Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained that the examiner 's hypothesis influences his formulation of questions and biases his treatment of answers by inclining him to fasten onto those that agree with his hypothesis and overlook those that do not . |
| 2 | Here , Tiny Rowland concludes his version of events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser with a first-hand account of the situation in question against the background of his personal experience in business . |
| 3 | Words articulate our experience of things , they do not just express or reflect it ; they give form to what , without language and other sign-systems , would merely be a chaotic and undifferentiated jumble of ideas ; instead of things determining the meaning of words , words determine the meaning of things . |
| 4 | Edward has his fleets of warships . |
| 5 | He had faced 3 assault charges relating to his bid to rid his area of prostitutes and curbcrawlers . |
| 6 | Over the past few years there has been increasing interest in the biological characteristics of biliary and gall bladder epithelial cells in an attempt to enhance our understanding of diseases affecting the biliary tree . |
| 7 | 7 The party which wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons forms the government and has a mandate to put its programme of policies into legislative effect . |
| 8 | ‘ We have decided to target the GAA clubs and it is our intention to extend our list of targets to incorporate other aspects of pan-nationalism , ’ it said . |
| 9 | Less and less often , though still pretty regularly ( say most nights ) , Odilo quits his pact of reptiles and , with enthusiasm , seeks his herds of friends : their strength in musky numbers , their heat of hide and stall . |
| 10 | ‘ Angy took her portfolio of sketches to show the students at her art class on Tuesday afternoon , the day she was murdered . |
| 11 | 5.1 Barr completed her hat-trick of wins by lifting the 100m Backstroke title with a five second winning margin of over Templemore 's Alwyn Teague . |
| 12 | Madame 's letter , and her books , were put into Boy 's shoebox to join his collection of letters and photographs . |
| 13 | Bhikhu Parekh , a liberal , argues for ‘ a properly elected national deliberative body for Muslims ’ on a par with other communities : ‘ The Church of England has its Synod , the Jews have their Board of Deputies and some Hindu sects have their national councils of temples . ’ |
| 14 | This group was constantly moving forward and as a result obscured our view of parts of the ground . |
| 15 | Where practical , however , pupils should be encouraged to take every opportunity to widen their experience of audiences and/or co-actors . |
| 16 | And she is still the power behind the trusts masking his web of deals , he suggested to the Commons Social Security Committee , which is carrying out a probe . |
| 17 | When Darwin delivered his collection of birds and mammals to the Zoological Society for identification three months after his arrival back in England , Gould probably welcomed the opportunity of finding out more about the voyage , particularly the month or so Darwin spent in Australia and Tasmania . |
| 18 | The meeting was mostly a ‘ Fun out of doors ’ one , so Jill soon went off to search the wood to complete her collection of ferns . |
| 19 | According to Western reports , during the first months of 1990 the Khmers Rouges increased their infiltration of fighters and supplies from their border camps into Cambodia proper . |
| 20 | Severe winters take their toll of adults too . |
| 21 | Fighting in the north was seldom on the same massive scale as in the centre and south , although this sector had its share of offensives as mountaintops commanding important centres like Suleimaniyah and Haj Omran changed hands . |
| 22 | By 1973 , when Britain entered the Common Market under the shadow of increasing anxiety to improve our balance of payments , Attlee 's policy of farm protection had been extended by a massive subsidy of capital grants , tax concessions , and price supports ; and the impact on the landscape , including the river systems , was really beginning to bite . |
| 23 | The Department of World Mission and Unity of the Church of Scotland continued its presentation of files relating to colonial , continental , Jewish and foreign missions , 1939–85 ( availability as always is restricted for those records less than 25 years old ) . |
| 24 | With these problems in mind , Sensiq has developed the ideal skincare range to complement their range of cosmetics . |
| 25 | Other denominations had their share of towers and spires ; indeed , one of the more prominent of Oxford 's dreaming spires is that of the Wesley Memorial Chapel on New Inn Hall Street . |
| 26 | This aesthetic refusal went along with an unwillingness to develop a strategy for ensuring a continued capacity to make their sort of films . |
| 27 | You can — in a positive way — by helping the Rochdale Group make their Auction of Artists ' Work a huge success . |
| 28 | Where a sloping roof was originally erected to the correct pitch ( ie , the roof was not constructed at too shallow a slope , which would cause rain to penetrate its covering of slates or tiles ) defects are invariably owed to the deterioration of the roof covering or the breakdown of joints between materials , which in roofs usually means outworn metal valley-gutters , dislodged hip and ridge cappings and deformed or poorly repaired flashings . |
| 29 | Over the weeks , as Matthew experienced his tangle of emotions , his depression lifted . |
| 30 | According to some reports the settlers were trying to force Palestinians to increase their use of firearms , thereby provoking the IDF into using its full military might . |