Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun sg] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could think of using video material occasionally as an input to these activities . |
| 2 | German scientists have developed a way of using carbon dioxide rather than water as a medium for dyeing materials . |
| 3 | The tenant 's liability to carry out repairs will be covered by a covenant to keep " the demised property " in repair ; but a covenant to pay a fair proportion of the cost of repairing party structures not included in the demise must be separately imposed . |
| 4 | Most ‘ cold ’ models are capable of accepting feed water up to 80°C . |
| 5 | The motorway , used by sixty five thousand vehicles a day , has done the job of easing traffic congestion elsewhere . |
| 6 | The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem issued a report on April 1 which accused the government of allowing security personnel routinely to torture Palestinian political prisoners . |
| 7 | For example , if you were able to work out a new method of organizing stock shelves so that components were more quickly available to people on the factory floor this would show perfectly that you ‘ are able to show initiative ’ . |
| 8 | Charles Brown , professor of microbiology at Heriot-Watt University received about £30 000 from Speywood last year to develop a method of producing protein A continuously . |
| 9 | Over and above setting a brief for the risk management team to identify , analyse and evaluate all risks that could impact on the balance sheet to a greater extent than , say , five per cent of gross profit , Ure recommends it could also be given the task of tackling risk areas where the organisation suffers continual losses . |
| 10 | It might also point to more appropriate ways of re-classifying subject areas so that the perspectives of both genders are represented . |
| 11 | The signatures of these ‘ partner equivalents ’ would serve to document the individuals ' responsibility for the examination ; to that extent it eliminates for the outside world the element of anonymity currently inherent in the practice of signing audit opinions only in the names of the firms . |
| 12 | Now , hitting upon the lucky number that opens the bank 's safe is the equivalent , in our analogy , of hurling scrap metal around at random and happening to assemble a Boeing 747 . |
| 13 | But hawking is labour-intensive and time-consuming and hardly a satisfactory way of keeping rabbit populations down . |
| 14 | This led S. Ohno at the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York to the rather unlikely conclusion that the mammalian ovary must be capable of inducing oestrus cycles even in the complete absence of eggs . |
| 15 | Any amount of debt can be sold , but at the cost of driving interest rates uncomfortably high . |
| 16 | In other words , the EP would have to take on the role of approving Community legislation similarly to the way in which national parliaments currently make national laws . |
| 17 | Specific browsing is applied to a more structured form of seeking library materials whereby a user makes use of a tool , such as a library catalogue or bibliography , to locate items on a specific topic . |
| 18 | We should by now be familiar with the general formula for decomposing data : Data = Fit + Residual The process of smoothing time series also produces such a decomposition of the data except that we mainly use the alternative , more suggestive form of words . |
| 19 | Team performances and the quality compliance of work standards are to be monitored and reviewed with the aim of improving working practices still further . |
| 20 | For developing countries , this internalisation of innovation makes it more desirable to strike a bargain with the innovator , because the alternative of paying patent fees simply does not exist . |
| 21 | If one rejects this authenticity condition , then one has to find ways of presenting comprehension tasks so that the learner 's interest is engaged in spite of the artificiality , so that they are induced into co-operating with the contrivance . |
| 22 | Early discussions centred on two possible devices for solving the basic problem of measuring plant growth non-intrusively . |
| 23 | Could of had rest dinner today could have all sat round . |
| 24 | He said the drawbacks of such a system were the need for a safe storage depot for the wheelchairs , and the cost of installing drop kerbs all over the town centre . |
| 25 | ( It would be unrealistic to think of removing road congestion entirely . ) |
| 26 | The report was published in July 1986 and concluded that apparently there had been little work done on the effects of skill mix on patient services and that " a higher priority should be given by management to achieving the best value for money by the adoption of methods of allocating staffing resources more closely related to the needs of patients and ward objectives . |
| 27 | Where available , Delrina says the software will be able to take advantage of calling line identification so users can screen their calls . |
| 28 | The IHT deemed domicile provisions in IHTA 1984 , s267 do not apply to determine the settlor 's domicile for the purposes of this provision ( nor do they apply in respect of moving trust property abroad ) in relation to property which became comprised in the settlement before 10 December 1974 . |
| 29 | Silent contemplation of the sounds of moving water works well for many people . |
| 30 | The Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke , said he had no intention of moving student nurses on to loans . |