Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has all sorts of graphics engines built in , including one for line drawing and a fast bit-blitter for quick block moves and 2Mb of video RAM . |
| 2 | It replaces traditional drawing abilities yet it can preserve the centuries of craft skills built up by shoemakers . |
| 3 | The film capital is a huge sprawling city which seems to stretch indefinitely in all directions ; they even said that the outskirts of Los Angeles reached as far as San Francisco ! |
| 4 | Readers of quality papers wanted more ‘ serious , matter . |
| 5 | As the campaign drew to a close , however , readers of lowbrow papers detected significantly more bias . |
| 6 | As waves of combat mission flew out by night and day , the commander of this R A F tornado squadron warned that despite early successes , the task was never going to be easy . |
| 7 | Four huts of palm thatch laid over jointed poles had been constructed , and cooking and storage tents were pitched nearby . |
| 8 | The launch bumped gently against the jetty , and the Wren ratings of starboard watch hurried ashore . |
| 9 | One such trip was during the first week that Mr. Shipsey started his business — the bakery door was open and Dad and I stood and watched the proceedings , I gazed in amazement as the tin loaves were drawn from the oven , trays of currant buns brought out , brushed with sugar water applied by a three inch brush and doughnuts sprinkled with sugar . |
| 10 | Black tides of lava lie spilt over its flanks like slag from a furnace . |
| 11 | So reserves of borrowing capacity became less vital . |
| 12 | Despite such transmutations , the task of spiritualizing institutions of state power did not prove to be easy . |
| 13 | Thin plastic tape is also obtainable for this purpose , and I 've seen narrow strips of cling film used very successfully ! |
| 14 | But the Russians of Torpedo Moscow hit back when Igor Chuganov beat Peter Schmeichel , who two years ago had led his former club Brondby to penalty glory in the same stadium . |
| 15 | [ … ] By mid-1959 , other pressure groups external to the schools , in the form of an alliance of university mathematicians , representing mainly the applied segment of the subject , and employers of graduate labour had also invested some of their considerable resources of time , money and status into conveying to teachers from the selective sector ( who prepared their students and employees ) their ‘ requirements ’ of the school curriculum . |
| 16 | He was wearing a duffel coat , done up on the wrong toggles , with copies of evening papers turned back at the job columns sticking out of both pockets . |
| 17 | The Essex police Service Delivery Standards for officers involved in cases of cot death lay down six specific requirements : |
| 18 | In other words , the sons of non-freemen Yorkers had very little chance of becoming freemen themselves . |
| 19 | In Ajdabiya ( where , additionally , the layout of houses was less elastic than in the south ) , the younger and educated sons of Musbah Ifkairin moved out into new houses nearby , leaving the eldest brother with their father . |
| 20 | As with the other two scales of population redistribution surveyed above , the distinction between the inner and outer parts of individual cities and towns in terms of their inhabitants ' relative prosperity is not new , nor is it unique in Britain ( Herbert , 1972 ) . |
| 21 | Elsewhere in the country , there are groups of farm buildings laid out on a courtyard plan that can undergo a complete change of use with virtually no visible alterations to the external appearance . |
| 22 | Kroll Associates of New York said around $10 billion of Iraq 's $200 billion oil revenues had been skimmed off in 1979–89 . |
| 23 | The bells of Magleby church rang out across the plain . |
| 24 | In the mud banks which rise ten feet or so above the water 's edge , you can see the strata of silt deposits brought down each year by the river in the days before the High Dam . |
| 25 | Shipments by the Japanese personal computer industry fell again in the year to March 31 , extending the then unprecedented decline of the previous year : total personal computer and peripheral shipments fell 10% in value to $9,540m , the Japan Electronic Industries Development Association said ; the previous fiscal , sales fell 7% ; domestic ships fell 13% to $7,065m , but exports were less hit , falling 1% to $2,448m ; exports of notebook computers grew particularly well . |
| 26 | Except in so far as they publicized opinion poll findings , television projections of party credibility did not dictate public perceptions . |
| 27 | These clinical profiles of RP cases did not differ significantly between Kock and pelvic pouches ( Table V ) . |
| 28 | But it should be noted in passing that new mortgages for home-buying run at about the same level as the total volume of other types of new credit extended and outstanding mortgage debt is far greater than the total of all other forms of consumer credit put together . |
| 29 | Thinking of the crystal spaces , the lines of Kubla Khan unfolded naturally before him as he dawdled up the long terrace of decaying houses . |
| 30 | No significant difference was found between the rates of metabolism of butyrate or of glutamine by ileal biopsy specimens taken from UC patients compared with controls , and the ratios of butyrate/glutamine metabolism did not differ between UC patients and controls ( Figs 7 , 8 , and 9 ) . |