Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of deaf people were left penniless after their holiday was cancelled . |
| 2 | On the outbreak of war , a transport of 180 children was left stranded in Prague . |
| 3 | A burden of 250-300 worms is considered pathogenic and in severe outbreaks the effects become evident during the late prepatent period . |
| 4 | This does not mean the abolition of expository teaching , whether in person or by sequenced AV materials ; it means that the whole range of possible methods is thrown open , for the selection of the appropriate mode and appropriate input at any one point . |
| 5 | A person who wields authority in such a society does not do so typically by virtue of traditional rules ( about kingship or hereditary authority , for example ) or because of that person 's supposed special charismatic qualities , but as a result of an impersonal rule which has been consciously created by a rational legislative process , Weber says that the appropriate administrative form for a system of legal authority — because it is the most efficient form — is bureaucracy ( Weber 1969 : chs 3 and 11 ) . |
| 6 | He set up his school in Edinburgh and in 1838 graduates of that school were made eligible to serve as army veterinary surgeons . |
| 7 | So , if the job at the new location is , in the eyes of the tribunal , a suitable one for that employee , and the refusal of that job is considered unreasonable , the right to a redundancy payment will be lost . |
| 8 | The intense threat of further isolation is given cultural formulation in the concept of sasoo possession , and individual expression in withdrawal and even suicide . |
| 9 | Three civilians of Iraqi nationality were reported killed and at least 35 wounded . |
| 10 | Hyperplasia of endocrine cells was called nodular when there were clusters of five or more endocrine cells as suggested by Borch et al . |
| 11 | It may be that a variety of different approaches is considered appropriate . |
| 12 | So does his use of omens and prophecies — a feature of The Lord of the Rings which may furthermore seem to deny the idea of free will being left intact by the forces of providence . |
| 13 | It is a history of morale boosting , of public money being made available from various sources from 1918 onwards : to enrich the life in remote villages in danger of being deserted by the exodus after the First World War ; to occupy the unemployed in the 1930s on Tyneside ; to counter the dreary effect of the ‘ blackout ’ during the Second World War ( this was the first instance in this country of government subsidy ) ; to bring a sense of wellbeing to the community during the difficult years following the war ; and in particular , to occupy bored young people . |
| 14 | Where a purchase of licensed premises was made subject to the purchaser obtaining a transfer of the certificate , and the purchaser undertook to do all in his power to obtain a transfer , and the transfer was refused by the licensing court , and the purchaser refused to appeal or to concur in an appeal against the refusal , it was held that he had failed to do all in his power to obtain a transfer , and was found liable in damages to the seller : Skinner v. Breslin ( 1905 ) 13 S.L.T. 91 ; cf. |
| 15 | LGB opposition to extensions of social legislation was increased due to the reluctance of the Treasury to provide what the Board regarded as adequate staffing . |
| 16 | Here in history ( but also in many anthropological examples , see Taussig 1977 , ; Worsley 1957 ) , the nature of money and its role in the transformation of social relations is made explicit . |
| 17 | Its crumbling wooden fence and the wealth of overgrown shrubs was considered useful only in shielding the postern gate from any but the most discerning eye . |
| 18 | Much of this success was rendered possible only by Surrey 's strength in reserve . |
| 19 | The cost of this exercise was considered prohibitive , and the time factor to effect the alterations involved had it been financially acceptable , would have taken a couple of years . |
| 20 | Yet the inconvenience of this system is felt far beyond the immediate families involved . |
| 21 | Although they again found no difference between subjects given no pre-exposure and those exposed to a variety of flavours , interpretation of this finding is rendered equivocal by the fact that the two groups drank different amounts of the CS flavour on the conditioning trial . |
| 22 | The face of this man was painted white . |
| 23 | The kind of reasoning involved in derivations of this kind is called deductive reasoning . |
| 24 | If the fasting breath hydrogen was greater than 12 ppm fasting was continued for up to 14 hours and a breath hydrogen persistently greater than 12 ppm at the end of this period was considered abnormal . |
| 25 | When Cardinal Wolsey fell , he had n't finished the building of Tom Quad , the whole of this side was left open because he 'd planned a very grand perpendicular chapel like King 's College Chapel , and erm the ruins , well no , not the ruins , the foundations were still to be seen apparently in the 17th Century John Gomley tells us . |
| 26 | The KGB had penetrated all these organizations over the years , but the purpose and the location of this summit was kept secret . |
| 27 | William Elstobb found the eighteenth-century fenmen content with ‘ uncomfortable accommodations ’ ; and Vancouver wrote of Burwell in 1794 : ‘ Any attempt in contemplation for the better drainage of this fen is considered hostile to the true interests of these deluded people . ’ |
| 28 | However Richet admits that the future of this business is made uncertain by the proposed purchase of French software house CGI Informatique SA . |
| 29 | The main focus of this chapter is elected local government , but this in itself is organizationally far from simple . |
| 30 | The writing of this paper was made possible by a grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation . |