Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor has he been idle since 1990 , when he was apparently left without a City role after relinquishing executive control of money-brokers R P Martin , and the closure of his Quadrex Securities . |
| 2 | However , the economic benefit gained from such treatment varies considerably from farm to farm and also apparently from country to country and there are as yet insufficient grounds for advocating routine treatment of herds at calving . |
| 3 | The difficulties of estimating percentage completion of R&D jobs is such that the former method is preferred for this type of project . |
| 4 | The difficulties of estimating percentage completion of R&D jobs is such that the former method is preferred for this type of project . |
| 5 | The electricity generated , however , due to the amount of heat lost in the process of generation ( mainly at the stage of converting heat energy of steam into the mechanical energy of the turbine ) only represents about 30% of the energy used in the power station . |
| 6 | In the United States , where many fewer industries have ever been state-owned , the shift from public to private mainly took the form of reducing government regulation of activities such as air transport ( ‘ deregulation ’ ) . |
| 7 | Neil Sissons studied at the Royal College of Music , before becoming organ scholar of Worcester College , Oxford . |
| 8 | God 's purpose in recommending kind treatment of brute creation is to dispose men to pity and tenderness towards one another . |
| 9 | to explore how courts apply the duty imposed by the Child Care Act 1980 to give the child 's welfare first and paramount consideration ; 2. to examine the practices in use for providing magistrates with impartial information ; 3. to discover whether parents ' solicitors experience difficulties in getting background history of cases from Social Services Departments ; 4. to judge whether parents at are a disadvantage in court ; 5. to monitor how solicitors conduct their cases , and how they emply the various possible lines of argument of the Code of Practice on Access ; 6. to discuss the underlying attitudes of the magistrates and social workers towards access to children in care , the reasons for their viewpoints and whether the publication of the Code caused them to change any of their positions . |
| 10 | By mastering production technology of mainframes and their microelectronic building blocks , the Japanese vendors have changed both the structure and style of the global computing business . |
| 11 | After this the irregulars could no longer claim the benefits of an ambiguous position ; either they were adventurous sailors who were willing to settle down and live peaceful lives once the Spaniards stopped harassing them ( and Morgan showed the way by becoming Deputy Governor of Jamaica ) , or else they were straightforward pirates who were ready to plunder the ships of any nation including their own . |