Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tour guides organised by Lyles consisted of Ronnie Gallacher , Eddie Docherty , Ian Morris and Gordon Bowers . |
| 2 | 1984 ; Schmitt 1982b ) but the one most often used in Britain consists of two pads of wire mesh that are placed on the child 's bed with a sheet separating them and another sheet on top for the child to lie on . |
| 3 | And a word of warning — when you arrive in Hye-on-Wye beware of the second-hand bookshops . |
| 4 | A multi-national research team led by Andrew Read of the University of Guelph in Ontario , Canada , and Koen van Waerebeek , University of Ghent , Belgium , monitored the landed catch of dolphins in a number of Peruvian ports during 1986 and 1987 , primarily at Pucusana and Cerro Azul . |
| 5 | To A. M. Fairbairn , preaching was ‘ when the man possessed of God speaks of the God Who possesses him ’ . |
| 6 | Mike Ward , OUP 's UK sales manager , is promoted from April to head of children 's books sales and marketing in the Educational Division of OUP . |
| 7 | The 1980 line-up of the regular army identified by IISS consisted of eight divisions , two of them armoured , and a number of independent brigades , together with some People 's Army ( al-Jaish al-Shaabi ) formations of part-timers under the command of the regime 's second most prominent figure , Taha Yasin Ramadhan , estimated in 1980 to number some 75,000 . |
| 8 | The Semantic-Differential method of measuring attitudes devised by Osgood consists of a concept , in this case using computers in schools , and a set of bipolar scales . |
| 9 | Louis was told that it was substantially smaller than in the previous year , but in fact the allied fleet assembled at Portsmouth consisted of 63 English ships and 36 Dutch , with a combined fire-power of 6736 guns , plus 38 fireships ; the French , moving up-Channel from Brest , could muster 44 warships with 3240 guns and 38 fireships . |