deposits . |
| 20 | Mr Risbridger said they planned to invest and upgrade dock facilities by developing riverside berths capable of handling 8,000 tonnes . |
| 21 | The South African government has approved a project to build a plant capable of handling 500,000 tons of imported waste a year . |
| 22 | Steventon-Rogers had admitted two separate offences of handling stolen goods and one of shop-lifting . |
| 23 | Jacqueline MacPherson faced a charge of handling stolen goods . |
| 24 | The appellants , Anastasis Christou and Christopher Wright , on 7 October 1991 in the Crown Court at Wood Green before Judge McMullan and a jury , pleaded not guilty to indictments charging Christou with seven counts of burglary paired with seven counts of handling stolen goods and Wright with 11 counts of burglary paired with 11 counts of handling stolen goods . |
| 25 | The appellants , Anastasis Christou and Christopher Wright , on 7 October 1991 in the Crown Court at Wood Green before Judge McMullan and a jury , pleaded not guilty to indictments charging Christou with seven counts of burglary paired with seven counts of handling stolen goods and Wright with 11 counts of burglary paired with 11 counts of handling stolen goods . |
| 26 | ( If another person dishonestly agreed to buy , he will be guilty of handling stolen goods . ) |
| 27 | Clause 172 is also redrafted to clarify the law and reads : [ a ] person is guilty of handling stolen goods if ( otherwise than in the course of the stealing ) knowing or believing them to be stolen goods , he dishonestly — |
| 28 | Magistrates at Milton Keynes found Paul Stellato who 's twenty two guilty of handling stolen goods and sentenced him to three months in jail . |
| 29 | Magistrates at Milton Keynes found Paul Stellato who 's twenty two guilty of handling stolen goods and sentenced him to three months in jail . |
| 30 | Magistrates at Milton Keynes found Paul Stellato who 's twenty two guilty of handling stolen goods and sentenced him to three months in jail . |