Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 2 | My own cardiologist likes his Scotch , as I do , and says that a glass of whisky in moderation does you no harm at all . |
| 3 | In Diptera and Hymenoptera , with asynchronous fibrillar flight-muscles , a respiratory quotient of unity during flight indicates that carbohydrates are the main substrate . |
| 4 | It was also suggested that theologians may need to look at the theology of play in order to gain a more positive understanding of the entertainment role of the media . |
| 5 | New care management systems of assessment without provision do not rest easily with training which has equipped the worker to provide direct care , and there is some evidence that workers find the disincentives so great that they will resign from such posts ( Huxley and Kerfoot , 1992 ) . |
| 6 | In Scotland a different method of assessment of need has been adopted in response to ‘ a desire to avoid the heavy dependence on statistical method implicit in the regression analysis approach in England ’ ( Midwinter 1984:67 ) . |
| 7 | Most current schemes of assessment for lower-attainers existing at the time the report was written , concentrated on computational skills . |
| 8 | Publishers employing 25 people or fewer in Camden , Hammersmith , Fulham , Kensington , Chelsea and Westminster could receive funding towards the costs of assessment for employees wishing to gain National Vocational Qualifications . |
| 9 | The question of law for the opinion of the High Court stated by the Board of Review was whether , on the facts agreed and proved , the relevant profits for the years of assessment in question did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 10 | The advent of the car and the discovery of Keld by motorists have lessened the remoteness and loneliness of the village and recently it has become a crossroads of long-distance walkers , the Pennine Way and the Coast to Coast Walk meeting briefly at a footbridge over the river . |
| 11 | If the advantages of decentralization of decision making are to be preserved , firms must be able to operate within a set of rules for competition that enable them to identify what strategies are likely to attract scrutiny , and what strategies they can pursue without hindrance . |
| 12 | The events in Derry crystallised the feelings of frustration and discontent among Catholics and the dissatisfaction with the lack of progress towards reform felt by a wide range of opposition groups . |
| 13 | Darwinism was characteristic of an age of exploitation , and the idea of progress through struggle caught everyone 's attention . |
| 14 | I 'm conscious of the fact obviously that individual departments are taking them on board , but I think we , it is important that we actually do have a consistent approach , and it might well be that budget review at some future meeting might want to consider the monitoring of progress in order to satisfy the district auditor in future events . |
| 15 | ‘ an attempt to span out 95 per cent of the quality of effluent at present discharged from the [ sewage ] works , taking out the fliers and the obviously bad discharges . |
| 16 | The process of re-selection of MPs has forced fewer changes than might have been expected : only six were rejected prior to the 1987 election . |
| 17 | And yet , both systems rely equally on the process of differentiation in order to make meaning , therefore the impression of greater immediacy and reality is an illusion . |
| 18 | This pattern of differentiation in fact suggests that r-lessness is a separate competing development in Scots and is not being adopted in imitation of a Southern English prestige model such as RP . |
| 19 | The Privy Council reversed the decision , stating that provided fire damage was foreseeable as a kind of damage , the degree of likelihood was irrelevant to the question of kind of damage suffered . |
| 20 | I ca n't quantify these , I ca n't tell you how many there 'll be , but there will be questions on motivation but before that there 'll be some questions on the basics of of kind of y'know studying , work , psychology , the sort of thing you 'll find in an introductory chapter er not only of the Arnold book but in other books as well . |
| 21 | The volume of support for Sakharov broke through to the Moscow centre where power is wielded over the world from lofty isolation , where ‘ they ’ make their decisions . |
| 22 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 23 | Southern Electric , he added , aimed to continue to develop this kind of support for community based activities , in order to strengthen links with the communities they serve and from which the company drew their staff . |
| 24 | Eight of the studies reviewed by Kessler and McLeod considered the effects of support on stress provided by affiliative networks as opposed to that from intimate relationships , that is , by assessing number of friends , community involvement and social activities . |
| 25 | In principle , it would be quite possible to argue that this sense of obligation had weakened , even if the actual volume of support between kin remained at a substantial level , because more people are now in a situation where they need support , and because the economic circumstances of the majority of the population ( by comparison with a century earlier ) are much easier . |
| 26 | It will simply be a case of which of the two areas can muster the greatest amount of support in order to secure the development for their own area ! |
| 27 | We further argued that this mass withdrawal of support from men had to happen quickly if the world were not to be destroyed by pollution or holocaust . |
| 28 | With the emphasis being placed on long-run equilibrium , percentage changes in the rate of interest can be expected to be zero ( is a proxy for the return on a wide range of assets ) and the is the rate of change of output governed by real influences such as factor supplies and their productivities . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the notion of change of state does not have to be a criterial trait of the meaning of the verb ( see Cruse , 1986 ) ; it is sufficient that a change of state is understood to be compatible with the lexical value of the verb . |
| 30 | The rate of change of curvature reveals the distribution and the relative intensity of internal and external stress and strain , from soft and gentle to cruel and violent . |