Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Undergraduates were also given groups of consonants and asked to recall as many as possible in their correct position after various time delays .
2 We have heard cases of players being offered £5,000 to change clubs .
3 Student Enterprise projects are also being funded , allowing groups of students to develop their own projects which develop these essential skills .
4 Using groups of objects
5 The research will be conducted using groups of schoolchildren drawn from minority and majority language communities .
6 Zenith employs an ex-programmer of Acme who is familiar with the program ; this person writes a program for Zenith using copies of listings and flowcharts that he retained .
7 The talks were due to include discussions of measures to reduce tension between the two states and to promote bilateral exchanges .
8 There is nothing to be gained by attempting to force parents into accepting definitions of problems which they do not recognise as important or relevant , despite what you as a professional may think .
9 During 1893 Captain Sykes became Chairman of Governors , and found himself almost immediately contributing to the " substantial repairs " needed to the buildings .
10 Now , drawing graphs of functions .
11 Japanese deny massacre of dolphins
12 And opens mussels , and croaks scraps of songs
13 they just scoop it in a bag and there 's loads in it , probably make loads of dumplings with it it 's got the flour and suet with it , you just mix it up
14 Above them loomed densely clad peaks of mountains , often as not shrouded by swift-moving cloud .
15 At the age of sixty-eight Ingres made copies of masterpieces .
16 Most of the Elizabethan and Jacobean amateurs who collected his music made copies of parts or all of it , and Byrd himself selected it for his first ( 1589 ) book of cantiones sacrae , along with pieces of the stature of ‘ Ne irascaris ’ , ‘ Tristitia et anxietas ’ , ‘ O quam gloriosum ’ and ‘ Vigilate ’ .
17 And again arrangements are made between schools and the university to accommodate groups of children , or
18 The author has asked us to point out that it is a desire of his to see opinions of restorations expressed by speakers at conferences thrown open to the floor for immediate debate this is not the prevailing state of affairs .
19 because she asked loads of questions !
20 made trade unions completely immune from actions in tort , though it did not affect liability of individuals ;
21 erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm
22 Development of the lens also involves bending of sheets .
23 Well er they did them They made them f f fancy kind of things on the top like a They would maybe crisscrosses and things like that and m make a rounded thing like a Just like what some folk has a tassel on their bonnets , well we made that on the top of the stack .
24 One third of teachers say that they have had the use of INSET days to conduct their review : the same proportion have undertaken assessment of pupils especially for this purpose and have kept a diary as part of the review process .
25 I mean majority of blokes at Dave 's firm have changed their cars three times .
26 As George Ewart Evans documents in his book Where Beards Wag All , it was also common to see groups of workers strolling around the parish on Sunday mornings examining each other 's work , with much chafing and leg-pulling about their respective capabilities en route .
27 When I caddy for Matt he made loads of putts , it 's was well cool .
28 The book offers definitions of terms related to the techniques , processes and materials used in the making of ceramics in Europe from the Middle Ages until the early twentieth century .
29 As Oliver , Davis and Bentley ( 1981 ) remind us : ‘ The ‘ suburban semi ’ is a cliché which summons up a mental picture of rows of red-roofed , roughcast pairs of houses , each with its bay windows , its porched entrance , its ‘ third bedroom ’ above ’ , ( Oliver , Davis and Bentley , 1981 , p , 11 ) , recalling images of small front gardens and bigger rear ones , side garages and garden gates .
30 Will enlightened employer practice prevail to preserve skills of workers who are also rearing children ?
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