Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The issue called for a great deal of understanding on both sides , which inevitably in many cases could not be guaranteed .
2 Permanent disablement from any profession or occupation entitles a claimant to £100,000 , while loss of hearing in both ears is compensated by £30,000 .
3 The trend towards categorization of public library staff into specialist posts — cataloguers and classifiers , readers ' advisers , stock editors , administrators — has had the result of cutting off most librarians from contact with their readers .
4 As a result of working on these matters , the Legal Services Committee has prepared a series of papers and has been preparing advice on the steps the profession needs to consider taking in the future in relation to such issues as direct access , partnerships , split fees , cab rank rule and how to compete with solicitors in a brave new world .
5 Nevertheless , many people who might otherwise have gone on to Government employment schemes have been deterred from doing so because of the difficulty in finding jobs as a result of going on those schemes .
6 We might still have laboured under these difficulties if our author , who has added a considerable stock of reading to many years experience , had not entered upon the task .
7 Castleford were one of the clubs fined two seasons ago when an outbreak of brawling at several matches led to the League imposing new , stiffer penalties .
8 It may be expected that the practice of referring to these reports will extend itself in the future , because they often supply the best commentary upon the wording of an Act .
9 What is new , however , as the National Curriculum comes into effect , is the impossibility of providing for these areas of learning within discrete subject entitlements .
10 he said impatiently to Burt , describing the impossibility of dealing with such turncoats , ‘ they were determined that people like me should never comc into our own .
11 In the book , author Suzi Leather says it is not ignorance that forces many families to cut their food bills , but the impossibility of paying for all essentials out of ‘ woefully inadequate ’ state benefits .
12 MacNeill Weir in his " New Guide to Islay " says " There is no trace of carving on these stones and we have no clue to their significance " and I think that is still true .
13 The figure shows that the cost disadvantage of operating at half MES depends upon the gradient of the average cost curve .
14 Even the local vicar was n't immune , the Rev. Bartley Trimble who was vicar of Halling for many years was known as " Baggy " .
15 We believe languages should be a much more integral part of schooling at all levels .
16 Strong leaders are sometimes the subject of admiration , but typically they are long dead , like Washington , Lincoln or Roosevelt , or they can be safely admired from a distance , like Margaret Thatcher or Mikhail Gorbachev ; Winston Churchill has the advantage of falling into both categories .
17 There was the lesson of the pre-war German manoeuvres , and the fact that all Falkenhayn 's artillery advisers had stressed the necessity of attacking on both sides of the Meuse .
18 To fit myself for this level of teaching after many years away I did an M.Phil .
19 In summary , the use of physical contact in the Victoria Centre , the organization of the daily cycle of activities , the regulation of the pupil 's unit career and the attribution of meaning to these events demonstrate continuities which are also evident in the educational philosophy which Owen articulates .
20 ‘ But it 's a case of looking at several options before deciding the team .
21 Tizard points to the fallacy of generalizing from these studies to the issue of day care , and is able to cite examples of American research evaluations which suggest that day care can actually be beneficial for some children 's development , and does not appear to impair children 's relationships with their parents .
22 In addition , most of the courses include a period of placement with employers , which enables students to relate their studies to real-world problems , as well as affording them an opportunity to gain some experience of dealing with these problems .
23 Although there is some experience of contracting in such services as catering and cleaning , the scale of the programme set out in the White Paper is of a different order .
24 As represented by anthropologists , such societies often appear to embody the Romantic conception of close social relations within highly communal environments ; but what is less often underlined are certain more difficult aspects of the actual experience of living within such conditions .
25 They allow for experience of feeling in those parts and for transmission of messages to the body as a result of that feeling or directly from the brain .
26 The dryness of the colour leaving the brush gives the feeling of imprecision and confusion , reflected in the experience of walking in these conditions .
27 Members of the Consultative Forum were asked to nominate people with experience of developing , using and evaluating staff development materials to take part in trial testing and the workshops were run by SCOTVEC Field Officers who had no previous experience of working with these materials .
28 This can be taken either as a criticism of the actual teaching of the subject or as a remark on the ineffectiveness of schooling on such attitudes in the Northern Ireland context .
29 That will give me an opportunity of passing on any messages — of a verbal nature only , I regret to say !
30 An intensive bout of lobbying by both sides followed during the next month , both in New York and in capital cities all over the world .
  Next page