Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of audits carried out by each firm was taken from our database at 1992 . |
| 2 | When there were still twenty square miles of maps left over after all the available floor was used up , she created a curtained alcove into which the jigsaw could extend . |
| 3 | This brings the total number of plans taken out since 1987 to 2.11m and total investment to £6.14bn . |
| 4 | Fifty-three were the sons of MPs ( 18 per cent , much like the 17 per cent of Liberals ) and twelve of these sat for the same seat , although few like Stanley Baldwin succeeded directly ; fifteen of these fifty-three were sons of Liberals , further evidence of the value of recruits brought over in 1886 . |
| 5 | We do not report that 22% of all tonsillectomies for glue ear in Yorkshire were done as day case procedures but that 22% of tonsillectomies carried out as single procedures were . |
| 6 | Each has a vertical central stem and horizontal tiers of branches trained out on either side . |
| 7 | In rural districts the banks ' main purpose was the receiving of bills brought in by local traders and farmers . |
| 8 | There is a network of disadvantage in society in terms of income , access to housing , educational and employment opportunities , etc. , and large numbers of families caught up in this network are relatively deprived and vulnerable to breakdown . |
| 9 | The principles underlying course development were established in a set of aims drawn up in 1972 and reaffirmed by the Modular Course Committee ( MCC ) in 1978 and 1983 . |
| 10 | One can not simply look at the kinds of problems thrown up by particular social structures and economic situations and analyse policies as responses to those problems , since policies themselves influence the character of the societies in which they are adopted . |
| 11 | of patients operated on within three months of their names appearing on the register ? |
| 12 | Pictures of cats made out of synthetic material and stuck on to plastic plates are available in virtually every store . |
| 13 | FEARS that a new doping scandal was about to erupt were firmly quashed yesterday by the Jockey Club , which announced that a series of tests carried out on recent race- course flops had proved negative . |
| 14 | A lot of marriages staggered along with less . |
| 15 | There is a ritual in the way in which the pickets rise from the shelter of their lean-to and manoeuvre for position with a handful of police kitted out in fluorescent bibs . |
| 16 | Back in the Rathausplatz a seven-piece jazz band of students dressed up in 1920s ' costume was keeping a large crowd entertained . |
| 17 | Thomas and Kassab recently reported on the substantial benefits of fluoridation for the dental health of women aged up to 32 years who had lived continuously on Anglesey and who were attending St David 's Maternity Hospital between July 1986 and July 1987 for their confinement . |
| 18 | Examples of all types are plentiful in different regions : the long cairn of Balnagowan in Aberdeenshire , fragmented into heaps of stones lined up over some 230 feet ; the well-preserved Clyde cairn of Brackley in Kintyre , excavated in 1952 to reveal both inhumation and cremation procedures , with food vessels and jet necklace beads ; and the protracted cemetery of Nether Largie tombs below Kilmartin village in Argyll . |