Example sentences of "of pair of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was trying to find him some couple of pairs of socks but I could n't find anything I liked . |
| 2 | Other related quantities , the scalar products of pairs of four-vectors , are also invariant . |
| 3 | Mr Evans came under attack in yesterday 's report of the official Jockey Club inquiry for standing too close to the starting line , and thus being primarily concerned with escaping the thunder of dozens of pairs of hooves for his own safety , rather than waving his flag . |
| 4 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 5 | The possibility of pairs of states allowing direct communication between their respective authorities , bypassing the consul , is also recognised , as it was in the earlier text . |
| 6 | The only traces of passengers and crew were hundreds of pairs of shoes , eerily littering the cabins , passage ways and decks ; the treated leather was all that had withstood the salt water . |
| 7 | It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words . |
| 8 | ‘ Could I buy a couple of pairs of greys from you ? ’ he asked , coming to a sudden decision . |
| 9 | The intense gravitational field near the black hole causes the creation of pairs of particles and antiparticles , one of which falls into the black hole and the other of which escapes to infinity . |
| 10 | Examples of pairs of verbs that describe an event from different perspectives in English include give/get and like/please . |
| 11 | One of the results of this difference is that such accents have different pronunciations for the two members of pairs of words that are pronounced identically ( i.e. are homophones ) in RP , e.g. ‘ won ’ and ‘ one ’ , ‘ nun ’ and ‘ none ’ . |
| 12 | A plan which creates a continuous supply of pairs of hands for each patient area is an impossibility and the sooner managers accept this , the better . |
| 13 | For some languages of expressions it will be possible in general to decide these facts ( though perhaps not very efficiently ) , and in any reasonable language thee should be wide classes of pairs of expressions whose equivalence is decidable . |
| 14 | How does the number of pairs of rabbits grow ? |
| 15 | A slightly larger percentage of pairs of brooches were more abraded on the top right than the top left corner . |
| 16 | I ended up with a couple of pairs of trousers , a couple of T-shirts , a jumper and a pair of shoes . |
| 17 | Using the break even equation , where x is the number of pairs of trousers to earn a profit of £11,040 each month : |
| 18 | Representation 1 allows us to depict any set of pairs of coordinates . |
| 19 | The best way to test the inequality experimentally has turned out to be to measure the correlation in the polarisation of pairs of photons emitted in certain electron transitions in atoms of calcium and mercury . |
| 20 | The dragons were for the procession , and were designed to be raised upon the shoulders of pairs of bearers . |