Example sentences of "[verb] of [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this Code of Conduct is to set out the standards of professional conduct expected of members of the Association and to indicate what matters may be regarded by the Disciplinary Committee as being contrary to the aims , objects and interests of the Association or contrary to the profession of librarianship . |
| 2 | Group norms are common standards of social and work behaviour expected of members of the group . |
| 3 | Norms , in this context , are common standards of social and work behaviour which are expected of individuals in the group . |
| 4 | One school had been a major spearhead of RBL in the county for many years and had invested considerable thought , enterprise and resources in library provision and study skills . |
| 5 | I think it is convenient , and not too misleading , to conceive of research outside the classroom , both of the soft speculative and the hard empirical varieties , as resulting in kinds of stereotypes . |
| 6 | Mr Nath recently performed a life-saving operation on Romanian baby Bogdan Ursu who was dying of water on the brain . |
| 7 | The encrusted surfaces of Oulton 's canvases could be compared to the thick layering and tortured reworking of paint in the art of Kossoff or Auerbach , whose paintings evoke a continuous grappling with doubt , like the late works of Titian or Rembrandt . |
| 8 | ONE OF the first railway privatisations of the century has finally come of age with the clearance of a unique hire purchase agreement with British Rail . |
| 9 | In a statement , it attributes its market position to ‘ skilful blend of off-shore financing , outsourcing of components from the far-East , exploitation of tax and tariff arrangements and co-operation with major Western partners ’ . |
| 10 | Although Liz 's body is disposing of alcohol at the rate of about one unit a hour , her last drink pushed her over the legal limit for driving of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood . |
| 11 | Article 5(1) contains further definitions as follows : " a group of connected individuals " , in relation to the party disposing of shares in the company , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a director or manager of the company and , in relation to the party acquiring the shares , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a person who is to be a director or manager of the company ; " close relation " means a person 's spouse , his children ( including , in Northern Ireland , his adopted children ) and step-children , his parents and step-parents , his brothers and sisters , and his step-brothers and step-sisters and includes a person acting in the capacity of trustee or personal representative of any such relative ; and " single individual " includes two or more persons acting in their capacity as the personal representatives of a single individual . |
| 12 | The point of the approach is to apply an attitude of critical affirmation to the different traditions enabling them to be studied and discussed in a way which is affirming of members of the traditions without succumbing to naivety or blandness . |
| 13 | ‘ Where goods are sold in market overt , according to the usage of the market , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of any defect or want of title on the part of the seller . ’ |
| 14 | Also in 1674 Haines published The Prevention of Poverty , or a Discourse of the Causes of the Decay of Trade , Fall of Lands , and Want of Money throughout the Nation , stressing the importance of the balance of trade and advocating a 25 per cent devaluation of shilling coins in order to stimulate domestic manufactures and discourage imports . |
| 15 | In 1529 the reading , purchasing or possessing of proscribed books , attendance at any meeting of heretics , disputing about Holy Scripture , and want of respect for the images of God and the saints were all made crimes for which men were to be beheaded , women buried alive , and relapsed heretics burned . |
| 16 | Two formative influences on the early Middle Ages were Pope Gregory the Great 's preaching of Christianity to the Lombards and ( through Augustine of Canterbury ) to the Anglo-Saxons ; and the peregrinatio , or self-imposed exile for God 's sake , of Irish monks like St Aidan at Lindisfarne , St Columbanus in Burgundy , and St Gall in Suabia , who had a vast effect in spreading Christianity . |
| 17 | When cells are exposed to ionizing radiation , the chromosomes of the cell nuclei may be damaged by the production of gene mutations ( dominant and recessive ) , involving alterations in the elementary units of heredity which are localized within the chromosomes , or by the induction of chromosome aberrations , consisting of changes in the structure or number of the chromosomes . |
| 18 | Before he could be consulted , writs were issued against the banks by the companies and the shareholders in accordance with resolutions purporting to have been passed by each board of directors consisting of members of the Crawley family , but the receivers of each of the companies did not give their consent . |
| 19 | The WEU Assembly ( consisting of delegates of the member countries to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe-see p. 37211 ) held sessions in Paris on June 5-8 and Dec. 4-7 , 1989 , adopting unanimously on the latter occasion the Caro Report advocating strengthening of the WEU 's role as the sole West European institution competent in defence matters . |
| 20 | Four multinational consortia consisting of companies from the US , UK , West Germany , Japan , Belgium , Canada , the Netherlands and Italy , are also involved . |
| 21 | He tested this prediction by presenting subjects with a recognition test consisting of statements from the passages together with the three types of inference . |
| 22 | The reason for this is that ramparts are normally of dump construction , consisting of spoil from the ditches cast inwards to form the bank . |
| 23 | At first he was advised by a Presidential Council , consisting of representatives of the government and community , and a Council of the Federation , representing the major nationalities . |
| 24 | The ‘ Provos ’ responded with an urban guerrilla offensive , consisting of attacks on the Army , RUC and Protestant civilians . |
| 25 | The feeding process takes quite a long time , depending of course on the sizes of the individuals concerned and various environmental factors , such as temperature ( see p. 303 ) . |
| 26 | How much have you been seeing of Jones during the weeks when I 've had to leave you alone here ? |
| 27 | No further details should be given of parts of the rule that are not material . |
| 28 | In evidence presented to the commission in the first few months , details were given of irregularities in the handling and documentation in Antigua of the shipment of arms from Israel and their discovery in Colombia . |
| 29 | We do not necessarily think of pigments in the context of metalwork , but there are traditions of painted metal statues . |
| 30 | Karl would still think of Germany as the Fatherland . |