Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adj] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Many politicians and journalists were ignorant about problems in the teaching of grammar and about the status of Standard English , and simply desired to reinstate the disciplines of study typical of schoolrooms in the 1930s . |
2 | A trap door in the wall then swings open and the Voord tumbles through to perish in a pool of acid hundreds of feet below the centre of the pyramid . |
3 | San Francisco , California-based PeerLogic has announced a port of version 3.1 of Pipes for SunOs : Pipes , the company 's distributed computing framework , is claimed to support asynchronous , object-oriented messaging , a dynamic , global naming service and multiple operating systems and transport protocols — prices start at $700 . |
4 | The heat stimulus was provided by a stainless steel block ( contact area , 3cm 2 ) heated in a boiling water bath and positioned on the tip of the terminal leaflet of leaf 1 of seedlings at the two-leaf stage . |
5 | Hearing of defendant 's application for order under section 18 of Act of 1988 adjourned in accordance with regulation 143 of Regulations of 1989 . |
6 | As can be seen from the summary in appendix 4 of responses to the checklists , there is general agreement between the responses of this writer and the responses of the staff in schools . |
7 | In chapter xxii of Principles of Literary Criticism Mr. Richards discusses these matters in his own way . |
8 | In Chapter 3 of Allegories of Reading de Man focuses on an episode from A la Recherche du Temps Perdu in which Marcel reflects upon the virtues of reading as a retreat from the outside world . |
9 | The civil servants who staff the DES remain in post irrespective of changes of government . |
10 | There were no examples in line three of patients in which the marker tumour was still present , but no other tumours were seen . |
11 | This Code of Conduct defines the standards required by Article 14 of Articles of Association . |
12 | CO 2 is also produced in huge amounts by burning fossil fuels — which of course are organic molecules built up by photosynthesis millions of years in the past . |