Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb base] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although fish are not a usual ‘ pest ’ , the team of servicemen set to work immediately and , wearing protective clothing and breathing apparatus , removed the decomposing fish and freezers from the premises . |
| 2 | They played against a team of east of Scotland women in Edinburgh last night , and will pit themselves against a Scottish team select in Glasgow tonight and a West of Scotland select in Glasgow tomorrow . |
| 3 | They were both so obsessed with the place , its gossip and rumours and intrigues , that they wanted to spend every possible moment together there , comparing notes , exchanging opinions : who was in , who out , what X said about Y's review of P's book about Q. Well , she was sick and tired of the place , tired of its beautiful architecture housing vanity and paranoia , glad to exchange its hothouse atmosphere for the real if smoky air of Rummidge . |
| 4 | I have been asked to do a couple of days work in Aberdeen sometime next month and also some part time development/fund-raising work for a charity ( The Association for the Preservation of Rural Scotland ) . |
| 5 | A multitude of memos circulate in organizations simply to justify our behaviours in the event of a breakdown . |
| 6 | Does the recruitment of staff take into account both grade and skill requirements ? |
| 7 | In Bellevue four species of rush grow on wasteland together with two semi-aquatic grasses and creeping yellow cress ( Rorippa islandica ) . |
| 8 | And even still , there 's not an awful lot of women go to funerals here . |