Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 2 | The sleek half-fish-half-insect-looking machine with its low snout , long canopy , slim double-tapered fuselage , squat trailing-link undercarriage and 110-degree V-tail immediately recalled memories of the shiny blue mounts of la Patrouille — though the ends of its tanks remain un-dented by the games of ‘ tap-the-tip-tank ’ which those characters played on boring transits . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , Tories did remain committed to the principles of passive obedience , non-resistance and indefeasible hereditary right , but they were to argue that none of these had been compromised by the Glorious Revolution . |
| 4 | Convinced of the rightness of his policies and fearful of the consequences of economic decline , Mosley became attracted to the forms of activist mass politics in an attempt to rejuvenate society . |
| 5 | FIREMEN had to release a baby yesterday after her leg became trapped in the bars of her cot . |
| 6 | In thinking about what Stalinism brought to his country , Kundera thinks of the support this despotism has received from the writers of his country , and of other countries . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what representations he has received from the chairmen of the north-west training and enterprise councils concerning the level of funding of training programmes . |
| 8 | A three-way dispute has developed about the costs of the venture . |
| 9 | The fundamental novelty about social anthropology , as it has developed since the days of Malinowski , is that the fieldworking anthropologist tries to understand alien societies from the inside rather than from the outside . |
| 10 | Thereafter , male mortality rates in the last decades of life have been so much greater than those for females that a significant disparity has developed in the numbers of men and women in the older age-groups . |
| 11 | A number of dogs found poisoned on the shores of a small highland lochs may indicate that Scotland 's large deepwater lakes have been affected by phosphate and nitrate pollution . |
| 12 | For many seconds he just stood where he was , as still as a man who has gazed into the eyes of the Medusa . |
| 13 | Penteli was an important quarry near Athens in Greece and recent research has distinguished between the products of the upper and lower quarries . |
| 14 | Active Memory Technology Ltd , the ICL Plc parallel processing spin-out , has fallen into the hands of receiver Price Waterhouse and is currently tying up a rescue bid from a mystery American millionaire tycoon . |
| 15 | Three years later , after a letter unwisely sent by Flavia has fallen into the hands of the bitterly ambitious Rupert of Hentzau , Rassendyll has a harsher temptation to withstand . |
| 16 | Poor kid , she looked so pathetic sitting there on the edge of the chair , all stiff and upright like some tragedy queen , thinking Woe is me , my precious Bob has fallen into the hands of this designing woman . |
| 17 | The dog 's owners have offered a reward for its safe return , but fear the animal has fallen into the hands of unscrupulous dealers |
| 18 | Security chiefs are understood to be deeply annoyed that information about today 's celebrations has fallen into the hands of the IRA . |
| 19 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 20 | The collection from Kenya came from owls roosting in an old well at the ruined town of Gedi , an old Arab town now being reclaimed by coastal forest , and the owls were roosting on ledges where stone has fallen from the walls of the well . |
| 21 | Of the six occasions when the government 's continuation in office has depended on the votes of an opposition party , five have lasted less than 30 months . |
| 22 | While I am far too gentle and decent a person to criticise any Opposition Member who has joined in the expressions of appreciation of this action , I have to say , in the kindest possible way , that if the defence policies to which the Opposition subscribe — I include all the Opposition parties — were implemented , we should not be ordering a rowing boat , let alone three frigates . |
| 23 | Gripes aside , though , ‘ Broken ’ shows all the signs that Trent Reznor has shaken off the shackles of influences and found his own suitably idiosyncratic niche . |
| 24 | Furthermore , by means of various statutes , e.g. the Fire Safety and Places of Sport Act 1987 , etc. , Parliament has placed in the hands of local authorities the power to control the condition and usage of business premises . |
| 25 | ‘ Will you have the kindness to inform me , ’ wrote Darwin to Gould 's secretary on 21 January 1839 , what generic or sub-generic name , Mr Gould has given to the Goat-Suckers of the United States . |
| 26 | They rotted quietly , like the dropped fruit you found hidden under the leaves of the tomato plants . |
| 27 | Indeed , only one unpublished study has referred to the activities of this group and the concern with which the Board of Deputies of British Jews viewed it . |
| 28 | Now the hardware side , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp has responded to the waves of criticism by saying that it will make its silicon designs available to some semiconductor fabricators so that they can make , sell and support chips based on those designs worldwide . |
| 29 | By agreeing to their inclusion in the Bill the Secretary of State has responded to the anxieties of my hon. Friends the Members for Cardiff , West ( Mr. Morgan ) and for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) , and of South Glamorgan county council , Cardiff city council and many other bodies . |
| 30 | This remains true and the faculty has responded to the needs of the contemporary church in its Practical Theology courses . |