Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] words " in BNC.
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| 1 | The duty to support just institutions leads to a requirement of support in words and deeds , most commonly in a certain degree of political participation . |
| 2 | The critics argued that the space probes were a useless waste of money in words that were amazingly similar to those recorded against Columbus some four and a half centuries earlier . |
| 3 | It is best to classify this as a prefix-suffix error : any corrective teaching should focus the children 's attention on the effect of -ing on words that end in -e . |
| 4 | The mystic 's understanding of this joy at the heart of experience is called visionary ; it is to ordinary human perception as waking is to sleeping ; and this carol , in its excited evocation of the significance of redemption in words and images , answers to this understanding . |
| 5 | I have suggested that it enters into some kind of relationship with words and contexts . |
| 6 | A ranked output IR system such as Okapi can also use several other kinds of knowledge about words to modify the way in which weights are assigned to them in an individual search . |
| 7 | An illustration of deception by words is Banaster ( 1979 ) 68 Cr App R 272 ( CA ) , which held that a judge was entitled to leave to the jury the question whether a mini cab driver at Heathrow airport deceived a foreigner when he said that he was driving an " airport taxi " because the foreigner , who was on his first visit to England , might have thought that the taxi was an official one . |
| 8 | It seems tolerably clear that , in principle , the offence is capable of commission by words alone , although conduct will give additional force to any words that are uttered . |
| 9 | It is a relational database which is rather like a filing cabinet in which not only the dividers have been removed but also all pieces of paper without words on them . |
| 10 | However , there is a marked difference in the degree of interruptibility between words and phrases . |
| 11 | He lists expression of love through words , touch , spending time together , providing material needs and many others . |
| 12 | The fact that you have edited the school magazine does n't necessarily fit you to be an advertising writer , even though a feeling of familiarity with words is a good thing . |
| 13 | The analysis for Developmental Sentence Types involves classifying each utterance in respect of number of words and grammatical category . |
| 14 | Okay , well I will se , I 'll I 'll seek to clarify tha to be able to join that to er sort of form of words . |
| 15 | Er er what should we what have we been u have we been using any particular sort of of form of words Jane ? |
| 16 | ‘ I hope it reminded festival goers that in many countries , freedom of expression through words , never mind a literature festival , is just a dream . ’ |
| 17 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 18 | Transubstantiation now listen carefully I have discovered this in conversation to be a matter of semantics of words . |