Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun pl] of [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | actors ( including Chaplin ) , cricketers and cricket-writers provide snippets of humour that mix into a rolling chuckle . |
| 2 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 3 | They learn not to fear enclosed spaces , but still show signs of stress when stabled constantly . |
| 4 | The second , and the one usually chosen by the authors , is to grow up a mixture of different species in variable numbers until they show signs of pairing and wanting to breed . |
| 5 | Next , check that the pins are clean and bright ; clean any that show signs of discolouration or charring with wire wool ( an old Brillo pad is ideal ) . |
| 6 | It may look good when you are standing , but if you reveal acres of thigh when sitting at a business meeting , you 'll never be taken seriously . |
| 7 | It may look good when you are standing , but if you reveal acres of thigh when sitting at a business meeting , you 'll never be taken seriously . |
| 8 | They go through 6,000 eggs , 60 giant tins of tuna fish , 24 cases of Coca-Cola and 150 kilos of chips a week , wash mountains of dishes and wait on tables with flair . |
| 9 | Add strips of beef and leave to marinate for 24 hours . |
| 10 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 11 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 12 | I , and students to whom I have spoken , recall feelings of panic when facing the inevitability of our own death . |
| 13 | Please give details of equipment and recording medium you propose to use . |
| 14 | Butterflies seek out the one plant whose leaves provide the only food their caterpillars will eat ; beetles bury pellets of dung and lay their eggs within them ; flies feverishly deposit their eggs within carrion ; and solitary wasps catch spiders , paralyse them with a sting and stack them around their eggs so that the young larvae will have fresh meat awaiting them . |
| 15 | Traditional electron microscopes , which emit beams of electrons and watch them bounce off the surface , can see much smaller details but their pictures usually give only a poor impression of the relief of the surface . |
| 16 | This stipulated that products had to be fit for their purpose and meet standards of appearance and finish being free from minor defects as well as safe and durable . |
| 17 | expulsion from Paradise : " Unto Adam also and his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them . " |
| 18 | Before you style your hair , lift sections of hair and spray with hairspray , concentrating on the root area . |
| 19 | If they fail in this they are likely to be ineffective and encourage forms of organisation and control that are essentially unprofessional in their character and consequences . |
| 20 | At the end of the day , however , all the programs produce pieces of paper that need to be reproduced in quantity . |
| 21 | The little girls plait baskets of grass and grind corn , like their mothers , and make little pots of the local clay and cook imaginary dishes of the same material . |
| 22 | They clutter streets , smother blocks of flats and deface many homes . |
| 23 | For example , employers and teachers keep registers of attendance and prescribe as well as supervise the activities of their employees/pupils , that is , restriction by intent . |
| 24 | Offer words of encouragement and do not simply ignore the dog . |
| 25 | The data in Table 14 , which classify percentages of pregnancies that ended in still births by length of preceding pregnancy interval pooled according to country of study , seem to confirm the validity of the Hungarian findings for developing countries . |
| 26 | The bodies of 10 men and a woman had been found by a roadside with their hands ties behind their backs ; they bore signs of torture and had been shot in the head , a hallmark of right-wing paramilitary groups whose members included military personnel . |
| 27 | Hence , whenever possible , bankers require bills of lading that contain no notations stating defective conditions in the goods or their packaging . |
| 28 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 29 | She pledged to provide a guaranteed minimum wage , protect standards of living and prevent price rises in consumer goods . |
| 30 | The poems , perhaps by Albert himself , express intimations of mortality and reflect the intensified anguish and heightened awareness of life 's transitoriness caused by the Thirty Years ' War . |