Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marital strife , early , abnormal or unwanted pregnancies , anxiety , depression or drug dependency can compound the risks of parents abusing their children . |
| 2 | It burned at the top of a 25Oft stack and we tried all sorts of things to get it to light again . |
| 3 | Those sorts of things inspired me , and the reason those records sound like they do is because they used that equipment . |
| 4 | I think when I meet — and maybe would count them not in hundreds , but in tens — when I meet women who make those sorts of comments and say this time last year I would not have said that , then those sorts of things encourage me very much . |
| 5 | He really did all sorts of things to help us , and we never said please or thank you and now he 's dead . ’ |
| 6 | That 's given me all sorts of things has it ? |
| 7 | For example if I 'm looking at O-level history , ‘ What sorts of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ ’ |
| 8 | And when the senses of sight and sound are combined , it is usually necessary for the sound engineer to go through all sorts of contortions to make his recordings without upsetting the picture-recording process . |
| 9 | Carpets , tiles and flooring , the Steamatic helps revive all sorts of surfaces leaving them more hygienic , cleaner and brighter . |
| 10 | The advocates of massive aid hint at all sorts of threats facing us if we do not hurry to the rescue , but are the dangers from a collapsing state greater than what could be expected from a revitalised Russia ? |
| 11 | He said there had also been no difficulties with the inadmissibility of computer evidence because the council used other sorts of documents to prove its cases . |
| 12 | These sorts of activities take their toll on the world immediately around us . |
| 13 | What sorts of factors constrain me to do so ? |
| 14 | These views rest on different assumptions about the power and ideologies of trade union officials and the aim of this research is to try to establish how powerful are local trade union officials in their relations with shop stewards , and what sorts of ideologies inform their behaviour in these relationships . |
| 15 | Therapist : ‘ What sorts of stresses have you been under recently ? |
| 16 | It advises the reader not to leave their bedroom window at night because all sorts of pitfalls await them ; crocodiles , ghosts , monsters . |
| 17 | All sorts of doubts clouded my mind . |
| 18 | When you move , as a doctor , through society , with your white coat , your black bag , the eyes of others seek you upward . |
| 19 | However , postwar shortages of materials made it difficult to accelerate new building . |
| 20 | It gladdened him to see how even these degraded surroundings were touched by a curious beauty , as he watched the little gangs of miners making their way home , black as sweeps , in the white snow at twilight . |
| 21 | We get loads of kids coming round big gangs of kids scaring everyone . |
| 22 | in their own consciousness and between the covers of novels bearing my name , somewhat inaccurately , as author . |
| 23 | The technique by which in the fourth century B.C. the Chronicler rewrote and modernized the Books of Kings reminds us of the technique by which in the late fourth century Ephorus and Theopompus rewrote and modernized Herodotus and Thucydides . |
| 24 | Erm there 's about two hundred acres of woodlands do you see . |
| 25 | It appears that policemen and women the world over have similar views about their job and agree on what aspects of police work they like and dislike . |
| 26 | Holmes ' warm words of thanks made me feel much happier , and I saw that he was right . |
| 27 | And the words of love-songs made you cry ? |
| 28 | All the figures in the three complete metopes and many in fragments of others turn their faces directly to us , in total disregard of the action they are taking part in , as though smiling at the camera . |
| 29 | What is more , schemata need not be limited to unordered catalogues of people and things within a stereotyped situation , or stereotyped sequences of events telling us what is likely to happen next . |
| 30 | Different tribes often use different colours and combinations of feathers to identify themselves . |