Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pension funds can further diversify their portfolios by investing in a spread of these units across different managed funds ( insurance companies have in fact set up specialised managed funds that are largely made up of specific investments , to allow such diversification across managed funds by pension funds ) . |
| 2 | It is important to recognise that the research itself , and its setting , inflicts its own contingencies on the choice of indicators : research using interviews will have to use indicators that are largely constructed out of respondents ' answers to questionnaire items whereas observational studies , and Lazarsfeld did not preclude them from variable analysis in principle , would have to use others . |
| 3 | A machine that is customarily made up of a CPU , disk drive , input devices , output devices and memory . |
| 4 | Your first problem as I recall from my masterly analysis , is that you have nowhere to live except a hotel that 's rapidly running out of vases . |
| 5 | As steam declines in South Africa they find themselves transferred around various depots and are currently working out of Kimberley . |
| 6 | ( d ) Private customers — the number of these is small , and are mainly made up of staff members of the Bank and some UK organisations . |
| 7 | Whatever the mitigating circumstances — the heat , effects of jetlag and an injury to Mark Appleson — Scotland did not make a very good fist of it on Saturday when they lost their pool match to Western Samoa and were then tumbled out of the plate 38-5 by New Zealand . |
| 8 | The most difficult operation is transferring the ants to the housing , and is best done out of doors . |
| 9 | The consortium hopes that Greater Manchester , which generates 2700 tonnes of rubbish a day and is fast running out of holes in the ground to dump it in , will be interested . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 11 | Has my right hon. Friend had an opportunity to look at the study in The Financial Times on 6 January which pointed to the fact that the northern region has very much benefited from the economic restructuring of the 1980s and is now coming out of recession faster than any other part of the country , due to the success of the regeneration programmes that the Government have put in place in the region ? |
| 12 | This emerged as the Butt Report and was immediately rejected out of hand by the incumbent Commander-in-Chief , Bomber Command , but not so by the Army and Navy to whom the report had been leaked and who were bent on carving Bomber Command up between them for their desperate needs in the Western Approaches and in the war in the desert . |
| 13 | But he lost his Test place in New Zealand last winter and was also left out of the World Cup squad . |
| 14 | During her late teens she was arrested twice for her part in political demonstrations and was later kicked out of university for neglecting her studies . |
| 15 | He had missed the semi-final against the land of his birth , South Africa , with a pinched nerve in his back , and was then left out of the final against Pakistan . |
| 16 | The South African foreign minister , Mr Pik Botha , publicly threatened to abort Namibian independence and was apparently cajoled out of it by Mrs Thatcher , who was in Windhoek when the trouble began . |
| 17 | But the confusing plethora of separate joint boards on the fire service , strategic planning , waste disposal and other matters which succeeded them suggests that abolition did not achieve those ends These boards are now under no direct electoral control , but are instead made up of nominees from often compulsorily participant councils . |