Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Scott 's clear and comprehensive studies of the upper class will form one main basis for our account ( Scott , 1982 ) ; following him , we can regard the establishment as a dominant status group within the upper class which uses kinship links and social networks of contacts to retain its hold on social and political influence . |
| 2 | Patients attending the cystic fibrosis clinic in Melbourne were found to have a good outlook with respect to employment and social life , and a study at the Brompton Hospital characterising clinical and social features of patients attending its cystic fibrosis clinic found a similarly good outlook . |
| 3 | Compares the use of three different sets of formulae to determine which provides the best model to employ for bigram and trigram models . |
| 4 | He had to buy a lot of different numbers of magazines to do his research . |
| 5 | At least two separate groups of birds do it , and it has been carried to a very high level of sophistication by dolphins and whales . |
| 6 | Holmes ' warm words of thanks made me feel much happier , and I saw that he was right . |
| 7 | Like several such places it was a quiet little charity school until the railways came and boys could travel long distances to school and the Victorian needs of parents turned it over two decades into a modern and reputable independent school . |
| 8 | Nor is vigorous participation in the parliamentary process encouraged by the need for members of the parliament to build up personal networks of connections to advance their careers . |
| 9 | This is another point at which philosophical treatments of indexicals offer us no help . |
| 10 | If we look at the actual numbers of cystoscopies performed you will you see that there were the vast majority of work was done in the lower and intermediate risk group patients er and the positive er cystoscopy rate erm was much lower in the lower risk group , as you would expect , than in the higher risk group . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , both sides were bringing up more and more artillery pieces and vast numbers of shells to feed them : the pattern of Verdun was repeating itself . |
| 12 | Using a computer technique called automated caricaturing , Dr Phil Benson , of St Andrew 's University , Scotland , altered photographs of students to enhance their most and least attractive facial features . |
| 13 | Although the several species that nest near the mouths of caves incorporate feathers into their constructions , the one that inhabits the deepest and totally lightless parts of caves constructs its nest from saliva and nothing else whatever . |
| 14 | He had read in Victorian novels of mothers smacking their hysterical daughters across the face . |
| 15 | It gladdened him to see how even these degraded surroundings were touched by a curious beauty , as he watched the little gangs of miners making their way home , black as sweeps , in the white snow at twilight . |
| 16 | Gabriel , meanwhile , received his draft papers and begins to take large quantities of drugs to make himself medically unfit , until he verges on insanity . |
| 17 | Though it is plausible that Mercury and the Moon could have lost large quantities of volatiles to space it seems unlikely that this explains the extreme extent of their depletions . |
| 18 | She was shaking as she said that ; fierce little tremors of nerves shook her . |
| 19 | She felt regret undulate through her system as the hot sweet stuff soaked into her cells and the ethereal stars of meanings left her farther and farther behind . |
| 20 | Large numbers of executives base their business decisions solely on opinions . |
| 21 | Wh erm Terry 's feelings there do they you 've obviously been speaking to large numbers of protestors do they marry with the other opinions that you hear ? |
| 22 | The notion that officials or ‘ bureaucrats ’ have a vested interest in the expansion of the public sector is a well accepted one ; it is reflected in C. Northcote Parkinson 's Law that ‘ work expands to as to fill the time for its completion ’ , as does manpower , and a persistent theme in the popular British comedy series Yes Minister was the importance to top bureaucrats of maintaining large numbers of officials to do nothing particularly useful . |
| 23 | Just two isolated little genera of birds do it , and those two have nothing else in common with each other except that both live in caves . |
| 24 | Enormous mossy roofs of houses awaited them , and stables , sheepfolds , barns . |
| 25 | Students ' attitudes on university funding are to be studied by means of the following design : where S 1 and S 2 are random samples of students starting their second and first years respectively interviewed at time T 1 . |
| 26 | However , it should be stressed that different types of organizations will require differing types of budgets to enable them to function effectively . |
| 27 | But in more robust days , you would have been more likely to come upon a coven up there , since the summit of La Rhune was one of several places in the Basque lands where witches were held to convene during the very ugly years of persecution early in the seventeenth century — then it was , according to the local inquisitors , that English and Scottish travellers arriving by sea in Bordeaux saw veritable armies of devils making their way towards south-western France . |
| 28 | What they do suggest indirectly , however , is that the economic rhetoric and even the orthodox economic beliefs of politicians bear nothing like a direct relationship to economic reality . |
| 29 | The fishing villages only come alive for the season when frantic fleets of boats fill their harbours to the brim . |
| 30 | At either end of the village two long avenues of trees gave it a friendly air . |