Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Any substantial quantity of moisture forced out of the cheese when it is subjected to heat may spoil the consistency of a dish , making it watery .
2 The range of values taken on by the variable is divided into a number of classes before the map is drawn .
3 Mazmanian ( 1976 ) , in his evaluation of projects carried out by the Corps of Engineers , and Gilbert and Specht ( 1977 ) , in their classic evaluation of the Model City programme between the years 1967 — 71 , appear to reach a similar conclusion : participation helps process but not goal attainment .
4 Lorryloads of blooms rolled up to the Bel Air mansion where Liz , 60 , lay in bed , surrounded by her doctors .
5 The case of Copeman v Coleman ( 1939 ) 22 TC 594 concerned a company which was formed in 1933 with a capital of £1,000 owned equally by the respondent and his wife .
6 Goodenough 's group confirmed that the emotional content of dreams could be affected by pre-sleep stimulation ( in this case , a film entitled subcision — explicitly showing a series of operations carried out on the penis as part of a tribal aboriginal initiation rite ) .
7 Another guest speaker , Dr Nawal El Saadawi , the Egyptian novelist , doctor and relentless critic of Arab human rights abuses , attacked the hypocrisy of policies carried out around the world in the name of human rights , democracy and justice .
8 This is partly due to the greater sophistication of the instruments , but it is also due to the variety of contracts brought about by the range of exercise prices , which adds an extra dimension to contract specification .
9 The damage became obvious in 1957 when the Midland lost its coveted position as Britain 's largest bank Barclays ' deposits of £1,346m edged ahead of the Midland 's £1,342m .
10 Joe always made sure there were a couple of swings rigged up to the spreaded branches for the children to enjoy .
11 Patricia Whitaker-Dowling , David Wilcox , Christopher Widnell and Julius Youngner at Pittsburgh University have shown that interferon can prevent viruses from getting inside animal cells , and they believe that this might be the first line of defence set up by the interferon system in response to viral attack ( Proceedings of the U.S .
12 His room 's a dustbin with lists of objects pinned all over the walls — no , I do n't know what it means .
13 Accompanied by superb colour plates of objects drawn largely from the museum 's collection and newly re-photographed the multi-faceted , sometimes ethereal nature of glass is explored in all its astounding variety , from ancient civilisation onwards .
14 With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments .
15 Any new hands were expected to learn the ropes from the old hands and with the small number of personnel involved together with the expertise of the ex-service officers the system worked quite satisfactorily .
16 ( The classification was of course made independently of the climate scores , by a researcher from a business school who had developed a method to rate the innovativeness of a company 's strategies and products . )
17 This great outlay of capital was not of course achieved simply by the diversion of surplus income from office .
18 The judiciary and magistrates are of course drawn predominantly from the middle and upper classes ( see Box 1987 , p. 134–135 ) and as such can be expected to reflect the beliefs and prejudices of their class .
19 Projects are often unsustainable , as the MOH has to finance the recurrent costs of activities set up by the project after the donor leaves .
20 Using flash photolysis of caged InsP 3 and caged calcium , Iino and Endo demonstrated that these positive and negative effects of calcium operated sequentially during the rising phase of a calcium spike .
21 It had been a mere moment of whiteness seen out of the corner of her eye but it had not moved purposefully like a horse does with a rider .
22 He was guilty under s.2(1) ( b ) in respect only of the debts made while he was manager and not of debts incurred previously by the hotel owner .
23 The Town Clerk wrote the letter of acceptance on 8th June , and a Scheme of Administration drawn up by the Charity Commissioners , now involved because of the change in status of the School , was ratified at Stockport County Court on 20th January 1860 .
24 A Plan of Action drawn up for the conference was estimated to cost between US$4,000 million and $6,000 million .
25 It had resulted in the allocation of funds based not on the best interests of justice but on value for money .
26 The other side of the escarpment was a fractured plateau , a great , cracked slab of rock tilted away from the summit of the ridge .
27 An international civil rights organisation are concluding their investigation of allegations of torture carried out by the RUC ( Police ) and Army in Northern Ireland .
28 And there was plenty of crap strewn all over the pavement , so he had to be more careful .
29 Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s .
30 The libraries have been designed on the basis of research carried out at the University under the auspices of a Department of Trade & Industry programme , and include temporal functions to monitor the start and stopping time of shares , financial risk calculation and probability functions .
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