Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [vb past] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motivated partly by political considerations , partly by educational theory only indirectly political in content , teachers and the trainers of teachers rejected absolutely the idea that education should be directed towards any service or economic end . |
| 2 | Towards the date for closure of Banstead , in mid-1986 , two researchers from the national offices of MIND carried out a brief study of the closure process . |
| 3 | Consisting of small squares of canvas stretched over a bamboo frame set in cement , the Pierre Druesnes composition being shown by Franka Berndt resembles a pyramid , pointing the way heavenward , a substitute for human presence , or emphasis of its absence . |
| 4 | The International Association for the Study of Pain set up a Taxonomy Committee whose first job was to generate an agreed definition of pain . |
| 5 | All heads of department carried on a voluminous correspondence with this official . |
| 6 | A breastsummer is n't just a piece of wood stuck over a gap , it 's a piece of wood that holds the walls together , and the rest of the building up . |
| 7 | Transfer the icing cut-outs to a sheet of foil or non-stick paper , and rest the ‘ birthday cake ’ cut-out on a piece of foil wrapped around a cake tin , so that it sets into a curved shape . |
| 8 | Compensation had to be fought for , it was n't a matter of right , and a piece of a very small piece of coal fell down the shaft , the onsetter 's the man at the bottom , and it through his hand and he got compensation and then my father was sacked for the shovel . |
| 9 | Pulses of energy coursed down the beam . |
| 10 | Wales , Toshiba took over the Rank factory in Plymouth , Tatung of Taiwan took over the Decca factory in Bridgenorth , Mitsubishi took over the Tandberg factory in Scotland and Sanyo has bought the Philips factory in Lowestoft . |
| 11 | Then the brighter light of electricity drove out the ghostly moonbeams and she saw only her daughter , her child , flat out on her bed , naked , apparently bedecked in diamonds and rubies , a fierce tattoo of glass and blood . |
| 12 | The concluding rounds of the peace negotiations , which had been held sporadically over the past 20 months , began under UN auspices in Mexico on Nov. 25 following the declaration of a unilateral FMLN ceasefire on Nov. 16 and recommenced in New York on Dec. 16 ; Pérez de Cuéllar , whose term of office expired only a few minutes after the signature of the agreement , had made the issue of peace in El Salvador a personal crusade . |
| 13 | To Methodists the talk of collectivism remained largely a political debate because , despite their numerous schisms , all five Methodist connexions had strong central authorities much envied by some Baptists and Congregationalists . |
| 14 | Impatient of this , Richard of Gloucester put forward a further suggestion — which made the first seem infinitely preferable ! |
| 15 | A flashlight searched back and forth across the sleeping bodies of the coolies as the hulking figure of Duclos advanced down the barrack in a dripping black rain cape . |
| 16 | The dazed figure of Tock tumbled out the front door of his battered home , rubbing his eyes and brushing the dust from his hair and pyjamas . |
| 17 | A narrow stairway of stone curled around a pillar near the door and disappeared through the beams of the roof . |
| 18 | When a flash of lightning lit up the sky to the south we decided we 'd better go now ! |
| 19 | It 's been a bumpy ride , but the bill to privatize British Rail is almost at the end of its long parliamentary journey but the battle is n't over yet , earlier this week hundreds of protestors from a variety of backgrounds gave up a day and travelled from the North to carry their defiant message to Transport Secretary John MacGregor . |
| 20 | Many wives did not know what their husbands earned — as many as one-third of those surveyed in Middlesbrough in 1907 — and the vast majority of husbands kept back a proportion of their income for their own use . |
| 21 | The vast majority of evolutionists shared both the racist and the sexist assumptions that Darwin built into his theory . |
| 22 | A Black Brant rocket from Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg carried aloft a package of explosives prepared by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico . |
| 23 | Using a stricter definition of a case of depression produced only a small difference in depression prevalence between these two age groups ( 4.5 per cent and 5.5 per cent respectively ) . |
| 24 | Swooping patterns of energy tingled down the labyrinths of her nerves . |
| 25 | Replacing ‘ bourgeois ’ relationships with new revolutionary patterns of consciousness meant virtually every aspect of existing life — sexual orientation and partners , domestic arrangements , employment — could be challenged at the whim of a therapist , with accommodation a condition of remaining in therapy . |
| 26 | The Eighth Finance Commission in 1985 recommended the allocation of more funds for the restructuring of prison buildings , and the Ministry of Welfare put forward a plan for improving the welfare of prisoners , including some attention to after-care , under the Seventh Five Year Plan . |
| 27 | In 1936 the Ministry of Labour carried out a pioneer survey of private sector employers ' pension scheme membership , finding that women comprised about 20 per cent of the total membership of around 1.6 million persons . |
| 28 | A large proportion of balls went down the leg side , which was not the ideal means of curtailing the driving of Boon , Briers and Whitaker . |
| 29 | At the same time , the proportion of freight carried on the railways between 1980 and 1990 dropped from 9% to 7% , while the proportion using road transport rose to 83% . |
| 30 | To many in England the truce of Bruges seemed literally a sell-out : the French forced the garrison at Saint-Sauveur to hand the fortress over to them directly in return for 53,000 francs . |