Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideological terms in which the affected groups perceive of the environmental crisis are not politically sophisticated — in fact they have very little political content at all . |
| 2 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 3 | The first two , on 4 and 5 December , were ad hoc groups consisting of the Prime Minister , Heseltine , Leon Brittan , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , John MacGregor , Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Sir Geoffrey Howe , Foreign Secretary and Sir Patrick Mayhew , Solicitor-General . |
| 4 | Psychological models derived from the observation of groups consisting of students can no longer be taken as representing general truths . |
| 5 | Later it could develop into music groups consisting of a variety of instruments and voices , bands , instrumental ensembles or dance groups . |
| 6 | Evelyn Tubb 's delivery of ( track 3 ) , accompanied by three viols , and later of ( track 18 ) is marked by her attention to textual nuance , at times singing of love as if merely a narrator , and at others with the passion of somebody overtaken by emotion . |
| 7 | British Telecommunications Plc says it is working with both Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc to develop products that will provide customers the ability to manage complex internetworks consisting of local area networks and British Telecom 's internetwork services . |
| 8 | British Telecommunications Plc says it is working with both Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc to develop products that will provide customers the ability to manage complex internetworks consisting of local area networks and British Telecom 's internetwork services . |
| 9 | But these difficulties pale into insignificance when compared to those involved in equalising the use that different socio-economic groups make of the services . |
| 10 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 11 | The whole situation regarding the over-valuation of estates consisting of freehold and agricultural property by district valuers has now been highlighted , not only by the case of J Hedley Walton deceased v CIR , but also by the decisions of the Lands Tribunal in Exors of Lady Fox deceased v CIR . |
| 12 | The fact that small groups tend of necessity to comprise a membership of close kin favours the occurrence of kin selection and hence a high probability that cooperative behaviour will evolve . |
| 13 | These seem to have the curious property that , although they can move fairly freely within a hadron , it appears to be impossible to obtain just one quark on its own ; they always come either in groups of three ( like the proton or neutron ) or in pairs consisting of a quark and antiquark ( like the pi meson ) . |
| 14 | What will future generations make of those dog eared colour prints of great aunt Tracy with a safety pin through her nose , skateboarding , tower blocks , hippies , cooling towers . |
| 15 | In the more remote part of the Country Park the foundations remain of a signal station used during the Napoleonic wars as a look-out for the approach of ‘ Boney ’ — a real threat in those days . |
| 16 | There is one in the shape of a beehive beside the terraces of Aberdour castle , with some 600 nesting-boxes formed of stone slabs . |
| 17 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
| 18 | The flavouring vegetables are 2 each of large carrots , leeks , onions and tomatoes ; a bouquet of herbs consisting of parsley stalks , a piece of celery , a bay leaf and a crushed clove of garlic all tied together ; 1 tablespoon of salt . |
| 19 | Parkin secondly criticises the use which functionalists make of evidence which seems to indicate a consensus about the prestige ranking of occupations . |
| 20 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 21 | Fifty-five per cent of the 781 families lived in houses consisting of two rooms on a tenement staircase . |
| 22 | Following on from his recent installations , the Argentinean artist has been working on moveable objects consisting of a wooden surface , on which he draws in graphite or coloured pastels , and a superimposed sheet of lead some distance from the base . |
| 23 | The illustrations show a small hoard of silver coins consisting of one Elizabeth and four Mary groats that I found near Bridgewater , Somerset . |
| 24 | All physical phenomena consisting of particles or energy are formed ultimately by the vibrating , ever changing activity of universal energy or consciousness . |
| 25 | Almost unnoticed was the exit of the last 0-4-0 locomotive , latterly represented by the 204hp Andrew Barclay Class 06 dock shunter in Scotland ( and departmental service in England ) , and the three curious Class 13 700hp hump shunters formed of two Class 08s in permanent formations . |
| 26 | These are paintings of solid forms stripped of all their inessentials and reinterpreted with almost geometric exactitude . |
| 27 | They then drank a peptone meal over five minutes consisting of two beef cubes ( OXO Ltd , Croydon , UK ) dissolved in 200 ml water at 50°C . |
| 28 | They then consumed a peptone meal over five minutes consisting of two beef cubes ( OCO Ltd , Croydon , UK ) dissolved in 200 ml water at 50°C , 75 ml of semi-skimmed milk , and 20 g cornflakes ( Kellogg 's ) . |
| 29 | Crusts formed of the most soluble salts are usually found in the lowest part of desert basins . |
| 30 | Precious substances have enriched religious iconography over a wide range of faiths from the idols of marginal societies to the divinities of religions disposing of priestly hierarchies and sumptuous architectural settings . |