Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over there , generations of pharaohs slept in the tombs , cut deep into the red cliffs of the valley . |
| 2 | Just under 70% of authorities participated in the survey and nearly 400 data sheets were completed ( see Appendix 1 for sample details ) . |
| 3 | A group of musicians stood in the angle of one of the buttresses of the cathedral playing tambour and fife whilst the Dean and Chapter , garlands of roses on their heads , danced in solemn procession around the severed head of a buck which had been placed on a pole , its brown eyes staring glassily over those who now rejoiced at its death . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Zimbabwe has begun an experimental scheme to track its remaining rhino by the use of transponders implanted in the animals ' skin . |
| 6 | A number of youngsters fainted in the crush and had to be treated by St John Ambulance volunteers . |
| 7 | A British Army team of instructors arrived in the country in early April to begin training officer cadets and junior officers . |
| 8 | In December a series of articles appeared in The Times by two journalists , Pat Butcher and Peter Nichols , on drug abuse in athletics . |
| 9 | For Study 4 the total number of films watched in the judgment phase was slightly reduced as was the mean length of a film in order to allow the full stimulus set to appear in the recognition phase , this effectively doubles the amount of information each subject gives in the recognition phase , fortunately this was a part of the experiment which previous subjects had generally found agreeably challenging and intrinsically motivating . |
| 10 | Thousands of bystanders disappeared in the process . |
| 11 | ‘ What kinds of apes lived in the forest in those days ? |
| 12 | It was a place of moss and mud and standing pools , myriads of flies twirled in the sun-rays , and dogs and children ran out to greet the newcomers in a raucous chorus . |
| 13 | Many different varieties of apples emerged in the US and its apple industry was set in motion by Henderson Luelling — a fortune hunter who went west during the gold rush in a covered wagon full of soil and apple trees . |
| 14 | A year from now , in all likelihood , the world will look back on a merely disappointing year of little or no growth in Britain and America , of solid progress in Germany and Japan , of catastrophes skirted in the Gulf and the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | Lots of things lived in the woods , all weathers . |
| 16 | How many people what kind of number of servants stayed in the house ? |
| 17 | A few of the larger towns in England had the right to elect a council to run their own affairs , but the great majority of Englishmen lived in the countryside where Justices of the Peace ran things in the way that gentlemen had always done . |
| 18 | Advances were made in education , and the number of literates grew in the period 1910 to 1945 , but it is important not to overestimate this growth . |
| 19 | A lot of children died in the village . |
| 20 | And , indeed , the sheer prevalence of Essene thought in the Holy Land at the time also bears witness to a congregation more numerous than a few conclaves of ascetics sequestered in the desert . |
| 21 | RNA was also prepared from cells infected in the presence of either cycloheximide or cytosine arabinoside , which would allow the detection of RNAs synthesized in the absence of protein synthesis and DNA replication , respectively ( 29 ) . |
| 22 | As Dr Haidar spoke a party of sweepers appeared in the lane , coming from the opposite direction to the marriage party . |
| 23 | During 1790 , while these meetings were taking place , an important series of letters appeared in The Gentleman 's Magazine . |
| 24 | The development of micro-computers resulted in the use of more isolated dedicated systems for just one trainee . |
| 25 | For all these reasons , the education of women came in the category of voluntaristic innovations strongly desired by government — into the category of social improvements which relied on the example and inspiration of individuals . |
| 26 | El Salvador has one of the highest percentages of women sterilized in the world and the question is raised as to how this has come about . |
| 27 | Lines of tiles shimmered in the slivers of moonlight . |
| 28 | As well as the extensive variety of events enjoyed in the theatre and public spaces of the Arts Centre , there is a huge programme which the Arts Centre undertakes with local children through schools . |
| 29 | This sequence of events resulted in the intervention of Offa . |
| 30 | A not dissimilar sequence of events occurred in the Baltic States . |