Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the plant 's best known activity as a manufacturer of water-cooled mainframes will stay firmly in the IBM fold and notionally expanded as the construction of air-cooled ES/9000s moves from Valencia in Spain , although the rate at which mainframe sales are falling suggests that this will be only a short-term boost . |
| 2 | Before such people can act together , a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when they all know that they are ready to begin . |
| 3 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 70 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 4 | Of 70 injectors interviewed in depth , only 25% reported never having shared syringes ; 57% reporting reusing syringes in the previous six months , using a range of cleaning agents including household bleach . |
| 5 | The data will also permit dynamic analysis since within the short period of 70 years covered by these records , villagers lived first under three resident minor gentlemen , then under a powerful and well connected one ( Nathaniel Bacon ) and , finally , under an absentee one ( Sir Roger Townshend ) . |
| 6 | Thus when endothelium was stripped from rabbit aorta in vivo prostacyclin production at the luminal surface of the vessel was virtually absent and recovery of prostacyclin production was slow over a period of 70 days coinciding with the appearance of neointimal cells ( Eldor et al , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | At Stocks Hill Huggate is an individually designed and superbly appointed detached country house of spacious proportions situated on an elevated plot of some one third of an acre . |
| 8 | Of forty-seven painters documented in Cuzco during the period , thirty-five were Indians , seven criollos or mestizos , four Spaniards , and one Italian . |
| 9 | The pre-eminent virtue attached to jade contributed in a variety of ways to the smooth working of the kind of hierarchical society reflected in the works of Confucius ( 551–479 B.C. ) . |
| 10 | None the less , the supporters of the Duke of Northumberland lost no opportunity to represent her as a staunch papist , and attempted to make use of anti-papal fears to win support for their rival candidate for the throne , Jane Grey . |
| 11 | The Region has a contract with the Consortium ‘ Venezia Disinquinamento ’ ( Venice De-pollution ) for the purification of waters draining into the Lagoon from the surrounding hinterland , and a contract for the provision of technical services required ( including all the legal and administrative procedures ) to de-pollute the Lagoon , the historic centre of Venice and the towns of Mira and Chioggia . |
| 12 | The conference , organised by the World Bank and European Investment Bank and successor to one held in Barcelona in 1989 , aimed to draw up a programme of technical assistance to protect the Mediterranean from pollution . |
| 13 | Mercosur Foreign Ministers attended a two-day meeting with their European Community ( EC ) counterparts in Guimaraes , Portugal , in early May , during which they complained about EC protectionism and agricultural subsidies ; the EC repeated its offer of technical help to assist in the regional integration of the Mercosur countries [ see p. 38910 for May meeting of the Group of Rio and the EC ] . |
| 14 | This chapter considers the use of expert determination in : ( 1 ) energy and mining contracts ( 7.2 ) ; ( 2 ) shipbuilding contracts ( 7.3 ) ; ( 3 ) construction contracts ( 7.4 ) ; ( 4 ) computer contracts ( 7.5 ) ; which display the following features discussed in Chapter 6 : ( 5 ) the use of technical experts drawing on expertise not directly associated with valuation ; ( 6 ) the use of technical experts to act as general dispute resolvers ; and ( 7 ) the use of " two-tier " dispute resolution procedures . |
| 15 | This chapter considers the use of expert determination in : ( 1 ) energy and mining contracts ( 7.2 ) ; ( 2 ) shipbuilding contracts ( 7.3 ) ; ( 3 ) construction contracts ( 7.4 ) ; ( 4 ) computer contracts ( 7.5 ) ; which display the following features discussed in Chapter 6 : ( 5 ) the use of technical experts drawing on expertise not directly associated with valuation ; ( 6 ) the use of technical experts to act as general dispute resolvers ; and ( 7 ) the use of " two-tier " dispute resolution procedures . |
| 16 | The idea was originated by Guinness and produced by a team of technical experts led by Anthony Daniels , an actor best known for his role as the golden robot C3PO in the Star Wars series of films . |
| 17 | The late 1960s threw up extensive demands for public bodies to be more open and responsive to community groups and sectional interests ; the demand was for plan making to be a negotiable activity between interested parties , rather than a matter of technical decisions handed down from a monopoly elite in government . |
| 18 | Unlike Ash , he can still function effectively when ripped in half ( after all , 57 years of technical progress have elapsed ) and saves her life as well as Newt 's . |
| 19 | Preliminary drafts of technical reports have been prepared . |
| 20 | Technical Documentation : As aircraft become more sophisticated integrating many technologies , so the proliferation of technical manuals continues . |
| 21 | This legal and political advantage is balanced by the higher order of technical complexity involved in exploiting sulphide ores . |
| 22 | The social effects of this complex of technical changes have been diverse . |
| 23 | The White Paper programme introduced a fundamental policy change to expedite and implement the removal of technical barriers leading to the ‘ harmonisation ’ of standards . |
| 24 | A high level of technical expertise meant that Israel almost certainly possessed warheads small enough for delivery on its Jericho II missiles ( maximum range 750 km ) . |
| 25 | Copland — was , at 44 , getting on in years for commando work , but as a works manager in civilian life he had the experience of technical organisation needed for such ventures . |
| 26 | The series of technical evaluations began in October for a six-month trial . |
| 27 | The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience . |
| 28 | A lack of technical competence shouted from the report , asserted Cook . |
| 29 | Work on the management of technical change includes reports on the coal industry , the steel industry , the machine tool , telephone subscriber equipment and food and drink process equipment industries ( in Germany , Switzerland , Italy , the USA , and Japan as well as in Britain ) , the development of cable networks , and the uses of information technology in the insurance industry , the accountancy profession and local government . |
| 30 | The direction of technical change has been explored in a series of papers initiated by the work of Kennedy ( 1964 ) , von Weizsacker ( 1966 ) and Samuelson ( 1965 ) . |