Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] and [vb base] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dig out the clumps of roots and divide them into smaller portions to replant or pot-up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's the political tactics of divide and conquer , you see ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some of his reassurances were marvellously paradoxical , claiming the contradictory characteristics of novelty and experience at once . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , in the system 's lexicon , absolute constraints are specified on the sorts of constants and predicate arguments . |
| 7 | He would show them examples of different sorts of pages and wait until they found one they liked . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Those people have suffered torture and all sorts of indignities and have missing family members . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | How else are we to break through the effects of centuries of compliance and make the Copts erect and independent once again ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | While all cichlids are egglayers , their methods of reproduction and brood care are as varied as the fish themselves . |
| 19 | Because the more people who go vegetarian , the more the agricultural industry — and it is an industry these days , as mechanical as any other — will be forced to re-assess its methods of operation and adjust its swollen meat production policy down as demand dwindles . |
| 20 | Pupils look at modern computerised methods of printing and prepare their own news-sheet on computer using a simple newspaper software package . |
| 21 | Making marine fishkeeping an environmentally friendly hobby by better methods of capture/export and care in the aquarium |
| 22 | These laws require different ( specific ) standards , different methods of finance and cite different government departments as having overall responsibility for parts of the services . |
| 23 | Modern research shows that industry had its roots in the previous rural life of home weavers and part-time farmers , that technological innovations ( such as Abraham Darby 's use of coal in smelting iron , 1709 ) took many decades to supplant existing methods of production and provide for successful exports , and that early reliance on water power and canal transport placed limits on expansion . |
| 24 | I respectively , to the anions and cations of solids and free them by neutralizing their charge ; water is thus a highly effective solvent . |
| 25 | When riding bicycles , people watch for the signals of others and steer accordingly . |
| 26 | Here the vines are mostly grown at a height of between 140 and 180 metres on south-east and south-west-facing slopes although some climb steeply from the outskirts of Hautvillers and rise to a height of around 250 metres . |
| 27 | The Duchess of Gloucester , as Patron , visits the offices of Counsel and Care for the Elderly , at 16 Bonny Street , London NW1 . |
| 28 | She remained transfixed , mesmerised by the waves of warmth and love emanating from him . |
| 29 | The ant parts used to paint women 's faces in the maize festival are from the ants that are attracted to the extrafloral nectaries of cassava and keep insects off the beans that are trained up the more robust maize . |
| 30 | Typically the lender is a passive investor seeking to make a turn on his portfolio , while the borrower is an active investor or trader seeking to finance temporary shortages of securities and avoid the risk of settlement failure . |