Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest component of these exports was textiles ; in March 1990 the USA had agreed to double Turkey 's quota of textile imports , and in May 1991 the EC increased by 30 per cent the quota for Turkish textiles entering the European market , in which around 40 per cent of imports already came from Turkey . |
| 2 | Liver sections of rats chronically intoxicated with phalloidin were also used , as previously described . |
| 3 | A boycott of classes also began in support of the hunger strikers . |
| 4 | BEFORE THE END of his mammoth production Birds of Europe and his Monograph of Toucans ever came into view , Gould began planning his next major project . |
| 5 | It was based in part on the resurrection of ideas originally propounded by G. H. Mead . |
| 6 | To see examples of life thousands of years ago unearthed by archaeologists just a few miles away . |
| 7 | To see examples of life thousands of years ago unearthed by archaeologists just a few miles away . |
| 8 | Crystal Palace winger Salako — he broke down again earlier this season — and Ian Durrant of Rangers both went to America to have a dead person 's tendon implanted in the knee . |
| 9 | In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries this reforming enthusiasm was channelled into the foundation of Orders more oriented towards service of the whole community — the mendicant Dominicans and Franciscans were travelling preachers and the Augustinian Canons ( known as Austin Friars ) were committed to lives of pastoral service . |
| 10 | The eastern one was only partly examined , revealing towards the rear a series of pits probably dug for gravel , though no buildings were identified . |
| 11 | A survey of college students showed that 51 per cent of men never dreamed in colour , while only 31 per cent of women never did . " |
| 12 | For example , where pragmatics is construed as the study of grammatically encoded aspects of context , we might want to say : ( 18 ) f(s)=c where c is the set of contexts potentially encoded by elements of S i.e. f is a theory that " computes out " of sentences the contexts which they encode Or , alternatively , where pragmatics is defined as the study of constraints on the appropriateness of utterances , we could say : ( 19 ) f(u)=a where A has just two elements , denoting the appropriate vs. the inappropriate utterances i.e. f is a theory that selects just those felicitous or appropriate pairings of sentences and contexts — or identifies the set of appropriate utterances Or , where pragmatics is defined ostensively as a list of topics , we could say : ( 20 ) f(u)=b where each element of B is a combination of a speech act , a set of presuppositions , a set of conversational implicatures , etc. i.e. f is a theory that assigns to each utterance the speech act it performs , the propositions it presupposes , the propositions it conversationally implicates , etc . |