Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this costly project was being undertaken through a strong sense of duty to what he believed his father would have wished him to do . |
| 2 | Is the Minister aware that a number of people in the west midlands and elsewhere who took the opportunity of buying their accommodation now find that their homes have been repossessed as a direct result of Government economic policy ? |
| 3 | In any case , I believe Eliot admired the thrillers of the prolific E. Phillips Oppenheim , who was published in the yellow-backed series to which he more than once referred as a possible source of inspiration . |
| 4 | Although the work has medical and therapeutic origins , it has been developed as a regular part of the Medau method of physical education and is intended for people of any age who are in normal health . |
| 5 | Developed as a direct result of research into how the human brain works , expert systems are bringing a powerful new commodity to business — computer-based knowledge . |
| 6 | This amount may be calculated as a fixed percentage of profit for a period , or by adjusting a notional pool of a specified amount by the percentage change in profits compared with the preceding period . |
| 7 | Earnings can fluctuate quite widely from one year to the next , but if long-run earnings are calculated as a moving average of short-run earnings , this will be a much more stable measure . |
| 8 | This seventeenth-century town mansion , restored by the National Trust for Scotland , is furnished as a typical home of the Old Town . |
| 9 | Brian Puddicombe , from the Banking Insurance and Finance Union 's NatWest Committee , told the union 's annual conference in Llandudno , Gwynedd : ‘ It is totally unacceptable that people should be sacked as a direct result of being sick . ’ |
| 10 | Our relation with literary texts is formed through a complex intersection of past and present , moments of reception as well as moments of production are of equal importance . |
| 11 | Many biologists , and in particular the American Llyn Margulis , suggest that the first eukaryotic cell was formed through a symbiotic association of different prokaryotes ; by a coming-together of bacteria . |
| 12 | He had also arranged for a small box of hand-made chocolates to be given to each of them upon departure . |
| 13 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 14 | In addition , the copyright monopoly is only given for a certain period of time ( eg in the UK , 50 years from the end of the year in which the author dies ) , but databases are usually continuously updated with new information , therefore does the protection period keep changing ? |
| 15 | Authority may be given for a particular exercise of the power or for its exercise generally ( a distinction of some importance in relation to pre-emptive rights ) and may be unconditional or subject to conditions . |
| 16 | At its strongest , sexuality within holy matrimony was only justified as a necessary part of reproduction . |
| 17 | Without that admission the pricing policy in issue could doubtless have been justified as a permissible interpretation of the requirements of long-term profitability . |
| 18 | This leads Johnes to question whether raising academic standards for entry , in terms of A-level scores , could be justified as a satisfactory way of substantially reducing wastage rates , given the complex range of factors which are involved in predicting success in higher education , and that raising entry standards in this way would almost certainly bar students capable of obtaining a degree . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if there is no known , certain last period from which this backward induction argument can begin , it makes sense to discuss the conditions under which collusive behaviour can be sustained as a non-co-operative equilibrium of the repeated game . |
| 20 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 21 | Nearly 1100 requests for further information have been received as a direct result of this initiative . |
| 22 | Groups at work are formed as a direct consequence of an organization 's need to differentiate itself . |
| 23 | This proposal found support in the work of Lord Kelvin , the pioneer Victorian geophysicist , who attempted to calculate the age of the Earth from its probable rate of cooling on the assumption that it had formed as a molten offshoot of the Sun . |
| 24 | Even proteins formed as a random sequence of amino acids have some slight catalytic activity . |
| 25 | Hepatitis B was formerly referred to as ‘ serum hepatitis ’ because percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood has long been recognized as a major mode of transmission ; and cases of hepatitis B from blood transfusion , needlesticks , and sharing contaminated needles among drug abusers have been well documented . |
| 26 | Barred galaxies have been recognized as a separate class of galaxies since the 1920s , and in 1964 de Vaucouleurs suggested that the Milky Way contains a bar to explain the observed noncircular motions of the atomic gas at the centre . |
| 27 | Overflow soiling and constipation Constipation has been recognized as a common cause of encopresis ( Levine 1975 ; 1982 ) . |
| 28 | Manual digitizing is consequently recognized as a significant source of map error in GIS ( Otawa 1987 ; Keefer et al. 1988 ) . |
| 29 | FULL employment was reinstated as a central aim of Labour 's economic recovery programme by Mr Kinnock yesterday as he pledged to ‘ mobilise the talents of all the people ’ in an education and training revolution . |
| 30 | It was intended as a splendid demonstration of the power and solidarity of the Angevin family , the greatest court ever held in Normandy . |