Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb base] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 2 | Did the experience of plenty bring about a fundamental change in the American or British character ? |
| 3 | As 12-ounce cans of vegetables bounce off the side of my car , one of them smashing my rearview mirror and another sailing with surprising accuracy through my open car window and striking me on the shoulder , I decide to call it quits for the night and return in daylight . |
| 4 | After sending in a tape , with a biography , contact address and a photo , a useful approach can be to update the A&R department every time your band does one or a series of gigs. send in a sheet of paper personally addressed to your target A&R person . |
| 5 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
| 6 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |
| 7 | The Society of Authors set up a powerful lobby , which convinced a Parliamentary Committee that the common law of obscene libel should be replaced by a modern statute which afforded some protection to meritorious literature . |
| 8 | Areas of study reflect both the old and the new concerns : they range from head-counting to Grand Theory ; they cover religious organisations and their power structures ; they examine processes such as conversion , apostasy , institutionalisation , bureaucratisation , the growth of charisma and its rationalisation ; typological distinctions are drawn ( such as those between church , denomination and sect ) ; the relationship between religion and other areas of society ( the family , education , economy and , especially , politics ) is examined from a number of angles at a number of levels ; and there is also developing an increasing number of specialist ‘ sub-disciplines ’ — such as the sociologies of Catholicism , secularism , the ministry , gender and religion , and new religious movements . |
| 9 | One reason for the ubiquity of chants lies in the fact that a large number of fans move around the country to support their team at away games . |
| 10 | Why should a faculty of theology teach only the history of Christianity or the study of language ? |
| 11 | The police and the majority of defendants put on an arrogant front . |
| 12 | the note of nails screed down a blackboard |
| 13 | Only by raising loans in New York and Paris could the Bank of England prop up the pound ; but foreign bankers were unwilling to risk their money unless the British Government balanced its budget . |
| 14 | And figures for the country of birth of heads of household give only a rough estimate of ethnic minority populations , as some members of ethnic minorities live in households whose head was born in the United Kingdom , and some of those living in households whose head was born outside the United Kingdom do not belong to ethnic minorities . |
| 15 | Nothing happened until , quite independently , a group of enthusiasts set up the Folly Fellowship in 1988 . |
| 16 | A third group of carers take on the job because they feel that they have to . |
| 17 | An experiment will be carried out in which pairs of individuals bargain over the division of a sum of money . |
| 18 | The theist denies that the boundaries of heaven begin where the boundaries of earth end . |
| 19 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 20 | I 'm afraid the people of Halling have not a very high reputation as church goers |
| 21 | But on one side there is a greenhouse and vegetables , and on the other side an army of chickens peck over the brown dirt . |
| 22 | ‘ But we can not back down every time a group of tenants get up a petition against another tenant . |
| 23 | The figures for wastage rates between levels of education reproduce much the same patterns between different regions and between the sexes . |
| 24 | The Buddy Bear Centre — a former school — is currently without public funding , until the Department of Education carry out an inspection to assess it . |
| 25 | Drops of water trickle down the panes of glass . |
| 26 | Create the wrong fiscal package and a Third World country 's chances of development go down the tube . |
| 27 | Treaty on the free movement of persons cover only the pursuit of effective and genuine activities , to the exclusion of activities on such a small scale as to be regarded as purely marginal and ancillary . |
| 28 | The iridescent films of oil on top of puddles provide perhaps the best analogies . |
| 29 | The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards . |
| 30 | But ‘ allocations to sectors based on measures of use have only the most tenuous relationship with cost generation ’ ( MMC 1980 : 27 ) and are essentially arbitrary . |