Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flotillas of birds sculled and flapped away from the train . |
| 2 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 3 | In a recent study a group of exporters indicated that financing their export activities , which included managing cash-flow as well as managing exchange rate fluctuations , was their most difficult task . |
| 4 | Swimmer of Lakes panicked and reared . |
| 5 | This range of influences meant that settled relationship patterns and habits were disrupted by social changes . |
| 6 | Immediately after this , a number of fans complained that to over-emphasize Eric 's role was unfair , and that although Eric was respected for his loud voice , stature and chanting ability , he was ‘ nobody special ’ . |
| 7 | On closer inspection the bundle of rags rose and revealed itself to be a woman , filthy dirty , her skin so grimy she was almost invisible in the gloom . |
| 8 | It was after this debacle that a number of Conservatives came and told me that I ought to consider coming forward as a leader of the Party and a potential Prime Minister . |
| 9 | As the throng of workers laughed and joked , tucking into the vast amount of food laid out before them , Annie 's mind went back to other Mell Suppers and not for the first time , she reflected on how her family had dwindled . |
| 10 | Three groups of plants appeared that possessed such structures and all three have descendants that have survived without much change — clubmosses which resemble mosses but have stiffer stems ; horsetails which grow in waste patches and ditches and have stems encircled at intervals with rings of needle-like leaves ; and ferns . |
| 11 | The docks were experiencing a boom in trade and all day long a steady stream of customers came and went . |
| 12 | The darkness ahead was flickering , shapes of trees appeared and vanished , cheering surged like surf — here was their other army — James and the Duke were standing on a rock conducting the dancers , who were reeling in eights , linking and whirling between the bonfires . |
| 13 | Seventy-one per cent of respondents wrote and said that the change they would most like to see was ‘ equality of opportunity ’ . |
| 14 | As suggested in the cost-benefit analysis of headhunting in the Introduction , the majority of respondents considered that using search consultants was certainly more expensive than in-house methods . |
| 15 | Masses of Sikhs jostled and crowded round him as he made his parikrama , the ritual clockwise walk around the marble margins of the sacred lake . |
| 16 | Masses of Sikhs jostled and crowded round him as he made his parikrama , the ritual clockwise walk around the marble margins of the sacred lake . |
| 17 | Through the cloudburst I could see the old men laying out their prayer carpets under the arches , then , on a signal from the mullah , a line of bottoms rose and fell in time to the distant cries of ‘ Allah hu-Akbar ! ’ |
| 18 | A number of issues arose that emphasised the difficulties that safety committees encounter because of the absence of trade union representation . |
| 19 | Following the analysis , a number of issues emerged that seemed worthy of further consideration , for example : |
| 20 | A whole array of faces came and went , of children who were at her school and children who had been there once . |
| 21 | Together the band of women wailed and sang out , beating cymbals and drums . |
| 22 | Then , in the late 1940s a series of incidents happened that have no logical explanation and caused distress and horror . |