Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts will normally refuse to allow claims of confidentiality in respect of the names and addresses of employees so as to prevent offers of other employment being made to them by departing staff ( see Baker v Gibbons [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 693 and Searle ( GD ) & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [ 1982 ] FSR 92 ) . |
| 2 | Roel Pieper says there 's room for both efforts , with USL more interested in the fault-tolerance and distributed computing aspects of microkernels rather than OSF 's emphasis on multiple personalities , especially attractive to OSF partners with numerous ‘ legacy ’ operating systems . |
| 3 | The Tories have been most active in rallying support , running 52 branches of Conservatives Abroad and claiming the support of four in five of those who register . |
| 4 | Overall , it 's best to leave the photographs out of the electronic side of things altogether and get them reproduced optically for you by your printer . |
| 5 | Characters can be built up as combinations of dots exactly as described above , while contour maps can be drawn by printing individual dots in the same way as a dot-matrix printer in bit-graphics mode . |
| 6 | Not only are biblical accounts of supernatural visitations during dreams and dreams foretelling the future repeated without comment , even where ambiguity exists , the authors writing for children insert more accounts of dreams rather than asserting that visitations happened to people who were awake . |
| 7 | He entered forcefully into local politics , strengthening his position in the town by the purchase of properties there and allying with the enemies of the unreformed municipal corporation of Fowey . |
| 8 | An increase in P is across the board , affecting all groups of workers equally and posing no threat to the structure of established wage differentials . |
| 9 | Made up of three National Certificate Modules , each cluster is designed to encourage students , especially those in schools , to take coherent groups of modules rather than choosing at random . |
| 10 | An accurate account would have to have regard to all those instances where a remedy has been accorded by a state party simply to forestall a successful application and to those cases , also , where breach had been avoided in the first place by reason of adjustment of procedures so as to ensure compliance with the Convention . |
| 11 | ‘ Women 's issues must become a central focus of organisations rather than trail as an afterthought at the end of an agenda ’ . |
| 12 | Discretion will allow officials to exercise some autonomy in their work and may allow the official to respond to the individual needs of clients rather than applying a set of standard rules . |
| 13 | In the view of general manager Alan Sinclair , most agents in Britain lean too heavily towards the mass marketing of packages rather than providing a proper travel service . |
| 14 | This may be so for the population of probationers generally but does not apply to the AEC sample . |
| 15 | Offering up a quick prayer that she would n't bump into any of the other cast members en route , she slipped into the corridor and made her way to Dane 's room , pausing at his door to steel herself as another onrush of nerves all but paralysed her . |
| 16 | Put any group of players together and watch the torture as they painfully suss out where they fit in the ability stakes , and watch the most inept contract into a meek and confused , self-effacing heap . |
| 17 | Even a prescription of the wrong remedy can sometimes affect the picture of symptoms so as to make the right remedy more obvious and easily discerned . |
| 18 | Much more is made these days of adding to existing experience and finding solutions to individual problems of patients rather than attempting to apply nursing practice to clinical symptoms and multiple medical diagnosis . |
| 19 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 20 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 21 | In some situations this can lead to deliberate fudging of issues so as to avoid controversy . |
| 22 | To make this silver anniversary picture , you could either press the flowers used to celebrate the day itself or you could press a selection of flowers beforehand and give the finished picture as a present at the time of the anniversary . |
| 23 | In addition to wall displays thought needs to be given to the equipment which can be used in the room , e.g. does the teacher always have to use the overhead projector or slide projector with the whole class or can groups of pupils go and view a selection of slides independently as needed ? |
| 24 | Part of the reason why cross-currents muddy the stream of liberalisation is the changing political approach to a general choice : to intervene in the affairs of enterprises directly or to provide general regulatory conditions ? |
| 25 | Panel surveys involve repeated observations of subjects so as to build up a longitudinal record of the events of interest . |
| 26 | Whilst the ambiguity and allusiveness of late 19th century sculpture was firmly rooted in the representation of the human figure the ( point of contact between the two exhibitions ) which acted as a metaphor for emotion , that of Chadwick or Wilding goes beyond that so that the human body is alluded to indirectly , as a train of associations rather than direct mimetic referent . |
| 27 | Now do n't think in terms of presentations just as standing up in front of an audience . |
| 28 | I turned into a gentle left hand bend , saw a queue of cars ahead and hit the brake . |
| 29 | A further reason why trustees of non-UK-resident trusts will prefer to have a disposal of shares rather than receive a distribution derives from s79(1) of and Sch 6 to the 1993 Finance Act , which brings the rate of income tax payable by certain non-UK-resident trustees in line with the rate applicable to UK-resident trustees , namely 35% of the grossed-up amount of the distribution received . |
| 30 | In the civil service the prevailing ethos is one of control of subordinates rather than allowing discretion . |