Example sentences of "of [det] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Are the membership aware of this and actively committed to the goals of the alliance ? |
2 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right . |
3 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
4 | Fourteen per cent had only an occupational or state pension , while 16 per cent had one or other of these and also received income support . |
5 | Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission . |
6 | However , for the majority of those that eventually retired early , redundancy appears to have been the deciding factor . |
7 | Jewel Lafontant , the United States co-ordinator for refugee affairs , said on March 16 that the United States would accept half of any new Vietnamese boat people fleeing to Hong Kong , as long as they were considered to be genuine refugees ; only 11 per cent of those as yet screened in the colony had been classified as such . |
8 | Indeed the only blips on the horizon are the reluctance of the natural trumpets to ‘ really go for the burn ’ in the opening and closing choruses and ‘ Fecit potentiam ’ , and a couple of less than clearly focused notes from the tenor Marcus Brutscher , in the ‘ Deposuit ’ , in the context of what is otherwise a truly virtuoso performance . |