Example sentences of "[v-ing] [num] [noun] of [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we end up dissociating one piece of behaviour from another : in ‘ blindsight ’ , the verbal response ‘ No , I did not see the light ’ is dissociated from the ability to move the eyes towards the light . |
| 2 | And oh , we loved the intimacy of having them so close , close enough that when I rode my bicycle for ‘ Committee ’ through the ‘ vomitarium ’ separating one wedge of audience from the next I was able to steady myself by grasping the leg of a gentleman who had stretched it over the side . |
| 3 | At this point it is best to remove the glass or perspex sheet with the eggs attached and transfer it to another tank containing 5–7.5 cms of water from the breeding tank . |
| 4 | A REGIONAL councillor has been censured for removing three sets of keys from a district council 's offices . |
| 5 | When attempted , a modified Baerman technique is employed using 50 g of faeces from the rectum . |
| 6 | The Senate committee reached its decision after hearing three days of testimony from Souter , beginning on Sept. 13 , followed by two days of testimony from various interested parties , including supporters and opponents of abortion . |
| 7 | Such a tactic of isolating one group of workers from the control of technology was tried by another company I visited , which made goods from rubber moulds . |
| 8 | Local reports suggest he was carrying 20 cases of cigarettes from Gibraltar to Spanish territory where they can fetch 3 times the price . |
| 9 | Towards the end of the month the United States air force began shipping 120 tonnes of food from military stocks left in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf war . |
| 10 | So you 're really sounding a note of warning over translating or transferring one set of norms from one culture to another without being really rather cautious about it . |
| 11 | Officials at the presidency were quoted by Agence France-Presse as criticising as " too anti-Turkish " a speech which Hovhannesyan had made in Istanbul on Sept. 21 ; Armenia had earlier been reported as requesting 100,000 tonnes of grain from Turkey [ see p. 39109 ] . |
| 12 | We can not afford to overlook the cruel irony enacted by the racist regime of freeing one generation of fighters from the sixties and seventies , while proceeding to serve long sentences on a new generation of fighters of the eighties . |