Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj] [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some cities housed larger proportions of households whose head was born in the New Commonwealth than national statistics would indicate . |
| 2 | Lieberman and Michaels ( 1962 ) found that they could get reasonably accurate recognition of attitudes using short recording of sentences spoken in different ways , but that when the recordings were distorted in such a way that most acoustic information was removed ( e.g. the speech sounds , voice quality , loudness variations etc. ) leaving only the pitch information — that part traditionally equated with intonation — listeners ' ability to recognise the attitudes was seriously reduced . |
| 3 | The evidence from European countries of attempts to implement these kinds of arrangements tends to support the view that while they help ease labour-management tensions they slow down decision-making and reduce management flexibility . |
| 4 | When a manticore captures a victim the terrible rows of razor-sharp teeth make short work of bones , clothing or any other clues , thus explaining how occasionally individuals simply disappear without trace . |
| 5 | The equation shows that one mole of Age ions produces one mole of AgCl(s) . |
| 6 | The great leap , however , took place long ago , round about 1930 , and private-eye stories have since produced progeny of their own , much as the detective story produced that chain of books culminating in the crime novel . |
| 7 | When fear keeps them awake at night , parents would do well to remember that thousands of teenagers try things and then move on , that people of all ages make regular use of drugs as part of their happy , productive lives and , above all , that we are not the hapless victims of some depraved international conspiracy . |
| 8 | The male has two pairs of tusks formed by its upper and lower canine teeth . |
| 9 | Governments also accept a responsibility to increase public awareness of hazards and safety measures and desirable standards of safety through publicity campaigns and education . |
| 10 | I arrived at Skaftafell to find several groups of campers , all wild-eyed outdoor types , I suppose not unlike me . |
| 11 | Possibly inspired by Hilbert 's ( 1899 ) full axiomatisation of Euclidean geometry the 20th Century began with many attempts to find independent sets of axioms for fields and for groups , the main worker being E V Huntington around 1902–5 . |
| 12 | DRIVER Jerry Ward has first-hand experience of changes brought about by the Single Market during his regular trips from the UK to France . |
| 13 | Research at Tambopata over the last ten years has shown that the Reserve has more species of birds ( over 570 ) , butterflies ( 1,200 ) and many other animal groups than any other location of its size on earth . ’ |
| 14 | In the fiscal year 1987 , the United States Central Authority received 5,433 requests for service , and the German Federal Republic 's Central Authorities reported increasing numbers of requests from United States plaintiffs , reaching 661 in the year 1986 . |
| 15 | In both the Branch Establishments Scheme and the Manpower Planning Information System , considerable use is made of the ability of computers to perform large volumes of calculations with consistent accuracy . |
| 16 | There is a wide range of research activity in the department using considerable diversity of perspectives and methods . |
| 17 | The methodology involves extensive consultation of police records over a six month period together with indepth interviews with serving officers both men and women of varying experience throughout the police organisation from all ranks , from relief officers , CID to Inspectors of operations . |
| 18 | Recently , it has been shown that the injection of wheat germ agglutinin ( WGA ) coupled to labels such as colloidal gold or HRP produces effective labelling of cells lining the amniotic cavity ( 24 ) , It is likely that other high molecular weight molecules which will bind to epiblast or ectoderm cells , such as other lectins or perhaps antibodies ( see Chapter 2 , Section 4 ) , may prove suitable labels for selectively marking these cells or cells lining other cavities in the embryo . |
| 19 | He scooped it out and moved on , never breaking his rhythm , the expression on his face never changing , like a robot pre-programmed to perform this sequence of movements until someone clicked the ‘ Off ’ switch . |
| 20 | The Countryside Commission has launched a programme to restore 400 miles of hedgerows in England . |
| 21 | Three days earlier National Development Minister Jamyangiyn Batsuur had appealed for emergency foreign aid to combat serious shortages of foodstuffs and medicines . |
| 22 | If your experiment involves large groups of informants , then you also need to think about the significance of numerical results you may produce ; and for this , guidebooks about experimentation and the use of statistics may be needed ( see sections 1 and 4 of the Booklist for suggestions ) . |
| 23 | That is , each body cell contains two sets of chromosomes ( for example , 23 pairs in human cells ) , but the gametes ( egg in the female and sperm in the male ) receive only one of each pair . |
| 24 | In a human being one cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes . |
| 25 | Holes in each card representing one row of tufts in the carpet , instruct the Jacquard loom which colour to weave . |
| 26 | President Bush has announced a new policy for the nation 's wetlands which calls for steps to increase federal ownership of wetlands , increase expand satellite monitoring to identify them , and extend research on and increase protection of their ecosystems . |
| 27 | On the other hand , Japan must not assume that membership of the IWC means a green light to catch unlimited numbers of whales . |
| 28 | Part of this study involved 2 number of case-studies of Access courses , and within these data was gathered on the performance of former Access students in higher education . |
| 29 | The Department of Trade and Industry has three levels of charges : £2.16 a memo for routine work outside London ; £3.24 for routine work in London ; and £4.86 for priority work at headquarters . |
| 30 | On its shoulders stands another pair of nozzles , which cast an altogether more subtle spell . |