Example sentences of "of [noun] [coord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In accepting Murav'ev 's proposals the regime made plain that , although it had just committed itself firmly to the emancipation of the serfs ( in the Nazimov Rescript ) , it was not yet prepared to adopt the principle of decentralization or to move towards provincial self-government . |
| 2 | He probably shared Khruschev 's contempt for conservationists and the defenders of the national heritage , who stood in the way of progress and tried to suborn Communist officials from their duty to demolish the redundant vestiges of the old order . |
| 3 | the primary sources of support and care for elderly people are informal and voluntary . |
| 4 | a pattern of change and influence in considerable contrast to the more widely held image of the Georgian squire as a wine-swilling glutton intent largely on the pleasures of the chase . |
| 5 | The ‘ higher criticism ’ , examining the Bible as one would any other ancient text , only impinged on the Church of England in 1860 with the publication of Essays and Reviews by various authors including Frederick Temple and Benjamin Jowett . |
| 6 | At the corner of Walbrook the rakers were out , their great wooden rods moving piles of slush and refuse into high , stinking heaps . |
| 7 | The half-day courses include two hours practical experience of firing and driving with full instruction on safety and how the engine works . |
| 8 | The fixative is 4% paraformaldehyde in 0.1 M sucrose ; heat to 60–80C with six drops of NaOH and stir till clear . |
| 9 | The importance of Settlement and Clearing in Wholesale Equity Investment . |
| 10 | EFFECTS OF bFGF AND SUCRALFATE ON ACUTE GASTRIC LESIONS INDUCED BY 100% ETHANOL , ACIDIFIED ASPIRIN , OR STRESS |
| 11 | EFFECTS OF bFGF AND SUCRALFATE ON NUCLEIC ACID CONTENT IN THE GASTRIC MUCOSA |
| 12 | The result of these tests will determine , for example , depth of foundations or need for special design such as raft construction or piles , problems associated with high water table for both foundations and drainage , need for de-watering , sulphate content of the soil and need to use sulphate-resistant cement . |
| 13 | As 105 puts it : It is hard to miss the wit in such poems , or in the earlier profession of incompetence : It would be a dull-witted reader who interpreted such poems literally , or who took au pied de la lettre such conventional statements of bondage as this : Self-depreciation ( sometimes called ‘ the modesty topos ’ has been a rhetorical device since the beginnings of literature and continues in full flourish today . |
| 14 | In the new world order , it may well be that nationalism functions as the opposition to that order , the main source of resistance and challenge to large and more or less integrated blocks of power . |
| 15 | In a polemical critique of modern comprehensive school practice , for instance , David Hargreaves has expressed concern about the ways in which public examinations can come to dominate the process of teaching and learning in secondary schools . |
| 16 | We need to consider the practical goal of teaching or learning about English pronunciation , and for this purpose a very abstract analysis would be unsuitable . |
| 17 | There is a natural time scale to the experiment , charging the cells , inducing the phenomenon for hundreds of hours and monitoring at different currents ; you can not hurry science . |
| 18 | The internalisation of values based on a commonality of experience and reinforced by collective committee decision making is certainly , in principle , capable of producing formidable business success . |
| 19 | Notes for Guidance were distributed together with the Parliamentary statement , indicating how individual schemes were to be prepared with the object of creating ‘ institutions which can be developed as comprehensive academic communities offering a wide range of disciplines and catering for full-time , sandwich and part-time students at all levels of higher education ’ . |
| 20 | In July 1944 he had told the American government and in December 1944 the Soviet government that the left bank of the Rhine ought to be detached from the rest of Germany and placed under French authority , while the Ruhr 's industrial resources should be controlled by an international authority . |
| 21 | The research involves an investigation of attitudes and approaches to flexible working within major hotel chains , based on interviews with corporate personnel managers . |
| 22 | Now that the transition into planets is well-established , we suspect Scott McNealy is wearying of playing the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of CEO of parent company Sun Microsystems Inc and president of the company 's systems planet SMCC , going to both sets of meetings and dealing with other planets as an equal who 's also their boss . |
| 23 | Now that the transition into a string of planets is well-established , we suspect Scott McNealy is wearying of playing the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of chief executive of parent company Sun Microsystems Inc and president of the company 's systems planet Sun Microsystems Computer Corp , having to go to both sets of meetings and deal with other planets as an equal who is also their boss , and he could well be on the look-out for a president for the hardware unit ; some say he 's being urged to split the company up even further by some of his lieutenants . |
| 24 | Germany then rapidly emerged as the greatest industrial and military power in Europe , an object of fear and envy to other states . |
| 25 | The 37-year-old took an overdose of painkillers and lay in sub-zero conditions with just a sleeping bag . |
| 26 | In addition , the inclusion of academics from a broad range of subjects or chosen for particular expertise ( in student learning , for example ) means that a wider range of critical questions are more likely to be explored . |
| 27 | David Fyfe was once the managing director of MTM but left after numerous disagreements with his boss Lines . |
| 28 | This central resource is used to complement and strengthen the work in the field ; to extend the process of action and learning in local communities ; to bring together people from both sides of the religious divide , and from different movements , to reflect on their common problem ; to learn from their different experiences and to discuss their cultural and political differences . |
| 29 | It involves an act of imagination to see one 's society and culture through the eyes , as it were , of someone from a different culture , to whom the normal ways of living and acting in Western societies appear odd and to demand explanation . |
| 30 | The role from which this paper is written is that of a social scientist who is concerned with the practical issues of living and working in contemporary societies . |