Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I mean majority of blokes at Dave 's firm have changed their cars three times . |
| 3 | William Bowles , ( 1705–1780 ) an Irishman who became superintendent of mines in Spain , was dismayed by the lack of unusual plants in the area and wrote to Peter Collinson from Bilbao in 1733 asking for packets of seeds and bulbous plants and continued : ‘ There is a Miller 's Dictionary in Town , so I would take some pains to give the Spaniards a taste … you know what best to send ’ . |
| 4 | If anybody got wind of strangers about the area , we sent the children back to their parents immediately . |
| 5 | The enemy soon became aware of the importance of the work at Bawdsey and our intelligence got wind of plans for a massive attempt to demolish the research station . |
| 6 | At Talgarth they got wind of skirmishes in the south , and set off southward over Mynedd Troed for Tretower ; but because of the time they had lost they were always too far behind their quarry even to realise the magnitude of the chance that persistently slipped through their fingers . |
| 7 | The NTSB has also recommended inspection of components in six models of Teledyne Continental engines — the C-75 , C-85 , C-90 , C-145 , O-200 and O-300 . |
| 8 | Omitting part of sentences on the assumption that an earlier sentence or the context will make the meaning clear is known as ellipsis . |
| 9 | The principal objective of the new scheme , which does not apply to Legal Aid cases , is to encourage settlement of costs at an early stage . |
| 10 | Psychological models of reading propose interaction of levels of information in the human language processing system . |
| 11 | Both had prolapsing external haemorrhoids and were therefore referred to a surgeon for haemorrhoidectomy ; both reported regression of symptoms after surgery . |
| 12 | Insiders have estimated the company 's installed base of users in the tens of thousands . |
| 13 | Compaq 's installed base of SystemPros by operating system is 52% NetWare , 22% Unix , 10% MS-DOS and OS/2 , 8% LAN Manager , 7% Banyan Vines and 1% other : Compaq claims a 72% share of the Intel-based ‘ superserver ’ market . |
| 14 | Hetherington dismissed talk of cracks in the Wigan machine following their Charity Shield defeat by St Helens at Gateshead . |
| 15 | Berkshire-based transport company , Frequent Mailing Services ( FMS ) , have agreed to provide transportation of exhibits for the museum . |
| 16 | It was also pointed out that the buyers could have claimed loss of profits for the whole of the estimated useful life of the machine ( 10 years in this particular case ) . |
| 17 | Among his works , Mills was responsible for building in London a handsome , pilastered terrace of houses in Great Queen Street , c .1640 ; houses in Holborn in 1641 and in Budge Row in 1668–9 ; and for extensive works at Christ 's Hospital in 1667–8 . |
| 18 | The research framework should be constructed to provide comparability of findings between one country and another . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) the first post will be based in the Academic Division and will involve in part assisting the Senior Assistant Registrar ( Miss C.L. Lee ) who currently has oversight of arrangements for academic audit , quality assessment and related matters , particularly with the preparation of statistical material and the organisation of visits . |
| 20 | Some large issues were made in the 1980s and turnover of eurosterling bonds has increased as has turnover of eurobonds in general . |
| 21 | The role of the Co-ordinator will be : to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas among the people involved in the Programme ; to encourage new contributions to it ; to develop a series of linking themes relevant to the components of the Programme , possibly leading to the creation of an integrated framework for the study of environmental issues in general ; and to co-ordinate publication of the results and ideas generated by the Programme . |
| 22 | In a move to freeze about two-thirds of all the money in circulation , short-term seven-day banking deposits worth about $2,000 million were frozen on Jan. 1 , and the amount which investors could withdraw in cash was limited to 1,000,000 australs , the option being to accept repayment of savings in 10-year dollar bonds . |
| 23 | IBM ADDS STRING OF ENHANCEMENTS TO LOW-END RS/6000 220 |
| 24 | So what we can what it effectively does is count sort of sub-patterns within the whole pattern and how well we 're recognizing those . |
| 25 | UK company law requires companies incorporated overseas which establish a place of business in Great Britain to file details of their officers and constitutions and to nominate someone to accept service of documents on their behalf . |
| 26 | A pipe band coached by Forties platform manager Brian Lynch capped a memorable season by becoming champion of champions in their class . |
| 27 | Willie Shih , who heads development of workstations at AWSD 's main Austin , Texas facility , has been named to run the unit , which will apparently he headquartered in Boca Raton , Florida , home to IBM 's PC operation . |
| 28 | It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement . |
| 29 | The results could have been disastrous for the force which has already had to freeze recruitment of officers during 1993 to keep within a tight budget . |
| 30 | The results could have been disastrous for the force which has already had to freeze recruitment of officers during 1993 to keep within a tight budget . |