Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] of [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Insiders have estimated the company 's installed base of users in the tens of thousands . |
| 5 | Hetherington dismissed talk of cracks in the Wigan machine following their Charity Shield defeat by St Helens at Gateshead . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some large issues were made in the 1980s and turnover of eurosterling bonds has increased as has turnover of eurobonds in general . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A pipe band coached by Forties platform manager Brian Lynch capped a memorable season by becoming champion of champions in their class . |
| 10 | It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement . |
| 11 | Head teachers will include news of developments in their regular reports . |
| 12 | In short , a sufficient explanation of the differences in bargaining relations between states and enterprises must include consideration of changes in the security structure as well as to changes in the financial and production structures . |
| 13 | The language used in the authorities relating to the trustee is none too clear , but it indicates that the trustee has possession of chattels in the hands of the beneficiary , and not merely the right to possess them . |
| 14 | She first noted what she calls a ‘ plague mentality ’ enveloping discussion of Aids in 1984 , and conceived the Masque of the Red Death trilogy of albums ( completed in 1988 ) and the Plague Mass as a dramatic revenge on the inaction or malice of those in government and the church — or among the ‘ decent people ’ who were propagating the idea that a biomedical condition was a moral verdict . |
| 15 | After a while he rolled from her and lay there , staring up through layers of darkness at the dim , coiled shape of dragons in the ceiling mosaic , thinking of the boy . |
| 16 | Hiatts ceased manufacture of leg-cuffs in 1983 . |
| 17 | Mann argues that the reasoning that rejects the notion of assignability of treaties resembles that which for centuries prevented assignment of debts in private law . |
| 18 | Conjugal visits came top of demands in a survey of Britain 's jails . |
| 19 | At the same time , changing consumer habits cut use of CFCs in aerosols by 50 per cent . |
| 20 | Just as an earlier generation of social survey researchers in Britain had made use of developments in statistics , so did the post-war generation of social scientists in the United States , though building on work done prior to this period . |
| 21 | If , as we believe , the main source of mucosal reactive oxygen species in inflammation is the neutrophil , then leukotriene synthesis inhibitors could prevent aggregation of neutrophils in the mucosa , thus decreasing reactive oxygen species and tissue injury . |
| 22 | Incompatibility bacteria act by interfering with paternal chromosome incorporation in fertilized eggs , whereas parthenogenesis bacteria prevent segregation of chromosomes in unfertilized eggs . |
| 23 | Whereas previous schemes , such as that of Dewey , presented an enumerated list of subjects in hierarchical layout with appended notation ( e.g. decimal numbers ) to express the system in practice , the Colon Classification distinguishes a range of " facets " in each major subject area , which the classifier combines ( like a set of parts ) to form an extended symbol which both expresses the specific subject and its relationships and also allows for its easy insertion in and retrieval from a store sequence ( e.g. a shelf ) . |
| 24 | Christine Jackson , a Manchester-based national officer of the Equal Opportunities Commission and personal friend of Horsley for thirty years , became Director of Personnel in charge of Equal Opportunities . |
| 25 | Equally , the complex legislation relating to slaves taken overseas , which involves registration of claims in foreign courts , is unlikely to have been traditional . |
| 26 | Not one person now connected with the line has had experience of railways in Europe or America . |
| 27 | And do you remember You must remember sort of changes in the chemicals that were you know , that was used on the land in the in the time that you were . |
| 28 | Above him he heard the purr of engines , the slow , measured movement of cars in procession . |
| 29 | While some previous studies have shown absence of foci in old , untreated and control rats , others have shown that foci do occur spontaneously with increasing age . |
| 30 | Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I could n't see couple of yards in front of me |