Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outlook , page 31 World Markets New York : Programme buying and a rush of panicky short-covering saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average finish at a record 2,754.56 , up 40.84 Tokyo : A flood of sell orders from investment trusts redeeming funds for clients brought a sharp fall in the Nikkei average , down 256.6 to 35,366.37 . |
| 2 | One important aspect of attributing differences to biology as opposed to attributing them to culture is that the second type of explanation leaves room for views to change , while the former appears to rule this out . |
| 3 | One further consequence of attributing pre-eminence to quantity in relation to detection rates means that the ‘ prig ’ who ‘ clears his slate ’ ( admits to lots of crimes , no matter how trivial ) becomes a prized catch , simply because he helps the figures . |
| 4 | There are right and wrong ways of handling microphones for speech recording . |
| 5 | I should rather like to have an opportunity of putting to the Prime Minister some of the arguments in favour of handling business through Cabinet Committees . |
| 6 | The computer for the National Cancer Center will form the central database for an online national network of imaging data on cancer patients . |
| 7 | Within government itself the practicalities of administering controls in peacetime became increasingly difficult and , in the process , exposed the crucial lack of any coherent and comprehensive theory of planning . |
| 8 | In 1856 he turned to technical chemistry , especially the problem of recovering sulphur from alkali waste . |
| 9 | However , they believe there could be some hope of recovering lines of credit which were extended by International Signal and Control to a number of European intermediaries . |
| 10 | Instead of using lumps of lead with the shape of the required letters moulded into their surface or spinning glass disks with the letters etched into them , the world was going digital . |
| 11 | A particular concern of the investigation will be to examine the definition of politicization used by the US and to examine the effectiveness of using threats of resignation as a credible technique for managing the activities of those agencies which are the world 's primary multi-lateral forums for the negotiation of global issues . |
| 12 | ( In this particular area of using dictionaries in catalogue systems , the only precedent of which I am aware is of a university paying something in the region of $40–50,000 . ) |
| 13 | A lighthearted look at one of the pre-Medau ways of using loads of energy and having lots of fun . |
| 14 | Public Health Minister Hedi Mhenni announced on Nov. 18 that Tunisia would press for compensation from France on behalf of 12 haemophiliacs who might have developed AIDS as a result of using transfusions of blood , imported from France , which carried the HIV virus . |
| 15 | Already there is talk of using Macintoshes for packaging design , 35mm slide and OHP production and a host of other graphics oriented functions . |
| 16 | An independent user group has been formed in central London covering Lotus Development Corp 's Notes groupware product : the Lotus Notes User Group is to provide a forum for discussing strategic issues of using Notes in business , as well as application ideas and will maintain close links with the Worldwide Lotus Notes Users and Technologists . |
| 17 | It was decided to adopt it as the standard background , keeping open the possibility of using pieces of velvet in special cases . |
| 18 | An important point here is that existing school staff may have little experience of using microcomputers for information retrieval and the school librarian needs to impress the staff by her/his ability in using the microcomputer . |
| 19 | We have described the problems of using data on utilisation of services which we see as offering no reliable way of weighting different indicators . |
| 20 | However , much less well developed has been the nature of using information for decision-making . |
| 21 | I was n't keen on the deep-fried banana served with many fish dishes , and the habit of using photos of food instead of a menu . |
| 22 | Last October , a British Medical Association report accused the Government of using secrecy in order to hide its failure to adequately test pesticides before ratifying their sale . |
| 23 | The benefits of using computers in engineering applications is very substantial indeed in terms of reliability , cost and ease of use . |
| 24 | NAMAS is not always the accreditation system of choice and Dr R. Patel ( MAFF , CVL , Weybridge ) discussed the alternative of using GLP in toxicology laboratories . |
| 25 | Caleman added that every time the United States accuses the Soviet Union or Vietnam of using mycotoxins in south-east Asia the standard reply is to ‘ remind people about the US use of herbicides in Vietnam . ’ |
| 26 | I have read in LRO of the benefit of using Carbonflo in petrol engines . |
| 27 | With pie diagrams indicating that the major pop consumers are the staid , over-25s , the development in the ad industry of ‘ psychogeographics ’ ( the science of using pop to home in on specific taste publics — i.e. Springsteen fans are likely to desire different products from Whitney Houston fans ) , and the construction of bands in the studio , pop has never required less urgently a rush of theory from the ‘ left ’ . |
| 28 | Oh dear Ian Botham 's dream of helping England to victory in his last world cup campaign took thrilling shape in Perth . |
| 29 | To recruit more parishioners to this work of helping people in need , an area we now call Social Concerns . |
| 30 | Briefly then , what we found in section 4.1 and have summarised here , is that building societies form the largest group of intermediaries but their function is almost exclusively one of channelling funds between surplus and deficit units within the personal sector . |