Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an important sense , therefore , teaching is best thought of as the guiding and facilitating of learning , and the style of interaction called for is one in which there is reciprocity and collaboration in the making of meaning . |
| 2 | The regrading of every qualified nurse in post has of course proved to be a colossal and traumatic exercise for both management ( acting under Department of Health directives ) and the nursing unions whose job it is to mediate on behalf of members . |
| 3 | A ‘ perfect ’ market in economic theory is of course meant to be one in which the product is broadly comparable , entry and exit is possible , and price information is readily available to the consumer . |
| 4 | In cloze procedure , samples of text selected to be read by a particular reader group ( such as nine-year-olds ) are tested by representatives of that group . |
| 5 | But neither they nor an unreformed Exchequer could handle the large new sources of income brought into being by Henry VIII 's breach with Rome : the first fruits of bishoprics , the tenths of all ecclesiastical benefices , the revenue from the renting and sale of monastic lands . |
| 6 | Although all sets and costumes were designed in colour , a lot of ingenuity needed to be applied to make the sets visually more interesting to the viewers ; compensating them for only seeing everything in monochrome and through a slightly muzzy 405 line picture . |
| 7 | But so long as the three conditions expressed in the speech of my noble and learned friend are understood and observed , I do not , for my part , consider that the relaxation of the rule which he has proposed will lead to any significant increase in the cost of litigation or in the burden of research required to be undertaken by legal advisers . |
| 8 | And she says that attempts to free children of anxiety proved to be emissary . |
| 9 | The king , of course , was the chief prize of Poitiers , and Edward intended that the price of his release should be not only a substantial ransom but also a definitive peace with France : the gains of battle needed to be consolidated by a diplomatic success . |
| 10 | But the conjunction of hostility to competition and hostility to the kind of authoritarianism thought to be implied in ‘ old-fashioned ’ teaching was a powerful influence in many comprehensive schools in the late l960s and l970s . |
| 11 | However , four criteria of inclusion needed to be established before we started to ‘ count heads ’ : the definition of a case , the geographical boundaries of the count , the time period , and the type of estimate . |
| 12 | So there may be a sort of shame attached to being a Tory , up to the last minute , when a different instinct intervenes . |
| 13 | This brings on ‘ feelings of contentment associated with being in love , ’ says Prof. Diana Bunce . |
| 14 | yeah , hopefully the business coming in of , of this month because of the fact that the , the volume of business bound to be higher |
| 15 | Children 's toys , for example ( dolls or ‘ Action Man ’ ) , clothes ( pink for a girl , blue for a boy ) and names help to establish and define stereotypical patterns of behaviour associated with being male or female . |
| 16 | If the hero is meant to be a man of authority used to being obeyed , he should be shown as such and the other characters should react to him accordingly … |
| 17 | : I did the only thing I could think of , and retired to bed ; if I was to be a blade of grass doomed to be trampled flat , then I might as well accept it and lie down . |
| 18 | Guidance was given on the government and academic organization of polytechnics : the system of government needed to be suitable for institutions serving national as well as regional and local needs , and to be attractive to staff who would be able to ‘ share fully in their government and management as academic communities ’ . |
| 19 | There was still a majority view ( 68% ) that the inclusion of a merit level award was appropriate , although respondents stressed that the award of merit needed to be firmly rooted in identifiable and different levels of competence and not on comparisons between candidates . |
| 20 | The plaintiffs contended that their business plan was confidential , that the items of information relied upon were sufficiently confidential to be protectable after termination of the defendants ' employment and that it could be inferred that the defendants had used those items by virtue of alleged similarity between figures appearing in the respective business plans . |
| 21 | Reaction time increases as a function of the amount of information required to be processed in the brain . |
| 22 | Clearly we do not wish to go through the same debate that we had at the greenbelt inquiry , erm but it is very relevant erm you 'll see from our submissions to the panel that er quite clearly the City Council did not agree entirely with the proposed boundary of the greenbelt , the City Council did take the view that there were certain areas of land proposed to be included in the greenbelt er which did not fulfil a greenbelt function in the Council 's view , and that was clearly was discussed at the greenbelt inquiry , it was not just one site , er we clearly were not not in our er responsibility to identify a specific site outside our district , but there were a number of areas er subject to those objections , not just from ourselves , but as Mr erm Donson has said er from various objectors . |
| 23 | A new point that I would make , however , in many of those arguments which relate to the impossible , or alleged availability of additional windfall sites , and land on the inner greenbelt boundary , but I think the analysis which is er carried out is a simplistic one , because it solely relates to residential land requirements , there is no erm attempt to erm bring into the equation whether there is land available for the related employment necessary for that additional residential development , whether there is land available for schools , shops , and Mr Davis 's recreation uses , and so on , and all those will very considerably increase the amount of land required to be released to support residential development , wherever it is located , and that is something which I believe has not been properly taken into account . |
| 24 | First , they allowed us to develop a collage of the kinds of problem thought to be critical by the group . |
| 25 | In the existing law this is shown by the requirement of reasonable self-control , and by the ( probable ) exclusion of conduct known to be legally justified from the category of sufficient provocation . |
| 26 | For practical purposes — although a wealth of detail needed to be settled — the problem was substantially resolved at that famous meeting on 15 December 1975 . |
| 27 | Where the property is in possession , credit is deferred in respect of interest deemed to be irrecoverable . ’ |
| 28 | The amount of heroin reported to be used by 195 daily users known to the Drugs Council and 207 daily users known to the Detoxification Unit varied between one 5 ‘ bag ’ per day ( enough for a few ‘ hits ’ ) and 4 grams per day ( costing up to 240 ) . |
| 29 | So our perception of the nature of time changed from being independent of the universe to being shaped by it . |