Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about the eight packets of crisps you 've had ? |
| 2 | When studying the electromagnetic properties of dielectrics I was very reluctant to get involved with the physics of dielectrics . |
| 3 | We have looked at some of the types of jobs involved in retailing , and at the different sorts of shops you might work in . |
| 4 | It has set up a support centre in Warrington , UK , with a network of all the different types of systems it supports . |
| 5 | First let's look at the different types of feelings we could experience . |
| 6 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 7 | The fact that in the end we were the only ones to organise our own conference was something of a surprise , as were the vast numbers of participants we attracted , far beyond all expectations . |
| 8 | As it happens , in the early days of computers it was thought that it would be only a few years before computers would be able to understand natural language . |
| 9 | To win one of the 10 pairs of tickets we have for each show , simply complete this Shamen hit : Move Any … … |
| 10 | Clearly the first K guards correspond to the process ' possible communications , the next L-K to the minimal combinations of communications it can choose to accept from ( but not terminate ) , and the final N-L to its possible final states ( after termination ) . |
| 11 | GIRLS as young as nine are dieting in the hope of achieving the willowy figures of models they admire in fashion magazines and on television . |
| 12 | The local gutter press , the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus , then printed the following names of players I hoped to sign — C. Flower , Tom Atoes and a mysterious Russian , Ham Tinof . |
| 13 | Glancing carefully round at the little groups of guests she saw that Ian had already claimed Joanna , but there was no sign of Robert . |
| 14 | So the corresponding properties of non-metals they tend to dull . |
| 15 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 16 | Underneath the trees and in the closer edges of fields I spend hours layering grasses and nettles . |
| 17 | Lucy , all this time , was still sitting on the verandah surrounded by her cartridge-making tools and weeping bitterly as she looked at the neat rows of cartridges she had made and which were no longer needed . |
| 18 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 19 | For two lexical items A and B we can ask whether the respective classes of entities they denote are identical , disjunct , overlapping , or whether one includes the other . |
| 20 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 21 | The 13 headfuls of ideas they 've got show occasional but disturbing signs of driving them aimlessly away from what makes them so good in the first place and into acid rock tedium city . |
| 22 | What we should remember , however , is that workers have not always had the same kinds of experiences I have just described and have , consequently , been able to hold on to a sense of political relatedness between themselves as individuals and groups vis-à-vis society and the industrial enterprises within it . |
| 23 | For in between the two pages of words he had brought himself off , face stretched tight with lust , mind gurgling with images of the girl with black hair and red boots kneeling on a bed so that her full young breasts with long pink nipples dangled into his palms as he mounted her from behind , calling for her to cream , baby , cream . |
| 24 | Perhaps symbolic is the typical picket line of today ; people in high spirits shouting slogans and singing to the beat of a salsa band as they march defiantly under the eyes of the police contrast with the solemn processions of strikers we had seen in the 1940s , walking through the streets in silence and in proper order , as if to create any disturbance was a mark of poor breeding . |
| 25 | If we violate the internal rules of sentences we produce examples which would be dismissed as ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the individual speaker 's ability to carry out successful linguistic " acts of identity " is subject to a number of limitations : We can only behave according to the behavioural patterns of groups we find it desirable to identify with to the extent that : ( i ) we can identify the groups ( ii ) we have both adequate access to the groups and ability to analyse their behavioural patterns ( iii ) the motivation to join the groups is sufficiently powerful , and is either reinforced or reversed by feedback from the groups ( iv ) we have the ability to modify our behaviour ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 182 ) |
| 27 | And although I infinitely preferred a walk across the corner of the field to the privy by the duck pond , to the four flights of stairs I had to descend at Reine , with a com-munal Turkish crouch at the end of it , I wondered how Otto would adjust to outside facilities . |
| 28 | Of the four kinds of sharks he found , three had previously been known only by teeth and spine fossils . |
| 29 | For brevity , and without going into the axioms of the mathematics of number , the main features of numbers we need to note are order , distance and origin . |
| 30 | The treating , perhaps fortunately , cut his visit short for after a few nights of festivities he was stony broke . |