Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A climber jumps in his car , burns precious fossil fuels on a stretch of tarmac that has eaten acres of countryside to arrive at an undeveloped crag . |
| 2 | The sufferer attempts to gain control by changing his or her pictures of reality to conform to the pictures of perception of how life should be . |
| 3 | The kit arrives complete with worms , a pack of starter compost to get the process going , calcified seaweed to keep the compost sweet and non-acidic ; there 's even a ready-torn supply of strips of newspaper to go in the bottom . |
| 4 | Costs had been taxed in the action at law but it was no business of the courts of law to decide on the amount that , in equity , the mortgagee would be allowed in a redemption action . |
| 5 | One of the few signs of encouragement to emerge from the reported cases considered here is that some current employee inventors can not easily be ‘ bought off ’ by employers anxious to avoid compensation claims . |
| 6 | A new system was needed which would avoid these contradictions and which so unified existing rights in land as to ‘ enable shifts of value to operate within the same ownership ’ . |
| 7 | He survived the perils of infancy to live to the ripe old age of 74 , but sadly he inherited none of his father 's musical talent . |
| 8 | Walker told police he 'd bought two half bottles of vodka to drink in a roadside layby because he was depressed over problems at work . |
| 9 | It is easy with the advantages of hindsight to think of the political structure of eighteenth-century England , with all its defects , as the best in Europe . |
| 10 | After keeping and breeding Malawi Cichlids for the past fifteen years NANCY SHUTTLE felt it was time for winds of change to blow into the fish house . |
| 11 | These may be for short periods of time to account for the non-matching of the firm 's payments and receipts from its business . |
| 12 | The solution is two 5/8in-thick pieces of hardwood to fit in a breast pocket ; mine is 4x4in . |
| 13 | Cut pieces of muslin to fit over the rims of the containers and hold each of them in place with two large rubber bands . |
| 14 | They did n't really need it , of course , since it was a lovely warm summer 's day , but the twins clearly thought it a great adventure , busily insisting on helping Ross by scampering about the bay in search of small pieces of wood to add to the bonfire . |
| 15 | Stand the syringe upright for 1 min to allow larger pieces of debris to settle into the tip . |
| 16 | A man in a spotless white coat offered me little pieces of cheese to taste from the end of a special curved knife . |
| 17 | ( ii ) After about 30 min chop the tubules very finely with scissors in a glass Petri dish tilted slightly , allowing large pieces of tubule to settle to the bottom . |
| 18 | The time has passed quickly and it is now getting dusk , the mosquitoes have arrived and the German mortaring of the orchard has started , the first salvo exploding a short distance away causing pieces of earth to fall from the logs covering the roof of the trench , the earth and other bits of debris falling onto the now empty mess-tins . |
| 19 | Would you have selected any of these pieces of information to go in the essay ? |
| 20 | May we use our knowledge of history and our memories of war to strive for a world in which people live together in peace . |
| 21 | It is a fundamental feature of Rawls ' conception of the fairness of the original position that it should not permit the choice of principles of justice to depend on a particular conception of the good over which the parties may differ . |
| 22 | And while British viewers do n't have to live in Salford or Walthamstow to relate to the problems faced by characters in Coronation Street or EastEnders , few have the terms of reference to identify with the mythical world of Eldorado . |
| 23 | I would alternate from extremes of hope to despair as every way I tried to win Grant back failed . |
| 24 | Fashions in education will come and go , politicians , local and national , will peddle their transitory wares , but the long-term effectiveness of our schools will depend ultimately upon there being sufficient teachers of quality to work in the nation 's classrooms . |
| 25 | This could be the result of a tendency for the larger bodies in the final stages of accretion to lie in the orbital plane of the Moon , with the Moon already possessing an axial inclination similar to that of today . |
| 26 | It might even be possible for Members of Parliament to walk down the street and assess the approximate value of property in one street compared with property in another . |
| 27 | TEN City executives and a solicitor were yesterday bailed for a total of £1.1million after appearing at Guildhall magistrates court on charges of conspiracy to defraud in the Blue Arrow rights issue . |
| 28 | Harper has admitted lighting tufts of straw to see inside the barn , but put them out immediately . |
| 29 | Caterina and Rosalba , working at Sabina 's side in the cool of the pantry 's shade , were pinching pouches of dough to seal in the stuffing of cream cheese , pepper and chopped basil and lining up the results on a white tea towel powdered with coarse rice flour . |
| 30 | The economic recession of the late 1970s has meant not only that government funds have become even more scarce for such policies but also that government and public concern has shifted away from issues of inequality to concentrate on the problems of productivity and economic growth . |