Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] of [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are ’ , he said , ‘ very few discussions of Government decisions by full Cabinet . ’ |
| 2 | A few minutes of air time on a small radio station ? |
| 3 | And could anyone imagine that in order to get those few minutes of screen imagery in the can , the three of them inhaled 1O5 real joints of excellent quality Mexican grass ? |
| 4 | This is at the comparatively small cost of three hours therapy time per individual if there are two therapists running a group ( one and a half hours of therapy time per individual if there is one therapist ) . |
| 5 | In Britain this kind of attitude has led to considerable animosity between some supporters of teaching Christianity in schools and some supporters of a multi-faith approach . |
| 6 | There are some precedents of expert clauses in circulation naming certain bodies as appointing authorities which do not undertake that function . |
| 7 | In many cases these activities have promoted gender-neutral policies and perhaps in the long term will have a major impact on some aspects of gender bias in schools . |
| 8 | The model has also been used to explain some aspects of sentence production in normals , such as slips of the tongue and hesitations : for more on this , see Garrett ( 1982 ) . |
| 9 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 10 | I have some tins of cat food for her . ’ |
| 11 | We were applauded when we reported our record , and one of the newly recruited flying students opened a few bottles of root beer by way of celebration . |
| 12 | If you 're fighting Dwarfs , who you know will stand around a lot waiting for you to come and get them , then a few rounds of bolt fire from two or three machines can soften them up nicely . |
| 13 | The Group noted that M Pullan had already started to provide some elements of user support on databases , documentation and network problems . |
| 14 | Motors , packaging and some areas of engineering fall into this category . |
| 15 | Some kinds of adult education through the trade union movement were given in the workplace , but a Central Sandinista de Trabajadores ( CST ) representative said that educational classes in workplaces had sometimes been suspended because of economic difficulties within the enterprise . |
| 16 | I continued donating until late 1987 when the pressures of my early twenties swept me into a few years of self neglect by alcohol and all those unhealthy things that young people do . |
| 17 | They note that some explanations of FDI appeal to the existence of market failures and imperfect competition , and hence imply the need for careful scrutiny by competition authorities . |
| 18 | In one of the few studies of evacuation behaviour after a non-nuclear hazard event Liverman and Wilson ( 1981 ) give weight to this argument . |
| 19 | For aching , tired feet , mix a few drops of peppermint oil with one tbsp of almond oil and add to a bowl of warm water . |
| 20 | The simplest decoration is to put a few drops of vegetable dye into the water when you boil and egg . |
| 21 | He brushed a few drops of sea water off the top of the carburettor , dabbed the float chamber full and gave Mariana a shrug of apology before kicking the starter . |
| 22 | Add a few drops of anchovy essence to 175g/6oz softened cream cheese , until the required flavour is reached . |
| 23 | All chalks , including Belemnite chalk , are fundamentally composed of coccoliths ; the belemnites are but a tiny percentage and are also to be found in some seams of Micraster chalk to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 24 | Let us look , then , at some examples of settlement patterns in different areas . |
| 25 | If this is the case , some examples of position specificity on other insects may also reflect environmental , rather than genetic , variation . |
| 26 | Finally , some examples of Information Technology in market research are given , anticipating a later chapter on Marketing and Information Technology . |
| 27 | For example , there is enough material in a glass of water to run a car for ten years , enough in the top few centimetres of Lake Erie to power New York State for a similar time and enough in the oceans to keep us going indefinitely . |
| 28 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
| 29 | So I happened to have got some slides of tattoos and some slides of fairground er , art and erm some slides of board games of through |
| 30 | The criminal law sees only some types of property deprivation as robbery or theft ; it excludes , for example , the separation of consumers and part of their money that follows manufacturers ' malpractices or advertisers ' misrepresentations ; it excludes shareholders losing their money because managers behaved in ways which they thought would be to the advantage of shareholders even though the only tangible benefits accrued to the managers ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; it excludes the extra tax citizens , in this or other countries , have to pay because : ( i ) corporations and the very wealthy are able to employ financial experts at discovering legal loopholes through which money can be safely transported to tax havens ; ( ii ) Defence Department officials have been bribed to order more expensive weaponry systems or missiles in ‘ excess ’ of those ‘ needed ’ ; ( iii ) multinational drug companies charge our National Health Services prices which are estimated to be at least , £50 millions in excess of alternative supplies . |