Example sentences of "of [adj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research shows 60 per cent of those in homes over the age of 70 have impaired hearing , yet less than one-quarter have hearing aids . |
| 2 | It is evident that he did live there in his later years as the Minutes of 1771 agree to provide his successor with lodgings in Chelsea , ‘ until such time as Mr. Miller has quit his apartments in the greenhouse ’ . |
| 3 | Defence was linked in the Unionist mind with imperial consolidation through tariffs : the new policy of 1901–2 had followed directly from the military weakness revealed by the Boer War and the approach of probable European conflict reinforced the same cause . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the pound showed some signs of stabilising having slipped below the psychological DM3 level earlier in the week . |
| 5 | We will also look at a simple form of self-massage to help banish cellulite . |
| 6 | It is another case of Labour trying to give jobs to the boys in the north-east . |
| 7 | Mori 's analysis of the voting intentions of some 22,000 people reveals a similar pattern of Labour failing to gain ground among those who would be most likely to benefit from its policies . |
| 8 | We had set a target of 50 tonnes per month maximum of caustic lost to drain and quickly met and indeed exceeded that . |
| 9 | The reputation of 602 had gone before it . |
| 10 | The arcane offence of scandalum magnatum was created by a statute of 1275 designed to protect " the great men of the realm " against discomfiture from stories which might arouse the people against them . |
| 11 | So far , only 1,234 of 1,920 have entered into negotiations with universities for permanent positions and only 85 have been given contracts . |
| 12 | As a result , the framers of the statutes of 1861 had to saddle serfs with mortgages , which was very far from their original intention . |
| 13 | The Listing Particulars Directive of 1980 sought to harmonise disclosure requirements , with a view to eventual mutual recognition of listing particulars . |
| 14 | Most of the semaphores of 1980 have gone , virtually no large gantries remaining in total use . |
| 15 | By the early 1960s the largest metropolitan areas in Britain had moved into ‘ absolute decentralization ’ , whereby the principal settlements of each began to lose population , and by 1971 several of these areas were facing overall population decline , with residential decentralization taking place across their boundaries and spilling over into adjacent city-regions or further afield ( Hall et al. , 1973 ; Spence el al. , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | I mean I know when we moved house I had folder and one of each had got in it the recycling directory |
| 17 | But the question remains whether , in practice and in theory , it would not be fairer to retain several separate qualified defences which labelled the circumstances of each mitigated killing more accurately . |
| 18 | There are fewer organisations in the market than hitherto ( although the demands of each have increased proportionately ) . |
| 19 | A child of eight had killed for sweets . |
| 20 | ‘ After the Sender of Eight has finished with your friend . ’ |
| 21 | A Jacobite wine glass , enamelled with a portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie and one of eight thought to have been made in Edinburgh around 1765 , is expected to make £15–20,000 ( $25–35,000 ) . |
| 22 | From this office a staff of 750 tries to control the 40,200 branches of Russia 's Savings Bank , or Sberbank . |
| 23 | On the Spanish left the period between the November 1933 election and the end of 1935 became known as the bienio negro , the ‘ two black years ’ , during which the reforms of 1931–3 were reversed or flouted , socio-economic power reverted sharply to landlords and employers , the left itself experienced unprecedented repression and the seeds of civil war were decisively sown . |
| 24 | These tactics were necessary because the major national political issues of 1935 had proved in practice to be disastrous flops for the BUF . |
| 25 | The number of people in England and Wales over the age of 75 has increased by 20 per cent since 1981 ; and those over 85 by almost 40 per cent , according to the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 26 | The profits of war were not to be found only in France : a grateful king rewarded his commanders with grants at home , and the wounds of 1341 seem to have been healed by success in war . |
| 27 | Mew modes of working have grown up round word processors , Apple Macs , data banks ( and now ) electronic cuttings services . |
| 28 | William Daniell in his Animated Nature of 1807–12 had tried to convey not only background but also atmosphere . |
| 29 | A " loyalty loan " at the end of 1796 had produced a subscription of £18 million in less than sixteen hours . |
| 30 | He was difficult to live with , impossibly single-minded over his career , yet none of that seemed to matter as she balanced the weight of her new discovery against all she knew of him . |