Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [det] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commercial and business orientation which the public corporation ( as distinct from Ministry ) form of management was designed to preserve , was inevitably diluted by this process , though it remained an important part of the self-image of those working in the industry . |
| 2 | The irony of this lay in the fact that the Second Crusade was counter-productive in Outremer , embittered relations with Byzantium , and resulted in the deaths of enormous numbers of its participants , particularly those drawn from the non-aristocratic classes . |
| 3 | Those politicians who were connected with the Administration found that the year 1716 produced a bumper crop of solicitations for the pardon of those implicated in the Rising of the previous year . |
| 4 | The first instance of this came in the so-called Boxer Rebellion of 1900 . |
| 5 | But there is no hope of that occurring in the foreseeable future . |
| 6 | The response of those engaged in the arduous labours which led to the conclusion of the Convention is no doubt not dissimilar to that of the scholar who writes a book on the doctrine of unconscionability in contract law and is then taken to task by a reviewer for his failure to cover breach and termination — in other words , for not writing a different book . |
| 7 | They are also more than twice as likely to develop their own meanings as they are to extend those contributed by children , this ratio being almost the exact opposite of that found in the speech of parents . |
| 8 | In spite of this handful of ‘ collaborators ’ , it was nevertheless inevitable that the majority of those serving in the Imperial household should be drawn from among the families which had been connected with the First Empire . |
| 9 | ‘ The effect would be an increase in costs to our customers and , in the case of those living in the national parks , a possible deterioration in supply quality , due to a reduction in refurbishment . |
| 10 | The proportion of this paid in the Wales LFA is unknown because such statistics are not available from the Welsh Office Agriculture Department . |
| 11 | Is my hon. Friend aware that a large proportion of those employed in the south-west , and certainly in Devon , are part-time workers in residential homes ? |
| 12 | However , SFX are not limited to the work of those designated in the credits or cited in the Academy Awards as visual effects or sound effects specialists ; they can also be the task of the make-up artist , the stuntman/woman , even the costumier . |
| 13 | I am confident that by increasing the responsibility and accountability of those working in the service , by increasing patient choice , and by ensuring appropriate rewards for those who deliver results , my proposals will lead to even better patient care for the people of Wales . |
| 14 | Partnerships will need to become knowledgeable about this situation and if they come to share the anxiety of many working in the field they should voice their concern . |
| 15 | It does not do well in peat or sand alone , though a small quantity of these mixed in the above recommended mixture will be satisfactory . |
| 16 | There seems little likelihood of this occurring in the case of executive directors , at least unless the risk of liability were to increase massively , but a reduction in the supply of more modestly remunerated non-executives is not implausible . |
| 17 | Ochs ( 1979c ) , in an extended discussion of the notion , notes " The scope of context is not easy to define one must consider the social and psychological world in which the language user operates at any given tame " ( p. 1 ) , " it includes minimally , language users ' beliefs and assumptions about temporal , spatial , and social settings ; prior , ongoing , and future actions ( verbal , non-verbal ) , and the state of knowledge and attentiveness of those participating in the social interaction in hand " ( p.5 ) . |
| 18 | The Agreement gave some legitimacy to US criticism of both dumping in the US market and protectionism in the Japanese market ; but the Agreement was designed solely to settle differences between two nations controlling some go per cent of the non-communist world market for semiconductors . |
| 19 | After declining sharply up to 1979 its share of both stabilized in the first years of the Thatcher government , only to fall once more into the late 1980s . |
| 20 | The meeting was arranged after predictions by the administration 's Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and the Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ) that the US budget deficit for fiscal 1991 ( beginning Oct. 1 , 1990 ) , would be considerably in excess of that anticipated in the administration 's budget proposal of January 1990 [ see pp. 37177-79 ] . |
| 21 | In 1950 the gross personal incomes of those living in the five Pacific states amounted to just over a quarter of those living in the 18 Atlantic states ; by 1982 it had risen to very nearly half . |
| 22 | The Foreign Office says although the concern of independent UK-based groups for the welfare of those trapped in the former Yugoslavia is understandable , they strongly advise against unofficial missions . |
| 23 | European beef can be bought in West Africa at half the price of that produced in the Sahel . |
| 24 | When the inspectorate is reduced to 175 , it will be virtually impossible for it to produce a report with anything like the quality of those produced in the past . |
| 25 | An outstanding example of this occurs in the whole field of petrochemicals . |
| 26 | A common example of this occurs in the interposing of an imprecation in between a chant of allegiance by the rival group . |
| 27 | A good example of this arises in the study of children 's reasoning , particularly in their ability to make what are known as transitive inferences . |
| 28 | An example of this occurred in the Nick Kent piece where Geoff Travis described a sardonic and disgruntled Mark E. Smith antagonising a visibly shaken Morrissey by calling him ‘ Steven ’ . |
| 29 | The most notable example of this occurred in the county in 1264 , when the troops of Simon de Montfort defeated Henry Ill at the Battle of Lewes . |
| 30 | A vivid example of this occurred in the Hadmor case [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 191 where Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal relied on his own researches into Hansard in reaching his conclusions : in the House of Lords , counsel protested that there were other passages to which he would have wished to draw the court 's attention had he known that Lord Denning was looking at Hansard : see the Hadmor case at p. 233 . |