Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Difficulties of setting up a system of rewards that is directly linked to performance appraisal and the achievement of objectives . |
| 2 | But the council has had a change of heart and is now looking at ways of funding the event . |
| 3 | The picture painted is gloomy , but there is a very effective method of agriculture that is slowly gaining credence amongst farmers , government and consumers alike . |
| 4 | Crystallization is a process involving the orderly arrangement of chains and is consequently associated with a large negative entropy of activation . |
| 5 | Dr Barham is a polymer scientist in the Department of Physics but is fast becoming more famous for his public lecture on The Physics of a Black Forest Gateau . |
| 6 | Experience over the last ten years ( 1963–73 ) has convinced the staff of this Polytechnic of the need for a more flexible type of course than is commonly offered to students . |
| 7 | The Workbook is 96 pages of text that is thematically related , unit by unit , to the Student 's Book . |
| 8 | NC protein is encoded by the 3' region of gag and is well conserved among retroviruses ( 2–3 ) . |
| 9 | This is actually the simplest form of meditation and is best suited to the beginner . |
| 10 | It is important to note that sexual violence , including rape , has a wider range of forms than is typically reported upon in the press or recognised as a crime . |
| 11 | A TALENTED teenager gets a kick out of football but is also hitting a high note as a singer . |
| 12 | For this kind of caring is often seen as the dignified proper response to long years of partnership and is realistically faced as a price that can be gladly paid for past happiness . |
| 13 | An erosion surface should show up as an excess in a certain range of altitude and this can be revealed by a device such as a hypsographic curve , which aims to depict the overall distribution of elevation and is usually used to illustrate the earth 's major relief features . |
| 14 | In fact , any crime rate , whether produced by the police , victim study , self-report study or whatever , will depend on a classification of crime that is socially produced . |
| 15 | The easiest way to find the wide range of cover you need at a competitive price is with a policy which packages together a number of covers and is specially designed for a certain group such as self-employed tradesmen . |
| 16 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
| 17 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
| 18 | ‘ … shit-scared because he 's about to be blasted into particles even smaller and more radioactive than Ronald Reagan 's brain , goes to the loo ; by sheer coincidence the crap he does solidifies in the intense cold of outer space and the pursuing spaceship runs into it at about half the speed of light and is totally destroyed . |
| 19 | Now they guard the body , which is motionless in a lake of blood that is rapidly drying , drunk by the thirsty , insatiable soil . |
| 20 | What he did was relatively harmless , yet somewhere deep down it damaged me and gave me a streak of recklessness that is still having consequences even today . |
| 21 | Though Agatha Christie was properly reticent about the breadth of her reading , it is clear to the informed student of her works that they reflect a much broader and deeper literary frame of reference than is usually admitted to this particular author . |
| 22 | He is the patron saint of England and is always shown as the dragon killer . |
| 23 | In addition , the president is constitutionally responsible for the making of treaties and the appointment of ambassadors and is effectively put in charge of foreign policy . |
| 24 | The hotel is centrally situated in the town near to the restaurants and entertainment of Hilversum and is well recommended for its grade . |
| 25 | It has taken present-day governments some time to understand that a universal benefit is a bulwark against the disincentive effects of a largely means-tested system , and that , given that the benefit is paid irrespective of whether the household head is in or out of work but is nevertheless deducted from supplementary benefit , it helps maintain a difference between income in paid work and income on the dole . |
| 26 | A high specification of housework rules can be seen as a common response to a common problem — the problem being how to make sense of work that is intrinsically unsatisfying under conditions where less and less of it need be done ( through automation , ‘ convenience ’ foods , better housing conditions , etc ) , but where the structural pressures which assign women to the home remain as strong as ever . |
| 27 | Some build up a sense of foreboding that is either confirmed or denied , some make us laugh all the way through , some seem written only to outrage . |
| 28 | Bruises of the periosteum of bones ( it lies on the surface of bones and is easily injured where the bones lie just beneath the skin , for example , elbow , shin or kneecap ) . |
| 29 | She won a case of wine and is also looking forward to a super weekend break in Champagne , France , courtesy of Arblaster & Clarke . |
| 30 | This is a permanent method of contraception and is only recommended for those who are absolutely sure that they do not want any more children . |