Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 32 year old manager may be full of vigour , enthusiasm and malleable but a 52 year old manager has been through a couple of recessions , knows the ropes and cap pull a few more rabbits out of the hat . |
| 2 | Rather hoary for a start-up , Mentalix has been through a couple of iterations beginning as a consultant and going on to develop scanner interfaces for the old Apollo workstation . |
| 3 | A second focus for integration has been through the design of materials based on one subject discipline but specifically planned to feed across the curriculum . |
| 4 | But we had nobody been for a couple of times , now . |
| 5 | No , the fact remains that malaria is on the increase and has been for a number of years now . |
| 6 | It would not have been terrible — only like Frank — if it had not been for the pain of stones , metal , pressed into soft skin . |
| 7 | These deposits are for a range of maturities from overnight to one year . |
| 8 | The Government suggestions , in principle , are for a system of Children 's Certificates to be granted by Licensing Justices but the Government invites comment as to whether food should merely be available or if children should only be admitted to certificated bars in order to eat a meal . |
| 9 | The figures quoted are for a mix of wastes requiring incineration . |
| 10 | The research aims to describe how police authorities give effect to this duty and to analyse what the consequences of their adopting different strategies — formal consultative committees , public opinion surveys , informal liaison etc — are for the work of police authorities , for policing priorities and for police management practice . |
| 11 | Proposals should be carefully worded to emphasise that our costs are for the provision of services , rather than equipment , whose ownership could be the subject of later discussion . |
| 12 | Orders commonly sought are for the delivery of pleadings and particulars , and for discovery , and , as may be appropriate , for the following : ( 1 ) Amendment of pleadings and change of parties where leave is necessary . |
| 13 | In other words , sacramenta procta hominas the sacraments are for the good of men and woman , of course the hominas in Latin includes both , it 's inclusive language for the sake of er well of certain persons who will be picking me up |
| 14 | About getting things to move along , but when you start breaking down what the other aspects are about a lot of things , erm it was good influencing , recognise this and somebody will just suddenly say oh , no nothing nothing to do with influencing , |
| 15 | Remember : Crowns are about the range of services and facilities . |
| 16 | Remember : Keys are about the range of facilities and equipment . |
| 17 | Here the individual pixels are about the size of characters and you can Set and Reset them at will . |
| 18 | They are of the substance of dreams and of an intangible reality — hybrid ideas of the mind . |
| 19 | ‘ They 're like a tin of worms — wriggling and writhing . ’ |
| 20 | Carew thought , we 're like a bunch of schoolboys nervously watching the master studying the exam papers . |
| 21 | if you feel tired or unwell , fatigue can cause serious accidents , never drive if you 're under the influence of drugs or medicines , it can seriously affect your driving ability , always ask your doctor whether it is safe for you to drive when taking prescribed medicines . |
| 22 | Say you 're with a group of students and erm you 're sitting round drinking coffee one morning , and the sun 's shining . |
| 23 | But if you stick to commonsense rules which you 're brought up to believe , or most people are , then I think it would work better , because you 're in a sort of rules — in the same environment … |
| 24 | Now … it looks like we 're in a line of humans . ’ |
| 25 | WE 'RE IN THE SUPER-LEAGUE OF NATIONS . |
| 26 | As we 're on the subject of complaints , I might as well say that we 've had one from Naomi Marks . |
| 27 | For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't |
| 28 | The names which have previously confused scholars would in effect have been like the variety of names used for , say , a contemporary political party or , at most , for the spectrum of groups and individuals which coalesced into a single movement — the French Resistance , during the German occupation . |
| 29 | There was no clear indication of which group had assisted in his escape , with reports attributing a motive variously to the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) , the left-wing December 20 ( M-20 ) guerrillas , or the Panamanian Defence Forces ( FDP ) , of which Gaitán had been a commander , and which was believed to have been behind a number of bombings since the US invasion . |
| 30 | My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts , and I 've never used them . |