Example sentences of "of a pair of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some referees appear to see only one half of a pair of techniques and , while reverse punches are seldom missed , snap punches to the face often are . |
| 2 | Because the junction of a pair of roundels produces a triangular interstitial space internally as well as externally , one of two such internal areas was used to accommodate a WC , which is reached from an intermediate landing of the staircase ( Fig 41 and Plate 17 ) . |
| 3 | The old crow selected the largest one and dragged it to safety , out of the way of a pair of young birds chasing them down . |
| 4 | Within the Zuwaya , where all men are related , a quarrel should mobilize the descendants of a pair of brothers ( see figure 7 ) . |
| 5 | The Americans , whose still unfinished premises ( the result of Gulf War economies ) consist of a pair of recycled geodesic domes , promise the world 's greatest film show . |
| 6 | The stones consist of a pair of burr stones for corn grinding and a set of what are thought to be Peak stones used for animal feed . |
| 7 | Socks , vests — I even lost one of a pair of boots , last month . |
| 8 | In a pair of experiments by Jaynes ( 1950 ) , rats were required in the first-stage task to lift one of a pair of flaps bearing distinctive cues in order to obtain food . |
| 9 | Although Lawrence 's original ( 1949 ) experiment has not been replicated exactly , the work of his successors ( conducted both with animal subjects and with humans ) has confirmed the validity of his central contention — discrimination training , in which each of a pair of cues becomes associated with a different outcome , enhances performance on a further discriminative task involving the same cues . |
| 10 | All I had was a promise of a pair of boots from Jack Riordon , a quartermaster in the Green Howards Regiment . |
| 11 | They appear in the form of a pair of vermilion ‘ chops ’ on our family note-paper and on quite a number of original Chinese paintings inscribed to us by the artists . |
| 12 | She was kept in a cell from 2 p.m. until 8.30 p.m. when she was charged with unlawful possession of a pair of hairbrushes . |
| 13 | Another example of this was seen at the nest of a pair of European eagle owls , which are large birds weighing up to 4 kg . |
| 14 | One medium even claimed to have made a plaster cast of a pair of ectoplasmic hands before they dissolved . |
| 15 | If the cost of a pair of sandals priced at £8 is reduced by a quarter , how much are they now priced at ? |
| 16 | Under the archway one of a pair of glass doors led to a room , estimated ( wrongly ? ) by MRCVS as being about 10 feet long and six feet wide ; this was the combined consulting room for the Professor and the College library . |
| 17 | Hand appears as a simple two-valued property , left or right , but it is actually the relectsproduct of a pair of factors . |
| 18 | The International Solar Polar Mission is designed to fly ‘ over ’ the Sun , and was originally one of a pair of craft , but its American partner was cancelled in President Ronald Reagan 's first budget . |
| 19 | Radio telescopes on the Earth have a resolution limited by their size , or , in the case of a pair of telescopes linked as an interferometer , by their separation . |
| 20 | Taking one of a pair of identical towers and re-building in another form , e.g. helps the child towards the idea of invariance of number — there are the same number of blocks ‘ before ’ and ‘ after ’ although they look different . |
| 21 | The tour will show you the whole manufacturing process by following the progress of a pair of shoes from start to finish around the factory . |
| 22 | Obviously the activity of a pair of adult foxes feeding a family which could number as many as eight cubs has a quite drastic effect on the local rabbit population . |
| 23 | As the creature bent lower , bringing its face nearer to the point of being seen , she turned , conscious of a fleeting impression in the darkness at the top of the stairs of a pair of blazing eyes . |
| 24 | ‘ Her ’ lipstick was constantly having to be renewed as more and more people found themselves with the impression of a pair of very red lips on their faces . |
| 25 | In front of the refrigerator lay the shape of a man , but all that could be seen were the backs of the calves , and the pale , poignant soles of a pair of bare feet . |
| 26 | This consists of an S-R bistable with inputs S' and R' , controlled by the outputs of a pair of AND gates . |
| 27 | I was thinking of a pair of Dwarf Gouramis , as I feel they would be safe with eggs or fry . |
| 28 | Would the addition of a pair of Lamprologus leleupi impair the breeding of the brichardi ? |
| 29 | Maybe one day they 'll have a Lakewood Acousticube in the window , and I 'll score £1,100 worth of amp for the price of a pair of All-Stars . |
| 30 | As long-haired ‘ Hap ’ , one of a pair of beatnik lovers , wearing a polo-neck sweater and a raincoat , Dustin 's 45-second moment comes when he is seen breaking up with his girlfriend ( Mariclare Costello ) before she wanders off to be almost grabbed by the preying Wallach . |