Example sentences of "and of [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the five years since its introduction , the plan has been accused of being geared toward extracting the optimum " harvest " from remaining forests and of lacking consideration towards forest peoples . |
| 2 | As before there were considerations of restricting overall investment to physical availability of materials , and of maintaining leverage over the nationalised industries as part of Keynesian demand management in the economy ( allowing greater expenditure when a slump threatened and reining it in when the economy appeared to be overheating ) . |
| 3 | Lakatos presented his methodology as a response to the problem of distinguishing rationality from irrationality , of stemming intellectual pollution and of throwing light on questions ‘ of vital social and political relevance ’ such as the status of Marxism or contemporary research in genetics . |
| 4 | He was capable of composing his own songs and of writing verse in both French and Provençal . |
| 5 | Each received a variant of Nora 's lofty homily on the virtues of staying calm and of reposing confidence in firms whose soundness was beyond question — plus , to be sure , the gold to back the words and to sugar the message . |
| 6 | It may be true that the processes of change and of translating policy into practice are convoluted and very hard to manage . |
| 7 | Perhaps nothing better illustrates the difficulties of trying to establish the truth of such a tradition and of achieving accuracy in the dating of events in the lives of scholars of the early Ottoman period than the problem presented by the death date of Cemaleddin Aksarayi . |
| 8 | This paper summarises a study of take-up by board schools of training opportunities , and suggests ways of encouraging boards to give training higher priority and of providing support for their efforts . |
| 9 | In addition , local authorities may have difficulty in knowing which old people need help and of getting help to them in time . |
| 10 | This Spotlight describes the process of tapping into parents ' views and of taking account of these . |
| 11 | This Spotlight describes the process of tapping into parents ’ views and of taking account of these . |
| 12 | An eighteen-year-old boy who had flown from India to marry a Calcutta girl now living in Liverpool was detained for three days by the officials , who suspected him of being under age and of using marriage as a trick to get a work permit . |
| 13 | For example , the past trend towards centralisation of educational facilities may in future prove to be more expensive than the use of new methods of distance learning and of aiming education at smaller local units . |
| 14 | The President has the responsibility of supervising the overall operation of SSATs , as well as of organizing meetings , training courses and of preparing material for the guidance of SSATs . |
| 15 | It was described as being ‘ … as black as a luger barrel ’ ; as being able to bring ‘ … polite conversation round to the subject of violence and warfare ’ ; as accusing the Georgian terraces of Bath ( where it was exhibited ) of daydreaming , and of making reference to the military hardware stored in the ancient subterranean quarries beneath the city . |
| 16 | In one sense Lewis and Shinwell were simply more aggravated and tougher manifestations of Wilson 's old problem of selecting , or being free to select , the right people to develop and run the union 's local organisation and of retaining control over their activities . |
| 17 | His emphasis on the independence of theology , on refusing to allow any other intellectual discipline to dictate to it , reflected an awareness that his own earlier thought might itself have been guilty of imposing inappropriate categories and of squeezing theology into a strait-jacket . |
| 18 | When overtures were received from the Czech resistance movement Vlasov was persuaded to allow his men to aid the anti-communist uprising in Prague on 7 May 1945 , in the vain hope of ingratiating themselves with the allies , and of winning sanctuary from an independent Czech government . |
| 19 | There are also the difficulties of creating a security copy of bound books and of keeping track of their whereabouts with many discrete users and locations . |
| 20 | This theoretical framework opens up the possibility of analysing the process of technical change in a dynamic disequilibrium context and of integrating work in economics , management and technology . |
| 21 | In its 29-page report Africa Watch accused the military government of President Ibrahim Babangida of regarding itself as " above the law " , and of denying justice to its critics . |
| 22 | He then gave a press conference in which he launched a fierce attack upon the Democrats , accusing them of failing to produce any deficit reduction proposals and of playing politics with the budget issue . |