Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd like to know exactly what goes on in that head of yours . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The men wo n't come in 'ere if they 're on strike , ‘ specially if it goes on fer any length of time . |
| 3 | Under certain circumstances , reading goes little beyond this level of comprehension . |
| 4 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 5 | Thus the interpretation of X as a projecting corner in Figure 12a is made because that interpretation fits together with allowable interpretations of the other features in the picture , to form a set of possible solid objects ; the same is true of the different interpretation of X in Figure 12b . |
| 6 | The route lies predominantly within agricultural land of good quality apart from a section to the south of the Edinburgh/Carstairs main railway line where it is flanked by residential developments . |
| 7 | Prize money in Britain covers only about one quarter of these costs , which is why some owners are looking at the larger prizes available in other countries . |
| 8 | All the cases of leukaemia in Thurso were centred on this estate , which lies just within 12.5 km of Dounreay , so that the excess there was much higher than in the next cumulative zone , which included the eastern half of the town ( within 16.6 km ) , a difference that has been the subject of much comment . |
| 9 | For these parts of the country the evidence on earnings would seem to justify Adam Smith 's observation of 1776 : " the high price of provisions during these ten years past has not in many parts of the kingdom been accompanied with any sensible rise in the money price of labour " . |
| 10 | Born with a kidney defect , he needs up to 5 pints of liquid every day to stay fit and healthy . |
| 11 | In this chapter , we have assumed the worst possible case — i.e. the syntax/semantics component needs up to ten words of the utterance in order to prefer one of the alternatives — and this is why the statistics are based on the total number of complete word strings derived from the different kinds of input to the lexical access component . |
| 12 | The Royal Air Force wants up to 2000 rounds of whichever type the ministry selects . |
| 13 | The five classes are of mixed ability and each has up to eight children of similar age and/or developmental level . |
| 14 | And the automatic sheet feeder holds up to 10 sheets of paper . |
| 15 | The almost ceaseless trade winds of the central Pacific propel the Ocean 's surface waters westward on both sides of the equator , forming the basis of the two enormous — but essentially very simple — circulatory systems of currents that dominate the Ocean . |
| 16 | The garden is pretty and looks out onto six acres of fields and a copse , and contains a tennis court which guests are welcome to use . |
| 17 | Despite our lack of grip on these truths , we do take there to be a transcendent fact of the matter at stake , one that lies now beyond all possibilities of being recognized by us . |
| 18 | At these moments he looks closely at each inch of her face , like a valuer frowningly examining some precious object . |
| 19 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |
| 20 | If someone goes away with good memories of what they have seen and heard then they will come back and bring their family and friends . ’ |
| 21 | This kind of genitive occurs especially in prepositional adjuncts of place : Old St Paul 's was burnt down in 1666 ; Harrod 's , the butcher 's . |
| 22 | For example , in language change occurs only in one part of the system at a time , while in aesthetics whole styles may alter , as in the transition from Gothic to Classical architecture . |
| 23 | As we have noticed above , the success of any social dialectological project in a dialect-divergent community depends crucially on adequate methods of analysing linguistic variation , and it is this analysis that takes most of the time . |
| 24 | Grain size analysis of fine sediments depends not on direct measurement of the particles themselves but rather upon indirect computations of diameters based on observation of the grain behaviour in fluids or the response of the fluids to displacement by the grains . |
| 25 | I I 'd like to see it retained chair because criterion three says generally within ten miles of York and er I 'm sure somebody would er argue that well that 's only a general rule still acceptable |
| 26 | For all these reasons , there is some mixing , though it occurs more at some times of year ( during the winter storms ) than at others . |
| 27 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 28 | An exception is the Norwich and Peterborough building society which has a flat rate dealing fee of £8 , ( plus VAT ) and allows up to four members of a family to trade their combined holdings in a single deal . |
| 29 | An exception is the Norwich and Peterborough building society which has a flat rate dealing fee of £8 , ( plus VAT ) and allows up to four members of a family to trade their combined holdings in a single deal . |
| 30 | Bono wakes up from some sort of indulgent ( but more realistic than you realise ) reverie . |