Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [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 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 4 | Born with a kidney defect , he needs up to 5 pints of liquid every day to stay fit and healthy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Royal Air Force wants up to 2000 rounds of whichever type the ministry selects . |
| 7 | The five classes are of mixed ability and each has up to eight children of similar age and/or developmental level . |
| 8 | And the automatic sheet feeder holds up to 10 sheets of paper . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Bono wakes up from some sort of indulgent ( but more realistic than you realise ) reverie . |
| 14 | Of course , the poor individual buyer is the one who loses out in this sort of operation . |
| 15 | An investigation is considered successful if the claimant signs off within 2 weeks of being contacted by an investigation officer , but it is hard to differentiate these from those who would have signed off anyway . |
| 16 | From the fact that it leads on to all sorts of other questions , we can reasonably infer that many of the justifications given in the literature are indeed question-begging . |
| 17 | This costs up to 2 p.c. of the sum converted with the possibility of a £3 handling charge if you opt for non-sterling or American dollar denominated cheques . |
| 18 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 19 | First , a standard disc offers up to 55,000 frames of information each with its own unique electronic address or frame number . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the LIMB database generally receives up to ten copies of each item , so it is possible to send out copies for retention to requesting librarians , and a loan system is regarded as administratively cumbersome . |
| 21 | Each tonne of tyres produces up to 220 kilograms of oil , 240 kg of gas , 420 kg of carbon and 160 kg of steel . |
| 22 | Lord Lawson lines up alongside other members of the old guard such as Lord Howe , the late Lord Ridley and Lady Thatcher herself , who have been banging on the monetarist drum with the message that the deficit is one of the keys to the economy . |
| 23 | Such research is necessary for understanding the mental processes involved in object recognition ; how object recognition may develop ; and , how such recognition breaks down in certain cases of brain damage . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Chris Conway takes over as chief executive of DEC UK from chairman Geoff Shingles . |
| 25 | Charles Secrett takes over as executive director of Friends of the Earth in April . |
| 26 | The work was not written in liturgical order , and Mozart 's own part in it breaks off after eight bars of the Lachrymosa . |
| 27 | It 's small , light and neat , takes up to 100 sheets of A4 and has a manual feed slot for envelopes . |
| 28 | It then takes up to 15 stages of filtration and other methods to separate the few parts per million of useful protein . |
| 29 | The night creeps by in restless anticipation of the morning . |
| 30 | An intense young woman , passionate about her are — and perhaps less passionate about being regarded as a ‘ portraitist ’ — Sarah kicks out against preconceived notions of current portraiture . |