Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [verb] in the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Reports in late January suggested that the United Kingdom Defence Ministry might have been aware of the export of components used in the manufacture of the Iraqi " super-gun " [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390-91 ; 37471 ; 38361 ] . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , do shut up ! ’ said Molly , thinking of Jacqueline left in the sole care of Giovanna . |
| 3 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |
| 4 | He says there has been a great deal of interest shown in the firm because virtual reality is seen as an exciting new technology with a lot of potential . |
| 5 | However , it is certainly the perception of people working in the field that the level of sign language skill exhibited by hearing people , even those who function as interpreters for deaf people , is much lower than it should be . |
| 6 | As a result , the bulk of research listed in the Police Foundation Register , or outlined in a Home Office Research and Planning Unit 1987/8 ‘ Research Programme ’ document , is concerned with managerial effectiveness , workload assessments , resource deployment measurements ; evaluation of neighbourhood watch or victim support schemes , or the analysis of the effectiveness of enforcement programmes . |
| 7 | What structuralism studies about cultural phenomena is something not available ( or at least not manifestly available ) to the consciousness of people participating in the phenomenon under study . |
| 8 | Some local authorities have taken action under s.100 of the Public Health Act 1936 which has resulted in the eventual closure of premises involved in the animal by-product industry . |
| 9 | The abbey was founded by William the Conqueror to celebrate his victory over King Harold and as an atonement for the loss of life suffered in the battle . |
| 10 | On one such incident I was in command of Venturous patrolling in the Straits of Dover at the end of a very busy Bank Holiday , during which we had followed a suspect yacht from just outside Calais , and handed her over to our special unit in Dover . |
| 11 | The Environmental Change Network ( ECN ) is the direct result of recommendations contained in the 1984 report of the House of Lords ' Select Committee on Science and Technology , Agriculture and Environmental Research , chaired by Lord Adrian . |
| 12 | The corps was formed as a result of lessons learned in the Gulf War and brings together hundreds of soldiers from Germany and the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |
| 14 | Some 640 people suffered illness as a result of food poisoning in the outbreak . |
| 15 | ( Traore had appeared in court on June 6 , charged with being an accomplice in the murder of demonstrators killed in the events leading to his overthrow , but his trial had been deferred by the court to an unspecified date . ) |
| 16 | Although physiologically naive to suggest , as some have , that the seat of creativity lies in the right hemisphere , the latter 's contribution must be considered of unique importance , given what is known about its style of cognitive processing . |
| 17 | The essential idea is that all the possible states of oscillation of light moving in the z direction can be made up of judicious mixtures of the two basic oscillations in the x and y directions . |
| 18 | The theory can be modified to avoid this falsification by adjusting it to read , ‘ ( All ) bread , with the exception of that particular batch of bread produced in the French village in question , nourishes ’ . |
| 19 | The whole irony of war lies in the fact that the persons who get hurt most are the inoffensive and the helpless . |
| 20 | This is the study of papers written in the fifteenth century or something |
| 21 | A second role of coins in the study of portraiture lies in the help that they may give in the identification of other portraits , particularly sculptures , since it is only very rarely that the latter 's accompanying inscriptions have survived to identify them . |
| 22 | This book was a study of decision making in the town of New Haven , America , in the 1950s over issues such as urban development and public education . |
| 23 | This is a study of children born in the second week of April , 1970 . |
| 24 | Bomber Command 's immediate priorities after this raid switched to bombing the concentration of invasion barges in the Channel ports , but raids on the German capital were to follow for the rest of the war . |
| 25 | Workers in Japan do tend to have fewer employers in the course of their career than in the West even though the comparison is somewhat distorted because of the concentration of lifetime guarantees in the large firm sector . |
| 26 | This article reflects the ongoing , personal classroom-based research of teachers involved in the projects . |
| 27 | He was shown a viedotape of people swimming in the Drina River in bitter winter weather after an air drop , trying to save food that was floating downstream . |
| 28 | However , apart from these demonstrations and an outbreak of panic buying in the last days of March , the public response to the second stage of price liberalization was muted , in marked contrast to the street protests which had greeted the first state in November 1990 [ see p. 37866 ] . |
| 29 | ‘ Railway milk ’ had received its first boost with an outbreak of cattle plague in the mid 1860S which had seriously restricted urban milk production . |
| 30 | Each day 's performances began with a sacrifice and libations ; the priest of Dionysus sat in the centre front of the audience ; the image of the god , normally kept in the temple adjacent to the theatre , had been carried in procession and placed in the theatre ; in the centre of the orchestra was an altar . |