Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pembrokeshire heads my list of favourite UK walking areas . |
| 2 | I reached out an arm in the darkness and found my pile of loose coins , placed , as usual , to the left of the groundsheet . |
| 3 | It rewards my years of hard work a hundredfold . |
| 4 | County Durham needs its pockets of green land and wildlife habitats for endangered species . |
| 5 | The nationalist government of Edward Fenech Adami maintained its policy of encouraging West European investment [ see p. 37014 ] , liberalizing trade and foreign investment , removing import licences , and promoting export industries and private-sector employment . |
| 6 | The Chatichai government maintained its policy of increased support for the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) and the Vietnam governments alongside a sterner approach towards the Thai-based Cambodian resistance . |
| 7 | This may limit the ability of these hospitals to meet their pledges of maximum inpatient waiting times of two years . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ he continued , ‘ I know we all call this place the summer-house , and it is only used to keep salmon nets and baskets in nowadays , but it is really a gazebo , where the local gentry used to meet their ladies of ill repute in the old days . ’ |
| 9 | After listing anxiety-provoking situations from their personal experience , participants in the study will describe their perceptions of these situations in terms of the three theoretical models . |
| 10 | In the immediate aftermath of war , the Conservative Party had organised its understanding of juvenile crime around different assumptions . |
| 11 | The research will document the manner in which Metropolitan Committees have organised their consideration of such ideas and how they have developed policy proposals . |
| 12 | The second section will discuss her views of female friendship . |
| 13 | The partnership sensibly place their account of five Seidl setting before the Rellstab and Heine sings . |
| 14 | Would it be a proper recognition of the quality of their teaching and administrative staff to accept their judgment of academic standards absolutely and make them mature degree awarding bodies ? |
| 15 | To get round this , the ant stations its herds of mealy bugs on fresh young foliage — as that is where the most wholesome sap is to be found — and when the level of amino acids drops , it simply ups and moves the bugs to a more nutritious spot . |
| 16 | In one discussion staff described their use of three word processors , two spreadsheets , one database and no less than four graphics packages . |
| 17 | To the hushed hall she described her feelings of real fear , of helplessness and panic . |
| 18 | Editor , — Martin R Howard and colleagues report their experience of preoperative provision of autologous blood in the Northern region between December 1989 and November 1991 . |
| 19 | The marchioness loosened her mantle of grey cloth and threw it over a chair . |
| 20 | Although the Vatican has records of a physic garden in 1277 , it was not until the sixteenth century that centres of learning , first in Italy and then elsewhere , began to establish their gardens of medicinal plants . |
| 21 | Nearly every chamber has its reservoir of running water at the door ; on every side are gardens , delightful alleys , shady retreats , streams , fountains and grottoes . |
| 22 | While Tyneside has its share of industrial dereliction , in Newcastle it was able to boast of a vibrant city and the region 's key cultural and educational institutions . |
| 23 | Like all teams Oxford has its share of overseas imports … is British ice hockey catching up with the North Americans ? |
| 24 | Britain 's Overseas Development Administration has its Manual of Environmental Appraisal which will presumably apply as much to East Europe as it does to the Third World . |
| 25 | Whether or not the cells that enter the feather germs make pigment is controlled by the feather germs , each of which has its set of positional values — each feather has its own address . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , my point is , you see , that gold also has its sort of magical field . |
| 27 | In late March the Indonesian government responded to recent attempts by various Western countries to establish a link between human rights concerns and development aid by announcing its rejection of all aid from the Netherlands and the disbandment of the Netherlands-chaired 14-member aid consortium , the Inter-Governmental Group on Indonesia ( IGGI ) . |
| 28 | They expound their policy of minimal state interference to find the ‘ least detrimental available alternative ’ — one in which child placement and procedure for child placement ‘ maximises , in accord with the child 's sense of time , the child 's opportunity for being wanted and for maintaining on a continuous , unconditional and permanent basis , a relationship with at least one adult who is or will become the child 's psychological parent ’ ( Goldstein et al. , 1979 , p. 189 ) . |
| 29 | They will maintain firm control of public spending with the aim of keeping its share of national income on a downward trend over time . |
| 30 | The JIT approach developed by the Japanese also reinforced their concept of total quality control . |