Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He further announced on Jan. 29 , 1990 , that 2,750 military and civilian personnel ( including their dependants ) would be withdrawn from a number of bases in the United Kingdom and elsewhere ( for other announcements of US defence expenditure cuts and for European concerns about reduced US miliary commitment to Europe see p. 37226 ) . |
| 2 | This networking of previously lone individuals and groups will be highlighted through a number of networking facilities including the innovative Networking Game . |
| 3 | The limestone scars seen on the left during the ascent here give place to a moorland shelf inclined at an easier gradient which , on investigation , is found to be perforated by a line of potholes . |
| 4 | I recognise that it may also be tinged with a note of bias , for I passionately believe with the project organisers that school and community are parallel and co-operative agencies in the education of young children , and that to establish understanding , as well as to promote real creativity , children should begin reading and learning in the language they speak at home . |
| 5 | These , and other changes , all contributed to the doubling of productivity within those six years , and he is optimistic that it could be trebled as a result of the fast , electronic and computer assisted information that is now available . |
| 6 | Nervous convulsions have been attributed by some clinicians to toxocariasis , but there is still some disagreement on whether the parasite can be implicated as a cause of these signs . |
| 7 | Thus a computer architecture and instruction set can be frozen at a later stage in the design process , and can be altered as a result of any inadequacies or improvements . |
| 8 | What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it . |
| 9 | Parts within a discourse type , like the discourse type itself , may be recognized by a combination of the factors listed in 9.3 . |
| 10 | The presumption was that there were certain universals of social organization , functions that could be recognized in a variety of cultural forms ; myths , kinship orders , etc . |
| 11 | Search at the police station should not be undertaken as a matter of routine but only where justified under Lindley v. Rutter . |
| 12 | A translation may be undertaken for a variety of purposes . |
| 13 | After implementation of any modifications proposed at that meeting , publication of the completed draft will be undertaken in a variety of forms . |
| 14 | In the second phase , small studies will be undertaken in a number of local authorities to assess the extent to which socio-economic factors account for variations in the rates of children in care in ‘ similar ’ authorities or for patterns of care that are at marked variance with national trends . |
| 15 | This can be undertaken by a member of the company 's staff — such as the personnel manager or employee welfare manager — or the company could employ an outside specialist to help . |
| 16 | Adjudication would be undertaken by a panel of distinguished doctors and psychiatrists and , to the delight of the press , he went on to say that the finals would be screened worldwide . |
| 17 | These would be undertaken by a number of organizations . |
| 18 | Due diligence will be undertaken by a number of different advisers to Newco and the investors , and in certain transactions it is advisable for these parties to meet before the exercise in order not to duplicate work and to provide for cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 19 | Indeed , the comparative analysis of two versions of the same text may be undertaken from a number of linguistic perspectives ; it has been the concern of this article to suggest but two of this range of possible models . |
| 20 | John Lewis , the man who had complained about the effect of financial cuts on safety at Lowermoor , was the only person to be sacked as a result of the incident . |
| 21 | Class-linked youth subcultures , such as those of mods , teds and rockers , could be explained as a crossing of both tendencies . |
| 22 | The early part of the present century was quiet in volcanic terms , and the warming might be explained as a result of dust clearing from the stratosphere , while the recent cooling trend coincides with increasing volcanic activity . |
| 23 | then this could be explained as a result of the autonomy of the state from the requirements of capitalism . |
| 24 | The discrepancy between these statements is probably to be explained as a consequence of the very thing we are discussing — the obscurity of the early , providential superego-precursors in the individual and their later submergence in the punitive , Oedipal superego , a complication which does not , of course , occur in the cultural evolution of the superego . |
| 25 | This is challenged by Hart who suggests that , far from simply being an example of the law enforcing a moral principle — for example the sanctity of human life — it may on the other hand ‘ perfectly well be explained as a piece of paternalism , designed to protect individuals against themselves ’ . |
| 26 | I would suggest that this attention to differences between context-dependent and objective description can be explained as a product of the specific academic tradition to which these writers are the heirs . |
| 27 | This apparent discrepancy can be explained in a number of ways . |
| 28 | This continuity in policy can be explained in a number of ways . |
| 29 | The difference noted within our polyp group may be explained in a number of ways . |
| 30 | Homogenisation — the forces keeping the genes in a family similar to each other — is more subtle ; but the way in which this can occur can now be explained by a variety of molecular mechanisms which ensure , willy-nilly , that one variant copy would replace all other copies . |