Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red Hot And Dance is a quasi-record of that day : an uneasy cocktail of blipvert public information and fairly lifeless live shots of acts who could loosely be classified ‘ dance ’ . |
| 2 | In addition some 20 items , including platinum , raw jute , and floppy diskettes for computers , were removed from the list of products which could only be imported by a government agency . |
| 3 | They produced an extremely effective report , which identified a large number of projects which could usefully be established to help Lanarkshire . |
| 4 | What is more , the ability to share risks may enable the collective to contemplate more risky types of projects than individual firms would have , while pooling different types of skill may expand the set of projects which can feasibly be done . |
| 5 | Period rooms in a museum are usually reconstructions and interpretations of the past , though they may well contain primary source material , the furniture and genuine artefacts from the past , and an assortment of objects which may well belong to the same period but which come from many different sources . |
| 6 | Instead , it was felt that the principal impact would be in preventing the transfer to the car of a large number of cyclists who would otherwise |
| 7 | Differences arise virtually throughout the range of activities which would normally be associated with the practice of management accounting . |
| 8 | However , the authors of WFP have not thought the matter through and have come up with a set of proposals which will simply divert attention away from the real agenda which does exist for NHS capital accounting . |
| 9 | It reduces the weights of rules which may never have occurred in any conflict set . |
| 10 | in a lot of cases you 'll just fog the issue if say ‘ How do you feel about it ? ’ |
| 11 | In the majority of cases you will simply send the application form and use the completed forms as the means of eliminating the applicants who are clearly unsuitable . |
| 12 | Quite a few courses have resulted in the formation ( not always by the library admittedly ) of groups which might generically be termed as ‘ Friends of the library ’ which may become formalized and then act as ‘ lobbyists ’ for the public library in that area . |
| 13 | The present system of allocations , in which some stately committee offers the franchise to the most persuasive ( or plausible ) claimant on the basis of pledges which may never be fulfilled , is , all agree , very near indefensible . |
| 14 | It is presumed that these respondents considered — and rejected — the argument that capping would provoke a reaction on part of institutions which would adversely affect sole and two partner practices . |
| 15 | This device depends on the existence of institutions which can actually adjudicate on and , one hopes , resolve disputes in a relatively impartial way on the basis of impartial rules whose decisions are binding on the parties in question . |
| 16 | When Mukařovský ( 1936 and 1970 : 70ff. ) wrote of art , literature , or poetry as semiological facts , he meant that artistic works constitute particular kinds of signs which can only be understood within the framework of a general sign-theory . |
| 17 | The great twelfth-century historian William of Malmesbury says that Æthelred deprived his people of their possessions without proper reason , and as the late Anglo-Saxon legal system is known to have confiscated property for a wide range of misdemeanours it would certainly have been open to abuse of this sort . |
| 18 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 19 | However , the business reality , which must be recognised here , is that the exchanges in the battle may be purely reflex actions : the seller will send an acknowledgment including its standard terms as a matter of course , generally without reading the terms on the buyer 's order ; indeed , in order to win the battle of forms it will generally be good practice to ensure that all orders are acknowledged in this way . |
| 20 | In the absence of plans we can only ponder what was done ; however , it did include a new lounge and a replacement for the condemned cesspit which today still serves the Club in the absence of main drainage in Harpsden . |
| 21 | First impressions lasting longest and all that , when 4AD 's Boston Seethe Party first toured the UK in its full label package glory , while the Pixies were the kind of nutters you 'd gladly go joyriding with , The Muses … well , the Muses were the kind of band you respected from afar and near really wanted to share a six-pack with underneath the baseball park grandstand . |
| 22 | The very small proportion of shoppers who would therefore use such a booklet seem to us unlikely to include many who are at the moment most ignorant about credit and its cost , and therefore most need the information in it . |
| 23 | Apart from this belief in the straightforward truth of books which would now be seen as in differing degrees myth , with Adam as Everyman rather than a historical figure , for example , there was diffidence about the boundaries of science . |
| 24 | Lazy undergraduates liked them because Lewis did half their work far them — providing summaries of books they would never get around to reading themselves , and lightening his commentaries with entertaining asides . |
| 25 | Apart from a strong pair of legs you 'll also need a good dictionary to decipher the route names . |
| 26 | He will be able to remind you of beneficiaries you might otherwise forget . |
| 27 | Nor must one exclude from the economic benefits to the crown 's war effort the acquisition of funds which would otherwise serve to enrich French mother houses and very probably , through taxation , the French crown . |
| 28 | Each has attracted his or her share of supporters who could also see the light once it was pointed out to them . |
| 29 | I suppose a guitar is only as good as the number of styles you can successfully impose upon it , and this one went through the card without a problem . |
| 30 | On the subject of Fanatics you should always buy the full allowance . |