Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereupon one of the companions of our bishop took a stone which had been blessed by all the people of God and hurled it from his sling after the manner of David . |
| 2 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 3 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 4 | It controlled the means of repression and used them to maintain its dominance in conflicts with weak indigenous classes , namely the aristocracy and traders . |
| 5 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 6 | As they conquered peninsular Italy and Sicily in the third century BC , the Romans took works of art and dedicated them to the gods at Rome . |
| 7 | I bought a new pair of flannels and paid my membership on the spot . |
| 8 | He came up with a pair of binoculars and handed them to Culley . |
| 9 | ‘ He should have put on a pair of tights and joined his daddy in front of the fairy-lights . ’ |
| 10 | He was lying prone , his eyes shut , clad in that pair of briefs that made her eyes linger far too long on his bronzed legs and flat chest . |
| 11 | ‘ The price of a common press was only about one-tenth of the cost of the 1,000 kg of type that kept it occupied in a busy shop … so that the master could afford to own more presses than he would normally need . ’ |
| 12 | Work out the measurements of five more rectangles which can be made from 64cm of string and put your answers in the table shown below . |
| 13 | For the ‘ Banality ’ show , Koons created a startling series of ads that showed him in four flagrantly artificial settings . |
| 14 | It has seemed this month as if Ronald Reagan never left town , as President Bush decisively buried his lingering image as a White House wimp with a series of interventions that stamped his own authority on US foreign policy , and America 's will upon the world . |
| 15 | Then a series of colours that took my fancy were thinned down with water and sprayed , or rather spattered using a mouth diffuser , over the colours I have previously applied . |
| 16 | She showed these children a series of pictures and got them to tell a story about what they had seen . |