Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motivation to achieve at school in the face of what are the deflecting influences of at least some school teachers in some cases takes the form of a challenge . |
| 2 | My large , triangular landing net is stuck net upwards in the mud to the left of the gap in the rushes where it will be handy to get at and easy to catch hold of in the dark . |
| 3 | YORKSHIRE Television yesterday launched an agreed £30.4m takeover bid for Tyne Tees Television , ending years of behind the scenes courtship . |
| 4 | She lives sort of on a knife edge does n't she ? |
| 5 | It looks sort of like a picture — you know , a proper painting , with all the bushes and the frosty grass and that . |
| 6 | Erm yeah it 's a , again , a very straightforward shot of a very well internationally known landmark erm but I think to stand sort of at an angle to this bridge , sort of , so you 're , the bridge leads you up to the archway underneath the tower is a nice viewpoint . |
| 7 | Finally the lawyers for the families went to court again to try to obtain sight of at least some of the evidence against their clients . |
| 8 | Statements made by Deputy Defence Minister Gen. Pavel Grachev , announcing cuts of at least 1,200,000 , were described by the Defence Ministry , however , as his " personal opinion " . |
| 9 | The other meaning uses plastered in the type of structure which we have introduced in the present section ; notice that it allows addition of to be ( and that it is parallel in its overall structure to ( 42 ) where there is a non-finite clause complete with subject , verb and object ) : ( 41 ) Clara wants the façade to be plastered ( 42 ) she wants the builders to plaster the façade Let us also take note of a subtle and rather interesting ambiguity , found in : ( 43 ) Oliver imagined her red-haired This may mean that Oliver is allowing himself to speculate on the effect of , let us say , adding a wig to a blonde lady of his acquaintance ( and this may therefore be called the " cosmetic " version ) ; or he may be trying to build a mental picture of someone he has never met ( the " unacquainted " version ) , in which case imagined could be replaced by supposed with very little alteration in the meaning of the whole . |
| 10 | ‘ He makes you feel kind of like a kite . |
| 11 | The Microprocessor Report has gotten wind of at least one other low-cost , low-power R4000 derivative in the works beside the NEC/MIPS VRX . |
| 12 | I would drag one round the school , I was looking sort of like , like , cos Colin . |
| 13 | He summed up the benefits of open systems to Harris as including a reduction in operating costs of between 60% and 75% , functional staff reductions of between 20-50% , software maintenance savings of between 50% and 60% and cost avoidance in the region of $250m to $300m , this being based on the cost per MIPS of a mainframe , $44,300 , compared with a workstation server of $761 per MIPS . |
| 14 | and you 're at A , let's say , let's say , North is that way , okay , and you you set this up and you have a look , you say , where 's that lighthouse , oh it 's on a bearing of forty five degrees , and a lot later when you 've sailed sort of past the lighthouse , or the lighthouse is behind you , you take a bearing , and you still go around clockwise , |
| 15 | they came sort of without ! |
| 16 | Thank you , now that 's all erm put sort of like these Liberal Democrat resolution first . |
| 17 | Okay so we can implement it like that in hardware but the major benefit and this was done sort of like sixties sort of sixty nine seventy was to realize that you could put it into a little package like that which of course is a random access memory . |
| 18 | The timing and mode of formation of stylolites remains an area of contention in sedimentary petrography , although many stylolites show evidence of at least some component of their formation relatively late , if not necessarily deep , in the diagenetic history of their containing sediment ( Fig. 5.22d ) . |
| 19 | Very sensitive devices based on technical developments stimulated by attempts to detect variations of between different materials are now in prospect . |
| 20 | By using 64-bit data transfer rates , the system can achieve rates of over 40Mbps on the VME bus . |
| 21 | Although Dionysius ' system was the origin of the AD sequence that we now employ , it was not made use of for nearly 200 years , the oldest known work in which it is employed being Bede 's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation , of the early eighth century . |
| 22 | It was made use of on 8 November by Cardinal Frings of Cologne precisely to call the Theological Commission into line , reminding it that it was there to carry out the wishes of the Council , not to determine what the Council should decide . |
| 23 | Here 's a summary , which shows you how each of these strengths can be made use of in the workplace . |
| 24 | The hunting techniques we have just discussed for wolves and African dogs are made use of in the training of sheepdogs . |
| 25 | Gunpowder is still made use of in those quarries where a splitting rather than a shattering action is required . |
| 26 | This last fact is made use of in achieving highly accurate potential-difference ratios . |
| 27 | The same principle is made use of by plants and animals , including man , when they adjust their body clock . |
| 28 | It is wealthy and owns numerous buildings , often made use of by other organisations ( for instance for meetings , jumble sales or offices ) . |
| 29 | Another slightly different angle on these issues is to consider the distinction between instrumentality and expressiveness which has been made use of by sociologists , and is usefully applied to a discussion of kin relations by Morgan ( 1975 , pp. 78–85 ) . |
| 30 | At some stage a funding body has assessed the potential worth of a project , and research grants have been made available for it , but the lack of incentive to publish , or the difficulties encountered in preparing work for publication , have resulted in the fact that two-fifths of the work has not been made use of by the scientific community , except possibly through consultations of the original theses , ( which will be discussed in Chapter 4 ) . |