Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in addition to his constructive plans , Lanfranc also took steps to cut down the force of opposition to his changes by sending away ‘ for correction ’ one of the chief trouble-makers , a monk called Osbern . |
| 2 | Of course it was convenient for factory-owners to build an element of flexibility into their businesses by using women as outworkers when they needed to . |
| 3 | After about half an hour 's unsteady plodding along the sand , leaving dinosaur hoofprints and a small steaming roundabout in the middle of the beach , my buffalo turned back for home , slotted a few heads of corn into his cheeks by the way of reward and let me dismount . |
| 4 | The majority opinion emphasises the subjective condition that the General Assembly must be satisfied of the need for the wider powers , but does not make the power of granting oral hearings rest upon the precondition of failure of its duties by South Africa . |
| 5 | With lower forms of life that employ this type of feeding system , such as oysters and other bivalves , the animals are usually stationary and pass the current of water through their bodies by beating with thousands of tiny filaments called cilia . |
| 6 | It saw a slight recovery of demand for its products by the end of 1992 and during the first months of 1993 . |
| 7 | The aims of the programme : to establish the location of foreign ethnographic material in museums , universities , research institutes and private collections ; to encourage and coordinate the recording of information about their collections by in-house museum staff ; to record collections or organise recording by other specialists in cases where no professional staff are available to undertake the work ; to establish a computerised database for the recorded information and to publish the findings of the survey . |
| 8 | was not only filled with the Holy Spirit but constituted the fire of judgment to his hearers by means of his teaching and miracles . |
| 9 | In another study George Bokert increased the degree of thirst in his subjects by not only depriving them of water for twenty-four hours , but also giving them a salty meal before going to bed . |