Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [adj] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS WEEK best quest GO FOR THE JACKPOT Hundreds of prizes to be won Health news • Amazing crystal therapy • Relief for migraine at last Special report ‘ That 's not my son — he 's my husband ’ Christmas is coming … • Get-ahead recipes • Mail order presents • Sensational , easy cake to make now Great home makeovers Stencilling , furnishings , painting … |
| 2 | During the conference thousands of demonstrators protested against the US visa restrictions and over alleged inadequate government funding of AIDS research and patient care . |
| 3 | He suggested that ‘ it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine through the intervention first of mice and then of bees , the frequency of certain flowers in that district ! ’ |
| 4 | The danger is that , if the guillotine motion goes through , the writers of the suitcase full of letters from my constituency will feel outraged , and they will express that outrage in the way that one would expect . |
| 5 | Relief workers reported in early August that since the beginning of the year thousands of Ethiopians had died in the Ogaden region and in the refugee camps of Gode , Kelafo and Dolo in the south-east . |
| 6 | It would be clearly better for the UK , given its dismal failure on the inflation front , to be exposed to the discipline of the ERM irrespective of developments further to the East . |
| 7 | It was possible that Jotan was being overconfident , he thought , though there was no sign of the punt full of men . |
| 8 | Suddenly there was a brightness like sunlight below them , and Little Billy could see a vast lake of water , gloriously blue , and on the surface of the lake thousands of swans were swimming slowly about . |
| 9 | Blue distant trees , blue faraway hedges , rounded blue hills of the horizon millions of miles away . |
| 10 | There were two cardboard boxes in the middle of the room full of bits of glass and torn clothes . |
| 11 | Stopping to buy a paper , he caught sight of Francesca through the window , perched on one of the bar stools , totally unconscious of the table full of men next to her all eyeing her long legs . |
| 12 | Every evening throughout the winter thousands of birds , including Bewick Swans , Canada Geese and Greylag Geese queue up on the Swan lake for their late meal of wheat . |
| 13 | Every evening throughout the winter thousands of birds , including Bewick Swans , Canada Geese and Greylag Geese queue up on the Swan lake for their late meal of wheat . |
| 14 | On such a morning , with the sky full of larks , and the banks beside the road stiff with foxgloves and wild roses , the odd events of Wednesday night seemed remote , and indeed little more than odd . |
| 15 | ‘ Even with the hotel full of children , behaviour will never be a problem if some thought is given to children 's needs . ’ |
| 16 | It was a typical late afternoon scene , with the pool full of children playing ball , splashing and laughing , the older ones talking confidentially while holding on to the side , perhaps making assignations that they would have to negotiate with parents to keep . |
| 17 | The space station had plummeted from the sky thousands of years before , scattering debris over many kilometres . |
| 18 | Two Ulster-born servicemen died in the war thousands of miles from home in the South Atlantic . |
| 19 | The extreme example of soft rock is probably provided by volcanic ash and a recession of almost one mile in the period 1883–1928 of cliffs composed of this material on the island of Krakatoa between Sumatra and Java has been observed by Umbgrove ( Guilcher , 1958 ) : this works out to a loss of over 30 m ( 100 ft ) per year at some points . |
| 20 | In the evening thousands of demonstrators , this time accompanied by a number of motorcycle gangs , gathered again in the city centre . |
| 21 | In the confusion hundreds of commuters panicked , jostling with each other in a desperate headlong rush to get out . |
| 22 | Pesticides and defoliant residues on a swathe round the coast tens of kilometres wide of exposed seabed resulted in greatly increased heart disease , cancer , and deaths from chronic gastritis , kidney disease and tuberculosis , with over 10 per cent of children dying in their first year . |
| 23 | Shivering pleasantly in her new blouse trimmed with lace nicked from Silvex Modes the week before , two quid borrowed from Ted means they can afford a few halves , jumping over the gutter full of leaves . |
| 24 | This awful thing has never happened to me but I have been in the situation leading up to the attack hundreds of times , in trusting casual acquaintances to walk me home or allowing strange men to come into my house to do repairs . |
| 25 | And next door to the window full of magazines was not a window , but a black door . |
| 26 | According to the League dozens of Hunts and Huntsmen do n't declare their income from skins . |
| 27 | First , it does no violence to the language either of sections 5(1) and 10(1) of the Act of 1980 , or to the language of section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 . |
| 28 | Across the region hundreds of farmers are counting the cost of the downpours … harvesting is currently an impossibility , but there 's still plenty to keep them busy … like rescuing stranded livestock … marooned in newly formed lakes near Thame in Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | The mean GT4 test scores rose sharply from 30 per cent produced by the bottom third of pupils to 77 per cent obtained by the top third . |
| 30 | In 1975 , France set up a stockpile , administered by the director general of mines in the French Ministry of Industry . |