Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the simplest level , the forest around a village is being gently ‘ harvested ’ — there is a scheme for gathering seeds of shrubs and climbers , for export to the garden-centre pot-plant nurseries of the US , but that is just a start . |
| 2 | These techniques may be used for typing strains of bacteria such as Salmonella typhi or Campylobacter jejuni to investigate an epidemic , or as a taxonomic tool . |
| 3 | It will be immediately apparent that the bonus surveyor or site management responsible for completing records of hours worked must be honest , fair , competent and trusted by both management and labour for the incentive scheme to work satisfactorily . |
| 4 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 5 | This created a more active market in foreign exchange and facilitated the use of the US$ for financing balance of payments purposes . |
| 6 | In 1325 escheators were made responsible for keeping duplicates of inquisitions of diem clausit and of returns to chancery ; in 1326 a calendar of Contrariant lands was begun , a roll of serjeanties in various counties compiled and further auditors were appointed . |
| 7 | However , he sought to establish University Extra-Mural Groups or Societies rather than use the County Federation of WEA branches in the promotion of extension classes through gaining support of Women 's Institutes and other voluntary organisations . |
| 8 | A HEALTH official in New York has quit after spending £700 of taxpayers ’ money on 158 plastic male organs . |
| 9 | Overlapping , consecutive , or duplicate spells of sickness absence were merged after taking account of weekends and public holidays . |
| 10 | A surplus arising from the actuarial valuation of one of the UK funds , after taking account of improvements in benefits to members , is being spread forward over twenty years by reducing the regular annual contributions . |
| 11 | Our underlying profit of £xxx million became a £yyy million loss after taking account of write-offs and provisions made during the year . |
| 12 | Differences in children 's health , behaviour and attainment at 10 years associated with different maternal employment histories will be examined after taking account of children 's initial behaviour and cognitive ability at 5 years , maternal depression and attitudes and other relevant socio-economic factors . |
| 13 | After taking account of relationships between the various firms in the list , we 're left with a core number which can almost be counted on the fingers of one hand . |
| 14 | The council , after hearing reports of commissions set up to canvass popular opinion , also firmly rejected a return to a multiparty system . |
| 15 | Secrets disco , in Church Road , Litherland previously Allinsons Theatre Club was refused by Sefton 's licensing committee after hearing details of disturbances outside the premises . |
| 16 | The principles for establishing lists of goals for fat reduction are similar to those for sugar reduction , namely , do the things that are easiest first ; use lots of small , easy steps ; spend about a week trying to behave according to that week 's goal ( and with all preceding ones being maintained ) before going on to add the next goal to your repertoire . |
| 17 | These include a macro lens at the touch of a button — great for capturing details of flowers — and a fully automatic built in flash which gives out a pre-flash emission to minimise ‘ red eye ’ . |
| 18 | He said about a , a free gift as the first thing and then he said about made enquiries of others which I thought was almost er er a , a way there of saying well , you know , oth other people more or less recommend Friends Provident . |
| 19 | What we thought , bearing in mind the current vogue for environmental-style entertainment shows for kids , would be , instead of using clips of films , we 'd show clips of vegetables . |
| 20 | The beauty of this road consists not only of unfolding scenes of mountains , cliffs , glens and sea , but also of the colours of the lands and rocks . |
| 21 | Britain 's rescue drew it deeper into the American orbit , though with the introduction of Marshall Aid to promote the economic recovery of Europe by means of financing balance of payments deficits , this was to a degree common to western European countries [ Milward , 1984 ] . |
| 22 | Some later public monuments also included portraits of children , and by the second century AD the notion of including portraits of children in public monuments had spread to some highly influential provincial families . |
| 23 | A whole range of means of assisting families of children ‘ in need ’ is spelled out in the legislation , giving some substance to the local authority 's duty to promote the upbringing of children by their families . |
| 24 | No one could accuse me of delaying consideration of allegations of miscarriage of justice when they have been presented to me . |
| 25 | The file designer can measure the results of applying groups of updates to the file and make timing estimates based on the results of these tests . |
| 26 | In the household , we may find ourselves acting as ‘ memory ’ to the whole family , both in the prosaic sense of keeping lists of jobs and obligations in mind , and also in the sense of building up an extended record of family life with photos , souvenirs and diaries . |
| 27 | The Optical Mark Reader , produced by Johnson and Pinnock , at £5,000 to £6,000 , is a cheaper and more effective way of keeping track of students . |
| 28 | Fuller gave several examples of polycentric problems : how to divide between two art galleries in equal shares a collection of paintings left by will ; the task of establishing levels of wages and prices in a centrally-planned economy ; how to decide the positions members of a football team will play in . |
| 29 | The agreement went a long way towards meeting demands of organizations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature and Greenpeace , which had staged lengthy public campaigns in favour of preserving the Antarctic as the planet 's last great wilderness . |
| 30 | It is vital that the social worker does not get hooked into the same set of fears , nor slide into a collusion in supporting staff in their problems with management over staff shortages , overtime , and other organisational difficulties at the expense of meeting needs of residents . |