Example sentences of "[verb] and [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNDERSTANDABLY there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the demise of West Malling ( West Malling Lament , October issue , et al ) but I am amazed that the people most affected by its loss made no attempt to save it from destruction . |
| 2 | Where cover is arranged for ‘ All Risks ’ in respect of personal effects and clothing the policy will automatically cover the cost of replacing and fitting of locks of external doors of the dwelling following loss of keys by stealing for a limit of £250 . |
| 3 | It is impossible to experience both fear and peace of mind at the same time . |
| 4 | This phase was characterised by a series of events , the more important of which included : cementation and replacement by anhydrite , which accompanied the dehydration of adjacent gypsum formations to anhydrite ; leaching and calcitisation of dolomite in response to decarboxylation of organic matter ( late leaching ) ; and cementation and replacement by halite , triggered by mobilisation of underlying salt deposits ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 5 | On 1 December , just three weeks before the disaster , a DIA DITSUM stated that ‘ reports of surveillance , targeting and planning of actions against US persons and facilities are continuous ’ . |
| 6 | Governments responded to the profits squeeze and loss of competitiveness by deflation and incomes policies . |
| 7 | Thetwo models were compared in terms of efficiency in predicting outcome at six weeks ( probability of correct classification ) , in terms of goodness to fit and accuracy of adjustment of the data to the models and finally using receiver operating characteristic curves . |
| 8 | There was much coming and going and shaking of hands before a lurid calendar of a glossy , tanned blonde in a jungle setting . |
| 9 | However , before racing ceases to be a single-parent sport , the Jockey Club deserves full credit for not only having forged ahead with the Sunday fixtures but also firing the well-aimed salvos that finally got through to the Government the iniquities of the level of VAT being charged on the breeding , rearing and racing of bloodstock in this country compared with France and Ireland . |
| 10 | for example , bifurcation is a policy which has been occasioned and encouraged by the conjunction of overcrowding and lack of resources in an ideological atmosphere of ‘ law and order ’ and legitimacy crisis , but it was not inevitable : policymakers could ( and probably should ) have decided to do something else instead . |
| 11 | In all these inquiries the main conclusions were that abuse of patients where it existed was the consequence of acute shortages of staff , overcrowding and lack of facilities for patients and that general neglect pervaded in subnormality hospitals . |
| 12 | collection , sorting and presentation of evidence as a portfolio by candidate ; |
| 13 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
| 14 | ISQL ( the Interactive Query Language ) is used for reporting and printing of queries on the data |
| 15 | It has advanced slowly , by the patient amassing and interpretation of data in many varied fields , ranging from the study of fossils ( palaeontology ) to the chemical and physical properties of rocks themselves ( petrology ) . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State shall issue codes of practice in connection with — … ( b ) the detention , treatment , questioning and identification of persons by police officers ; … |
| 17 | On Aug. 4 the House of Representatives voted to refer former Public Works Minister Mahmud al-Hawamidah for trial for misuse of public finds and abuse of authority in connection with the construction of a highway from Azraq to Jafr . |
| 18 | There is also , it seems to me , a need to maintain the balance between these conventional awards for damages for pain , suffering and loss of amenity for different types of injury . |
| 19 | Demand and supply of funds in the ECMs |
| 20 | The office as a centre for collecting and processing of information for internal and external use . |
| 21 | The leather upper provides both comfort and flexibility of movement of the instep while the inside of the shoe , and especially the tongue , which is padded , is cushioned for maximum comfort . |
| 22 | 10 A commitment to full public participation in decision making and freedom of information in all sectors . |
| 23 | A commitment to full public participation in decision making and freedom of information in all sectors . |
| 24 | The current annual increment of about 2000 billion tonnes of ice , due to snowfall , is lost each year by evaporation , melting and formation of icebergs at the rim . |
| 25 | Assistance with displays at the Teachers ’ Centres where these exist and encouragement of displays in schools ; |
| 26 | Rex and Moore point to two determinants of this competition : the size and security of income , and the need for housing and length of residence in the local area . |
| 27 | No one must be false to that oath , but in order to return a collective verdict , the verdict of you all , there must necessarily be argument , and a certain amount of give and take and adjustment of views within the scope of the oath you have taken , and it makes for great public inconvenience and expense if jurors can not agree owing to the unwillingness of one of their number to listen to the arguments of the rest . |
| 28 | Those who had been in Italy before the end of 1989 and who registered within an appointed time limit were to be allowed to remain in the country and would be granted rights to medical care , schooling and equality of opportunity in relation to employment . |
| 29 | Applied Ecology : major research programmes in pest management , monitoring and assessment of changes in ecological communities , the fate of pollutants including radionuclides in natural environments . |
| 30 | RBL , of course , entails a facility on the part of the learners in the location , processing and presentation of information of an order quite different from that of the traditional chalk-and-talk lesson , and requires intellectual skills whose sophistication is not to be underestimated . |