Example sentences of "of [n mass] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFRC pioneered genetic manipulation of sheep to allow them to produce human protein pharmaceuticals in their milk . |
| 2 | Like the system of militia service it pressed heavily upon the poorer sections of the groups it affected and fell comparatively lightly on the middle classes of the French seaports . |
| 3 | The workshop session on the importance of the measurement and analysis of data made me understand the purpose of the charts and graphs displayed on office walls at Runcorn Heath . |
| 4 | The development of documentation guidelines is a high priority and we are working with some of the major depositors of data to produce them . |
| 5 | Many people are literally made impotent by the amount of data surrounding them . |
| 6 | They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " . |
| 7 | Sam Torrance was promised a bonus of £20,000 had he emulated his feat in 1985 and holed the winning putt at the Ryder Cup . |
| 8 | Stockmar took care not to get involved in court favours , such as the bribe offered by an MP of £10,000 to obtain him a peerage . |
| 9 | The town showed the tenth highest percentage rise in Britain for 1991 and the huge increase of 136pc made it one of the worst places in the North-East for repossession orders . |
| 10 | Ah well there was a lot of folk resented them . |
| 11 | It means that necessarily there have been variations in people 's need for support from their kin , and in the capacity of kin to provide it . |
| 12 | We 'll have them there now , a good pair of earrings. have them there . |
| 13 | What sort of fish did you used to get ? |
| 14 | So what what kind of livestock did you have on that size of croft ? |
| 15 | Opponents of sales see them as reducing a vital social resource built up at the ratepayers ' expense , while proponents see sales to long-standing tenants as almost a recourse to ‘ natural justice ’ , although there are also the political overtones of the desire of Conservative politicians to build up a property-owning base to their vote . |
| 16 | The struggle for freedom of expression , and the invention of means to control it , are of course both very old . |
| 17 | So , so that 's er really a way of means testing it er more painlessly ? |
| 18 | A charming Chinese member of staff greeted us and took us from the airport to Robert Black College which was to be our home for four months . |
| 19 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |
| 20 | Whatever time I ran him back , there was always a smiling , cheerful member of staff to greet him , strap him into the stair lift , help him to undress if necessary and even bring him a last cup of tea if he felt like one . |
| 21 | A number of staff pressed me to make a second , and longer visit in the future , and this I would certainly like to do . |
| 22 | Return I do n't quite unders can somebody tell me what each indiv I mean basically I would have expected to see the money earned divided by the , the number of staff telling me how much |
| 23 | Where has been an escalation of aggression or at any time , having regard to these Guidelines , a member of staff considers it appropriate , there should be an internal review of a resident 's progress . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd like a new member of staff to know they are there to help people who ca n't help themselves and they also must have one hell of a lot of patience ! |
| 25 | A grievance results from a member of staff feeling she or he has been treated unfairly ; the governing body must establish a procedure as a means whereby she or he can seek redress . |
| 26 | Using the toilet is a private affair , and many residents object very strongly if a member of staff watches them , or remains within earshot while they are in the lavatory . |
| 27 | After three weeks of perch work I decided it was time to start training her to fly from other locations . |
| 28 | There was a constant flow of MPs to see them , and I began to realise that these were drawn from a wide cross-section of the Party . |
| 29 | A number of MPs said they would continue to support Mr Clarke because they were strongly opposed to possible successors from the right wing of the party . |
| 30 | The drawback is that lots of people use them and that lots and lots of people will want to use it on precisely the night you require to be there . |