Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was responsible for the exploitation of the mineral rights of the Crown — for example , for finding , mining and smelting iron in the forest of Chippenham and in the Forest of Dean and lead in the Forest of the Peak . |
| 2 | Many sacks use texturised nylon fabrics with a sort of natural feel which can take up a certain amount of moisture but dry off quickly . |
| 3 | The need to finance the cost of unity and damp down its inflationary effect has pushed up German — and therefore European — interest rates and exacerbated recession . |
| 4 | Hirst is on the mend after cracking his ankle at Highbury a fortnight ago , and Bright said : ‘ I like his style of play and feel we can work well together . |
| 5 | Editor , — In her review of methods of assessing students Stella Lowry argues the need for methods of assessment that match learning objectives . |
| 6 | After the initial period of assessment and support it should be possible to formulate a treatment plan . |
| 7 | Depending on how long your first session lasts , you can move into the main areas of assessment and gain a fuller picture of the child and family history . |
| 8 | This was done by establishing clearly defined Performance Criteria , Instruments of Assessment and Test Specifications . |
| 9 | Overall , readers of highbrow papers were less likely to allege bias in their own paper than readers of middlebrow or lowbrow papers but the differences were surprisingly small . |
| 10 | These conditions include theories of pedagogy and practices of hegemony that help to determine the meanings of literacy for particular practitioners . |
| 11 | For the time being , the practical effect of the change will be limited to accountants lobbying for a change in the law in the vast majority of states that do not permit accountants to incorporate — only Colorado , Hawaii , Kansas and Wyoming allow it at present . |
| 12 | MCD spectra provide information about the degeneracy of states and help with the assignment of electronic spectra . |
| 13 | I could reassure you with talk of progress and produce another pile of evidence to back me up : more family planning , more education , more employment , constitutional changes . |
| 14 | This expression is derived from the fuller analysis of Mooney and Ewart as follows . |
| 15 | Indeed the adjective must be so understood ; if we try to imagine using , in the structure of ( 16 ) , an adjectival property which is not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase ( nor helping as a qualifier to identify any entity of the sentence ) , there will be only two possible outcomes : If it is a property semantically compatible with the verb , the result will be taken as an ungrammatical way of expressing a thought which should have incorporated an adverb : ( 17 ) Alastair likes his beef tea great Alternatively , it will be a property that is not compatible with the verb either ; but , in that case , there will be no way of guessing what that property should be applied to — it will in effect be semantically " loose " , so that the whole will be incomprehensible : ( 18 ) the process left the documents puzzled Thus , the property of the adjective qualifies , in purely syntactic terms , the inner grouping of verb and object ; it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase , but not directly , only as part of an interlocking structure with three elements — as in certain engineering and architectural structures , each of three elements needs the other two in order for the whole to function effectively . |
| 16 | Others look for evidence of rituals and declare that ritualistic and satanic abuse is happening much more often than most people are prepared to believe . |
| 17 | Emissions which currently amount to nearly 500,000 tonnes per year will be cut to 73,000 tonnes as a result of modernization to be carried out on the plants , in the towns of Nikel and Monchegorsk on the Kola peninsula . |
| 18 | The cube dependence is not a precise match with the 3.4 exponent obtained from viscosity measurements of long chains , but it is acceptable , particularly as the model gives a satisfactory picture of how a polymer chain can overcome the restraining influence of entanglements and move within the matrix . |
| 19 | These sorts of rule-breaking are amenable to strategies of correction or control in a way that most forms of isolated crime can not be . |
| 20 | The basic principles of correction and praise apply not only to the well-balanced puppy , but also to the adult dog who has been acquired second-hand . |
| 21 | The hindquarters are the means of support and act as a leverage for locomotion . |
| 22 | and perhaps rationalising a certain tier , keeping the teachers and assistants who are actually in the schools as our top priority and maintaining a careful balance between schools with very high needs and schools with isolated children who are actually even more in need of support and know how . |
| 23 | Teachers also received a great deal of support and help from both popular organizations and from communities to ease their situation . |
| 24 | Now I mean I am interested in this problem , and I have been involved in situations where teachers have sought help in trying to change their teaching style in the classroom , but in all these cases this help the initiative has been very much from the teachers themselves and they 've wanted to do it , they 've wanted to experiment with it and have been given a lot of support and help with it . |
| 25 | Independence was not compromised , it was stated , and although the identification of causes deserving of support and finance from the advice agency might be questionable , in practice only those problems which gave real cause for community concern could be pursued successfully because of the need for public support . |
| 26 | Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties . |
| 27 | However , for the prisoner , the CAB adviser is often the only non-establishment source of support and contact that he or she may have with the outside world . |
| 28 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 29 | the primary sources of support and care for elderly people are informal and voluntary . |
| 30 | Whatever level of public expenditure proves practicable , and however it is distributed , the primary source of support and care for the elderly people are informal and voluntary … |