Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the system of plea bargaining involves a discount for an early plea of guilty , if prosecution costs and time are saved . |
| 2 | Some sclerites , however , recall brachiopods , and comparison of shell ultrastructure supports the possibility that tommotiids and brachiopods are related . |
| 3 | The most distinctive features of elite theory display the virtues of the classical elite theorists — especially their realism , their scepticism about the effectiveness of both liberal democratic arrangements and any alternative form of state , their focus upon the technical character of state organization and policy-making , and their undisguised pessimism about the future prospects of democracy . |
| 4 | It is a lot easier these days , so make up a little cocktail of compatible systemic insecticide and fungicide , plus a drip or two of washing-up detergent to achieve a good wetting , in a small bowl , and swish the two leaves of each cutting in the solution so that they get a good wetting and protective coating . |
| 5 | Add to this the price of rinse aid ( between £1.29 and £3.50 for 500 ml ) and salt ( about £1.40 for 3 kg of supermarket own brand ) , and a litre of washing-up liquid seems a bargain . |
| 6 | These needed several coats of polyurethane varnish to prevent the dye leaching out . |
| 7 | In the case of building society deposits the closeness is considerable . |
| 8 | Second , the growth of the factory system helped to accelerate the process of retirement , with the development of assembly-line production hastening the displacement of older workers . |
| 9 | I believe it was a Ministry of Defence ploy to upset the Argentinian military mind . |
| 10 | A Ministry of Defence spokesman said the crews were there on ‘ humanitarian grounds ’ . |
| 11 | The accounts of defence spending give no indication at all of this : as a previous example explained , the ‘ receipts ’ may well include capital receipts which have eroded our ability to maintain defence facilities . |
| 12 | A long secret all from a Ministry of Defence civilian locked the pendulum on the side of suspicion . |
| 13 | The Department of Computer Science has an international reputation for the quality of its research , receiving top rating in the 1986 UGC and the 1989 , 1992 UFC research selectivity exercises . |
| 14 | There 's no suggestion that any deliberate cruelty was taking place on the farm , but the RSPCA decided to call in a ministry of agriculture vet to examine the animals . |
| 15 | Lawyers representing the nuns from the Our Lady of the Passion Monastery , Daventry , Northamptonshire , were yesterday granted a judicial review of the Ministry of Agriculture order to slaughter the chickens . |
| 16 | In addition , a Ministry of Agriculture representative visits the plant weekly , to monitor its hygiene standards , as well as the quality of the beef . |
| 17 | All levels of decision taking have an important part to play in our political process . |
| 18 | If you favoured sweating it out , you sat around on tiered benches and chatted with your friends until you started dissolving into steam , and then got yourself scraped down by a slave with a sort of sickle thing called a strigil , and massaged , and oiled and perfumed , or if you were a real fanatic you probably went straight from the hot room to take a cold plunge , like sauna addicts rolling in the snow . |
| 19 | There is now a small body of case law illustrating the application of the reasonableness test by the courts . |
| 20 | The truth is far more complex , and the development of ‘ assertive ’ models of case management reflect the reality that non-assertive models almost certainly do not meet the needs of the most reluctant clients . |
| 21 | Of course Madame keeping an eye on O was nothing new . |
| 22 | Of course expertise places the non-expert in an exploitable situation , hence our ambivalence towards it . |
| 23 | It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial . |
| 24 | The software library supported by Computer Services not only promotes general facilities that are found in modern computing departments ( such as languages and compilers , mathematical and scientific routines , databases , spreadsheets and word-processors ) , but also includes a large inventory of teaching software covering the spectrum of academic activity at the University . |
| 25 | The software library supported by Computer Services not only promotes general facilities that are found in modern computing departments ( such as languages and compilers , mathematical and scientific routines , databases , spreadsheets and word-processors ) , but also includes a large inventory of teaching software covering the spectrum of academic activity at the University . |
| 26 | Intervening between these two levels of representation are three others , so the whole process of sentence construction involves a sequence of five different levels of representation . |
| 27 | A standard term of GIT insurance requires a haulier to confirm to his insurance company that he has notified all his customers of the conditions of carriage , |
| 28 | Furthermore , all families on income support have to pay 20 per cent of the community charge and the whole of their water charges , and although the rates of income support include an allowance to cover the community charge payment , it is quite insufficient to compensate for the extra expenditure . |
| 29 | , The congress called for the introduction of a solidarity tax on industry and a supplement on the higher levels of income tax to finance the reconstruction of former East Germany , which it said should be carried out according to " ecological principles " . |
| 30 | Addington 's form of income tax introduced the novel principle of deduction at source , which enabled much better anticipation of outcome than had Pitt 's own assessments . |