Example sentences of "of [det] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one conversation Roger was accused of favouritism in the placing of some girls back in school . |
| 2 | They would long ago have vanished but for the fact that a powerful tide daily takes most of this pollution out to sea . |
| 3 | Fighting my way through the milling crowds of private view enthusiasts which announce the opening of this years round of degree shows , my curiosity was aroused by the number of women consistently achieving standards of excellence . |
| 4 | Further impetus to the work in the coalfields was given by a wartime committee which once again found the maps of these areas out of date and recommended that the staff should be increased to carry out a satisfactory revision . |
| 5 | If the death penalty were abolished it would be possible either to substitute a fixed penalty of imprisonment for life or to give the Judge discretion to pass sentence of any term up to imprisonment for life . |