Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hint of the depth of feeling in Stockport appeared in the Stockport Advertiser on 4th June 1856 , when tenders were invited for the building of a new grammar school in Shaw Heath . |
| 2 | But in matters of local importance , he was prepared to accept the testimony of the local community : in this he was following the ancient practice of the Church with regard to canonization , which was replaced by a formal centralized procedure in the course of the next hundred years . |
| 3 | 21–7 " Letters were read from the secretary and convener of the Praise Committee of the Church with regard to a grant for assisting the congregation to secure an instrument to be used in congregational praise , from which it appears that the Committee were prepared to give £10 on condition that the instrument would be introduced in connection with public worship , and that the congregation contributed a suitable proportion of the cost . " |
| 4 | The anti-modernist campaign of Pius X and his Secretary of State , Cardinal Merry del Val , pushed further the theological and intellectual implications of this radical otherness of the Church in regard to the whole process of Western society 's post-revolutionary modernization . |
| 5 | In 1954 Butler set the aim of a doubling of the standard of living within twenty-five years . |
| 6 | We can demonstrate this backward projection of the idea of the standard by referring to the influential work of E. J. Dobson on EModE pronunciation . |
| 7 | Taking care not to wake her sons , who were curled up together on their sleeping mats , she dressed and combed her hair then slipped out of the hut without looking at her husband . |
| 8 | Giving judgment , Sir George Jessel MR said that there was no limit to the practice of the court with regard to interlocutory applications ancillary to the administration of justice . |
| 9 | His increased cash resources , and increasing commercial activity in the Frankish heartlands , made it possible for Charles 's household officers to organise the provisioning of the court by buying from local markets . |
| 10 | Some critics point out that it is difficult to see how it could benefit larger multi-celled animals , because of the problem of passing on good genes via sperm cells , or the egg . |
| 11 | However , at a more basic level it was also influenced by research which examined the nature of the problem of caring for dementia sufferers at home ; this section , therefore , looks first at the problems of care , and then at other innovative projects . |
| 12 | Part of the problem in arriving at a satisfactory definition seems to stem from the segmented approach of assessing browsing within the context of the catalogue , separate from the direct shelf approach . |
| 13 | They told of the agony of walking on feet deformed by infected open wounds , the pain of trying to jam gloves on fingers skinned by frostbite and the tedium of the never-ending white waste . |
| 14 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of May 23 speculated that Do Muoi " may have won an extension of the deadline for switching from accounting in transferable roubles to hard currency , set for April 1 " . |
| 15 | It was an appropriate part of the curriculum for learning from each other . |
| 16 | Such a doctor would have an informed knowledge of the subject before coming into contact with any prejudicial remarks . |
| 17 | Matthew Arnold 's great achievement was that he convinced the younger generation among his readers of the necessity for providing throughout England an abundant supply of public secondary schools for boys and girls , schools which would be intellectually competent , attested by public inspection , and aided both by local authorities and the state . |
| 18 | In part because of the geographic isolation of the borough , in part because of the necessity of living near the workplace , this population was rooted in the locality , producing a fierce sense of self identity and exclusion . |
| 19 | He would have been able to tell Gould about the wealth of unusual birds around Adelaide , and persuade him of the necessity of collecting in the area . |
| 20 | That is a good illustration of the strength of the voluntary agreement approach to advertising and of the weakness of seeking to enshrine it in statutory to legal bounds . |
| 21 | After three days of examining records , and taking air and water samples during a test and , according to Tazieff , verifying the safety of the lagoon by swimming in it — they pronounced security conditions ‘ satisfactory ’ . |
| 22 | A basic interest in questions about the meaning and purpose of life ( a ) to challenge secularist assumptions and to appreciate that religious truth-claims can not be easily dismissed ; ( b ) to understand what is distinctive about religion , that is , what it essentially concerns , and be able to distinguish between that and features of it which can vary and perhaps be dispensed with altogether ; ( c ) to realize in particular in how many different ways religion can masquerade as something else , and fail to be what it claims to be ; ( d ) to appreciate the highly controversial nature of religion and of almost everything that is said about it by anyone , whether religious or not ; ( e ) to have a firm grasp of criteria by which to evaluate precise examples and manifestations of religion in practice ; ( f ) to appreciate the force of the question-mark with regard to the ultimate divide between religion and non-religion , and to appreciate the reality of the dilemma , and the ways in which religion needs to be questioned for its failures , negative attitudes , hypocrisy and externalism . |
| 23 | The older boy thought of the achievement of getting to the top of Glory Hill without getting off . |
| 24 | In this way grammar would not be presented as primary but as a consequence of the achievement of meaning through the modification of lexical items . |
| 25 | The trouble is that no-one appears to know what will happen after the Olympics and whether if by then the United Nations ' blacklist will preclude British members of the Tour from competing in certain countries . |
| 26 | At the conference of the Institute of Housing at Harrogate in 1985 , Mr. Banham praised the authority of the city of which I had the privilege to be leader , describing it as the most efficient authority in Britain . |
| 27 | Miners say that they indicate the whereabouts of the ore by tapping on the shaft walls with their antler-picks , hence the name . |
| 28 | There may well be a greater stress on family commitments and we reviewed some of the evidence on sharing of tasks in section 6.4 . |
| 29 | This methodology has been devised during years of extensive psychological work on the assessment of the transfer of learning from one task to another . |
| 30 | By doing so , I readily acknowledge that we are changing , ever so slightly , the role of the Crown with regard to sentencing . |