Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb base] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Untold acres are being buried under bricks and mortar , and even in the countryside deep ploughing , ripping out of hedgerows and widening of roads have seemingly obliterated most traces of the ancient landscape . |
| 2 | A number of artists have indeed caused some confusion among those who have set expectations by providing picture-books for older readers . |
| 3 | The previous examples of the use of bioceramics have all included some dependence on mechanical strength and uses have focused on replacing diseased or damaged tissues . |
| 4 | At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British . |
| 5 | More recently , however , a variety of factors have rather changed this state of affairs and encouraged the search for a third road to socialism . |
| 6 | Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge . |