Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] and [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dig out the clumps of roots and divide them into smaller portions to replant or pot-up . |
| 2 | Visitors to the gallery may spin a wheel of fortune and wait for it to stop and illuminate one or another of eight room tableaux . |
| 3 | It would maximise civilian tactics of resistance and defuse the natural potential for violence , containing and eventually eliminating the marginal but intrusive phenomenon of collaborator activation by Israeli security authorities and collaborator execution by local Palestinians . |
| 4 | It 's the political tactics of divide and conquer , you see ? ’ |
| 5 | Physical activities and games decrease the isolation of patients and encourage the patient to develop appropriate attitudes to new situations . |
| 6 | Over the past few years there has been increasing interest in the biological characteristics of biliary and gall bladder epithelial cells in an attempt to enhance our understanding of diseases affecting the biliary tree . |
| 7 | Some of his reassurances were marvellously paradoxical , claiming the contradictory characteristics of novelty and experience at once . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , in the system 's lexicon , absolute constraints are specified on the sorts of constants and predicate arguments . |
| 9 | He would show them examples of different sorts of pages and wait until they found one they liked . |
| 10 | And as a DJ it means you can pace the night better , play a lot of different sorts of music and try and create a rave atmosphere in the club . ’ |
| 11 | Those people have suffered torture and all sorts of indignities and have missing family members . |
| 12 | I think when I meet — and maybe would count them not in hundreds , but in tens — when I meet women who make those sorts of comments and say this time last year I would not have said that , then those sorts of things encourage me very much . |
| 13 | They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli … |
| 14 | In summer the reedbeds resound to the songs of reed and sedge warblers , and in spring up to a dozen bitterns boom mysteriously from the reeds . |
| 15 | THE LEAVING TRAINS : ‘ Sleeping Underwater Survivors ’ ( SST ) misunderstood Los Angeles band with their confusingly titled fourth album of mixed up and messed about songs of violence and torture — out on Monday |
| 16 | To examine further the association of age and anti-HEV , prevalence rates were calculated for each decade . |
| 17 | One way to avoid selective cover only would be for the government to insist on a compulsory levy on all commercial insurance policies , and this has been suggested by the Association of Insurers and Risk Manager in Industry and Commerce ( AIRMIC ) which represents about 300 UK insurance buyers . |
| 18 | And who could have gone below to sleep when dawn broke to show the weird silhouettes of Suilven and Canisp against the glow of the eastern sky ? |
| 19 | I 'VE watched every episode of Eldorado and love all the storylines . |
| 20 | Men and machinery arrived with a great deal of noise and bustle . |
| 21 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 22 | Further even that this , although it is not possible for knitters to write their own programs for Form , there are programs that lend themselves to a great deal of adaptation and change that can be used to knit almost any type of garment . |
| 23 | He pointed out that , when new products come on the market , they are often treated as great blessings , and it is only after a great deal of experience and use that we learn of their dangers and downsides . |
| 24 | Teachers also received a great deal of support and help from both popular organizations and from communities to ease their situation . |
| 25 | There was a great deal of interest and support for WASL and we will now be working towards having a more active American and Canadian membership . |
| 26 | The memorandum went on to discuss a rally to be held in Durban in March 1990 at which Buthelezi would urge the lifting of sanctions and support President De Klerk . |
| 27 | How else are we to break through the effects of centuries of compliance and make the Copts erect and independent once again ? ’ |
| 28 | We are lucky in that we can draw on centuries of experience and combine them with modern materials in a way that will be pleasing from year one . |
| 29 | To empathise is to set aside our own perception of things and attempt to think the way the other person thinks , or feel the way he feels … a very different quality to sympathy . |
| 30 | Once the preferred listening format of Capri drivers everywhere , now the treasured heirlooms of a few , sad fans of wow and flutter — eight-track cartridges , NME salutes you ! |