Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The club is also responsible for marathon winkle-eating competitions , and its elderly members sometimes appear in suits made of thousands of shells . |
| 2 | The worst of the lodgings in Rhyll consisted of one dirty room with decaying plaster and a leaking roof , over a coal merchant 's in the narrow part of the town . |
| 3 | When I read Milton 's description in Paradise Lost of Satan , fallen to lie in Hell , a monstrous unimaginable bulk , I was reminded of that Odeon . |
| 4 | For example , in order to understand the history of physics , we have to know the concept or problematic of physics in order to establish what an event in physics consists of . |
| 5 | Farm animals could not be led to the school , and their illnesses were often too rapid in course to permit of their transport . |
| 6 | First , there is a concern to limit prime ministerial patronage in a number of areas ( and the concern to abolish the House of Lords is in part born of a desire to deny the Prime Minister the constitutional right to create peers ) . |
| 7 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 8 | In contrast to breach of fiduciary duty , an action for breach of confidence would appear to represent a more effective anti-insider dealing deterrent . |
| 9 | In contrast to care of children , those who tend the very old have no unequivocal proof of their success in terms of a healthy developing body . |
| 10 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 11 | Fifty-five per cent of the 781 families lived in houses consisting of two rooms on a tenement staircase . |
| 12 | These seem to have the curious property that , although they can move fairly freely within a hadron , it appears to be impossible to obtain just one quark on its own ; they always come either in groups of three ( like the proton or neutron ) or in pairs consisting of a quark and antiquark ( like the pi meson ) . |
| 13 | They had been arrested on Dec. 17 and held at the premises of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance in Abidjan accused of the possession of documents supporting a group calling itself the Democratic Convention of African People , material considered hostile to the Eyadema regime . |
| 14 | given that those that are employed today can not be guaranteed to be em to be employed tomorrow and that the three thousand in essence comprises of a constantly changing group of people , I do n't see how anyone can argue that future employment provision is geared towards anybody . |
| 15 | What might it mean in practice to speak of a gene as having an extended phenotypic effect on the world outside the body in which it sits ? |
| 16 | We found that regardless of the subject labels adopted , the curriculum in practice consisted of a further and perhaps more influential ‘ core ’ of ten generic activities ( writing , using apparatus , reading , listening , drawing or painting , collaboration , movement , talking to the teacher , construction , talking to the class — see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 17 | The Roehampton Institute in Surrey consists of four component colleges ( Digby Stuart , Froebel , Southlands , Whitelands ) . |
| 18 | In 1811 he won the competition for a complex of buildings in Plymouth consisting of a hotel , assembly rooms , and theatre ; and , his success with this important commission establishing his local reputation , he moved to Plymouth and remained for twenty-five years the leading architect of the neighbourhood . |
| 19 | Mrs Nutt submitted that it would be difficult , if not impossible , for the appellant to try and set about to prove that the co-defendant had not committed an act of gross indecency with him , that he was in effect deprived of any opportunity of cross-examining or otherwise challenging the co-defendant and that to admit the evidence would be simply to render the proceedings against the appellant wholly unfair . |
| 20 | The lead-acid accumulator used in cars consists of secondary cells . |
| 21 | Where the Thorpeness fairways are wide and receptive in deference to speed of play and holiday guests at the club hotel , Aldeburgh , a members ' course , offers virtually no margin for error . |
| 22 | Reports in December spoke of mounting concern over the effects of UN sanctions following government claims that up to 80,000 Iraqi children had died as a result of severe shortages in food and medicines . |
| 23 | Although a consensus on the final declaration was blocked after a dispute between Mexico and the USA over nuclear testing , signatories agreed to support compulsory international inspection in countries suspected of secretly manufacturing nuclear weapons . |
| 24 | German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher told the conference on Sept. 10 that Germany favoured the creation of a UN-style CSCE peace-keeping force with the power to intervene in countries suspected of violating human rights " even if their governments do not agree to this " . |
| 25 | For example , in 1981 31 per cent of households in the Federal Republic of Germany and 29 per cent in Denmark consisted of a single person ( CSO 1989 ) . |
| 26 | where the services in question consist of carriage by air or by sea our obligations and liabilities are limited in the manner provided by international conventions in respect of air and sea carriers . |
| 27 | Point 3 relates to lines such as the following , from Shakespeare 's " sonnet XXIII " : Such lines , Cable argues , show four rising degrees of stress ( on the boldened syllables ) , and such adjacent increase indicates , in his view , that the metre is foot-based , since the string in question consists of four syllables in which the even-numbered ones are stronger than their neighbours . |
| 28 | The same source claims that the 51 women in question consisted of the best workers in that department " ( presumably this means the most senior ) . |
| 29 | By an originating summons dated 18 December 1991 the plaintiffs , the Halifax Building Society , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , the Leeds Permanent Building Society , and the Alliance and Leicester Building Society , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that , upon the true construction of the ombudsman scheme recognised under Part IX of the Building Societies Act 1986 , the first defendant Stephen Bristow Edell , the ombudsman appointed under the scheme , was not entitled to investigate or determine ( a ) the complaint against the first plaintiff received by him from Michael Robert Allen and Christine Allen , the second and third defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation for mortgage assessment prepared for the first plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( b ) the complaint against the second plaintiff received by him from Jeffrey Leonard Brommage and Heather Maureen Brommage , the fourth and fifth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the second plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( c ) the complaint against the third plaintiff received by him from Lawrence Frederick West and Christa West , the sixth and seventh defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the third plaintiff had been negligently prepared , and ( d ) the complaint against the fourth plaintiff received by him from Joseph Paul Hardcastle and Astrid Marie Hardcastle , the eighth and ninth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for them had been negligently prepared ; and ( 2 ) a determination , upon the true construction of the scheme , whether and if so in what circumstances the first defendant was entitled to investigate and determine a complaint relating to an allegation of failure to exercise the requisite degree of professional skill and care on the part of a valuer or surveyor employed by the building society against which the complaint was made in relation to a report by him on the condition or value of any property where the report in question consisted of : ( a ) a written report prepared pursuant to section 13 of the Building Societies Act 1986 for a building society on the value of the land which was proposed as security for an advance to be made by the society and on any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value and is not disqualified under section 13 from making a report on the land in question , ( b ) a written valuers ' report and valuation for mortgage prepared for the first plaintiff , ( c ) such a report prepared for the second plaintiff , ( d ) such a report prepared for the third plaintiff , ( e ) such a report prepared for the fourth plaintiff , ( f ) a house buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , ( g ) a flat buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor , ( h ) a home buyer 's standard valuation and survey report prepared by an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard terms of engagement of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers , ( i ) a written report known as a ‘ home purchase report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the second plaintiff , ( j ) a written report known as a ‘ house buyer 's report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the third plaintiff , or ( k ) a structural survey report . |
| 30 | However , his Lordship considered the second submission , that a contract had been created in respect of the provision of and payment for the valuation report , to be well-founded , because the declaration in question consisted of an offer by the society to provide a copy of the report to the pursuers in exchange for payment , which they accepted by signing and returning the form . |