Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several more clumps of earth rolled off graves . |
| 2 | But as time went on and techniques advanced , they found that peculiar sorts of molecules turned up , rather unusual ones , things that were n't expected — molecules that are very uncommon on the earth and in fact a number of molecules were discovered in interstellar space before they were discovered in the laboratory . |
| 3 | There were all sorts of arguments went on between and the central defender that 's Phil on loan from Sheffield Wednesday tonight with playing at left back , and what was doing , well maybe could explain to because I could n't fathom it either myself . |
| 4 | Towards the date for closure of Banstead , in mid-1986 , two researchers from the national offices of MIND carried out a brief study of the closure process . |
| 5 | Kring hummed a warning , and agonising waves of pain shot up his arm . |
| 6 | Everyone in the crowd was bowing back , and the waves of motion proceeded down each of the streets like ripples out across a pool . |
| 7 | Waves of data seethed in at her filtered through recognition systems that had never been hers . |
| 8 | The Jews of Cork hung on his words . |
| 9 | It seemed to her that the reason the Jews of Cork got on so well with their Catholic neighbours was because they were actually poles apart . |
| 10 | Golden eye have heads which look like blobs of dough scooped up from the bench and plonked on . ’ |
| 11 | The sides were not so much planks as squares of wood stuck on apparently at hazard . |
| 12 | Consisting of small squares of canvas stretched over a bamboo frame set in cement , the Pierre Druesnes composition being shown by Franka Berndt resembles a pyramid , pointing the way heavenward , a substitute for human presence , or emphasis of its absence . |
| 13 | However , we may identify , currently , two main styles of structure organized around either the functions provided by the department or the client groups served ( see Figure 8.1 ) . |
| 14 | They can be blended , but too often in our secular society , they are poorly-understood styles of behaviour acted out between men and women in conflicting ways . |
| 15 | In the Late Minoan period new styles of burial came in , the larnax burials . |
| 16 | In most cases heads of faculty picked up general issues that had emerged during the reporting process e.g. public image , relationships between subject departments , staff support ( or lack of it ) for extra-curricular activities . |
| 17 | All heads of department carried on a voluminous correspondence with this official . |
| 18 | Later , large concentrations of police backed up by tanks appeared on the streets . |
| 19 | Having once established that certain polymeric materials are capable of crystallizing , fundamental studies are directed along two main channels of interest centred on |
| 20 | ‘ By holding open meetings for children and having the telecottage above the local store , people of all walks of life came in - small-scale entrepreneurs and their spouses , shop assistants , craftspeople and children . |
| 21 | LEFT Images of Uranus built up from information sent back in 1986 by Voyager 2 ; the image on the right is in false colour and extreme contrast enhancement to show details of Uranus 's polar regions . |
| 22 | Pulses of energy coursed down the beam . |
| 23 | Two packets of sandwiches snuggled up to each other on the back seat of the car , tumescent in their cellophane wrappers . |
| 24 | The branches of trees stretched out as if to peer over mill walls or rest themselves against the windowless rear walls of factory buildings . |
| 25 | telephone conversation took place , as if two deaf people were talking to each other on a rowdy main road , but fragments of conversation filtered through as Frau Nordern repeated what Karl , presumably , was saying . |
| 26 | After cautiously sounding our way over stones of all colours and sizes encased in the clearest ice formed by the spray of the waterfall , we found the rock … from the summit of which the water shot directly over our heads into a bason and among fragments of rock wrinkled over with masses of ice , white as snow , or rather as D. says like congealed froth … |
| 27 | Well-dressed men and women were walking around , almost everyone wearing the ubiquitous fur hat and huge pictures of Lenin looked down from hoardings . |
| 28 | The study confirmed that acid rain was caused mainly by emissions from coal-fired power stations and stated that the huge reserves of sulphur built up in the soil meant that many Scottish and Scandinavian lakes would suffer the effects of acid rain for decades even if sulphur dioxide emissions were cut radically . |
| 29 | He was attracted by the atomic theories of antiquity , which had themselves been associated with the possibility of plural worlds as different combinations of atoms passed in and out of being . |
| 30 | Her splendidly white skin and fine neck were shown off by a square décolletage , messy swathes of lace tied over her bosom by what seemed a white shoe-lace . |