Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regular patterns of sound change discovered by Grimm for German were now investigated and specified more closely , methods of reconstructing earlier unwritten forms of words and constructing models of linguistic ‘ family trees ’ were established , other models of evolutionary change ( like Schmidt 's ‘ wave-theory ’ ) were suggested and the use of analogy — especially grammatical analogy — were developed ; for philology was nothing if not comparative . |
| 2 | It will assess the implications for the quality of service provision of different patterns of decision-making and planning both within and between the organizations involved . |
| 3 | Inevitably , there are bound to be risks when breaking the mould by attempting fresh patterns of presentation or using imaginative , unconventional layouts . |
| 4 | For a module involving several different forms of assessment and/or having more than one member of staff teaching and assessing it , double marking is not normally required . |
| 5 | Musically , however , they have always been something of a mystery , flitting from style to style like a sort of rubbish Paul McCartney , cruising round different aspects of pop and soiling them . |
| 6 | Perhaps , together , these totems could banish the modern-day spectres of inflation and spending cuts ; of strike action that endangered hospital patients or people whose houses were on fire ; of lying politicians and rampaging football hooligans ; of the seemingly irreversible rise in unemployment , and the terrible inner-city disturbances of the summer of 1981 , from which the country was still reeling , and which had brought a suddenly sinister resonance to otherwise neighbourly sounding places . |
| 7 | Most of them it 's been questions of rather less fundamental changes in the actual teaching style in the classroom and sometimes it 's been a question of concentrating on rather different kinds of things or giving more time to one kind of activity than another , or changing the pattern of assignments that they gave children , or things that were still well within the capacity of teachers to change without involving sort of fundamental changes in teaching style . |
| 8 | The population , it was added , was for the most part interested only in their daily problems of work and getting sufficient provisions , and there was little talk about military events . |
| 9 | But it is perhaps in the attempts of Francis Bacon in the seventeenth century that the origins of a concern with social features of knowledge as introducing distortions are to be found . |
| 10 | Creditor business continues to be influenced by high levels of unemployment but rating action taken has resulted in an improving trend and this has been confirmed by our experience in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 11 | Audio compression can also be achieved by identifying acceptable levels of redundancy and stripping them out . |
| 12 | Pin top edges of valance and lining together and drawstitch the folded edges together . |
| 13 | One half of our argument is that states ( and national states in particular ) are indeed conducting the functions outlined by Marxist and Weberian commentators : those of managing the social relations of capitalism and regulating and classifying individual citizens and their activities or moral careers . |
| 14 | In transactional analysis ( TA ) it is assumed that our habitual ways of feeling and behaving largely stem from the way we feel about ourselves in relation to other people . |
| 15 | These and other related issues are addressed through a programme of research at different levels of analysis and employing a variety of research methods . |
| 16 | Eight different ways of cutting and fitting the lead have been recorded , but the two most commonly used were the ‘ shoe box ’ and the ‘ smooth wrap ’ . |
| 17 | Within Britain there are a variety of different ways of recording and classifying social class . |
| 18 | content with the policy of the Communist Party and its tactics in the United Front had grown in the ILP to an extent which caused many of its remaining members to adopt the theoretical arguments of Trotskyism while resenting its organized activities . |
| 19 | The study reaches back to find some classical historical instances of cooking and doctoring , fudging and fiddling from Hipparchus to Gregor Mendel . |
| 20 | Daily demonstrations of embroidery and quilting during the summer |
| 21 | Small rock samples subjected to repeated cycles of heating and cooling over temperature ranges well in excess of those produced naturally by solar radiation failed to shatter . |
| 22 | If , however , we wish to prove the existence of ‘ the back of ’ something using quite different criteria of testimony and disallowing all those activities which gave rise to the concept in the first place , then perhaps our proof of the uncertainty of the existence of backs will be less powerful than has been imagined . |
| 23 | While ultimately qualitative , it seems to offer a method for coping with different types of process and incorporating stochastic and truly random events . |
| 24 | The old habits of mauling and rucking are still ingrained . |
| 25 | If not , consider how it might be adjusted to different categories of student while preserving its efficacy as a means of encouraging orientation within a discourse . |
| 26 | The Southern Option running from Lackenby , skirting residential parts of Middlesbrough and crossing open country to Picton was preferred by the company to the Portrack route which runs North , crosses and re-crosses the Tees and roughly follows the A19 . |
| 27 | It took Prescott a good ten minutes to describe the full pointlessness of his life as a stockbroker and man-about-town before the combined effects of drink and sustaining a conversation took their toll and he declined into a glazed , sullen silence . |
| 28 | To help them to do so they list 12 tasks for scientist , such as participating in research on the economic effects of disarmament and urging editors to provide space in their journals for discussion on disarmament issues . |
| 29 | Essentially , we were exploring subjective experiences of work and pointing to the fact that these experiences become objective reality . |
| 30 | The Dialogue is one of the pieces Purcell included in the Guildhall songbook : he seems to have compiled this manuscript for his young lady singing pupils , and several of the items in it show similar signs of revision and re-working . |