Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 I 've heard this in clubs of varying styles , such is its cross-over appeal .
2 ‘ Nah , you 've got hundreds of years of peasant servitude to make up for .
3 Mr Williamson is there anything you want to come back on or you feel you 've had enough in terms of summing up on matters A and B ?
4 I have used dozens of makes of socks and the one that stands out above all the others is Thor-Lo .
5 People have got used to years of growth .
6 We have produced thousands of pages of reports .
7 Thus , in the last year or two , many Examinations Boards have become involved with collections of local authorities to form profiling consortia , for example , the Northern Partnership for Records of Achievement , based on the five Examining Boards which constitute the Northern Examining Association and 22 northern LEAs , or the OCEA initiative already referred to .
8 Some libraries have become involved in programmes of study skills for their students , particularly in some polytechnics ( eg the Polytechnic of the South Bank , Plymouth Polytechnic , and the City of London Polytechnic ) and in some technological universities ( eg Loughborough University of Technology and the University of Aston ) .
9 For certain stations in the United States Langbein and Schumm ( 1958 ) have quantified this in terms of sediment yield and shown that this increases to about 300 tons per square km ( 800 tons per square mile ) with a rainfall of about 371 mm ( 15 in ) per year and then decreases as increasing vegetation cover protects the surface .
10 Another example is from region rail which is a totally independent system but over the years the five local authorities have ploughed millions of pounds of investment into improving a system , the stations the track and the rolling stock which in accordance with the Rail Bill will be put out of franchise next year but will anyone have to buy it ?
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