Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greater part of the property of Britain used to be surrounded by a kind of magic circle within which the law of honesty could not penetrate . |
| 2 | A general appeal against a rateable value resulting in a reduction of assessment will normally reduce annual liability , although this depends on the effect of transitional relief . |
| 3 | The results of assessment will then determine whether short term objectives should be overhauled and re-stated . |
| 4 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 5 | Having a tangible record of progress can also act as positive feedback and reinforcement for the client . |
| 6 | Those very large industries which produce a substantial volume of effluent will also have their consents individually negotiated in recognition of the greater potential impact on the watercourse . |
| 7 | Mrs Pember Reeves , a member of the FWG , asserted that ‘ the woman who shrinks from the feeling that her wifehood is a means of livelihood will proudly acknowledge that her motherhood is a service to the state ’ . |
| 8 | PRESIDENT-ELECT Bill Clinton today reassured the world and the financial markets that his programme of change would not mean weakness or instability in US foreign and economic policy . |
| 9 | For example , if 100 ft or less has to be gained , then the rate of change should not exceed 200 ft/min. 5 . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , in some cases at least , an argument from lack of expertise might well support a refusal by a court to hear a particular dispute . |
| 11 | Additionally , the rate of payment must not exceed that which an individual in similar personal circumstances would receive as a grant from a public awarding body . |
| 12 | And in Korea , the repression of opposition parties and of student and workers ' protest suggested that policies suitable to early phases of industrialisation might not continue to be so acceptable . |
| 13 | His change of heart may well have been motivated more by politics than economics — it has been suggested that the British government 's persistent efforts to block the Market were enough to convince de Gaulle of its virtues — but the economic implications of allowing the Common Market to take effect on schedule were profound . |
| 14 | That the end of communism could also prove to be the end of the Catholic church 's unquestioned moral authority in Poland was the last thing the church hierarchy expected when the Solidarity leader , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , himself a long-time Catholic activist , became the first non-communist prime minister in 1989 . |
| 15 | But the similarity between the two of an early influence of nutrition may not stop there . |
| 16 | Whatever display and interaction techniques are used , it seems clear that a system which aims to satisfy the widely differing needs of widely differing types of user must already incorporate some degree of adaptivity . |
| 17 | Although our guards said it was irrelevant to our situation , we were worried that any hopes of freedom might just vanish . |
| 18 | Only the experience of freedom could now makes slaves fit for it . |
| 19 | It joined other groups in pointing out , on the basis of Japanese evidence from Hiroshima , that clusters of leukaemia would only become apparent between seven and nine years after the disaster . |
| 20 | The effects of the seeds that were hopefully planted in the minds of the young students during this period of contact with the world of photography may not become evident for years , but it seems likely that as long as lively and enthusiastic people remain involved in showing young people the variety of their creative options , Britain 's high artistic standards will be zealously maintained for some time to come . |
| 21 | Now experiments at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station near Aberystwyth on the Cardigan Bay coast are under way to find which strain of millet can best withstand the intense heat . |
| 22 | They , like us , get the occasional irritating itch , and of necessity can not scratch it discretely ! |
| 23 | Their maniacal screeching , the exploding bullets , the crackle and thunder of the approaching flames , the hammer-blows of the still booming church bells and the nerve-rasping wailing of the fiddle whirled around Owen 's head , but even that maelstrom of noise could not drown the cries of the villagers . |
| 24 | This specialisation of function would also apply to ownership of aircraft . |
| 25 | If the " invention " fails to meet the rigorous standards required for patentability , these and other forms of protection may still apply . |
| 26 | The declaration of protection will also forbid its sale . |
| 27 | The morality of utilitarianism would certainly differ from the morality of sarvodaya , which in Gandhian thought is related to ahi sā and Truth . |
| 28 | These sudden changes of level could not have been conducive to the movement of carts and animals about the establishment . |
| 29 | Proponents of epigenesis could only invoke a ‘ master-builder ’ within the embryo , or a vis vitalis . |
| 30 | When asked in 1890 if a country like Russia should not have an independent Ministry of Agriculture , Vyshnegradsky was responsible for another bon mot : ‘ But the Minister of Agriculture will not have anything to do . ’ |