Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made a hand winch with a double handle and a ratchet and room for half a kilometre of twine on the drum ; I made different types of tails for the kites that needed them , and dozens of kites large and small , some stunters . |
| 2 | On April 21 the IAEA requested further details of stocks of weapons-grade uranium located at two research reactors south of Baghdad . |
| 3 | We 've been told if we go over the two pound , they wo n't sell , sell so well , erm , so really I 'm not too sure , but er , I , I can work on bigger , er , like I got this couple of days off living Manchester , I 'm sure if I approach erm , you know , the police , they might give me a couple of days selling out there . |
| 4 | Yes I got this pile of papers on the Wednesday . |
| 5 | Part of this study involved 2 number of case-studies of Access courses , and within these data was gathered on the performance of former Access students in higher education . |
| 6 | In 1883 Suttons listed three types of antirrhinums including ‘ Improved Tom Thumb ’ . |
| 7 | The school entered large numbers of girls for Royal Life Saving Society 's bronze and silver medals . |
| 8 | Maybe news of these extensive litigations , as well as her beauty , drew many pairs of eyes towards where she sat . |
| 9 | I found all sorts of reasons for it , like not being there when my father died . |
| 10 | In the fiscal year 1987 , the United States Central Authority received 5,433 requests for service , and the German Federal Republic 's Central Authorities reported increasing numbers of requests from United States plaintiffs , reaching 661 in the year 1986 . |
| 11 | A master found five packs of cigarettes in Dudley 's desk ( one was a beating offence at that time ) . |
| 12 | In 1987 a team of scientists found small amounts of diamonds in meteorites which , because of their composition , seemed to come from interstellar space . |
| 13 | ( 1970 ) , working in the Dry Valleys oasis area of McMurdo Sound ( and using techniques that would later be used for detecting life on Mars ) , reported small populations of bacteria in samples taken even from the driest and least promising areas . |
| 14 | At our council meetings he always drew exquisite portraits of birds in the margins of the agenda paper . |
| 15 | Especially since the demise of Vanguard and the simplification of the inter-unionist competition , the DUP has stressed its own reliability ( ‘ for trustworthy leadership , vote DUP ’ ) and made much play of divisions within the Official Unionists and the continued presence in the Unionist Party of some people who were tainted by O'Neillism and power-sharing . |
| 16 | ‘ Yeah , we know it were him , ’ said a woman as she added another bunch of flowers to the hundreds piled on the embankment . |
| 17 | Actually , I I think you 're all aware of , that we caused some number of issues on that Wednesday afternoon and for that half of our systems . |
| 18 | The day trip for the masses , if we except steamer excursions , was the child of the 1850s — to be more precise of the Great Exhibition of 1851 , which attracted vast numbers of visitors to its marvels in London , a traffic encouraged by the railways with concession fares , and organised by and for the members of innumerable local societies , chapels and communities . |
| 19 | Menem 's plan radically to restructure the economy provoked widespread looting of supermarkets in February and March 1990 [ see pp. 37244 ; 37501 ; for March , August and September austerity measures see pp. 37500 ; 37710 ] . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , earlier this year in a separate investigation , the Italian Tax Police filed three sets of charges against a Florence art dealer called Mario Bellini , who helped Mrs Marcos acquire her art collection . |
| 21 | The three members of the crew of his fishing boat — James Christie , Theodore Fullerton and John Ward — received framed letters of thanks from the Institution 's Chairman . |
| 22 | 'Mill 's short-passing game was certainly not suited to the conditions , whereas Chiddingfold 's long balls out of defence caused all sorts of problems for the visiting defence . |
| 23 | Ardglass farmer Robert Hutton was one of Cowan 's three-ball and suffered all kinds of agonies in the wind . |
| 24 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 25 | She rejected all ideas of agreements with other parties and pledged Labour to fight Orange and Green until Derry was ‘ rid of Toryism once and for all . |
| 26 | The exact origins of the contemporary ethnic Japanese are unclear , but in prehistoric times the Japanese islands received various waves of immigrants from the mainland , to which they were once joined . |
| 27 | In April 1985 a tanker spilled 200 litres of PCBs over the main Trans-Canada Highway on the border between Ontario and Manitoba . |
| 28 | The source of the conflict was six gaming casinos operating in the US sector of the reservation which attracted significant numbers of non-Indians from the state of New York where gambling was prohibited . |
| 29 | Hundreds of fishing boats drove whole herds of dolphins into bays where they were massacred , most of them destined to become fertiliser . |
| 30 | The Minoans made large numbers of statuettes in clay , faience , ivory and bronze , but no large-scale stone reliefs and no large statues in any materials have survived . |