Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raw material of events is processed ( selected , edited , dramatised , presented ) by the professionals who run the media ; ultimately it is their values which influence the version of events the public receives ( Edwards , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | Other acts sought to prohibit as far as possible corrupt practices and limited the amount of money a candidate could spend on election expenses . |
| 3 | Writing this apologia has completed the process of exorcism a hand like this requires . |
| 4 | The sun had broken through as Erika went to the bus-stop and by the time she had reached school it was quite warm , this pleasing Erika who feared that really severe weather would cause Uncle Karl to cancel the tour of Berlin the next day . |
| 5 | If punishment is assimilated into the probation glossary it will inevitably influence the sort of practice the Service undertakes . |
| 6 | explicitly made the question of agency the critical point of the case . |
| 7 | Lord Mountbatten 's orders from the Prime Minister made the invasion of Europe the main objective with ‘ a programme of raids in ever-increasing intensity ’ . |
| 8 | She made the ascent of Nevis a pleasure , but now I was grown up and Wendyless . |
| 9 | Hence , the following historical and comparative analysis will seek to identify those features that made the bill of lading the fair and certain negotiable document of title it was until the advent of containerization . |
| 10 | By the late 1930s , the rapidly falling birth rate made the quantity of population a more pressing issue than its ‘ quality ’ . |
| 11 | Governments round the world made the control of inflation the number one short-term macroeconomic objective . |
| 12 | Economic hardship , the death and destruction brought by war , and a lack of faith in themselves , all made the task of reconstruction a formidable one for Germans . |
| 13 | The economy 's heavy reliance on trade combined with government responsibility for maintaining the value of sterling , made the balance of payments a central issue of the political economy of the period [ Beckerman , 1972 ; Dornbusch and Fisher , 1980 ] . |
| 14 | I 've just given the whole of life a miss for nearly a year , all because of bloody Adrian . |
| 15 | And I 'll volunteer suggested in for me in the paper as a criterion that it also ideally should in my opinion have a the potential for railway connection given the thrust of policy a decade two decades ahead of us . |
| 16 | The second circumstance is that planning legislation has given the Secretary of State the power to take applications out of the hands of local planning authorities and to decide them himself . |
| 17 | Given the knowledge of context the analyst has , he should find this a fairly unsurprising utterance . |
| 18 | It would be surprising , Mr. Beloff submitted , if Parliament had given the Bank of England the right to issue notices calling for the immediate production of documents which ipso facto overrode court orders , and constitutionally anomalous to allow an executive order to override a judicial order , since it would deny the court an opportunity to balance competing interests ; the court should be slow to conclude that it was excluded from this arena . |
| 19 | In encouraging the sharing of confidences the Profitboss takes care to ensure that the confidence is not abused , taking to task any team-member who betrays the trust . |
| 20 | Since both Greek and Turkish Cypriot political leaders accepted that a new Cyprus republic would have a federal and bizonal character , the essence of the pre-conference negotiations concerned the proportion of territory the Turkish authorities in occupied Cyprus were willing to cede to what would effectively become the Greek area in a federal republic ( early indications being that they were prepared to concede no more than 9 per cent of the occupied area ) , and precisely how many refugees could return , out of some 180,000 Greeks Cypriots who fled following the Turkish invasion . |
| 21 | After that period has elapsed , however , shortage of funds may make the charging of fees an attractive proposition , and there will be a double incentive if fee paying permits a reduction of government expenditure . |
| 22 | In order to estimate the level of violence an average woman would experience in the course of her life , this figure would need to be multiplied by the number of years the average woman lives . |
| 23 | Prohibiting the purchase of shares The Model Code applies equally to own-share purchases ( the Yellow Book , Section 5 , Chapter 2 , para 44 ) and so the company should not purchase any shares during any period when the directors would not be free to do so on their own account . |
| 24 | About 12 months ago , I asked the Secretary of State a question about the safety of the lighting on the M6 . |
| 25 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 26 | It sets the standard , welcomes the bride into a new hareem and displays the promise of wealth the groom and his family have to offer . |
| 27 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 28 | The policeman knew everybody , and he was a very nice man , very firm , and he would deal with minor , youth troubles , you know , when we got the spate of trouble every now and then . |
| 29 | THE president of the Court of Governors of the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , Sir Melvyn Rosser , has joined the board of Menter a Busnes , the agency that aims to make Welsh speakers more enterprising in business . |
| 30 | For high values of the viscosity , the retardation time is long and this represents the length of time the model takes to attain or 0.632 of the equilibrium elongation . |