Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 2 | They took it to the Gallows Hill , Cumnock , intending to hang it from the gibbet but the Earl of Dumfries intervened and stopped them as he feared rioting by the people of the district . |
| 3 | Chapter 4 begins with a brief description of the modes of assessment used and contains the main body of the results of testing . |
| 4 | Members who undertake CPE , even though for them it is not compulsory , will still be expected to record their compliance with the CPE guidelines on an annual basis and , if necessary , be able to provide details of CPE undertaken and explain the relevance of that CPE to their professional development . |
| 5 | Y'know so she did n't necessarily have a strong sense of y'know coping and surviving and er using strategies which helped her get through it . |
| 6 | Clarins is the first to create a true day cream which adapts to all daytime elements ; because daytime bears the greatest responsibility for the visible signs of skin ageing and wrinkle formation : wide-ranging temperature and humidity changes ( indoor/outdoor transitions ) , varying light , UV rays , facial movements and expressions . |
| 7 | Tiny pieces of skin shrivelled and cooked on the red-hot ring and wisps of smoke rose into the air . |
| 8 | New , less polluting designs will be required for a cornucopia of products made or sold in the city , ranging from aerosol sprays to roll-on deodorants , and paints and varnishes . |
| 9 | type of products manufactured or distributed . |
| 10 | Usually , too , with the abandonment of work-in-progress , control over production progress is maintained by physical counts of products demanded and produced , along with measures of defects , stock levels , and so on . |
| 11 | Collection of essays spotlighting and deploring the brutality , cheating , drug-taking and cynicism which have swamped international sport . |
| 12 | The Teds were instantly recognised as symptomatic of the new ‘ classless ’ society and the ‘ affluent ’ breeze blowing in from across the Atlantic , a feeling that was massively reinforced by the wave of cinema riots that greeted the arrival of Bill Haley 's Rock Around the Clock in Britain . |
| 13 | Far from taking this supply of trained musicians for granted , the local church should be providing its own kind of expertise to complement and augment that which comes from the schools . |
| 14 | In the far north of the world the Realm of Chaos churned and prepared to advance once more . |
| 15 | Furthermore , because of this distrust of abstraction the conservative ‘ neither understands those spontaneous forces on which a policy of freedom relies nor possesses a basis for formulating principles of policy ’ . |
| 16 | In order for children to ask questions they need a diversity of materials to arouse their curiosity and a sense of freedom to question and explore their own potential . |
| 17 | I begin here , therefore , with a discussion of the relatively few reports of attempts to replicate and extend his findings . |
| 18 | So far I have stressed the flexibility and instability of the term , and the foolishness , even presumption , of attempts to fix or freeze the meanings of words of such importance . |
| 19 | The history of attempts to control and regulate corporate crimes does not give much cause for optimism , and indeed the idea of it reduces radicals to knowing laughter . |
| 20 | In recent years a number of attempts to integrate and coordinate these functions has come to be called Physical Distribution Management . |
| 21 | More recently , there have been a number of attempts to capture and characterize the patterns that are actually emerging in departmental organizations . |
| 22 | After all , Germany does have a disturbingly long tradition of attempts to expand and dominate militarily the European continent . |
| 23 | Schubert ( 1960 , p. 223 ) states that : This view is shared by Downs ( 1962 , p. 1 ) when he states : In more general terms ( see Held , 1970 ) we can say that the term ‘ public interest ’ is used to express approval or communication of policies adopted or proposed by the government . |
| 24 | The terminal , known as the operator terminal , which the operator will use to monitor the offline run and to indicate success or failure of requests to mount or dismount the appropriate offline media items . |
| 25 | The computer keyboard also has a Delete key to delete letters in front of the cursor , a Backspace key to delete letters behind the cursor , a set of Cursor Movement keys that move the cursor up or down one line or side to side one space , a set of Function keys that perform preset functions with a single keypress and an Escape key that is normally used to reverse or undo the last action . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's the system of brick flues that runs under the entire floor of the caldarium — the hot room of the baths — to circulate the hot air from the furnace . |
| 27 | These styles and modes of building merged and developed one into another at different dates in different countries . |
| 28 | The subtle differences have brought a strength and depth of study to the discipline of building surveying and created the sense of identity so palpably missing in the 1960s . |
| 29 | But while the company 's management would not deny an element of luck , they would also point to a good deal of contingency planning that enabled them to react faster than anyone else to ILG 's collapse . |
| 30 | The threat of malnutrition receded and vanished forever , and the twentieth century finally arrived with a team from the North Eastern Electricity Board . |