Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 2 | While the really poor live in privately-owned , deteriorating homes — and about 90 per cent of the houses in Britain are still privately-owned — the new council houses are occupied by those who will pay up to twice or three times as much in rent , even after allowing for a subsidy of at least 8s. 6d. a week , and often far more , out of the general rates and taxes . |
| 3 | The coefficient of variation of the measurements for each patient in the present study was calculated as a measure of within patient variability . |
| 4 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |
| 5 | Finally , rooms containing gas cookers must have an openable window or other means of providing ventilation , and if the room 's volume is less than 10cu m , it must also have a permanent ventilation opening with an area of at least 5000sq mm . |
| 6 | The connections to the cistern are straightforward : the ballvalve is connected via a tap connector , which has a small fibre or rubber washer to make the seal ( a bent tap connector is often best for this job ) ; the cold feeds are connected to the tank connectors with compression joints and must fall gently away from the cistern to avoid airlocks ; the overflow pipe can be copper or plastic ( with a plastic tank connector ) and should be installed with a fall of at least 1 in 10 from the cistern . |
| 7 | The court hearing , which lasted 23 minutes and took place in chambers , was told by Edwards that a report prepared by Knighton 's accountants — believed to show confidential details about players ' salaries and contracts , as well as other sensitive financial information — had ‘ come into the possession of at least one outsider ’ . |
| 8 | We have got to go to work with a lot of of of er tension and pressure on us . |
| 9 | Some models suggest that the earth has already been committed to a warming of at least 1.5 °C by the current increases in greenhouse gases even though global temperatures have actually risen by only 0.5 °C in the past century . |
| 10 | This could not be achieved merely by filling all existing vacancies , however , since the Liberal bloc consisted of 52 out of the 104 seats , and the Liberals could also generally count on the support of at least one independent . |
| 11 | The first Atlantic cable operated at a speed of around 3 words/min , equating to a bandwidth of about 1.5Hz/s . |
| 12 | This then ensures that fraud can not be committed without the collusion of at least two individuals . |
| 13 | The only possible explanation of this radiation , which corresponds to a temperature of about 3K ( 3 C° above the absolute zero of cold ) , seemed to be that it represented the residual energy left over from the Big Bang . |
| 14 | All the options came out filling Sweden 's energy needs at a cost of between $5.5 and $7 billion per year , or from 2 to 2.9 cents per kWh . |
| 15 | The vines grow at a height of between 100 and 200 metres and produce dependable wines of a style somewhere between the well structured , fruity Hautvillers and Cumières and the classic but cavalier Aÿ . |
| 16 | The vines grow at an altitude of between 140 and 240 metres , although those growing between 160 and 220 metres are the most successful . |
| 17 | This year was dominated by the purchase of from , completed in mid-year . |
| 18 | The Labour vote itself rose by an average of between 8.3% in hung authorities to 9.7% in the handful of Democrat-controlled districts . |
| 19 | Subject to the preservation of the object of the Society , this Constitution may be amended by a resolution at any General Meeting provided it be carried by a majority of at least two-thirds of the members present and voting thereon . |
| 20 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral National Congress consisting of a Senate of at least 30 members and a Chamber of Deputies of at least 60 members , both directly elected for five-year terms ( subject to dissolution ) at the same time as the President . |
| 21 | The German mathematician Karl Jacobi found a beautiful connection between the number of ways in which a given positive integer can be written as a sum of at most four squares and the sum of the numbers that divide it . |
| 22 | As stated elsewhere in this book , a national opinion poll conducted by Southampton University and published on its ‘ Is Anyone There ? ’ programme on Halloween 1987 , showed that nine out of ten people in Britain believed in the reality of at least one psychic phenomenon . |
| 23 | Ring contraction also occurs in the reaction of with with the loss , in this case , of just one SN unit . |
| 24 | John what can you do in the face of of such distrust ? |
| 25 | And that did result in a group of of people getting together and saying , We want to do something , to rectify this this bad image and show the good side of . |
| 26 | The alternative splicing of tenascin mRNA may well result in the expression of at least 8 tenascin isoforms . |
| 27 | Based on results from the present investigation and those described by others ( 11,29–32 ) it appears that alternative splicing of tenascin mRNA may result in the expression of at least 8 variants of tenascin ( Fig. 7 ) . |
| 28 | This is its highest level for eight years and will result in an increase of at least one per cent on home loan rates , possibly more . |
| 29 | The reader can confirm from Table 5.1 that 10% of such trials would result in an imbalance of at least 20:10 after 30 patients . |
| 30 | If the same should happen to her , Margaret knows that Gemma will benefit to the tune of at least DOUBLE the original basic sum assured . |