Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such knowledge has to be coupled with further instinctive knowledge that the perpetration of acts known to be wrong will bring some kind of retribution . |
| 2 | On the face of it , two lines of defence seem to be open to him . |
| 3 | But after a while straight pieces of knitting cease to be satisfying and we progress to shaping , which speeds up the making-up process and also saves on materials . |
| 4 | There were some indications that users of freelancers might make slightly greater use of agency workers , but equally that high users of part-timers tended to be lower users of agency workers . |
| 5 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 6 | If a builder is entrusted with the work , it must be ensured through a full briefing and careful supervision that only conscientious , knowledgeable and skilled tradesmen are employed who are able to give rational advice on the proper nature and extent of the remedial treatment if the initial assessment of the degree of damage proves to be inaccurate . |
| 7 | The new breed of skier expects to be able to ski from day two . |
| 8 | His concept in In Search of Paradise bids to be over-ambitious though beautiful and certainly a welcome oasis in an otherwise arid week . |
| 9 | ‘ The vast majority of cases found to be positive are due to household products which can be bought from the chemist and the player is then simply given a telling off . |
| 10 | Only in the region of full employment would such a pattern of response cease to be operative . |
| 11 | For both these commentators Marx 's concept of ideology fails to be useful because of an overarching problem in his claim to have transcended the problem of ideology by the application of a materialist and scientific method . |
| 12 | Althouth the risk from this sort of exposure seems to be less than that from percutaneous exposure , there are documented cases of occupational acquisition of HIV through mucous membranes . |
| 13 | Under the Tudors , the granting of money continued to be one of the prime parliamentary functions . |
| 14 | ‘ Maclean of Duart needs to be more than good and honest ! |
| 15 | where N is the maximum number of channels seen to be open simultaneously during the recording ( lasting 20–30 s ) , n represents the state of the channels ( 0=closed , 1=one channel open , etc ) , and t n is the time spent in state n . |
| 16 | For example , the paleontologist Loris Russell points out that the skeletal anatomy of dinosaurs appears to be halfway between that of crocodilians and birds . |
| 17 | Today , this mode of reporting continues to be controversial . |
| 18 | This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis . |
| 19 | Lacking instinctive predispositions to the latter , the change of basic mode of subsistence had to be traumatic , and so it was . |
| 20 | One of the problems is that this last type of research tends to be attractive to local authorities and central government departments who face pressing problems , and there is a danger that such studies can become too influential on policy when little else is available . |
| 21 | The waves are transverse , which means that the direction of oscillation has to be perpendicular to the direction of motion of the wave . |
| 22 | Though variations attributable to local circumstances are frequent , the number of candidates tends to be equal to the number of seats being defended plus one . |
| 23 | This cuts down both the necessary search and the number of candidates found to be allowable . |
| 24 | The actual ratio that the Bank of England considers to be prudent will depend on the type of bank and its proportion of sight deposits to demand deposits . |
| 25 | And she says that attempts to free children of anxiety proved to be emissary . |
| 26 | This will never happen if the law of reflection happens to be true , but no logical contradiction would be involved if it did . |
| 27 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 28 | But both sides have plenty of work to do to be confident of making an impression in the All Ireland League . |
| 29 | Since boards of directors tend to be unsympathetic to such questions , the personnel manager generally finds it more expedient to adopt an imaginative approach to the information he supplies . |
| 30 | Flexibility is bound to be required to take account , for example , of a sudden increase in a particular type of work , of a complex transaction of such importance that the partners dealing with it must be on constant standby , of parents wishing to be free during school holidays . |