Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was part of her prize — along with £1,000-worth of dresses for her four bridesmaids and another £1,000-worth of Young 's clothes hire for husband Paul Wrigley and his attendants . |
| 2 | Along with scores of authors of whom he had never heard he found forgotten friends : Hugh Walpole , John Galsworthy , and the redoubtable Mazo de la Roche , captivator of millions who would now be devotees of TV soap … |
| 3 | We had Chernobyl , we had a series of hijackings , we had outrages at Athens Airport , we had the U S raid on Libya by bombers based in Britain erm and everybody then erm turned the corners of their mouths down and forecast the end of tourism , that doom is nigh , and what actually happened was that erm by the end of nineteen eighty six we were four point three per cent down in terms of numbers on a record nineteen eighty five . |
| 4 | Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ? |
| 5 | The following morning Queen Alexandra , on her return from Sandringham church , listened in to parts of services from several London churches . |
| 6 | The fiery Scot has had numerous run-ins with referees and linesmen since taking over as manager of Rangers in 1986 . |
| 7 | [ For handing over in mid-October of documents concerning Katyn massacre see p. 39155 . ] |
| 8 | In the first place , the entrepreneurial function was likely to become redundant , largely because innovation would be taken over by teams of specialists in large corporations . |
| 9 | In letters to the Danish foreign minister , Poul Nyrup-Rasmussen , whose country holds the EC 's rotating presidency , and the EC commission president , Jacques Delors , Mr Beregovoy said he wanted the discussion of the oilseed deal put off pending completion of studies on whether the accord was compatible with EC common farm policy . |
| 10 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 11 | She was involved in the London Women 's Film Group and the setting up of Cinema of Women in the late seventies ; then there was a sense of a political project , opportunities for women to meet and discuss ideas and motivations . |
| 12 | According to Mary Frances Lyon , who discovered that only one of the X chromosomes is active in female mammals , it is completely random which particular X chromosome is inactivated in any given cell , so an individual female is made up of clones of cells in which either the maternal or paternal X chromosome has been switched off . |
| 13 | It may be that the government has a proportion of the blame but you 're not surely condoning teachers who have these problems being up in front of children in the classroom ? |
| 14 | Such gains should show up in receipts of profits from the investments made abroad . |
| 15 | Of course , this is easier said than done , but it is thought that up to 50% of births of this type could be prevented by better standards of care . |
| 16 | Growth failure is a major problem affecting up to 50% of children with Crohn 's disease . |
| 17 | All-year-round protection costs £60 , and that covers the cost of the call-out , the first two hours ' labour and up to £10 of materials on each job . |
| 18 | According to published studies , it is mainly associated with Hodgkin 's disease , where it has been reported in up to 6% of cases in postmorten studies ; the incidence of oesophageal invasion by non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma does not exceed 1.6% . |
| 19 | Each lineage has specific functions , such as the protection against acid ( gastric metaplasia ) , protection against bile ( intestinal metaplasia ) , and repair of ulceration ( present in up to 30% of patients with Barrett 's mucosa ) ( the ulcer associated cell lineage ) . |
| 20 | SIR — Clinically evident cytomegalovirus ( CMV ) retinitis affects up to 25% of patients with AIDS , and is the commonest cause of vision loss in these patients . |
| 21 | Bronchoalveolar lavage has yielded alveolar lymphocytosis in up to 54% of patients with Crohn 's disease and this seems to be a persistant abnormality . |
| 22 | They made up between 24% and 36% of appearances by politicians on national news programmes , 46% of appearances on regional news , between 42% and 49% of appearances on national parliamentary review programmes , and up to 60% of appearances on regional review programmes . |
| 23 | This puts services which used to be available free from the hospital out of reach of patients on low income and those with chronic health conditions who require multidisciplinary care . |
| 24 | The studies will be carried out with samples of children aged 6 , 8 , 10 and 12 years . |
| 25 | The platform 's motion was easily carried , as amended , though no one knew what the amendment was , and the bulk of the hall filed patiently out in search of cups of tea and a Bath bun . |
| 26 | But unless you are absolutely certain that you will be able to get back on top of things within a very short period of time , do n't do it . |
| 27 | but unless you are absolutely certain that you will be able to get back on top of things within a very short period of time , do n't do it . |
| 28 | AGE Concern in Londonderry today hit back at criticism of cutbacks in its services in the city . |
| 29 | Before the publication ofthe Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society communication in science was primarily carried out by means of networks of correspondents . |
| 30 | The description by Jill Tweedie of the organic sheep farmer I was travelling to meet bounced from the page : ‘ This once respectable female stripped off and began sitting around in front of cameras with her legs apart and her hands in unmentionable places . ’ |