Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simple pressure of calls has taken us from one to five lines over the years and the only reason we have stuck at five is because the office is simply too small to take any more . |
| 2 | The lack of SQL Access Group documentation has caused customer and database vendors a significant amount of frustration and in a number of cases has forced them to turn to alternatives , such as IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Data Architecture . |
| 3 | This suspicion of parties has left its mark on the names of the right-wing parties in France : his successors ' party is called ‘ Rassemblement pour la République ’ , the word ‘ rassemblement ’ ( rally ) connecting a wide popular extra-parliamentary movement . |
| 4 | As Stalin scornfully put it , ‘ the bourgeoisie of Finland … by a strange confluence of circumstances has received its independence from the hands of a socialist Russia ’ . |
| 5 | The message behind the report is that the majority of parents has got it all wrong . |
| 6 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 7 | For some teachers , then , the presence of examinations seems to constrain them in their approach to classroom teaching ; it limits innovation and inhibits their willingness to explore new teaching strategies . |
| 8 | The theory behind the sections is that , if an owner of goods agrees to sell them to someone and retains title but nevertheless lets the buyer have possession , that owner must bear the consequences ( i.e. loss of title ) if the buyer then sells and delivers the goods to an innocent sub-purchaser . |
| 9 | In the area of booking contracts a form of damages has developed which may enable the guest to obtain more than the value of the contract . |
| 10 | British Gas has dubbed the project Armada but one group of partners has named their discoveries after Elizabethan heroes Drake , Hawkins and Howard — hardly the favourites of the original invasion fleet . |
| 11 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 12 | ‘ A gang of youths has made me too frightened to go out ’ |
| 13 | The introduction of detailed measurement and the systematic logging of failures has raised everyone 's awareness of our OTIF performance and this had led to increased cooperation and feedback between all departments . |
| 14 | CAPENHURST 'S safety record which last year won it a certificate of merit from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has earned it a second award this year . |
| 15 | Perhaps because the average standard of anglers has improved they are not quite held in so much esteem and yet that really is not quite fair , given that it is now harder to achieve a level of consistency with open match results . |
| 16 | He criticised the system which allowed Laing to use the full disclosure of police documents to change his story four times . |
| 17 | But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree and none shall make them afraid , for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it . |
| 18 | Another batch of letters has reached my desk , some pleading , others offering help to my more unfortunate patients . |
| 19 | At Guinness Publishing , the other Guinness Enterprises company , the ever-popular Guinness Book of Records has maintained its position as the world 's best-selling copyright book . |
| 20 | A complete set of records has survived which shows the heights of recruits to the Marine Society , a charity which trained young boys for the navy . |
| 21 | We have all had experiences of life in which the suffering of others has led us to ask questions of God and about God . |
| 22 | A heroin addict who gave a friend a fatal injection of drugs has had his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal . |
| 23 | For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying . |
| 24 | There are really two options when it comes to preventing unwanted feelings and the following diagram showing the chronological sequence of events helps to pinpoint them : |