Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well er they did them They made them f f fancy kind of things on the top like a They would maybe crisscrosses and things like that and m make a rounded thing like a Just like what some folk has a tassel on their bonnets , well we made that on the top of the stack . |
| 2 | If anybody got wind of strangers about the area , we sent the children back to their parents immediately . |
| 3 | The enemy soon became aware of the importance of the work at Bawdsey and our intelligence got wind of plans for a massive attempt to demolish the research station . |
| 4 | At Talgarth they got wind of skirmishes in the south , and set off southward over Mynedd Troed for Tretower ; but because of the time they had lost they were always too far behind their quarry even to realise the magnitude of the chance that persistently slipped through their fingers . |
| 5 | The file designer can measure the results of applying groups of updates to the file and make timing estimates based on the results of these tests . |
| 6 | The latter ( where sports events provide groups of spectators with an opportunity to act out their violent tendencies ) could easily relate to the behaviour of fighting crews . |
| 7 | Omitting part of sentences on the assumption that an earlier sentence or the context will make the meaning clear is known as ellipsis . |
| 8 | The principal objective of the new scheme , which does not apply to Legal Aid cases , is to encourage settlement of costs at an early stage . |
| 9 | Dr Hughes , who said UKOOA would urgently seek views of members on the detailed impact of the moves , pointed out that the changes could mean the industry as a whole losing from £300 million to £400 million in cash flow which could have been used for reinvestment over each of the next two years . |
| 10 | They also intend to encourage groups of inmates at the prisons they are visiting to hold their own fundraising events to further support their efforts . |
| 11 | Insiders have estimated the company 's installed base of users in the tens of thousands . |
| 12 | Hetherington dismissed talk of cracks in the Wigan machine following their Charity Shield defeat by St Helens at Gateshead . |
| 13 | Berkshire-based transport company , Frequent Mailing Services ( FMS ) , have agreed to provide transportation of exhibits for the museum . |
| 14 | It was also pointed out that the buyers could have claimed loss of profits for the whole of the estimated useful life of the machine ( 10 years in this particular case ) . |
| 15 | Gary Eichorn , general manager of Hewlett-Packard Co 's workstation systems group said he did n't think COSE in its initial guise would be enough to meet demands of users like the Galileo group , pressing for a generic common front end . |
| 16 | Hence , over-cooked vegetables are a thing of the past , thus preventing waste and food loss ( you place 2lbs of peas in the oven and you get 2lbs of peas out again ) . |
| 17 | One of the village pubs , the Cherry Tree still has mementos of festivities at the well ; including a vial of well water mixed with river-water from the Ganges brought over for centenary celebrations in 1964 . |
| 18 | Davis et al reviewed 157 necropsy-proven cases of multiple sclerosis and found 47% of patients with a mental disturbance . |
| 19 | The role of the Co-ordinator will be : to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas among the people involved in the Programme ; to encourage new contributions to it ; to develop a series of linking themes relevant to the components of the Programme , possibly leading to the creation of an integrated framework for the study of environmental issues in general ; and to co-ordinate publication of the results and ideas generated by the Programme . |
| 20 | The country has frozen imports of CFCs at the 1991 level of 15,648 tonnes ; according to the Industry Ministry imports to August this year were in line with last year 's total of 10,044 tonnes . |
| 21 | Looking down at the river , she could see that the level had dropped , uncovering lines of bricks on the wall beneath them that looked as if they rarely saw the sun . |
| 22 | So what we can what it effectively does is count sort of sub-patterns within the whole pattern and how well we 're recognizing those . |
| 23 | One of the problems of lexicography , as he recognized , is how to provide explanations of words by the use of other words whose meanings are self-evident . |
| 24 | WRN produces a directory , Returning to work , which contains details of courses around the country specifically aimed at women returners . |
| 25 | Katharine Hancock , trading manager of Friends of the Earth , says : ‘ We welcome this kind of move from a mainstream manufacturer . ’ |
| 26 | Schools seemed to be at very different stages of development and sophistication here , with some proposals incorporating details of taxonomies of the skills to be developed , while others made general statements of intent about ill-defined programmes of study or library skills . |
| 27 | It introduced the concept of ‘ special educational needs ’ , recommending that it replace categorisation of children by the ten existing statutory categories of handicap . |
| 28 | Sheridan and Goldsmith continued to write comedies of manners during the eighteenth century ‘ with their famous plays The Rivals and She Stoops to Conquer , and this tradition finds its most successful twentieth-century exponents in Noel Coward and Somerset Maugham ; Private Lives and The Circle are frequently revived by present day repertory companies . |
| 29 | We now have er a working group with police and indeed with because we want consistency of procedures across the county and are now working towards implementing such a site during this financial year . |
| 30 | In short , a sufficient explanation of the differences in bargaining relations between states and enterprises must include consideration of changes in the security structure as well as to changes in the financial and production structures . |