Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But surgeons at Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , were able to graft his corneas on to the eyes of another youngster who had been going blind . |
| 2 | The vast majority of teachers are working extremely hard to achieve good results under the national curriculum and our aim is to get all schools up to the standards of the best . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is right that the Labour party would be prepared to overrule parental ballots and to take grant-maintained schools back into the throes of LEA control , which is exactly what parents have voted to escape . |
| 4 | They built their homes out of the materials of the river bank itself . |
| 5 | Mrs Stych clutched her groceries more tightly to her bosom and tried to heave her high heels out of the roots of the Frizzell grass . |
| 6 | Since then the transformation of rural villages into non-agricultural settlements has taken place in a series of waves out along the lines of transportation from the major urban centres , particularly , in the first instance , London . |
| 7 | In higher education a new central body is proposed to take control over polytechnics out of the hands of local authorities . |
| 8 | Grant casts his eyes around at the casualties of a drink-based evening albeit mainly non-alcoholic , and demurs , seeing that mild hysteria has set in . |
| 9 | ‘ Next , ’ said Amaranth , who had let drop the first two scarves on to the heads of the assembled press men , ‘ we have Gerald Kaufman , all vinegar and no chips . ’ |
| 10 | From this road it is possible to make small diversions down into the villages of Jardim do Mar and Paúl do Mar , although the roads in and out of them are more spectacular than the villages themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ Thirteen thousand feet up on the shores of Lake Titicaca . |
| 12 | He will even attempt to take bones out of the mouths of our two German Shepherd dogs , Nikki and Sheba . |
| 13 | The Knights Panther is one of the oldest and most respected of the Knightly Orders , tracing its origins back to the times of the Crusades against Araby . |
| 14 | Barbarians , at the Dorman Museum until August 22 , takes visitors back to the days of woad , wonders and warrior queens . |
| 15 | Not far away is a miniature village ; a ‘ Noddy ’ train takes visitors back to the outskirts of Bridlington . |
| 16 | When he realised that the trousers hovered round his calves and that the shirt did n't do up it was too late ; I had put on my newer , better-fitting shirt , bloused my trousers on to the tops of my boots and was putting on his beret as he stood there looking like a circus tramp . |
| 17 | Attempting unsuccessfully to repeat his 1987 tactics , Ershad had declared a state of emergency on Nov. 27 , 1990 , ordering troops on to the streets of the capital , Dhaka , to restore order [ see p. 37856 ] . |
| 18 | Members should ‘ hitch hike ’ their ideas on to the ideas of others to generate new ideas . |
| 19 | Censorship is a recurring problem in libraries , and there is no issue in librarianship which is more likely to bring libraries on to the pages of the Press , frequently in a damaging and trivial representation of the library profession . |
| 20 | In the words of the vice-president of the Associated Banks of Belgrade ( EP , 24 February 1986 ) , ‘ We have shut our banks up within the boundaries of the republics and provinces , and each bank finances the projects of its own members . ’ |
| 21 | The second circumstance is that planning legislation has given the Secretary of State the power to take applications out of the hands of local planning authorities and to decide them himself . |
| 22 | ‘ Primitive ’ people project these hostile feelings on to the spirits of the dead . |
| 23 | How are things down in the bowels of the archive ? ’ |
| 24 | He glanced uncomfortably at Andy , who had blond ringlets down to the shoulders of his fringed buckskin jacket . |
| 25 | ‘ The brigade actually sets the fireworks off on the ramparts of the castle , ’ fire safety officer Denis Neads said yesterday . |
| 26 | The gag was across the trooper 's mouth , and the pressure of Colt 's knee was into the small of his back , and the sheer strength of Colt 's arm took the trooper 's wrists up into the blades of his shoulders . |
| 27 | He often had to pay the wages and expenses of the royal huntsmen out of the issues of his bailiwick . |
| 28 | " A Great Russian " put out a flysheet in St Petersburg in July 1861 which argued that " The educated classes must take the conduct of affairs out of the hands of the incapable government and into their own " ; otherwise , " patriots will be compelled to call upon the people to do what the educated classes refuse to do " . |
| 29 | Reform might come from Parliament simply taking the calculation of damages out of the hands of juries , and allowing judges to develop reasonably predictable scales for assessment after the jury has indicated whether damages in the particular case should be substantial , moderate , nominal or contemptuous . |
| 30 | In the larval stages , caddisflies build themselves cases out of the materials of the river bed . |