Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public interest would hardly suffer by the curtailment of temptations to give or accept credit which were likely to follow the abolition of so dubious a guarantee of honesty as furnished by the liability to imprisonment . |
| 2 | 6.2 Descriptions of these two instruments of assessment as given in the document The National Certificate — A Guide to Assessment , are : |
| 3 | This requirement is linked to the formative view of assessment as outlined above , and will clearly be of benefit to less academic pupils . |
| 4 | Use of rewards as opposed to punishments in childhood . |
| 5 | Ruppia maritima or R. cirrhosa occurs in the Outer Hebrides as a species of brackish lochs , and perhaps not as a constituent of saltmarsh as referred to by Adams(1981) and in the NVC . |
| 6 | According to a report in the Montreal Gazette the statues had been ‘ tampered with ’ in this way on several occasions , and the newspaper felt that they should be raised beyond the reach of pranksters or removed to an inside guarded site . |
| 7 | But a major research project at the University of Bristol , led by Professor Ian Silver of the Department of Pathology and funded by the Horserace Betting Levy Board in the late 1970s , was unable to find any scientific evidence for the efficacy of this bizarre treatment . |
| 8 | While not many people have adopted Plato 's particular grounds for opposing democracy , the issue of expertise as opposed to supposed popular ignorance or incompetence has remained a central one in the debate about democracy . |
| 9 | 1.2 agrees to pay for the Licensed Software in accordance with the Pricing Policy as defined in Schedule 3 and with the Terms of Payment as defined in Schedule 4 . |
| 10 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 11 | Positive cytology was based on the presence of cells with established characteristics of malignancy as shown in Figure 2 . |
| 12 | United Artists were tempted to point out the dangers of Communism and released Red Salute , which dealt with the growing appeal of Communism for student leaders . |
| 13 | As with the data manipulation unit , these units are able to carry out any one of an appropriate set of operations when signalled by the control unit ; for example , to read a digit punched on paper tape and store it in a specified store location or to retrieve a digit from a specified store location and print it on an electric typewriter . |
| 14 | The data manipulation unit is capable of performing any of a fixed set of operations as signalled by the control unit . |
| 15 | The laws of the Church made a man look outside his kindred for a wife , and the dynasts made virtue of necessity and constructed elaborate alliances by their marriages . |
| 16 | Gandhi would reject the eudaemonistic consequentialism of utilitarianism as limited in its objective and lacking in humanity . |
| 17 | This is a small cruciform building ( 33 by 39 feet ) , situated behind the church of S. Vitale , made of brick and covered by a central dome . |
| 18 | The houses that lined the wide streets were made of brick and roofed in shingle to imitate the homely appearance of slate . |
| 19 | A genuine improvement rather than the cosmetic change of renaming took place in Pocklington during the century after 1780 when the old timber , mud and thatch buildings were gradually replaced by newer homes , shops and public buildings that were constructed of brick and roofed with pantiles or slates . |
| 20 | The two main candidates had been Khasbulatov , nominated by the Democratic Russia group , and Sergei Baburin , nominated by the centrist Rossiya group of deputies and supported by the Communists of Russia group . |
| 21 | This consists of a battery of pigments ( containing iron ) and other substances which are reduced by the addition of hydrogen and re-oxidised by its removal . |
| 22 | The density of a gas or vapour is often compared to that of hydrogen and expressed as the relative vapour density |
| 23 | Liberal theorists such as T. H. Green argued in the 1880s and 90s that poor social conditions hindered the desirable growth of moral and communal responsibility among the poor , but Green also looked to improvement from increased voluntary exercise of responsibility and regarded state intervention only as a last resort . |
| 24 | However , news of the explosion had been broadcast and after 24 hours Cleaver 's picture was cleared by the Ministry of Defence and transmitted to London . |
| 25 | I was more inclined to enjoy this type of drug as opposed to amphetamines , y'know , which at the time left you feeling a bit uncomfortable the next day . |
| 26 | Bob Cools , the town 's socialist mayor ( who spells his first name the ordinary way ) , complained about a show of Antwerp as seen by foreign photographers ; he said locals could have done the job better . |
| 27 | The Collection spearheads a Conran Octopus gardening promotion beginning at the end of March and co-ordinated by Limelight PR . |
| 28 | ‘ I am a teacher of English at a school in Cologne and I gave up my job at the end of March and returned to England . ’ |
| 29 | The primary end points were ascertained at day 28 as ( a ) the investigator 's overall assessment of the patient 's condition compared with pretreatment , ‘ investigator 's assessment ’ , ( b ) the patient 's assessment of remission as recorded in the diary card , ‘ patient 's assessment ’ , and ( c ) the sigmoidoscopy score . |
| 30 | For knitters , a cone covered with a simple shaped piece of knitting and given a hanger , can be hung near the machine as a pretty and extremely useful container for small tools and accessories . |