Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevalence of P cepacia increased from a single case of transient colonisation in 1986 to 16 cases ( 26.7% ) in 1992 . |
| 2 | The prevalence of P cepacia increased from a single case ( 1.2% ) in 1986 to 38 ( 25.0% ) by 1992 ( figure 1B ) . |
| 3 | Steers ( 1964 ) took up this point and argued that the structure and history , as far as it is known , of Blakeney Point pointed to a westwards movement of material in the long term view . |
| 4 | On the evidence , the hearing officer considered that only the reduction in the disposal of scrap material amounted to a proven and readily quantifiable benefit . |
| 5 | The Art Gallery had a nice exhibition about slices of NZ history done on a ‘ time-travel ’ theme ; a teenage girl travels back to visit Abel Tasman 's ship , Joseph Banks ’ study etc and sends aerograms ‘ home ’ , full of description but made realistic with 20th century NZ teenage jargon . |
| 6 | If a WC is blocked , a large sink plunger may work ( do n't use one with a metal flange which could damage the pan ) , provided it has a long handle ; alternatively , use a length of drain rod fitted with a rubber disc . |
| 7 | The light is brighter now , the flicker of silver sun replaced by a mega watt glare . |
| 8 | A tube of silver foil folded over a loop of line pulled down about eighteen inches between bite alarm and reel . |
| 9 | A German colony from 1884 , the territory came under South African rule in 1915 , and in 1920 a League of Nations mandate provided for a further period of South African administration . |
| 10 | Actually Oi ! was a mock-working class derivation of punk rock invented by a pig-faced scab which , thanks to the cowardice and stupidity of its main advocates , had rather a lot of Nazi scum amongst its rather dim cockernee fan base . |
| 11 | Despite cancellations from Norwegian and Swedish drivers because of boat damage suffered in a recent Italian race , a quality international field will vie for the European championship . |
| 12 | The blue of Rangers , the green of Celtic , the tangerine of Blackpool and the yellow and red of Partick Thistle clashed in a blinding flash of psychedelia . |
| 13 | On the little altar to his ancestors beside the mirror , lighted candles stood amidst tiny dishes of fruits , pork , fish and rice , and behind him incense burners and small brass pans of aloe wood set on a low lacquered table sent perfumed smoke drifting in gentle spirals towards the ceiling . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a warrant ordering the arrest of Meredith Putt to answer to a charge of murder . |
| 15 | It is possible that the relative lack of efficacy of fluticasone propionate compared with a standard regimen of prednisolone is because the dose chosen was too low to produce therapeutic concentrations in the colon . |
| 16 | Suggestions that the Kuwaitis know something no-one else does were played down by analysts , still desperately clinging to fading hopes of Lloyds Bank emerging with a rival offer next week . |
| 17 | Even where the company is viewed as a purely private phenomenon , however , there is no justification for regarding the quality of management decision making as a matter that is ‘ private ’ in relation to the shareholders . |
| 18 | A publication of village life compiled by a group of volunteers is issued quarterly and is eagerly looked forward to . |
| 19 | For my lunch , a half-a-cup of chicken bullion made with a |
| 20 | As business people and newcomers to the NHS ( apart from one , Sir Brian Bailey , who was Chair of the Health Education Council ) , their views of the shortcomings of NHS management paralleled to a remarkable extent the findings of academic research as summarised by Harrison . |
| 21 | This type of test item consists of a question or incomplete statement followed by four or five options from which the student selects the correct one . |
| 22 | Hence subject to the constraint that where Ro is some pre-assigned value of R. The integration can be extended over the whole 3N-dimensional configuration space by setting whenever the inequality ( 6.10 ) is satisfied and otherwise , and writing Mark off showed that , far from being only a device to select the correct region of configuration space led to a new interpretation of the probability density function |
| 23 | But all I could do was wrestle with the lunging hind foot , dressing the infected cleft with a crude mixture of copper sulphate and Stockholm tar and finishing with a pad of cotton wool held by a tight bandage . |
| 24 | Public concern came to a head in the Maxwell Confait case , in which the reliability of confession evidence obtained from a mentally handicapped defendant became a particular source of anxiety ( Fisher , 1977 ) . |
| 25 | The ICL VME operating system command to enter a file of Job Control commands into a batch queue is SUBMIT-JOB or SBJ for short , so the command SBJ(PMMLIB.GIMMSJOB1) entered on a terminal will ask the VME system to place the commands held in the file PMMLIB.GIMMSJOB1 into the queue number specified on the JOB command line . |
| 26 | One of the clearest examples of kin selection occurs in a bacterial plasmid ( Maynard Smith 1978 ) ; despite misunderstandings of the phrase ‘ selfish gene ’ , no one supposes that plasmids think . |
| 27 | He reckons that death was due to a fractured skull , caused by a blow on the head from some heavy but softish instrument — he suggested a piece of lead piping wrapped in a sock , but it might have been a sandbag , or anything like that . |
| 28 | Ca n't tell you precisely what weapon , but my guess of a piece of lead piping wrapped in a sock is as good as any . |
| 29 | What Havel wittily shows is the kind of Catch-22 situation faced by a dissident in a despotism : whether to cling fiercely to your own moral integrity ( thereby landing others in the shit ) or whether to conform and perpetuate a corrupt system . |
| 30 | In the same boat close to the bottom of Yorkshire Division plunged to a 20–6 defeat who played their best rugby of the season . |