Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore the overall effect of this circulation is to link together into a widely ramifying network of relationships a great number of individuals of quite different status and quite different cultural background . |
| 2 | In Fig. 2.5 a widely spaced pair of radio-telescopes are shown receiving signals from the same source . |
| 3 | In a third condition the ‘ sentences ’ were randomly arranged strings of words ( e.g. some the no puzzle buns in lead the text off ) which were neither syntactically correct nor meaningful . |
| 4 | In pattern masking , the stimulus which follows the briefly presented target is not a homogeneous field , but itself contains contours , for example , a randomly arranged collection of fragments of straight lines and curves . |
| 5 | erm they 're rather like sort of mutations are randomly related to the gene from which the mutation took place , but now we 're talking about a whole species suddenly arising with a new randomly arranged set of traits , and then the wholesale direction of evolution erm is determined by selection favouring some species in competition with other species . |
| 6 | We did n't see any orchids but we did see some beautiful foxgloves and were lucky enough to catch sight of birds high above . |
| 7 | Amalfi is a warm and colourful town which has long attracted scores of celebrities . |
| 8 | They were used in the development of the syntax and collocational components of RM1 and provide data on which these should do well , while offering a naturally occurring distribution of segments . |
| 9 | Surely ( so the argument might be continued ) the interesting cases of knowledge are those which permit meaningful questions about criteria , and such cases necessarily involve states of affairs that are in some sense publicly accessible . |
| 10 | I can however advise you that as of 1 May 1984 Sheriff Courts were empowered to grant divorces and in order to check whether the divorce was granted by a Sheriff Court you should apply to the Registrar General , General Search Unit , New Register House , Edinburgh as this office only holds records of divorces granted in the Court of Session . |
| 11 | He bombards male insects with radioactive particles to sterilise them and then releases them in huge numbers , so condemning generations of females to infertility . |
| 12 | Excalibur Technologies Corp , which moves about a bit and is now headquartered in San Diego , has begun shipping its PixTex/EFS 3.0 document imaging software to a much broadened list of machines , including Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 Series 700s , IBM Corp RS/6000 , and Digital Equipment Corp Ultrix , VAX/VMS and Alpha AXP/Open VMS servers with Windows , X Window and Macintosh clients . |
| 13 | Excalibur Technologies Corp , which moves about a bit and is now headquartered in San Diego , has begun shipping its PixTex/EFS 3.0 document imaging software to a much broadened list of machines , including Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 Series 700s , IBM Corp RS/6000 , and Digital Equipment Corp Ultrix , VAX/VMS and Alpha AXP/Open VMS servers with Windows , X Window and Macintosh clients . |
| 14 | The Grand Trunk Canal ( 1766–77 ) not only made use of aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , but was carried through the hill country between the Mersey and Trent basins by means of five tunnels , of which the Harecastle Tunnel near Kidsgrove was 2,880 yards long and more than two hundred feet beneath the surface at its deepest point . |
| 15 | Each of these in turn subdivided into separate , smaller fibrils which are themselves composed of a highly organized array of myofilaments made up of the proteins actin and myosin ( Fig. 53 ) . |
| 16 | In his mind he had obviously got fragments of things that he 'd heard and seen that day , there was an expression that was being called out , To arm citizens , because war had been declared . |
| 17 | When your workcharts are made out , mark , on the charts , the mutually suspect sets of sounds , i.e. the phonetically similar sounds you need to check to see if they are in contrast or in variation . |
| 18 | If you are checking a mutually suspect set of sounds , you are likely to have several " different " sounds in the " different " column . |
| 19 | All original records on anal cancers coded according to a modified version of the seventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases ( ICD7 ) from 1943 to 1977 were examined manually to avoid inclusion of adenocarcinomas ( n=47 ) and melanomas ( n=19 ) . |
| 20 | Unless the government can be persuaded to change its mind , this decision represents a disappointing failure to embark on a much needed set of reforms . |
| 21 | Mrs McBride and the current incumbent were expected to work out a mutually agreed arrangement of hours and duties . |
| 22 | A soapy enema was given daily to avoid accumulation of faeces . |
| 23 | Initiatives such as the ‘ quality alert mechanism , ’ which enables a quick feedback of problem areas from general practitioners to the purchasing agency , also have to be seen as straightforward and practical moves to better enable monitoring of contracts through the year . |
| 24 | But not when you put it into context with the vast sums of money spent supporting privatization , or the salaries of over privileged , so called captains of industries , industries that once belonged to this nation . |
| 25 | It merely detects residues of drugs ingested as much as weeks in the past , when the worker may well have been off-duty or on holiday . |
| 26 | But both polar regions support vegetation and land fauna that are well adapted to their environments ( Chapter 6 ) and varied enough to keep generations of ecologists interested in them . |
| 27 | When the forest is felled , however , and replaced by monocultures of , for example , fruit trees , with a much reduced number of leaves per hectare , the system breaks down and there is often widespread crop damage . |
| 28 | Increasingly , then , when we examine social change in rural England we must not only take account of changes within agriculture but of changes on the interface between the ‘ truly rural ’ ( i.e-agricultural ) inhabitants and the ‘ adventitious ’ population of ex-urbanite newcomers who have moved into the countryside in such large numbers since the war . |
| 29 | The criteria adopted by the Court of Appeal in Newell ( 1980 ) were that courts should only take account of characteristics with which the provocation was concerned ; permanent characteristics such as race and , probably , religion may be taken into account , but transient conditions such as intoxication and exhaustion may not . |
| 30 | John Greig , the club 's public relations executive , said : ‘ We are far from satisfied with the security arrangements and greatly reduced number of tickets now on offer . |