Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb base] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repub. failed materially improve maj. of Sp. people lost faith . |
| 2 | Furthermore , whereas the short-vowel allophones commonly exhibit patterns of overlap , merger and near-merger with one another , the long-vowel realizations of different phonemes tend to be much more distinct from one another : short-vowel realizations of /a/ overlap with /Ε/; and /α/; in the same environments ( for example , in pet , pat , pot ) , whereas the long vowel realizations are fully distinct . |
| 3 | They had all become part of campus life but the chuguo chao , the ‘ going abroad tide ’ , was probably the most noticeable and was certainly a ‘ hot topic ’ ( translated from the Chinese ‘ redian ’ ) among students . |
| 4 | Through his service under the war treasurers back in 1642 , he had also become man of business to Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , and served conscientiously as an executor of the ex-lord general 's encumbered estate after his death in 1646 . |
| 5 | A research project carried out in 1979 showed that even people who drink moderately experience impairment of memory and this becomes greater as they age and as their consumption of alcohol increases . |
| 6 | Headhunters ' favourite candidates , often those who have subsequently become users of search in their own right , are the winners . |