Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [noun pl] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They discovered that the first-order autocorrelation of the mispricing series was 0.93 , indicating that mispricings tended to persist over periods of the order of a few hours . |
| 2 | Moreover , candidates for election form parties : the purpose of a party is to win an election , or , in Qaddafi 's words , ‘ to rule over non-members of the party ’ ( chapter I , ‘ The party ’ ) . |
| 3 | Each would require a portable bedstead , an air mattress and a pillow ; they would take some Oxley 's essence of ginger , some good opium , quinine and Seidlitz powders ; a portable inkstand , a match-box and supply of German tinder ; umbrellas against the sun and flannel belts to ward off cramps of the stomach during the night . |
| 4 | You may have to talk out functions of the job . |
| 5 | It is not in any way necessary to record the whole of the lesson from either the intellectual or the affective point of view ; experience shows that it is possible to pick out segments of the lesson for detailed observation of either kind , which provide enough information for developmental purposes . |
| 6 | This gesture becomes more strongly evident and unpredictable as more and more events crowd in until both hands are used to shut out thoughts of the suicide he feels is inevitable . |
| 7 | Pupils can be given question sheets and required to carry out searches of the database to find the answers . |
| 8 | Maps that use these peculiar motions to build up pictures of the amount of matter in space have been prepared by various researchers over the past year or so . |
| 9 | By surrounding the subject 's head with a detector array , connected to suitable computer hardware , it is possible to build up images of the brain , indicating the areas of different levels of radioactivity , and hence of metabolic activity . |
| 10 | Criminal proceedings could be started in Libya , but this had so far proved impossible because neither the USA nor the UK authorities had responded to his requests to hand over copies of the evidence in their possession . |
| 11 | Anglian Water refused to hand over details of the document . |
| 12 | He was also involved in the briefing of a Commando landing on a Normandy beach which was sent to bring back cores of the beach material . |