Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I carry on munching through my toast , and since there 's no point carrying the last dregs of marmalade to wherever it is we 're going , I scrape an inch-thick layer out of the jar and ask through a mouthful of carbon where the landlord lives . |
| 2 | All users will be able to enjoy the blend tool , instant transformations from one shape to another will start to invade all sorts of artwork before very long ! |
| 3 | Displays would either flick between functions at the touch of a button or would be like a television screen , showing all sorts of information at once . |
| 4 | I wished to assault a commonplace still prevailing in Italy : a Jew is a mild person , a scholar ( religious or profane ) , unwarlike , humiliated , who tolerated centuries of persecution without ever fighting back . |
| 5 | As the riders struggle up through the hairpins , you can hear the screams of encouragement from below . |
| 6 | There are three basic methods of payment to directly employed labour . |
| 7 | Methods of remuneration of directly employed labour were discussed in detail in Chapter 6 . |
| 8 | ‘ It is worth emphasising that a return to first principles of traffic safety for children does not give support for the abolition of shared space ’ approaches in favour of either ‘ Radburn'-style pedestrian-vehicle segregation … nor a return to Roads In Urban Areas ’ styles of design with relatively wide , fast roads in residential areas ’ |
| 9 | It is only when one moves into the realms of complicated , multi-column pages which have several different sizes and styles of print with perhaps some photographs as well that the user really needs to worry about page makeup software . |
| 10 | The councils would normally meet in Minsk , the Council of Heads of State at least every six and the Council of Heads of Government at least every three months ; both would have a rotating chairmanship . |
| 11 | The councils would normally meet in Minsk , the Council of Heads of State at least every six and the Council of Heads of Government at least every three months ; both would have a rotating chairmanship . |
| 12 | Indeed , in the labour process the most complicated systems have units of intelligence of about 10 , whereas a human being could bring to bear equivalent switching circuits of about 10 . |
| 13 | Rightly or wrongly for instance , most of us are happy about the properties of rigid rods of iron , and we are prepared to use them as units of explanation of more complex machines that contain them . |
| 14 | This is because both frontbenches accept that it is the function of the House to permit the two sides to state their cases , and each party in power has respected the right of the Opposition to determine the subjects of debate for about one-third of the total time of the House . |
| 15 | Ewshot fought back in the second half and Murphy , despite an injury to his nose , covered acres of ground in both attack and defence to keep them at bay . |
| 16 | On moving here Laura had crises of conscience about how best to educate her youngest child . |
| 17 | While the view which I earlier called crude materialism is not compatible with Althusser 's general position , it would be remarkable if he were to relegate the economic aspects of society to exactly the same status as everything else . |
| 18 | Modules in other academic courses — Such courses would be one module in duration and would concentrate on those aspects of EP of more direct relevance to the host subject . |
| 19 | We move on now to aspects of teaching of more particular concern to the language teacher , but as we do so we should not lose sight of the more general educational context . |
| 20 | The ways in which resources are partitioned are many , as , for example , on Barro Colorado Island where there are as many as eight variables of importance in just the food of coexisting ‘ surface-gleaning ’ bats . |
| 21 | The old Norman way — or one of the old ways — of making a cream cheese for dessert is to boil a pint of thick cream with a couple of tablespoons of sugar for about 5 minutes . |
| 22 | The sufferer attempts to gain control by changing his or her pictures of reality to conform to the pictures of perception of how life should be . |
| 23 | The apparent disintegration of Yugoslavia reached the stage of unilateral declarations of independence by both Slovenia and Croatia on June 25 . |
| 24 | Volvo , the European Tour 's main benefactor , had accused the leading money winners of disloyalty by not committing themselves to the end-of-season showpiece , the Volvo Masters in Spain . |
| 25 | It has also applied for planning permission to extend the underground workings by several kilometres to explore a new deposit , which could double the mine 's reserves of ore to about 4 million tonnes , enough to guarantee production for some 15 years . |
| 26 | There are various schools of thought on how captions or short photo-stories should be affixed to photographs . |
| 27 | ’ There are different schools of thought on how a rural churchyard should look . ’ |
| 28 | U2 have confirmed full details of their UK dates , ending months of speculation about where and when the band 's Zoo TV tour will stop off in the UK . |
| 29 | Hong Kong politicians called on Mr Major to end months of uncertainty by immediately appointing a new Governor . |
| 30 | It will be curious if the second industrial revolution , through the wide spread of its amenities of life to almost every home in the country , succeeds in destroying this unfortunate product of the first . |