Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | It stated that the private houses , which formed the Foreign and Colonial Offices , were ‘ inadequate to the present extent of public business , in parts unsafe , and generally in such a state of dilapidation as to render it inexpedient to expend any large sum in their substantial repair ’ . |
| 62 | Ruppia maritima or R. cirrhosa occurs in the Outer Hebrides as a species of brackish lochs , and perhaps not as a constituent of saltmarsh as referred to by Adams(1981) and in the NVC . |
| 63 | These conditions include theories of pedagogy and practices of hegemony that help to determine the meanings of literacy for particular practitioners . |
| 64 | In accepting Murav'ev 's proposals the regime made plain that , although it had just committed itself firmly to the emancipation of the serfs ( in the Nazimov Rescript ) , it was not yet prepared to adopt the principle of decentralization or to move towards provincial self-government . |
| 65 | p 7R75M is a viable , radiation-induced mutation of p that has minor effects on pigmentation . |
| 66 | For the time being , the practical effect of the change will be limited to accountants lobbying for a change in the law in the vast majority of states that do not permit accountants to incorporate — only Colorado , Hawaii , Kansas and Wyoming allow it at present . |
| 67 | MCD spectra provide information about the degeneracy of states and help with the assignment of electronic spectra . |
| 68 | They 're more like a profile , and they will specify the kind of disabilities that the child has , the kind of progress that has been made , the kind of barriers that appear to be hindering the child from making progress . |
| 69 | The ATB needed to do more to make farmers aware how training was one of the cogs in a wheel of progress that included advisory services , banks , accountants , marketing organisations , etc . |
| 70 | But far from alerting people to the danger of environmental degradation , the theory was used to justify the kind of progress that increased the level of exploitation . |
| 71 | Despite this application of man power , it was not possible to achieve the same rate of progress as had been made in the Lowlands . |
| 72 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 73 | This may be accounted a kind of progress and helps to assuage the liberal moral conscience . |
| 74 | the illusion of progress and takes away thought |
| 75 | Consequently , it is not surprising that in this period the main philosophical schools tended to reject the idea of progress and to hold cyclical views concerning the nature of time . |
| 76 | I could reassure you with talk of progress and produce another pile of evidence to back me up : more family planning , more education , more employment , constitutional changes . |
| 77 | He probably shared Khruschev 's contempt for conservationists and the defenders of the national heritage , who stood in the way of progress and tried to suborn Communist officials from their duty to demolish the redundant vestiges of the old order . |
| 78 | The particular set of values that comes to be enshrined in a constitution or code reflects the preferences of the groups in power at the time of their drawing up . |
| 79 | This was , in fact , the same scale of values that initiated the work , since wealthy patrons were at liberty to specify the number of historiations and miniatures and paid accordingly . |
| 80 | It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value . |
| 81 | It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value . |
| 82 | But Harrison sees the recent rise in awareness of values as following from the realisation that they are the key to a good , effective school , with strong exam results and happy children . |
| 83 | This expression is derived from the fuller analysis of Mooney and Ewart as follows . |
| 84 | According to a report in the Montreal Gazette the statues had been ‘ tampered with ’ in this way on several occasions , and the newspaper felt that they should be raised beyond the reach of pranksters or removed to an inside guarded site . |
| 85 | An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating . |
| 86 | Kirov 's face bore the unmistakable look of a man who has deliberately walked into a cage of lions and emerged again unscathed . |
| 87 | Indeed the adjective must be so understood ; if we try to imagine using , in the structure of ( 16 ) , an adjectival property which is not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase ( nor helping as a qualifier to identify any entity of the sentence ) , there will be only two possible outcomes : If it is a property semantically compatible with the verb , the result will be taken as an ungrammatical way of expressing a thought which should have incorporated an adverb : ( 17 ) Alastair likes his beef tea great Alternatively , it will be a property that is not compatible with the verb either ; but , in that case , there will be no way of guessing what that property should be applied to — it will in effect be semantically " loose " , so that the whole will be incomprehensible : ( 18 ) the process left the documents puzzled Thus , the property of the adjective qualifies , in purely syntactic terms , the inner grouping of verb and object ; it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase , but not directly , only as part of an interlocking structure with three elements — as in certain engineering and architectural structures , each of three elements needs the other two in order for the whole to function effectively . |
| 88 | Others look for evidence of rituals and declare that ritualistic and satanic abuse is happening much more often than most people are prepared to believe . |
| 89 | These new criteria will formalise overlapping conventions for subtyping anorexia nervosa into restricting and binge-eating/purging types based on the presence or absence of bingeing and/or purging ( ie , self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives or diuretics ) . |
| 90 | The good days were starvation days , and the bad days consisted of bingeing and vomiting . |