Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 2 | The wings are very broad and thick at the base and the feathers at the end of the wings are parted like the fingers of a human hand . |
| 3 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 4 | Its nostrils are placed at the ends of two extremities that grow out from the side of its head . |
| 5 | Northampton Town 's Supporters Trust , an independent body set up in January after a public meeting in the town , have unveiled plans to keep the debt-crippled Division Four club alive if they are placed into the hands of the official receiver on March 11 . |
| 6 | All flies possess these little structures but they are particularly noticeable in the crane flies , the daddy-long-legs , in which the knobs are placed on the ends of stalks so that they look like the heads of drumsticks . |
| 7 | DIRE warnings are given of the consequences of taking the necessary measures to make cars more environment-friendly . |
| 8 | Details of these requirements are given in the tables of Degree Course Requirements on the following pages . |
| 9 | The problems encountered when constructing such drawings are given in the examples of the bridal head-dress painting , illustrated . |
| 10 | When the signals involved are of low-enough frequency for reactive and other frequency-dependent effects to be negligible , the Z-parameters are given by the slopes of appropriate static characteristics at the operating bias levels . |
| 11 | The two probability distributions of B are given by the squares of moduli of two such wavefunctions . |
| 12 | For example , we are treated to the results of a 10-year study of the foraging activity of a laboratory colony of Atta , information on the biology of the immense carpenter ant genus Camponotus and unique insights into the alkaloidal pharmacopoeia of fire ants . |
| 13 | Nonetheless cries of ‘ Kill them [ the Communists ] ’ have been heard on the fringes of the Leipzig demonstrations as protesters stormed the offices of the hated secret police . |
| 14 | Most of them are listed under the provisions of the Clean Air Act of 1990 , but restrictions imposed by the Act will not come into force until 1995 . |
| 15 | All of the many degree courses offered at the University of Edinburgh are listed in the tables of the section ‘ Degree Course Requirements ’ . |
| 16 | Ancient sites have traditionally been recognized as the haunts of beings or entities from worlds other than the everyday . |
| 17 | Snotlings are great mimics and are fascinated by the activities of their larger relatives , which , although their actions are completely inexplicable to Snotlings , they will often cheerfully imitate . |
| 18 | Those who are fascinated by the minutiae of stratigraphical correlation may be horrified at my generalisations . |
| 19 | As with all claims made by competing groups for the objective nature of their own discourse , those made by the Royal Society are tainted by the contingencies of the world in which they were made . |
| 20 | They may however have achieved a realization of theoretical proposals : but we can not be certain about that until further research has been undertaken into the workings of the Household . |
| 21 | No evaluation has yet been undertaken on the effects of this on the fetus . |
| 22 | It demonstrates clearly the enormous burden of indirect taxation that has been placed on the shoulders of millions of families since the Government came to power . |
| 23 | This manuscript , it emerges , has been placed in the hands of a Californian academic , Jonathan Pons , by the ‘ master of Latin American realism ’ , Valentin Sadaba , whose dismissal of it as possibly ‘ one more sad attempt by an Englishman to emulate the Latin storytellers ’ alerts us to its dubious status and authorship . |
| 24 | Moreover , much of the day-to-day administration has been placed in the hands of salaried officials with the specialized knowledge required to understand the complexities of modern local government administration . |
| 25 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 26 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 27 | ‘ This is typical of the way we have been treated since the days of mass vesting of land , much of which was surplus to requirements . ’ |
| 28 | The broad policies of investment trust companies are set out by a board of directors , and as with any limited company they are limited by the articles of association and shareholder approval . |
| 29 | It is involved in all the relations , institutions and structures which are implicated in the activities of production and reproduction in the life of societies ’ ( Held , 1984 , p. 235 ) . |
| 30 | I am not sure how far , without these visible or audible marks of strangeness , ‘ they ’ would be recognised by cultural differences , though in racist reactions much is made of such things : how good Frenchmen are insulted by the smells of North African cooking , or good Brits by that of curry emanating from their neighbours . |