Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ? |
| 2 | The view that certain types of fiction occupy a mediatory position between the ‘ reality ’ of a cultural heritage and contemporary ‘ true ’ accounts of it elevates these texts to a status which the novel has not held for quite some time . |
| 3 | It may be thought that without some measures of the quality of services provided , either by the yardstick ( if such exists ) of agreed views of what constitutes good practice , and/or through more refined measures of client outcome , the study would still fall short of the kind of conclusions about relative effectiveness that would be sought . |
| 4 | There had n't been many teddy boys in Knockglen , in fact no one could ever remember having seen one except on visits to Dublin where there were groups of them hanging round corners . |
| 5 | There there was the message of Marcus Garvey , whose writings and activities before and after the First World War laid the foundations of what became Black Power . |
| 6 | Products of one became raw materials or fuel for another , as shown in the diagram . |
| 7 | This has to be the most awesome wall around , so get down there and get cranking — be warned though , within four hours of it opening four people had damaged their tendons : remember always to warm up first ! |
| 8 | The complexity of drawing together accurate personnel data in a dispersed organisation — some elements of which have autonomous powers — is a major deterrent to basing decisions on facts . |
| 9 | However , the non-markers again included the three informants who read very little science fiction , and the fact that the phrase occurs towards the end of the passage suggests that readers have become accustomed to the science fictional discourse model to the extent that elements of it display diminishing values of foregrounding . |
| 10 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 11 | The concept of the ‘ vicious circle ’ theory is , of course , underlain by people 's expectations of what constitutes acceptable levels of service provision . |
| 12 | Their arms were held out stiff , crosswise , as if they had been crucified , and down the cheeks of one ran thin lines of blood . |
| 13 | Its documentation is very idiosyncratic , and clearly reflects Crew 's own ideas of what constitutes good text . |
| 14 | This is a personal perspective which is a considered opinion drawn from eighteen months of researches and over a hundred interviews , and built upon my own experiences over twenty years of what constitutes good science . |
| 15 | Blue eyes met black , the unfathomable deep waters of which hid countless secrets . |
| 16 | Exotic nuclei have more protons or neutrons than do stable nuclei , and studies of them provide valuable information on the balance of nuclear forces when atoms deviate from the most favourable ratios of neutrons to protons . |
| 17 | For example , students may opt to take a specialist module in Graphics for Screen Media , the objectives of which include critical study of the application of graphic design to electronic publications and investigation of the design initiation and design development procedures for electronic publications . |
| 18 | She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands . |
| 19 | These are the potters , the females of which make small jars in which they deposit an egg together with a paralysed spider or caterpillar to provide the hatching grub with its first meal of meat . |
| 20 | Within seconds of her uttering those words , 11-year-old Allibar reared its head back and collapsed to the ground with a massive coronary . |
| 21 | Not only was the rehearsal space larger but here Tiller was able to have an imposing office which he decorated with caricature drawings of himself showing large heads on small ( but fat ) bodies , and always with his hands clasped behind his back . |
| 22 | Continued diplomatic lobbying by France resulted on April 5 in the adoption by the UN Security Council of Resolution 688 condemning the " repression of the Iraqi civilian population in many parts of Iraq , including most recently in Kurdish populated areas , the consequences of which threaten international peace and security " . |
| 23 | And when I recall the shattering consequences of what happened one night a month or so later , I think of Hamlet , saying ‘ When sorrows come , they come not single spies , But in battalions . ’ |
| 24 | He titillated himself with thoughts of her applying that cruelty to him . |