Example sentences of "of [noun] [that] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actual demographic trends also contributed to the outward movement , as the rearing of the 1960s baby boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction ( Champion , 1987b ) . |
| 2 | The demographic trends outlined earlier in this chapter also played a part , as the rearing of the 1960s baby-boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction . |
| 3 | Matthew Arnold , staring out at the Channel , thought of Sophocles and the sea of faith that had since receded . |
| 4 | Uncle Bill had run a car for her on his company while he was alive but of course that had all stopped when he died . |
| 5 | The need to ensure that the expert has the power to award interest will arise in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) Does the issue referred to the expert include a claim for damages arising from some breach of contract that has already occurred ? ( 2 ) Is the issue the expert is called on to determine essentially what amount of money one side owes the other , and when that sum is payable ? ( 3 ) Is there likely to be a delay in obtaining the expert 's decision on the amount payable ? |
| 6 | The reference to income tax at the basic rate not being charged in respect of income that has already borne tax at the basic rate is designed to ensure that there is no double taxation where the overseas entity receives income which has already borne UK tax . |
| 7 | Adam scanned his taut features , uncomfortable and slightly puzzled by the undercurrent of tension that had suddenly sprung up . |
| 8 | Outside the circle a few mounds and stones were all that remained of the huddle of huts that had once crowded under the broch 's protection . |
| 9 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 10 | Wherever you look England appear likely to encounter the sort of quality of opposition that has usually ended their World Cup ambitions in the past . |
| 11 | Finally , there are two general principles of delegation that have certainly stood the test of time . |
| 12 | The hand of fate that has recently dealt the Brandywell club some crushing blows seems intent on turning the screw further . |
| 13 | A number of companies have gone to great pains to point out to the shareholders that the goodwill adjustment does not affect the company 's net asset value , but Company Reporting named a number of companies that have actively avoided showing the full extent of losses on disposal . |
| 14 | Hence their interest in the difference of opinion that has recently emerged between America 's two big rating agencies , Moody 's and Standard & Poor 's ( S&P ) , and IBCA , a European agency , over the creditworthiness of Italy 's big banks . |
| 15 | As the flow increased , the water nibbled away the downstream face of the hundred yards of landfall that had originally forced the river westward into the Makaa . |
| 16 | That same air of confidence that has ultimately come to nothing but dust pervades the area of the Old Gang Smelting Mills and the workings and hushes roundabout . |
| 17 | With frantic speed , the frogs feast on the great flush of insects that have also come with the rain . |
| 18 | But from what you 've told me , I 'm afraid that your countrymen are the worst little nation of insects that has ever crawled upon the ground . ’ |
| 19 | The explosion of joy that had suddenly burst through her at the thought of seeing him , at the thought of being with him , for a moment had overcome her senses . |
| 20 | So , this method of measuring the conservatism of DNA , by looking at the number of changes that have actually occurred during geological time , compounds genuine copying fidelity with the filtering effects of natural selection . |
| 21 | He swung back again to the imputation of idleness that had so hurt him . |
| 22 | Though he is very much a mystic , there is a part of Ali that has always found security and a skewed understanding of life in the quantifiable : amounts , calibrated outcomes , the creaking , reassuring machinery of living . |
| 23 | Although the writing is fairly liberally sprinkled with American cliché , it does achieve a level of content that seems well suited to the interested layman . |
| 24 | The early sociologists established a number of traditions that have subsequently moulded the place of women in sociology . |
| 25 | when a lady who lived on Dartmoor for many , many years erm was telling stories of things that had actually happened |
| 26 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 27 | Well that 's it , we 'll take a bottle of Coke that 's already got the vodka in it . |
| 28 | On 10 December 1939 he remarked ominously that Andre Chamson had informed him that " a storm was brewing in Aragon 's mind " By 5 February 1940 , in the grip of a persecution complex , he was voicing fears that his resignation from the party would be publicly perceived as an act of treachery that had finally laid bare his " inner soul " . |
| 29 | Consciousness , in Humphrey 's scheme , arises when sensation is made to reverberate within the nervous system , connecting the present to the immediate past : ‘ the conscious present is largely the immediate sensory afterglow of stimuli that have just passed by ’ . |
| 30 | In the symbolic construction of this community ( Cohen 1985 ) boundary images of inside and outside were elaborated to an intensity , making us crucially aware and ‘ conscious … of dirt that has ambiguously got onto the wrong side of the frontier ’ ( Leach 1976 : 61 ) . |