Example sentences of "[vb pp] of the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , some examples will be given of the type of claims that have been made in the courts of the United Kingdom , Australia , and the United States , and of the responses that have been favoured by these domestic courts . |
| 2 | I have heard of the practice of solicitors buying local searches from the vendor 's solicitors , in order to save time , but I do not know whether this is widespread . |
| 3 | ‘ I do remember , at the discussions with Verity , they even had a few sketches done of the kind of clothes she would wear . |
| 4 | Second , an appreciation is being sought of the inter-relationship between organisations by appraising the resources needed ( eg legal , economic and information resources ) , their origins , the way in which they are distributed and the inter-organisational network within which these transactions take place . |
| 5 | In both the Branch Establishments Scheme and the Manpower Planning Information System , considerable use is made of the ability of computers to perform large volumes of calculations with consistent accuracy . |
| 6 | Indeed , during what was the longest obscenity trial in British publishing history , great play was made of the involvement of schoolchildren , one of the charges being that the editors : |
| 7 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 8 | A calculation is made of the percentage of non-arrivals , cancellations and guests that terminate their stay earlier than expected . |
| 9 | From each venous sample , 100 sets of chromosomes were examined , and counts made of the frequency of cells containing dicentric chromosomes with dissimilar chromosome fragments . |
| 10 | They are made of the kind of ingredients that wild fish eat — insects , shrimps , meat , fish , and algae are among the usual list . |
| 11 | Week by week Joan Sallis and others gave advice and placed the description of what were regarded as new problems against the background of why powers were changing and why the best use should be made of the variety of forces , pressures and influences which supported governing bodies . |
| 12 | On the central issue raised by the subtitle of the show , art in or out of the mainstream , some statistical study was made of the representation of women artists and the milestones in their careers . |
| 13 | To test this hypothesis a number of stream patterns are generated using the program described above and a count made of the number of streams with no tributaries ( these are called first-order streams ) , then the number of streams formed by the junction of two first-order streams ( these are second-order streams ) and so on . |
| 14 | No estimates could be made of the number of systems or the number of applications involving personal data — guesses ranged from 50,000 to 350,000 . |
| 15 | Orthographic content is estimated by a tedious but accurate procedure by which a count is made of the number of times each letter appears in each position in a word of specific length . |
| 16 | During both World Wars less was made of the effect of women 's work on childbearing and childrearing . |
| 17 | What , then , can be said of the contribution of teachers to the climate of opinion ? |
| 18 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 19 | But , by that same morning , Ben Braithwaite had started to believe that he had thought of the cut in wages all by himself . |
| 20 | If the same dimension of each item is measured and a graph drawn of the number of times each value of that dimension appears , as in Figure 7.4 , the result is called the frequency distribution of the variable or just the distribution . |
| 21 | If the same dimension of each item is measured and a graph drawn of the number of times each value of that dimension appears , as in Figure 7.4 , the result is called the frequency distribution of the variable or just the distribution . |
| 22 | Yet when , after Poindexter 's first day of testimony , the story-line reached its conclusion — no , the president had not been told of the diversion of funds to the contras — viewers fell away . |
| 23 | Examples were sown of the style of vestments worn when High Mass was celebrated — when the celebrant would have the assistance of Deacons who would wear the Dalmatic . |
| 24 | If such problems do occur it will be necessary to reduce the fish numbers , getting rid of the excess to friends or neighbours who have a pond , or , if you can make the necessary arrangements , to a local aquatic shop . |
| 25 | I think they should get rid of the stigma in condoms , cos what frightens me is that in about ten years time my daughter will come and maybe ask if she can go on the pill and at least I can tell her no , use a condom there 's less chance of sexually transmitted diseases , but it 's my sons they wo n't come and ask . |
| 26 | Suppose , however , that we can not get rid of the tax on meals . |
| 27 | The White House admitted it had known of the plot for days and had not discouraged the rebels . |
| 28 | However , not enough was known of the biology of stocks to make control measures credible or effective , and whalers in international competition for declining stocks had no alternative but to press for the largest allowable quota , and hunt at maximum efficiency to attain the largest share . |
| 29 | I THOUGHT that I had disposed of the subject of flashes of light from materials when stressed , especially as I was only a few centuries behind Francis Bacon in mentioning the phenomenon . |
| 30 | We are in exile now and we have no money , " he would tell people who came to Morocco and asked to be paid for past services to the crown , It was not quite true , but certainly no longer disposed of the sort of funds as he had done when he was in power . |