Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] of [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clara could never understand why others did not repay her contempt with contempt — why , for instance , the church-goers and novel-readers and fillers in of football coupons and motorbike owners in the area did not possess the courage of their convictions and gang up on Mrs Maugham 's massive disapprobation . |
| 2 | ‘ I know this is a solution favoured by many farmers but the EC Commission would not allow us to ignore the entitlement of male calves out of dairy cows , ’ said the ministry specialist . |
| 3 | Samsung 's original plans were impacted by HP 's trouble getting floating point units out of Texas Instruments Inc . |
| 4 | Samsung 's initial plans were derailed by Hewlett-Packard 's difficulties in getting floating point processing units out of Texas Instruments Inc . |
| 5 | Taking funds out of deposit accounts and using them to repay mortgages will be particularly attractive for high earners who no longer receive mortgage interest relief at the upper rate — thanks to Mr Lamont — and who might suffer up to 50 p.c. deductions on savings ' earnings . |
| 6 | There is a $7billion ( £4.5million ) foreign debt and there are increasing shortages even of staple goods such as cheese and sausage . |
| 7 | I 'm not saying we want loads of 15-year-olds sitting in their bedrooms being morose over Techno songs instead of Morrissey songs , just that you can have soul in this type of dance music . |
| 8 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |
| 9 | Schools recognized the potential of these strategies , and our discussions elsewhere of PNP coordinators and TTT explore some of the possibilities and problems of having staff work together with the improvement of classroom practice in view . |
| 10 | So in the end he took to pointing at the last and most precious of " the possessions " … tiger-skins , bookcases full of elevating and instructional volumes , embroidered samplers , teasets of bone china , humidors and candlesticks , mounted elephants ' feet , and rowing-oars with names of college eights inscribed in gilt paint ; the ladies were instructed to improvise sandbags out of linen sheets and pillowslips and fine lace tablecloths . |
| 11 | Because the Yek mutation bred true , all the children had talons instead of finger nails , and they possessed both the remarkable powers of healing and the resistance to disease which were the genetic inheritance of the True people . |
| 12 | Also , in their Kauai ( Hawaii ) study , the analysis was based on pregnancy intervals instead of birth intervals , with relative mortality rates calculated for several gestational and childhood age groups showing clearly the disadvantages of the shorter intervals in each age group ( Yerushalmy et al , 1956 ) . |
| 13 | All ex-L.C.C. depôts had traversers instead of track fans ( except Brixton Hill ) . |
| 14 | He took the trouble to work on it further when it was given again the following season , eliminating the somewhat superfluous role of a pastor , for instance , and putting the women into soft shoes instead of point shoes so that the movement looked more natural . |
| 15 | However , a reported ‘ practice run ’ led her to underestimate the speed of Derby horses ; she was struck , and died three days later of head injuries 8 June 1913 . |
| 16 | Another monk , Kelsang Tsering , reportedly died a few weeks later of police wounds . |
| 17 | Pieces out of picture puzzles , Bent-up nails and ice-cream sticks , Twists of wires , worn-out tyres , Paper bags and broken bricks , Old chipped vases , half shoe-laces , Gatlin " guns that would n't shoot , Leaky boats that would n't float , And stopped-up horns that would n't toot . |
| 18 | We 're squeezing quarts out of pint pots . |
| 19 | Under a lot of pressure trying to get quarts out of pint pots and I think y you you 've suffered the same way . |
| 20 | It says , until firm decision is taken the staff would not be allowed to work within office buildings out of flexitime hours . |
| 21 | Few looked upon parties in a favourable light and majorities even of party identifiers were unable to Perceive any important differences between what the Republican and Democratic parties stood for . |
| 22 | Fighting my way through the milling crowds of private view enthusiasts which announce the opening of this years round of degree shows , my curiosity was aroused by the number of women consistently achieving standards of excellence . |
| 23 | For the detection and typing of human papillomavirus we used cervical scrapes instead of biopsy specimens . |
| 24 | He and President Turgut Özal addressed a reception commemorating the arrival in Turkey 500 years previously of Sephardim Jews fleeing the Spanish inquisition . |
| 25 | One of the most recent queries highlighted our local Savacentre store as giving credits instead of cash refunds . |
| 26 | Periodic bouts of fixed or artificially determined exchange rates have been the curse of this country for almost a hundred years — by pricing our goods out of world markets and , through high interest rates , by forcing up the cost of capital here . |
| 27 | DEC would also like Encore to buy some Alpha AXP systems and offer them in place of its real-time 91 and 93 systems , as well as building successors to its parallel Infinity 90 machines out of Alpha microprocessors . |
| 28 | Almost all the new councils soon had chief executives instead of town clerks — even if the person employed remained the same . |
| 29 | BCE Inc 's Bell Canada unit plans to redeem $115m in outstanding US dollar-denominated bonds ahead of maturity dates . |
| 30 | We see the different marriage customs for Indian and white women ; the former with arranged marriages with complex , rich ceremonies ; the latter marriages based on short-lived romance with white gowns instead of gold saris . |