Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One third of teachers say that they have had the use of INSET days to conduct their review : the same proportion have undertaken assessment of pupils especially for this purpose and have kept a diary as part of the review process . |
| 2 | This is the challenge of real democracy ; it 's very simple to espouse freedom of expression only for those you agree with . |
| 3 | I mean to my mind you might just as well spend your money on , what are you doing idiot , on a well made piece of furniture today like some of those we 've seen in , in |
| 4 | PASSENGERS are causing corrosion of aircraft merely by being on board , say scientists , who are investigating an unexpected corrosion threat caused by smoke , condensation and ‘ other emissions ’ from travellers . |
| 5 | Unlike smaller birds which , though more numerous , go to cover to eat , this bird is ‘ fearless ’ and defends the tree against other frugivores and may thus , on two counts , be rather inefficient at promoting dispersal of seeds away from the mother tree . |
| 6 | Or are we able to exert freedom of choice regardless of what is determined by other factors ? |
| 7 | Characteristic ‘ whee-oo ’ call reveals presence of drake even in fog or at a distance ; duck has purring note . |
| 8 | A former tax inspector , he has had experience of power only as head of the regional government in Old Castile and Leon . |
| 9 | Yeah , abs yeah it 's got sort of polish already in it has it ? |
| 10 | A group of 174 infants , toddlers , and preschool children is presented who showed evidence of constipation early in life . |
| 11 | The wartime allies have officially handed control of Berlin back to the Berliners ; the two Germanies will become a single nation at the stroke of midnight . |
| 12 | At least the newspaper 's editorial columns served to remind me that Geneva had become part of Switzerland only in the previous year . |
| 13 | And , if we can understand and thus make use of Adorno only by historicizing him , we can go beyond him by historicizing his historicism , which reacted to the shocks of Fascism , the demoralization of the Left and the rapid consolidation of administrative capitalism by assuming that past popular cultural traditions had been not merely damaged but shattered , and which asserted a single progressive cultural trajectory , developing from radical bourgeois art ( Beethoven 's , for example ) through to modernism . |
| 14 | While on the subject of working at a depot we only find out about ‘ offers ’ either through the Journal , press or during shopping time so savings are also possibly lost when staff who work in the stores can take advantage of multi-buys etc on a regular basis . |
| 15 | John Greig , the club 's public relations executive , said : ‘ We are far from satisfied with the security arrangements and greatly reduced number of tickets now on offer . |
| 16 | John Greig , the club 's public relations executive , said : ‘ We are far from satisfied with the security arrangements and greatly reduced number of tickets now on offer . |
| 17 | However , because we 're going to include waiver of premium automatically for most of our clients it 's got to be the best thing , the best option , we 're looking at two pounds and tuppence as a policy fee , because that 's including two percent waiver of premiums . |
| 18 | This situation meant freedom of expression only for the wealthy and already powerful . |
| 19 | He took charge of things then as a natural duty but also , it seemed , with an effort . |
| 20 | However , Murray International Holdings took control of Rangers late in 1988 . |
| 21 | When the crowd sang Flower Of Scotland deep into the final quarter of the match , Hastings responded with a brilliant diagonal run off a dummy scissors which would have brought a try for Reed in the corner but for courageous defending from Davies . |
| 22 | Decide to ring doorbell of house opposite into which rather smart-looking couple , Marc and Elaine , have recently moved . |
| 23 | Retirement migration is the most commonly discussed example of movement away from large urban areas , and has increasingly affected younger retirees . |
| 24 | The more tightly bound , or closer , to the nucleus an electron is , the more energy is required to dislodge it ; thus radiation of short wavelength , that is , with more energy , produces photoemission of electrons closest to the nucleus . |
| 25 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 26 | Like the British , the Danes have watched with growing alarm as the institutions of the EEC have begun to take control of matters far beyond what was thought to be their original remit . |
| 27 | An example was the stance taken by non-parties to the Antarctic Treaty358 throughout the 1980s who asserted , inter alia , that the Treaty should be amended to take account of developments elsewhere in international law with respect to the equitable allocation of resources . |
| 28 | Though the account remains essentially the same as in earlier editions , the bibliography has been revised to take account of scholarship down to 1990 . |
| 29 | Thus a ladder filter comprising several sections and terminated in resistance tends to correct termination of sections rapidly along the ladder and responds overall quite closely to how it would respond if it were possible to correctly terminate the end section . |
| 30 | Thus terminated , a high-pass ladder filter tends to correct termination of sections rapidly along the ladder so that the overall response is quite close to that of a correctly terminated ladder . |