Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb base] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shoulders hunched into the collar of his leather jacket , fists clenched inside the pockets , eyes little worry beads of suspicion . |
| 2 | Regan ( 1977 ) complains about the lack of statistics on their background but says there are still some subject areas where inspectors only have experience of grammar and independent schools . |
| 3 | The question now to be answered is whether endogenous hormones similarly regulate patterns of growth and the formation of haustoria in the intact dodder and if so , how the stimulus of contact with the host is coupled to the action of hormone . |
| 4 | The SACIM countries already hold stocks of ivory and Zimbabwe 's national parks department says elephant numbers have become so large that it will have to start culling next year . |
| 5 | Companies often use details of education to plot out salary curves and promotion prospects . |
| 6 | Feminist efforts to increase women 's participation among psychologists rarely take account of age . |
| 7 | The problems largely concern disclosure of commission , self-dealing and relaxation of the no profit rule , and the operation of Chinese walls . |
| 8 | The surveys normally use samples of soil or water from streams . |
| 9 | These changes also cause loss of lubrication and thinning of the walls of the vagina , and lead to osteoporosis ( brittle bones ) in later life . |
| 10 | Children and foreign language learners sometimes take figures of speech literally ( ‘ Was Queen Victoria really made of iron , Mummy ? ’ , |
| 11 | The reason why at present independence is thought to be achievable only by involving a different force is that investigations of police operations typically involve suspicion of malpractice . |
| 12 | To ensure that hospital consultants — whose decisions effectively commit sums of money — are involved in the management of hospitals ; are given responsibility for the use of resources ; and are encouraged to use those resources more effectively . |
| 13 | It goes without saying that semantic variants also involve differences of expression — of syntax and graphology/phonology — since codings at the more abstract level of meaning have consequences of expression . |
| 14 | If historians only uncover images of disability in charity advertising and stories of helplessness or courage , with no alternatives , what will that mean for a future population of disabled people ? |
| 15 | When we consider temperament in horses , and especially in families , it is most reasonable to look at the stallions in a family to get a more valid picture of the family characteristics , as stallions often exhibit traits of temperament to greater extremes than geldings and mares . |
| 16 | Hearing parents of deaf children frequently report problems of attention and eye-gaze . |
| 17 | Some of these representatives by sheer ability and drive make themselves indispensable to the successful working of the machine ; others merely represent points of view which come into conflict with it . |
| 18 | The deviation of the feminine term from the profession into other meanings partly reflects the assumed impossibility that women should occupy these positions , and the ensuing implication that women only occupy head of household positions by virtue of selling sexual services to men , whereas in the acting profession women are much more ‘ equal ’ . |
| 19 | These social dimensions of accessibility may be very important to the quality of life , but rural residents usually face problems of accessibility because of spatial separation ; theirs is a problem of physical accessibility , which requires that an individual must be able to command the transport facilities needed to reach the requisite supply points at appropriate times . |
| 20 | Since Dedekind 's algebraic numbers extend Kummer 's concepts , his algebraic integers also lack uniqueness of factorisation . |
| 21 | Settlements emparked in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries tend not to survive too well as earthworks , but abandoned sixteenth-or seventeenth-century garden schemes often incorporate remains of village earthworks . |
| 22 | Others simply play variants of Space Invaders , Mission Control or Panic . |
| 23 | However , Abiko Seigo , a manager with the same corporation , complains that otaku types easily lose sight of company goals beyond the project before them . |
| 24 | Normally I would never have raised the matter in public but the Tories persistently use Points of Order to accuse Opposition members of misdemeanours . ’ |
| 25 | New tillage practices also reduce loss of soil moisture to increase yields , build up humus formation , and encourage a net increase in the natural production of soil nutrients . |
| 26 | Sufferers frequently experience feelings of helplessness and depression — the ‘ why me ? ’ syndrome . |
| 27 | In thin section grainy sediments commonly show evidence of compaction , the result of progressive increase in overburden during burial . |