Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enquiries were made into the feasibility of ferrying Spitfires into this tiny field but the same reply was received from all contacted who were unanimous in replying that the airfield was too small to accommodate a Spitfire landing . |
| 2 | In addition , this project will consider the feasibility of using organs of the UN , such as the Security Council , for an expanded role in environmental diplomacy . |
| 3 | The new company , Metropolitan Communications , will initially study the feasibility of modernising services within the ‘ golden ring ’ of major towns around Moscow , St Petersburg and Tyumen Oblast , Russia 's main oil zone . |
| 4 | This report is concerned with an NFER project set up to study the feasibility of devising tests in mathematics at several levels of difficulty , for lower attaining pupils aged 14 to 16 years . |
| 5 | Last autumn the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association and the National Sports Medicine Institute announced a joint project to assess the feasibility of screening athletes aged 15 to 30 for cardiac disease . |
| 6 | They were ( i ) the Alternative Youth list , comprising the German Youth Party , Marxist Youth Association , Green Youth and the Free German Youth or FDJ ( 14,616 votes ) ; ( ii ) Christian League ( 10,691 votes ) ; ( iii ) Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ) ( 8,819 votes ) ; ( iv ) Independent Social Democratic Party ( 3,891 votes ) ; ( v ) European Federalist Party ( 3,636 votes ) ; ( vi ) Independent People 's Party ( 3,007 votes ) ; ( vii ) German Beer Drinkers ' Union ( 2,534 votes ) ; ( viii ) Spartacist Workers ' Party ( 2,417 votes ) ; ( ix ) Unity Now ( 2,396 votes ) ; ( ix ) League of Socialist Workers ( 386 votes ) ; ( x ) Association of Working Circles for Employees and Democracy ( 380 votes ) ; and ( xi ) European Union of the GDR ( no votes ) . |
| 7 | Curricular novelties continued : the Headmaster , himself a Classicist , reported on Speech Day : we have made the experiment of allowing boys in the 5th to choose their own work for two hours a week , with the interesting result that a dozen boys have chosen to do Greek . " |
| 8 | However the seemingly irreconcilable interests ( eg. professional versus lay ) that are brought into the forum for debate , require that criteria be established for judging the adequacy of accounting procedures in given contexts . |
| 9 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 10 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin called on parliament yesterday to sack its chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , while Mr Khasbulatov accused the president of playing games over the fate of Russia . |
| 11 | The first step is to be establishment of the business as a subsidiary company , Deutsche Telekom Mobilfunk GmbH , on July 1 , but there was no mention of offering shares in it to the public . |
| 12 | In developing its plans for the redeployment of the Army , the General Staff were faced with three major difficulties : lack of genuine air mobility ; loss of overflying rights over Arab countries and restricted overflying of the Indian subcontinent due to India 's ‘ non-aligned ’ stance and Pakistan 's natural sympathy for Moslem Arab Nationalism ; and the justifiable reluctance in Whitehall to build up new overseas bases . |
| 13 | It is therefore perhaps unsurprising that the problem over the loss of providing powers in Bedfordshire did not appear to be a major one in the context of such close co-operation and joint endeavour to promote the growth of rural adult education at that time . |
| 14 | Probably as a result of seeing photographs in the Great Exhibition in London and at the Société Héliographique in Paris , Fenton began his own photographic experiments . |
| 15 | Changes in the overall incidence of H pylori gastritis , as a result of rising standards of living and improved public health , together with past smoking habits , may partly explain these observations . |
| 16 | The third column of figure 8.4 shows the result of taking logs of the second column . |
| 17 | That is , one explanation sees the right ear advantage to be the result of stimulating a particular ear , the other as the result of receiving sounds from a particular side of space . |
| 18 | Public Health Minister Hedi Mhenni announced on Nov. 18 that Tunisia would press for compensation from France on behalf of 12 haemophiliacs who might have developed AIDS as a result of using transfusions of blood , imported from France , which carried the HIV virus . |
| 19 | The author has developed an iterative method of calculating the synonym percentages that would be expected as a result of loading buckets of various capacities to a range of packing densities . |
| 20 | A Martian viewing our race might wonder at our lemming-like ability to self-destruct by gobbling up nasty foods , smoking little chimneys and falling sideways as a result of consuming quantities of amber liquid . |
| 21 | The Act intensifies the competitive pressures already experienced by many schools as a result of falling rolls throughout the 1980s . |
| 22 | Toxic spray drift is another result of treating crops with pesticides . |
| 23 | Afferent nerve ablation as a result of treating rats with a neurotoxic dose of capsaicin before the experiment significantly aggravated ethanol induced damage as shown by an increase in the area and depth of the erosions caused by haemorrhaging . |
| 24 | In five companies this is achieved by the circulation of planning guidelines at the start of the planning process . |
| 25 | He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view . |
| 26 | It is the happiest of coincidences for them that on this day when the mind of thinking adults in this country is concentrated on whom not to vote for , the Masters opens at Augusta . |
| 27 | A study of accounting choices before and after privatisation of industries |
| 28 | A study of drinking patterns in Mexico reveals the strength of advertising . |
| 29 | A study of bathing beaches in England and Wales conducted by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has shown that they are getting cleaner . |
| 30 | Study of evolving populations of ammonoids has produced very fine subdivisions of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks , and their only disadvantage , curiously enough , is the feature that makes them so attractive to collectors . |