Example sentences of "of [noun pl] and [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever you go to a new site , start your search by burying a couple of coins and reminding yourself of the different note each one makes in your headphones . |
| 2 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 3 | Nicephorus Phocas had mocked Liudprand of Cremona in the tenth century because western armies consisted solely of knights and knew nothing of siegecraft . |
| 4 | Pfrommer dates the groups of objects and places them in their cultural and archaeological context . |
| 5 | Democratic theory as an ideal construct may recognise the existence of elites in real polities which are to be explained ; a democratic theory which accepts the existence of elites , describes democracy as a set of institutions and builds them into its descriptions as a central restraining factor , is arguably not in the democratic school and might not even be properly called theory . |
| 6 | I think it matters in a broad sense , in that the ability to master a variety of skills and express oneself through a variety of media ( including language , music and the visual arts ) is important to any well-rounded and educated person . |
| 7 | [ My father ] used to talk to me of books and take me to lectures . |
| 8 | He pulled out the little packet of contraceptives and showed them to her . |
| 9 | Then , calm restored , they went about the business of confiscating the property of Japanese-Americans and sending them to concentration camps . |
| 10 | We prop the grating open with another branch and spend the next half-hour pulling fallen branches and logs from all over that part of the hill , dragging them into the clump of bushes and throwing them into the shaft ; we snap dead branches off trees and bushes and haul and peel living ones off ; we scrape together armfuls of dry leaf litter and throw those over the edge of the chimney , too ; everything goes under the grating and down into the shaft . |
| 11 | Tallis ran to Swimmer of Lakes and flung herself across its back , twisting into a sitting position and quickly flinging a simple rope harness around its neck . |
| 12 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 13 | ‘ How much is really saved by reducing a species to a handful of survivors and banishing them to glorified captivity ? |
| 14 | The researchers found that a change of curriculum from traditional academic subjects to topics of local relevance forced a change of roles for teachers and pupils ( the latter becoming knowledge-holders ) and a change of methods and time-tabling which in the end proved non-acceptable , least of all to parents who favoured the traditional approach as a gateway to success , and resisted innovation ( 17 ) . |
| 15 | Where this is the case , some teachers experiment with ways of collecting examples of lectures and using them as the basis for the language lesson . |
| 16 | This suggestion , that stylistics should characterize comparatively the language or style of texts and leave it at that , would seem to constitute a sort of minimal claim for the relevance of linguistics to the study of literature . |
| 17 | His mother was buried not far off , and as a kind of atonement , on the day of his appointment he bought a bunch of asters and took them to the grave , laying them on the bare earth . |
| 18 | Enlist the help of parents and get them on the side of the school by : |
| 19 | Imperial governments created a new elite of natives and invested them with the power of their language of administration and justice . |
| 20 | pointed out , at p. 327d , this House , while upholding the Court of Appeal 's order requiring the respondents to allow access to premises for the purpose of looking for illicit copies of films and to allow them to be removed to safe custody , also upheld that court 's refusal of an order to answer interrogatories and to make discovery of documents relating to the illicit copies , including ‘ invoices … books of accounts , letters , lists or other documents . ’ |
| 21 | He has never stayed in any one place longer than a couple of years and prides himself on knowing when to go . |
| 22 | The subsequent procedure is for the solicitor to compile a bill of costs and send it to the appropriate officer of the court for ‘ taxing . ’ |
| 23 | Roll the mixture into small balls about the size of walnuts and place them on two large baking sheets . |
| 24 | Also described as traditional ( or incremental ) budgeting , the pragmatic approach starts with the previous year 's allocation of resources and updates them for any anticipated changes in , for example , planned activities , prices , or the total money available . |
| 25 | He picked up a bunch of bananas and threw them at his son-in-law , hitting him so hard in the chest that Changez toppled off his stool and badly bruised his good arm . |
| 26 | From this point of view , a budget is expected to state clearly the purposes of expenditures and provide them in a from that will be useful for legislative action . |
| 27 | Based at the University of Ulster , Jordanstown , the Northern Ireland Knowledge Engineering Laboratory ( NIKEL ) has tapped into the expertise of managers and placed it on software . |
| 28 | We tried to keep track of the number of taps and translate them into words . |
| 29 | I respectively , to the anions and cations of solids and free them by neutralizing their charge ; water is thus a highly effective solvent . |
| 30 | English Hops works closely with the hop research centre at Wye Valley and with the British Brewing Foundation in Surrey to develop new varieties of hops and to test them in brewing conditions . |