Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the popular protestant version , one which is still shared probably by a majority of clergymen within the protestant denominations of the North , the church re-emerges after centuries of misguidance only with the Reformation . |
| 2 | A government resolution aiming at a solution of the cash crisis , reported on May 15 , included the introduction of non-cash methods of payment exclusively for transactions worth over 10,000 roubles ( 1 rouble=US$0.5646 at the official rate as at May 18 , 1992 ) . |
| 3 | New product-protecting patents were more effective than all other methods of appropriability only in drugs , while in organic chemicals , plastics , and steel-mill products , they were no less effective than alternate methods of appropriability ( see Levin et al. , |
| 4 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 5 | Over a range of Rayleigh number ( probably dependent on Prandtl number ) , the thermals penetrate right across the layer , generating transient stable blobs of fluid close to the opposite boundary . |
| 6 | A sheet of rain had come down then , a hard , gusty shower , while they were laying the squares of turf back in place , and Adam had said something about the rain making the grass grow quickly , the rain being on their side . |
| 7 | At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies . |
| 8 | As they rode cautiously along , Fenella caught glimpses of movement in between the trees . |
| 9 | One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time . |
| 10 | We slept out on the last fields , leaving the 90 zigzags of path up to the plateau for the next day . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's much better than ringing the bad one and bringing all the torments of Hell down on yourself for nothing . ’ |
| 12 | Tomorrow morning it 'll be dry wit hazy sunshine but increasing cloud is likely to give outbreaks of rain later in the afternoon . |
| 13 | This explained why it had not been possible to get four separate channels of sound out of the record . |
| 14 | The human females were taking trays of food out of the wall . |
| 15 | Her ability to achieve consensus in sensitive decisions was never at the price of individual promise or doctrinaire cost-cutting , and she was a resolute opponent of any moves to take books of quality out of the teaching of English . |
| 16 | A JOBLESS plasterer moved into a £100,000 farmhouse on 140 acres of land yesterday after proving he was the love-child of a wealthy farmer . |
| 17 | , Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council has announced plans to take more than 3,000 acres of land out of the green belt in order to facilitate economic regeneration in the area . |
| 18 | According to preliminary estimates , twelve of the southern countries have been damaged by severe erosion to the extent of about 70 million acres out of some 140 million acres of land now in crops . |
| 19 | It was a unique happening to find thirteen acres of land together in the site and it 's not going to occur again . |
| 20 | This way she can guarantee her customers that they will have all the surrounding thousands of acres of bush totally to themselves for the duration of their stay . |
| 21 | The name ‘ Institute of Education ’ has been used in African universities to describe institutes which do little except train secondary school teachers , but in the sense of a professional centre concerned with various aspects of quality both of teachers and the curriculum they teach , it was first used in Bakht Er Ruda in the Sudan in the 1930's . |
| 22 | One way to bring these different aspects of quality together in a concerted way is through total quality management , discussed later in the chapter . |
| 23 | Half an hour later Bathsheba arrived home , with Troy 's words of love still in her ears . |
| 24 | All I had to show for it , as I mopped my brow , were sympathetic words of congratulation back in the pavilion — and the club 's Cricketer of the Year award . |
| 25 | Mick Feeney , a Barlinnie delegate , seconding the motion , said : ‘ The unit was of great benefit to the service because we could get the ringleaders of trouble out of the system for a while . |
| 26 | Archaeology and history combine to show that jade was rated more highly than gold among some of the most sophisticated and highly civilized peoples of antiquity both in the Old World and the New.l To understand the appeal of jade it is essential to handle the material itself . |
| 27 | The concept reared up fully formed : the sparkling snowflake of Steel City fragmenting from the hub of fire , spilling bodies into vacuum , the debris plunging flaming spears of fall-out on to the dense towns of Earth . |
| 28 | US trade associations have claimed that this represents a diversion of 1.93 billion lbs of aluminium away from the solid waste stream . |
| 29 | His prayer was answered , and he saw that ‘ ’ the mountain was full of chariots of fire round about Elisha ! ’ ( 2 Kings 6:8–17 ) . |
| 30 | Other ‘ declinists ’ helped found the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 , meeting in different cities each year for lectures and discussions in various ‘ sections ’ ; but Swainson played no part in it , thus avoiding the power struggles in which gentlemen of science usually with Cambridge connections came in effect to direct the organization . |