Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [conj] [verb] of " in BNC.
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1 | Figure 4 shows the PAS analysis for MCC and consists of three lines : the PAS-score for the company itself , the solvency threshold where Z=0 ( the percentage of companies with negative Z-Scores ) and the publishing industry average . |
2 | The core used in the magnetic sensor is made by Telcon Metals of Crawley and consists of a toroid wound from a flat tape , one thousandth of an inch thick HCR alloy . |
3 | Mario Chiesa was arrested in the final week of February and accused of having used his position as director of a prestigious charitable institution in Milan , the Pio Albergo Trivulzio , an old people 's home , for profit to the tune of US$9,650,000 , partly by directing business towards Milan 's leading firm of undertakers , whose director was a friend and a fellow socialist activist . |
4 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
5 | How long would it be , Jane demanded silently of the darkness , before she was able to speak of Rob or think of Rob and not weep inside her ? |
6 | The Emperor seemed unable or unwilling to even raise an army , but skulked behind the walls of Altdorf and dreamed of better days . |
7 | Entitled LA TANTE CLAIRE ( Headline , £19.99 ) it follows on from last year 's Memoirs Of Gascony and tells of his days at catering college and his early jobs . |
8 | Wycliffe remembered a great-uncle who had fought under Buller and talked of little else . |
9 | ACTORS dressed up as Vikings for a Welsh S4C documentary were challenged by local people in Swansea and accused of being New Age travellers . |
10 | The journalists , Fan Liqing and Guo Weifeng , were granted permission by the authorities to cover the trial of a group of Chinese fisherman arrested off Taiwan in July and accused of theft and piracy . |
11 | Wilson thought of that home in Somerset and thought of Henrietta walking in the lovely garden , doubled up , so Minnie wrote , with pain . |
12 | Dependents of one man who worked at the controversial Sellafield plant in Cumbria and died of lung cancer in 1989 received a ‘ quarter payment ’ of £15,243 . |
13 | It shares the main galleries of the ICA 's ground floor with ‘ Craft Morphology Flow Chart ’ ( 1991 , Lannan Foundation ) which created a strong impression at the recent Carnegie International in Pittsburgh and consists of rows of hand-made woollen dolls laid out in tables . |
14 | She took her hands away from Charlotte and thought of the half-loaf at home . |
15 | At this point in the debate a public bunfight has arisen between , on the one hand the authors of the Coopers & Lybrand report on Tuesday that warned of a ‘ fiscal reality gap ’ and a public sector borrowing requirement soaring way above Tory and Labour projections ( about which this column warned last week ) and those who believe this takes too gloomy a view of prospects . |
16 | Having slept better that night , Fabia awakened on Tuesday and thought of Ven , thought of Cara and of Barney , and would dearly have liked to telephone her parents to find out if they had heard anything from her sister . |
17 | The new mayors were summoned to Amman and reminded of the value of good relations for marketing agricultural produce to Jordan . |
18 | The simplest and earliest of these is due to Alfrey and consists of taking the spectral function as the negative slope of the relaxation curve in a static ( stress relaxation or creep ) experiment ( Figure 3.5 ) . |
19 | She turned to Beuno and spoke of lighter matters until darkness descended . |
20 | The lecture programme extends from October to April and consists of lecture courses , tutorials and laboratory work totalling approximately 260 hours . |
21 | Then Minch would talk quietly to Creggan and speak of the lore of golden eagles which his parents had begun to tell him . |