Example sentences of "[vb -s] [det] [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Burns thinks that unbundling of subsidiaries from large corporations such as Hillsdown and BP will provide opportunities in future . |
| 2 | One possibility is that , with all its institutional faults , the spiritual church offers some form of communication with that part of women that maintains contact with the power of fertility . |
| 3 | The firm receives another offer of £350 for the goods , accepts this offer and is paid immediately . |
| 4 | Camp integrates this aspect of gender with aesthetics ; in a sense it renders gender a question of aesthetics . |
| 5 | Words and names , as we all know from everyday experience , possess magical power : naming and identifying experiences and things imposes some degree of control over them and gives at least the illusion of bringing them within our power . |
| 6 | The important thing seems to be that teachers should be aware of this conflict and take some steps to resolve it , and this involves some kind of negotiation between teacher and pupils . |
| 7 | Since crime , however it is defined in any particular society , always involves some degree of restraint on individual self-interest , our natural tendency is always towards deviation : we will , it seems , always choose the deviant alternative when it suits us and when we think we can get away with it . |
| 8 | Oman ( 1984 , 1989 ) suggests that the crucial test is whether the arrangement involves some element of risk to the seller — and some prospect of a share in future income . |
| 9 | This misrecognition later becomes the ‘ ego ideal ’ which affords identification with idealised others , and it is this possibility of identification which constitutes another aspect of pleasure in film-viewing , as well as the voyeuristic mode posited by Freud . |
| 10 | She has few hopes of happiness in marriage . |
| 11 | I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which |
| 12 | The small businessman may not think of himself as being in the same league as the Maxwells and Murdochs of this world but if he produces leaflets , price lists , brochures or any other form of printed material , he has some degree of affinity with them . |
| 13 | It also has some degree of resistance to ticks and seems to be well suited to range conditions . |
| 14 | Influence is the process by which one person in an organisation , A , directs or modifies the behaviour or attitudes of another person , B. Influence can only be exerted by A on B if A has some kind of power from which the influence emanates . |
| 15 | Implicit is the idea that A has some form of control over B , or at least a strong bargaining position that enables A to score a ‘ victory ’ over B. Companies sometimes have power of this kind over suppliers , as where the company is one of only a limited number of buyers of a supplier 's goods or services , and even to an extent over governments , manifested , for example , in negotiations over subsidies or in successful attempts to dilute the content of regulation . |
| 16 | Clearly , he has some sort of affinity with the part of King Henry , but it does n't seem an actorly affinity . |
| 17 | By the time a patient comes to consult me ( of any other professional therapist for that matter ) , he is aware that he has some sort of problem in his life and that he wants to get to the bottom of it . |
| 18 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |
| 19 | To signifies this relation of subsequence in virtue of its potential meaning of a movement from one point in time to another and has been seen to give rise to two clearly identifiable actual meanings according to whether the speaker conceives the whole movement which to is capable of signifying or only the initial part thereof . |
| 20 | Scientific examination adds another dimension of evidence to authenticity studies which , taken together with the art historical evidence , can allow us to make an attribution with much more confidence . |
| 21 | The judge 's decision may establish certainty in respect to S&M activities , but it adds another layer of inconsistency to the law 's view of consensual assaults . |
| 22 | Adams ( 1985b ) illustrates this kind of difficulty in showing how a subject with good vision in the right eye , but perception of light only in the left eye , could easily bump into a half-open door before realising it was there . |
| 23 | We are very sorry we have caused any inconvenience to club and are hoping E McCormick accepts this letter of apology on our behalf club and puts it down to a mis-understanding by his supporters . |
| 24 | Once the problems are recognized and society accepts some degree of commitment in the battle against social evils then , naturally , public expenditure is bound to rise . |
| 25 | Who needs another hymn of praise to plucky little Eric Hammond and his lonely struggle against the wicked General Council ? |
| 26 | In only one non-human species has such specialisation of role within a hunting team been demonstrated , and that is in man 's closest relative , the chimpanzee . |
| 27 | Islam covers these arcs of time in a blanket of prayer . |
| 28 | It was collected by the British Military Government in Berlin from German sources and covers all aspects of life in considerable detail , though the main emphasis is on political and economic affairs . |
| 29 | The Council 's policy covers all types of harassment at work while recognising that sexual and racial harassment are the most common . |
| 30 | Anyone who suffers from a phobia or from any of the other problems mentioned above encounters all sorts of difficulties in their everyday life . |