Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And sh there are a number of reasons that she believes that . |
| 2 | Grace Carter , a DCR member , is pictured above wearing the first batch of badges as she chats to Mary Jordan about the idea . |
| 3 | The United Kingdom 's policy is to make charges only in difficult cases or where the foreign country concerned makes a disproportionate number of requests or itself imposes charges . |
| 4 | I know that in some parts of the country , notably in the north-east , one or two local authorities have made it rather difficult for protective street furniture to be erected along the sides of roads where there has been ram-raiding . |
| 5 | Continue to fry with the onion for a couple of minutes until it begins to absorb the oil . |
| 6 | This has far-reaching implications also for social work across the entire range of activities as it has to be based very firmly on an elaborate statutory framework which spells out possibilities and responsibilities for intervention in considerable detail . |
| 7 | Her personal milliner John Boyd , who has been making hats for the princess since she was 16 , said : ‘ She already has such a collection of hats that she does n't need anything new for this occasion . ’ |
| 8 | ’ She already has such a collection of hats that she does n't need any other for this occasion , ’ Mr Boyd said . |
| 9 | Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts . |
| 10 | ( c ) Enforcement of judgments Where there has been a judgment against the firm , execution may be issued against : ( 1 ) assets of the firm ; or ( 2 ) any person who has acknowledged service as a partner ; or ( 3 ) any person served as a partner who has failed to acknowledge service ; or ( 4 ) any person who has admitted in his pleading to being a partner or who has been found by the court to be a partner . |
| 11 | Fleischmann has had some excellent ideas including methods to measure the surface diffraction of X-rays and he has made a detailed study of electrolysis in solutions that do not conduct electricity . |
| 12 | Well if you sort of leave him out of a conversation , he goes a bit funny , he storms off , I think I had noticed a couple of times that he has , and you see what happens is he sits there |
| 13 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 14 | He 's called the house a couple of times and he says he 's coming this way . |
| 15 | Brian is , because we 've been out a couple of times and he does , I mean if we go out he 'll smoke then and then he just normally stops . |
| 16 | Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’ |
| 17 | He has bought himself a couple of Hunters and he plans to do some show jumping of all things . |
| 18 | The study comes at a time when many health authorities are reducing the number of clinics and there has been a 35% rise in teenage pregnancy rates over the last 10 years . |
| 19 | Up there somewhere is a plane full of bombs and who knows where they will be released . |
| 20 | Erm in Plato talks about the , the weaving together of forms and it says erm er it 's it 's er through the weaving together of forms that reason arises in us and but then again this is the level of as well so I think that this is the , the origin of this notion that all the forms are in each , they 're all woven together somehow . |
| 21 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 22 | Biron 's claim to learning resides in the possession of books that he does not read . |
| 23 | One may quibble with some of Jakobson 's distinctions and classifications , but it must be stressed that these are only a small selection of the multitude of relationships that he identifies in the space of this short poem . |
| 24 | I 've always been fond of animals and it interests me to have them about to look at . |
| 25 | It takes a set of fragments and it forms them into a pattern . |
| 26 | This too encourages the flow of savings as it gives savers the confidence that their savings will earn a good rate of interest . |
| 27 | But many hospitals have ‘ built-up ’ pockets of specialisms and she does not think that concentrating them on fewer sites would mean the loss of centres of excellence . |
| 28 | During the last couple of months that he holds that office , he will be judged harshly on what he does . |
| 29 | It sounds a desperate measure ; but if it 's happening in California , it can only be a matter of months before it takes off here . |
| 30 | A repertoire of songs that it has heard |