Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb pp] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some members of the minority , as a result of this stratification of languages and reallocation of values accorded to the white minority languages , have begun to perceive a drift from Commonwealthism and Internationalism to Europeanism . |
| 2 | In his late teens , there were still signs of puppy fat , and his rounded face sat under an unruly head of hair trimmed to the current style , though not especially trendy , and he could be lost in a crowd as being just another boy on the block ; unassuming and unspecial . |
| 3 | But in the last six months his father 's image had begun to intrude on his consciousness at odd moments , in the middle of a meeting , across a boardroom table , in a gesture , the droop of an eyelid , the tone of a voice , the line of a speaker 's mouth , the shape of fingers splayed to an open fire . |
| 4 | The Lithuanian Supreme Soviet , which as a result of elections on Feb. 24 had passed firmly into the control of deputies affiliated to the nationalist Sajudis movement , on March 11 plunged the Soviet Union into a constitutional crisis when it unilaterally declared Lithuania independent . |
| 5 | The statutes of self-government granted to the Basque Country and Catalonia had been rescinded during the war . |
| 6 | The amount of coverage given to the sexual transgressions of members of the teaching profession suggests that there was the hidden agenda at work of denigrating the professionalism of teachers at a time when they were in industrial conflict with their employers . |
| 7 | His duties included the preparation of a handbook of Instructions for the use of farriers attached to the British Cavalry and to the Honourable Board of Ordnance . |
| 8 | 2.5 The second , and more important , cause of action that English law now allows on death is the independent cause of action given to the near relatives of the deceased who have been deprived of his or her support or services . |
| 9 | When we hid a regular flow of sound , keen material and the PFF Navigation Training Unit was in full swing , we saw the steady development of tactics geared to the constant production of new and better " stores " — target indicators , hooded flares and many other innovations , all of which was more than matched by the improvement in navigational techniques . |
| 10 | The loss of amenities caused to an elderly person as a result of his injuries can be more severe precisely because he is old and has already suffered some impairment of his activities on that account . |
| 11 | Tables I-IV show the numbers and univariate odds ratios of variables related to the sociodemographic ( table I ) , pregnancy ( table II ) , infant ( table III ) , and postnatal factors ( table IV ) . |
| 12 | There were a number of branches affiliated to the main club in England . |
| 13 | Dividends can be used to influence the class of shareholder attracted to a particular firm . |
| 14 | These problems of prediction related to the definitional fallacy and the statistical fallacy are very evident in the Beckford Report , which was so critical of social workers ' lack of knowledge and use of predictive research . |
| 15 | ‘ Old fashioned brushes made from bundles of twigs tied to a wooden handle . |
| 16 | David Wallen ( 11 March ) gave us an interesting account of a series of blunders revealed to the Parliamentary Defence Committee at its annual consideration of the Trident programme . |
| 17 | Add to these an increasingly large posse of match-by-match prospects and the influx of youngsters attracted to the expanded indoor school and Kent are understandably optimistic about their immediate and long-term future . |
| 18 | The work of the former on jus cogens , the Draft Code of Offences against Mankind , and the concept of an international State crime and the consequences of the commission thereof all develop the concept of obligations owed to the international legal community , and possible third party responses to violation . |
| 19 | It would be possible instead to preserve the relationship between the financial institutions and the personal sector savers but to alter substantially the deployment of funds by obliging the institutions to contribute to a national investment bank , giving them in return bonds with a rate of return linked to the real growth rate of the economy . |
| 20 | These ramps , together with a piece of wood glued to the front face of the keyframe , raise the action to the designed height under the strings . |
| 21 | When , acting for a buyer , you come to draft the document that will vest the unregistered property in your client , this can be either a conveyance or a form of transfer adapted to the particular property and title . |
| 22 | ( i ) Petition and a copy ( and an additional copy for the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement unless he is the petitioner ) and a further copy for the petitioner or his solicitor ; ( ii ) affidavit verifying the petition with a copy of the petition exhibited ( see section 9 below ) ; ( iii ) receipt for deposit of £240 paid to the official receiver ( Insolvency Fees ( Amendment ) Order 1990 ) -this sum can be paid to the court who will remit it to the official receiver ; ( iv ) affidavit of service of statutory demand ( if applicable ) ; ( v ) court fee : £45 . |
| 23 | In 1975 the Polygram group of companies reverted to the old idea of paperless ‘ labels ’ for its ordinary seven-inch singles ( 36 ) . |
| 24 | These are generalized , universalized poems , which deal with love-situations in a way that transcends the limitations of poetry written to a special occasion or with a specific individual in mind . |
| 25 | Hence , the ratio decidendi of a case may be defined as the statement of law applied to the legal problems raised by the facts as found , upon which the decision is based . |
| 26 | Lightweight stores cleared readily from £30 to £34.50 each with several pens from £35 to a top of £37.80 paid to a regular Loughgall producer . |
| 27 | Tradition has it that the infliction was brought to the village in a parcel of clothing sent to a local family , the Beevers , one of whose members had died from the plague in London . |
| 28 | Net Trust is a movement of Christians committed to the following purposes : |
| 29 | The Commission adopted interim measures for the first time in June 1991 in respect of aids granted to the French betting monopoly in the case referred to in the case study on pp. 238 — 43 . |
| 30 | Instead they have called for the diversion of subsidies paid to the nuclear power industry--one of the reasons why coal-based electricity is " uncompetitive " --to the development and improvement of technologies which burn coal more efficiently and more cleanly . |