Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dissolution of CENTO left ASEAN as the primary multilateral body of states in Asia predominantly oriented towards the Western powers in its security outlook and ties . |
| 2 | We need to build further on the ideas we have covered so far , to look at longer stretches of discourse , to form a picture of discourses in totalities rather than in extracts . |
| 3 | The duty is phrased more positively in terms of support for families rather than diminishing the need to take children into care ; the duty is , though , owed to ‘ children in need ’ , defined in terms of disability , significant impairment of health or development , and failure to achieve or maintain a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision of services . |
| 4 | Substantial reserves of support for Hitler still remained . |
| 5 | Right , this is a fashion plate ; a ball dress in the eighteen-forties , and I 'm just showing this actually to make another point ; sort of change of direction maybe , because I 'm now going to almost undo everything that I 've just said , and say that this was the fashion , high fashion of the eighteen forties . |
| 6 | From the mid nineteenth century the pace of change in Russia rapidly accelerated . |
| 7 | But her scenarios are without irony , studies of skin as flesh rather than repositories of myth and moral fable . |
| 8 | Miller also pointed out that although his book was a dictionary for gardeners , all branches of agriculture were included , as well as timber production and cultivation of products by settlers overseas . |
| 9 | But on the streets the book 's reputation spread like wildfire , selling thousands of copies in Brixton alone . |
| 10 | They designed job descriptions , terms of employment and time sheets for support workers ; ( they were to be paid at a rate equivalent to home helps and care attendants , with increased payments for unsocial hours ; there was also to be a lower rate of payment for workers merely sleeping at a sufferer 's house , compared with providing active care ) . |
| 11 | International markets , the EC and the New European Economic Area in particular , are seen by many as key expansion areas , and Society efforts to remove regulations restricting the rights of solicitors to practice abroad continued . |
| 12 | The stance adopted by the Act does not concede the full force of the argument that ‘ there may be a need for a clear legislative recognition that expression of unashamedly racist sentiments , as such , is an aspect of freedom of speech too costly in terms of long-term social disharmony to be tolerated in a pluralistic society where ultimately the possibility of democracy and civil liberty may depend on wholehearted public commitment to the fostering of social solidarity . ’ |
| 13 | Firms in the defence support field have been briefed by the Ministry of Defence that up to £1.2 billion of contracts for jobs currently run by the armed forces will be offered to civilian firms from April . |
| 14 | The sale of liquor to persons under 18 . |
| 15 | ( 4 ) 5.68 is concerned with the prohibition of the sale of liquor to persons under 18 years of age . |
| 16 | HILARY PARROTT enjoyed an overdue change of luck at Hereford yesterday when Dare Say took advantage of the last fence fall of Mweenish in the Hugh Sumner Challenge Bowl Handicap Chase . |
| 17 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 18 | It lent itself , as we have seen , to the various profitable forms of division of labour habitually practised in Edinburgh in the years in question ; and the " relatively standardized and durable product " could be stockpiled during disputes . |
| 19 | While there is a good deal of division of opinion both about these attempts to characterise the present situation and about what further conclusions theology should draw from it , there lies here a nexus of issues to which theologians have had to turn their attention , especially since the Second World War . |
| 20 | Use of idiom was almost totally lacking in the samples of signing collected , partly because these were fixed tasks of description of pictures rather than conversational ( though even in conversations which we recorded with interpreters the signing was dominated by English ) , and partly because there is a feeling that BSL in its deaf form is somehow inappropriate for the formality of a test situation . |
| 21 | [ 13 ] showed that although the dissociation from poly(dG-dC) is completely described by a single exponential , the time constant varies according to the starting ratio of drug to DNA so that the dissociation becomes slower at higher occupancy . |
| 22 | After 300 yds , by electricity post , cross neck of field to stile ahead . |
| 23 | It conforms to the detailed historical evidence which is available and the occurrence of mergers in waves instead of as a continuous process undermines the statistical assumptions on which the former analysis is based . |
| 24 | As the use of equity based financing mechanisms reduces the degree of inequality of allocation nationally the potential benefits to be derived from developing increasingly elaborate models for allocation are likely to be small . |
| 25 | The current enthusiasm for Cuban-born Wifredo Lam , with exhibitions in New York , Rome and Madrid , contrasts with the plight of artists in Cuba today |
| 26 | Some chinampas are still in operation and experimental models are being built in other parts of Mexico and elsewhere to assess the productivity of this method of agriculture in swamplands today . |
| 27 | SHARES in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p yesterday after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 28 | The theory proposed by Bueche tends to suggest a very clear-cut distinction between the movement of chains of length less than c and the relative immobility of the entangled chains with lengths greater than c . |
| 29 | And arch-Minimalist Robert Irwin takes the discipline once again into his usual arena of installation at Pace downtown until the 24th . |
| 30 | ( I shall revert to the topic of objects of thought later on . ) |