Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Thompson , the hooker , was sin-binned for 10 minutes for a foul in a tackle on Platt , Wakefield were never troubled and two minutes after he departed Wilson dribbled past a swarm of defenders to score by the posts . |
| 2 | The distribution of taxes depends on the assumptions about the incidence , discussed below , and on the allocation series . |
| 3 | The ‘ Cicerones ’ will be a team of experts drawn from the universities of Venice and Udine , and the electronics are by Telesia , part of Iacorossi . |
| 4 | Over there , generations of pharaohs slept in the tombs , cut deep into the red cliffs of the valley . |
| 5 | If a 75 per cent majority of creditors present in person or by proxy at a meeting of creditors agree to the proposals , then they become binding on all creditors and the insolvency practitioner who assisted the debtor or another such practitioner nominated by the creditors supervises the implementation of the proposals . |
| 6 | Great groans and gnashing of teeth emitted from the ranks . |
| 7 | Two assemblages differ from this pattern in having deficits of both molars and incisors over the numbers of teeth lost from the jaws ( Table 3.9 ) . |
| 8 | Moths fluttered in the light of lamps hanging from the trees as if dancing to the soft , rhythmic jingle of the cicadas . |
| 9 | 15.42 The list of activities suggested in the programmes of study , combined with the variety of suggested groupings , is wide in its implications . |
| 10 | The additional exercises certainly led to a greater use of patterns made by the dancers rolling or posturing over and on the floor . |
| 11 | The former , while mainly concerned with the technicalities of Treasury operations , made a number of proposals relating to the functions of senior civil servants . |
| 12 | Normalisation is a set of rules applied to the relations which simplifies the model . |
| 13 | A TEI conformant document must be describable by means of a dtd built up from the TEI tagsets according to a set of rules documented within the Guidelines , defining how tagsets may be combined and modified . |
| 14 | The ethical positivist is likely to seek the development of three broad directions ; first , the drafting and annunciation through the UN of a comprehensive set of rules applying to the relationships between states , including where necessary cognisance of those aspects of internal affairs which are of international significance . |
| 15 | As they moved along the route she became aware of birds singing in the trees , and of sheep grazing peacefully in the fields . |
| 16 | The cock-of-the-rock belongs to a group of birds known as the cotingas , closely related to the manakins . |
| 17 | A substantial number of prisoners participated in the riots ‘ at least in part , because of the conditions in which they were held and the way in which they were treated . |
| 18 | 95% of complaints are actually dealt with outside the courts ; 5% of cases get into the courts . |
| 19 | The number of ‘ true cases of cattle theft ’ , that is the number of cases known to the authorities less those in which it was determined that no crime had been committed , declined in the Southern and Western Provinces from 1,160 in 1908 to 394 in 1914 . |
| 20 | Their observations were only partially based on the fall in the number of cases brought before the courts . |
| 21 | The inclusion of the former originated less from public concern over any alleged malpractice than from lack of confidence , felt mainly but not wholly within the legal profession , in procedures whereby ultimate responsibility for prosecuting as well as investigating in the vast majority of cases rested with the police . |
| 22 | Most people in both action and control groups were receiving home help ( and there was little difference in the mean number of hours received by the samples : 3.8 hours for the action group and 3.3 hours for the control group ) . |
| 23 | Even at the best of times fighting in the ranks can cause disarray and confusion in the army . |
| 24 | In the hands of the American zoologists Jacques Loeb ( 1859–1924 ) , T. H. Morgan ( 1866–1945 ) , and H.J. Muller ( 1890–1967 ) from the early 1900s onwards , the study of mutations induced by the radiations emitted by radium led to major advances in the science of genetics . |
| 25 | The groupings of performers seen in the livrets suggest that wind ensembles functioned to provide blocks of sound that is , that they played as consorts of like instruments . |
| 26 | However pleased she was to revel in the shimmersilk robes of garnet and lavender , their perfumed delight was as insubstantial as light through caramel compared with the security of the only place the fresh-born Chesarynth knew — and the gateway to the starscape of meanings called through the tides of her blood . |
| 27 | Using pigment analysis , cross-section analysis , energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis ( EDX ) , laser microspectral analysis ( LMA ) and X-rays among other techniques , Dr Roy and his colleagues were able to show how these great paintings evolved , from the type of canvases used to the pigments and the painting techniques themselves . |
| 28 | But if The Order of Things is thus concerned to analyse ‘ ensembles of discourses ’ that do not form a totality , it does not focus on the ways in which such forms of knowledges relate to the institutions in which and through which they are produced . |
| 29 | So in theory a computer , by comparing the pattern of voltages registered by the voltmeters at all the portholes , could calculate the pattern of obstacles around the fish . |
| 30 | The critique of functionalism led writers to stress the ‘ relative autonomy ’ of the capitalist state , manifested in its existence as a set of institutions separate from the classes of civil society . |