Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] of [noun] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a short search they found a half brick made of concrete and went over to the water through . |
| 2 | The ring I 'd bought was placed on a plum-coloured cushion made of velvet and winked at us until it was time to put it on Gill 's finger . |
| 3 | The four-storey flour mill built of brick and weatherboarding on the River Lea dates from the early nineteenth century , and cast-iron columns were used , relatively early , for the interior structure . |
| 4 | EPA Administrator William K. Reilly stressed that the findings were " by no means a crisis " because the agency survey only targeted households at high risk of elevated lead levels either because they are served by municipal water lines made of lead or have interior piping made of lead or copper with lead solder . |
| 5 | Of the manner of making clergy , very early texts speak of prayer and laying on of hands , by which was conferred a charismatic gift appropriate to the office ( 2 Tim . |
| 6 | There are at present in Britain something like 120,000 police and although some of these are in the Fraud Squad , they represent an exceedingly small per cent of the force , and in any case , the majority of their work consists of monitoring and prosecuting white collar rather than corporate criminals . |
| 7 | His arms held her tightly but Maggie felt the cold wave of reality and shivered . |
| 8 | These were the clause condemning the impanelling of partial , corrupt and unqualified jurors ( a reference to the Rye House Plot trials of 1683 ) , the clause condemning excessive fines ( a reference to the crippling fines levied on Whig dissidents during the Tory Reaction ) , and the clause condemning " Grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures before any Conviction and Judgment of the same against the persons upon whom the same were to be levied " ( a reference to James 's dealings with the Monmouth rebels ) . |
| 9 | The good days were starvation days , and the bad days consisted of bingeing and vomiting . |
| 10 | During the months of recuperation and the months of rediscovering himself as a changed person , a quick-tempered , irritable person , nervous and hypochondriacal , Tom thought of sex and love as remote concepts that were not for him , that were ridiculous for him to consider . |
| 11 | Party officials complained of irregularities and called on the UN to rerun the election in at least seven provinces . |
| 12 | ‘ With guns made of wood and bought for one-and-six each ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ being the person in charge ’ This point is usually proved by asking the person suspected of parking or causing the vehicle to be parked in the offending position ‘ Are you responsible for this vehicle being left in this position ? ’ |
| 14 | That this principle applies even to a person convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment seems to me to emerge clearly from the decision in this court in Reg. v. Board of Visitors of Hull Prison , Ex parte St. Germain [ 1979 ] Q.B . |
| 15 | Preparation consists of cleaning and degreasing : iron and steel need to be cleaned of rust . |
| 16 | Preparation consists of cleaning and degreasing . |
| 17 | He was one of the first to have hands on practical experience of three week weaning of piglets and has been actively involved in the development of the Unit from its original 100 sows to the current size of 330 sows . |
| 18 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 19 | It will focus on distributed Unix composed of LANs and interconnected WANs where the reliability of multiple system components and large numbers of apps have to be considered . |
| 20 | In general the work in the fields is done by men ; women usually harvest only lighter crops , tend the animals and do the fatiguing work of cooking and carrying food to the fields for their men ( in other words servicing labour ) . |
| 21 | Andrée spoke of Saint-Simon and compared him to some English memoirists ; she spoke of the astonishing variety of the classical French novel , La Princesse des Clèves , Adolphe , Les Liaisons Dangereuses . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , these ideas make a lot more sense in spreadsheets contemplated by bean counters — a special type , as the British enjoy a breakfast consisting of beans and toast — than they do at display counters contemplated by customers . |
| 23 | That same evening , in a town not far from Salvador , police repelled an assault on the local jail by a mob of 300 people who were planning summary justice for a prisoner accused of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl . |
| 24 | If the patient complains of urgency and urge incontinence but denies any stress incontinence ; if the history and examination yield no other abnormal features ; and if the urine tests negative for protein , glucose , red cells , white cells , and micro-organisms then detrusor instability is the likely diagnosis and the patient should be treated accordingly . |
| 25 | One patient complained of heartburn and required the administration of H 2 antagonists to relieve it . |
| 26 | Attention is also drawn to the fact that since late 1984 a Soviet air unit composed of BADGER and BEAR aircraft and a squadron of FLOGGER aircraft have been deployed at Cam Ranh airfield . |
| 27 | While men like Thomas Howard , Duke of Norfolk , and Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester , were prepared to accept the royal supremacy , they baulked at these evangelical reforms , which in their view smacked of heresy and threatened to lead England into the Lutheran camp . |
| 28 | CASSANDRA : The house reeks of death and dripping blood . |