Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , undoubtedly , a tension between cause and consequence , but no acceptable way in which significance can be confined to the realm of an expression and consequence of unity institutionally achieved . |
| 2 | The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right . |
| 3 | The rapid feedback of marks and grades on a termly basis creates an open system of assessment easily understood by students . |
| 4 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 5 | Soviet spokesmen could argue that although the USSR had for decades proselytised the notion of a national liberation or solidarity ‘ front ’ of Third World states , aligned at least politically to the Soviet bloc , it had not created regional groupings or coalitions of states militarily tied to the USSR or the Warsaw Pact and it had supported the opposition of the non-aligned states to military blocs . |
| 6 | Marx 's theory is an attempt to accept both types of accounts of the Orient and to explain the apparent unity of states often made up of previously independent units which nevertheless co-operated in great communal works such as road building ( among the Inca ) and large-scale irrigation ( in Asia ) . |
| 7 | As the number of states contractually linked to the Soviet Union in this manner increased , it became apparent that Moscow hoped to construct a network of loose understandings on military security with Third World states and establish Soviet relations with them on a firmer institutional basis . |
| 8 | Spencer 's emphasis on the struggle against the environment as the driving force of progress thus helped to create the popular image of ‘ Darwinism ’ . |
| 9 | The range of values normally found for σ is from about 1.5 to 2.5 as shown in table 10.1 . |
| 10 | Since our experience of institutions is frequently other than the idealistic way they strive to represent themselves , the solidity of values apparently inherited from the past are called into question . |
| 11 | For the water authorities in general the practical significance of consents is that many rivers are now substantially comprised of effluent already discharged subject to consent . |
| 12 | The burgeoning elderly population may in future be left without levels of support currently provided by relatives , a new report suggests . |
| 13 | The framework of support so established might well lead to a partnership between schools and LEAs which gives more effective support to those working within the institution . |
| 14 | On the situation in South Africa , the Council deplored the present phase of serious violence but welcomed " further indications … that the process of change already begun is going ahead " , and decided to lift its ban on new investments in South Africa [ see also p. 37910 ] . |
| 15 | In France intermittent discussion from 1879 onwards , in which the advocates of change often pointed to Britain and Germany as models , bore fruit at last in the sending in 1904 of a commercial attaché to London at the special request of the embassy there : by 1908 the French diplomatic service included six such appointments . |
| 16 | The statement of reasons merely referred to the current situation of the world market in fuel and declared that regard had been had to the bids received . |
| 17 | A clutch of products recently launched indicates the way anti-ageing technology is likely to develop in the future . |
| 18 | Here 's the chance to be creative on fabric and knitwear with an exciting new range of products recently introduced into the UK by the yarn company F W Bramwell & Co Ltd . |
| 19 | In presenting it that night , Robert Naish would most certainly have expected it to be rejected by the weight of bondholders already known to oppose redemption . |
| 20 | She was a large , beefy creature , with wisps of hair just freed from curlpapers writhing round her moon-like face . |
| 21 | He threw down the towel , damp locks of hair still slicked on his forehead . |
| 22 | He saw Maud once in the Kurfûrstendamm , eating alone in a cafe and looking a little desolate , with a stack of coins already piled beside her plate although her meal had only just come . |
| 23 | The stationary and mobile phases are both liquids , which prevents overloading and reduces the loss due to absorption and denaturation of molecules commonly incurred by the solid phase technique . |
| 24 | Similarly , studies of the international transfer of technology by multinational firms find that transfer costs ( and times ) vary inversely with the amount of host country R&D , its manufacturing experience , and with the number of projects already transferred to the host country ( see Mansfield et al. , 1982 , and Teece , 1977 ) . |
| 25 | Thus we have seen that British capitalism in the 1860s abandoned non-economic compulsion of labour ( such as the Master and Servant Acts which punished breaches of contract by workers with jail ) , long-term hiring contracts ( such as the ‘ annual bond ’ of the northern coalminers ) , and truck payments , while the average length of hiring was shortened , the average period of payment gradually reduced to a week , or even a day or an hour , thus making the market bargain more sensitive and flexible . |
| 26 | Some glimmer of hope still remained ; but the woman 's voice dispelled it . |
| 27 | This tendency to make light of Rushdie 's predicament was well illustrated when the American edition of Esquire recently published a vicious personal attack on the novelist , which angered many of his friends and supporters . |
| 28 | Here I focus on the genealogy of two aspects of discrimination already addressed by this study , namely displacement between the political and the sexual , and the idea of perversion as an inimical absence . |
| 29 | Fat women are campaigning against all forms of discrimination currently experienced . |
| 30 | The increased scale of operations also ushered in another fashion of the 1980s — new management structures . |