Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We believe the efforts of states to force their will upon nations ( whether within or without the state 's frontiers ) are the essential causes of almost every conflict and war in the world , ’ it declares . |
| 2 | In the longer term the problems arose from a combination of factors including the economic recession ( which had badly affected the revenues from corporate , property and sales taxes which provided the bulk of state incomes ) , the legal obligation of states to balance their budgets , the recent trend of the Reagan and Bush administrations to transfer financial obligations from central to local government , and a rapid escalation in the demands on welfare and prison programmes . |
| 3 | The Ministers resolved to oppose any unilateral bans on the import of tropical timber , and declared the sovereign right of states to develop their own natural resources . |
| 4 | Many writers in this issue and many community health workers in general would readily admit the importance of the political setting of health care and the importance of the political will of states to encourage/allow their citizens some measure of control over their health , another constant factor in this question of control . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) The British Academy of Experts has its own list of members who hold themselves out as being experts in particular fields and available for compiling reports . |
| 6 | The Booksellers Association has a new publication , Directory of Book Trade Sidelines and Services , aimed at helping booksellers in the day-to-day running of their businesses and in finding suppliers of products to complement their books stock . |
| 7 | Shipments of products meeting their standards are expected in the first half of 1994 . |
| 8 | This chapter has been concerned with outlining the principal methods by which suppliers of products bring their goods and services to the attention of their markets , with the object of increasing their sales or market share , or both . |
| 9 | The Coralife range from Energy Savers Unlimited , of California , includes a selection of products to keep your marine or freshwater fish , plants and inverts in good health . |
| 10 | A good cut will remove the need for lots of products to keep your hair in shape . |
| 11 | Grotesque bunches of fingers waggled their shadows against the wall near her face , the ceiling peeled back like a tin lid . |
| 12 | Has there been a connection between the appearance of these outstanding pictures for auction and the possibility of government legislation to introduce listing of masterpieces to check their export from the U.K. ? |
| 13 | In spite of attempts to stop their transmission , the programmes went out on CCTV , watched by millions and caused a great deal of lively , heated debate . |
| 14 | James Bond ran a similar gamut of attempts to bring his life to a halt . |
| 15 | Furthermore , they were less inclined to state their position on conservation , a notoriously difficult subject to argue in Orkney where farmers are suspicious of attempts to limit their activities and where conservation is so closely associated with Orkney 's resident population of English romantics . |
| 16 | Michael Foot had put together a series of policies to keep his party together . |
| 17 | At last the parade of superstars plugging their ‘ secret ’ solutions to weight loss , eternal youth and drop-dead good looks has moved off centre stage . |
| 18 | It has been calculated that while Stapledon spent just under half his time before the 1320s in his diocese , once he became treasurer barely a tenth of his time was passed at Exeter ; he relied instead upon the machinery of deputies to maintain his authority and execute his wishes there . |
| 19 | He has taken to disrupting romantic trysts in the village by pouring glue into the hair of those girls who step out with soldiers ; his motive being to encourage the largest possible number of servicemen to attend his lectures , where he speaks of the mysteries of the countryside . |
| 20 | The second guy did n't even hit half that distance and the third took a couple of swings to send his ball skewing off at right angles . |
| 21 | Even if they had not acquired reversions , the sons of officeholders did their best to step quickly into the posts of their dead or dying fathers . |
| 22 | Sophisticated elite theorists do not jump from correlations linking the social backgrounds and formal political power of an elite to causal assumptions that their background or network of contacts determines their behaviour . |
| 23 | John Scott 's clear and comprehensive studies of the upper class will form one main basis for our account ( Scott , 1982 ) ; following him , we can regard the establishment as a dominant status group within the upper class which uses kinship links and social networks of contacts to retain its hold on social and political influence . |
| 24 | By underwriting some of the heavy costs of development , Philips reasoned , they would break the confidence barrier and get the right levels of preliminary investment to secure a healthy catalogue of titles to support their launch . |
| 25 | We promptly bought the next two novels when they came out , and in the Bodleian catalogue I discovered Dolores , the early work of which no mention was made in the list of titles prefacing her later books . |
| 26 | I wonder how many millions of logos are black and white and how many thousands of artists limit their use of colour purely to black and white , which is not in fact true of Joseph Kosuth . |
| 27 | By understanding how various properties of objects influence their identification , we gain the background knowledge necessary for building more efficient artificial recognition systems , for understanding the development of recognition in children , and its impairment after brain damage . |
| 28 | But Adorno assumes that ‘ the process of internalization , to which great music as a self-deliverance from the external world of objects owes its very origin , is not revocable in the concept of musical practice ’ ( ibid : 133 ) , and so he is bound to consider the ‘ functionalism ’ of popular music as regressive , explaining it by reference to social-psychological defects . |
| 29 | From Lord Galway 's hunt the Master , Mr. Richard Lumley , came with an escort of riders to flank her carriage up the Great North Road to Retford . |
| 30 | Then the handful of riders wheeled their mounts in wild haste , and rode back by the way they had come , and after them in headlong pursuit streamed Reginald de Grey and his knights and men-at-arms . |