Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun] of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emblematic of the limited but crucial shift the fabliaux make use of from a thoroughly familiar world to one that is somewhat different is the extent to which the stories take place in the deep darkness of the medieval French night : as , for instance , all the tit-for-tat stealing and impersonation of Barat et Haimet . |
| 2 | A split-half reliability carried out on the data from children in the standardisation sample between the ages of 4 years and 8 years 11 months produced correlations of between 0.64 and 0.84 for the different items . |
| 3 | The Kent Impact Study predicted losses of between 4,500 and 6,500 from a total workforce of 12,500 , heavily concentrated in a few ports , and these figures are not disputed by the recent Kent Impact Monitoring Report . |
| 4 | The United States had hopes of at least twenty-five minutes ' warning of a nuclear rocket attack . |
| 5 | Very sensitive devices based on technical developments stimulated by attempts to detect variations of between different materials are now in prospect . |
| 6 | The timing and mode of formation of stylolites remains an area of contention in sedimentary petrography , although many stylolites show evidence of at least some component of their formation relatively late , if not necessarily deep , in the diagenetic history of their containing sediment ( Fig. 5.22d ) . |
| 7 | What I think the public did not appreciate and I do not think would have appreciated clearly from the consultation leaflet , was quite how big a difference there was between the level of relief afforded by the inner relief roads and the outer relief roads , and in that context , I think that to say that the outer relief roads afford relief of between twenty and thirty percent is a little misleading in two respects . |
| 8 | Employees on Unified Grade 3 such as the Curator of the Tate Gallery , the National Portrait Gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland receive salaries of between £49,000 and £57,000 . |
| 9 | 5.1 Barr completed her hat-trick of wins by lifting the 100m Backstroke title with a five second winning margin of over Templemore 's Alwyn Teague . |
| 10 | On Oct. 26 the government released details of a plan to begin privatization of at least 92 companies before the end of 1992 . |
| 11 | In the three long observations , models with only a power-law component give values of with a probability at or below 10% in two out of three cases . |
| 12 | With every need taken care of by attentive and solicitous flight staff . |
| 13 | With enormous natural resources , including more arable land than the whole of Western Europe , it is rapidly diversifying its agrarian economy , while , from its firmly established industrial base , it has pushed up its exports to record levels of about US 24 billion dollars . |
| 14 | A sperm whale , for example , can not see directly fore and aft , a factor made use of by the mariners of old , who quietly crept up upon them from straight astern or dead ahead . |
| 15 | Six officers received sentences of between 12 and 20 years , two were acquitted , and charges were later dropped against 100 non-commissioned officers . |
| 16 | From er re repeated stress repeated strain of of continuous long periods of sleep deprivation . |
| 17 | But of LEGA , the Financial Times reported in 1979 that ‘ the 12,000-odd co-operatives operating under [ its ] umbrella generated sales of over L.5000 billion ( £2.9 billion ) ’ . |
| 18 | With its RISC strategy taken care of by HP , Sequoia has also handed over future development of its Motorola Inc family to Samsung Electronics Co , this time in exchange for the Korean marketplace , which Sequoia will stay out of . |
| 19 | Nowhere in the document is the interdependence and collaboration of the home , school and wider community of the parish taken account of in relation to the religious education and formation of young people . |
| 20 | The voluntary levy has raised £2m so far and unions have pledged a further £7m to enable payouts of at least £100 a week to be made to those called out on strike . |
| 21 | Ministry return to the US after this European tour to play arenas of between 8,000 and 20,000 capacity . |
| 22 | The lack of section 4 admissions was due to the availability of an approved doctor at the Centre : the approved doctor is frequently the most difficult of the two doctors to get hold of under sections 2 or 3 . |
| 23 | Tsar after tsar floated notions of at least ameliorating the virtual slavery of the peasantry : Nicholas set up no less than nine secret committees to consider the issue . |
| 24 | In his hand he holds the precious end of an old frayed piece of rope , the kind pedlars sold piles of on Lima 's Abancay — the beginnings of an answer . |
| 25 | for those of you that did not see the match the situation looked kind of like this : |
| 26 | Commenting on its figures ( see page five ) , Eschborn , Germany-based Linotype AG says its 1992 domestic orders fell by 6% but the company enjoyed solid gains in key foreign markets , with the US up 18% , Japan up 24% and the Middle and Far East showing gains of between 15% and 49% ; the US market surpassed Germany for the first time , and exports at the computerised printing systems and equipment company accounted for 72.1% of overall business in 1992 after 69.1% a year earlier . |
| 27 | Plans to upgrade parts of Cross Country routes for higher speeds were also deferred . |
| 28 | Full realisation of the meaning of the partial divergence in styles of appeal between parliament and country requires recognition of at least the limited equation of ‘ enthusiasm ’ with popular opinion . |
| 29 | A good document to get hold of for study and implementation is the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women , 1979 , which is the international bill of rights for women . |
| 30 | The unit generates delays of between 2 and 24 minutes , which should cover every eventuality . |