Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a fee of whisky he will help mortals caught in Fairyland to escape , or show them antidotes to spells and curses . |
| 2 | The short answer was that when I was working as inspector of taxes I used to give these talks , I was required to give talks . |
| 3 | Whilst we did not expect the same standard of play we should have expected something better . |
| 4 | I did n't know what kind of play she might have been pulling . |
| 5 | The theory of outcome measurement they constructed was then used to develop a comprehensive system of assessment which could monitor the development of all children for whom local authorities take responsibility . |
| 6 | Despite their differences , however , both initiatives are associated with an increasing interest in modular-based curriculum provision , and with forms of assessment which can take into account the wide range of outcomes they are designed to achieve . |
| 7 | What type of company/co-operative you should form . |
| 8 | In other words , to the extent that Christianity is seen as providing a source of values which can legitimise the market economy , those same values undermine the assumptions from which a humanistic defence of the market economy starts . |
| 9 | By way of correction I can offer only the thought that the word comprimat in the third line of Musae Jovis is a jussive subjunctive ( ‘ let … crush ’ ) , not an indicative ( ‘ crushes ’ ) . |
| 10 | Against the background that people expected support for an elderly person to be reciprocated in some fairly immediate way , the pressure to exclude older people from the labour market was accompanied by a pressure to give them some independent means of support which would prevent their having to rely on their children or other relatives . |
| 11 | Or should policy concentrate more on clarifying the goals and outcomes of learning , and on providing the kind of support which will enable schools to identify for themselves the best possible ways of achieving such goals and outcomes ? |
| 12 | It is then necessary to market it , through lectures , seminars , and meetings with governments , business interests , and lawyers , in order to generate a groundswell of support which will help to ensure ratification . |
| 13 | Together with the right kind of support we could have fun together and achieve so much for ourselves and our diocese . |
| 14 | There are few restrictions on the type of support we can offer but the important feature is the idea ; once that is accepted we will help the researcher in whatever way may be appropriate to bring his idea to fruition . |
| 15 | When considering an offer of a job in the community it is worth asking a few questions about the day to day management of the service , and the kind of support you can expect to get from your colleagues . |
| 16 | Grief is not only a reaction , though , it is a process , so your bereaved parent will need your help through all its various stages of numbness , yearning , quiet or vocal distress , anxiety , depression and adjustment to her new situation ; and the way she behaves during the grief process will depend very much on her personality type , her previous life experiences and the strength of the tie that has been severed , as well as the amount of support you can give her . |
| 17 | ‘ So you need every bit of support you can get . |
| 18 | The complete absence of information makes it very difficult to uncover the processes of change which may have been at work among the peoples north and south of the Trent during the reign of Eadwine , but it is inconceivable that Eadwine was able to extend his hegemony southwards without first achieving domination of the Mercians . |
| 19 | To sum up this section , we can say that the first phrase of a theme may be followed by a second phrase to make a complete sentence , either through exact repetition , or by various degrees of change which can extend to the introduction of completely new material . |
| 20 | When we defend ourselves too rigidly against threatening aspects of change we can precipitate the very situations we seek to avert . |
| 21 | Mrs Johnson said : ‘ We left the bottle on a table in the communal lounge and whenever a resident had a pocketful of change they would put it in . |
| 22 | It is the major reason why there is a discrepancy between the sets of adjectives which can appear in attributive and predicative positions ( other reasons appear in later chapters ) . |
| 23 | Is not the problem for my hon. Friend that there are so many diverse views on nutritional supplements that it is hard to know from which set of experts one should take advice ? |
| 24 | On June 7 , the government named a committee of experts which would draw up proposals for a draft constitution on the basis of previous constitutions and the report of the National Commission of Democracy , which advocated an executive president and a national assembly , both to be elected on the basis of universal suffrage , an independent judiciary and guarantees of human rights . |
| 25 | The eco-label scheme , which is voluntary , will be run by a combination of national and EC-wide committees of experts which will set standards and also consider submissions from consumer groups , environmental lobbies , industry and commerce . |
| 26 | The quality standards refer to the maintenance of central records of experts which must comply with the data protection laws . |
| 27 | Curtain specialists and manufacturing upholsterers , all produced to an exceptional standard in our own workshops , and fitted by our own team of experts who will travel anywhere in the UK or abroad . |
| 28 | Curtain specialists and manufacturing upholsterers , all produced to an exceptional standard in our own workshops , and fitted by our own team of experts who will travel anywhere in the UK or abroad . |
| 29 | With the advent of videodisc we can expect to see an increase in video training materials and information databases of various kinds . |
| 30 | The nature and degree of insanity which will afford a defence to a criminal charge has from time to time been a matter of considerable discussion . |