Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 To examine the tactics of talk we need first to consider …
2 I have looked at your planet Uulaa , and I know what sorts of fun you would seek there .
3 We send yellow cards on all sorts of Ter-bin-a-fiene It 's on a day , I 'll give you fifty six .
4 It is possible that the question you are asking is different from the sorts of discussion you have encountered in what you have read on the subject .
5 From these sorts of consideration it became clear that light is made up of lots of particles .
6 Regardless of which product you choose and , if you produce different sorts of document you may well end up with more than one , the important thing is to select the correct tool for the job .
7 Oh he said they 've got all sorts of aggro he said .
8 For him , the sense of a sentence is determined by the sorts of situation we count in favour of the sentence being true , in such a way that the sentence with that sense ( i.e. as we understand it ) can not be false if the sort of situation we count as making it true occurs .
9 There are several sorts of truth I could tell about this decade of work .
10 He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions .
11 Songs , in the Songs of Fellowship it 's number one sixty one , one hundred and sixty one .
12 Next the Manager must decide which methods of transfer he wishes .
13 When SAVE was launched in 1975 , good photographs of endangered buildings were very scarce , but with today 's improved methods of printing we can use any reasonable snapshot we are sent .
14 We need to be much more precise about the aspects of man that engage our attention and the methods of study we propose to adopt .
15 Moreover , with such confidence in the methods of science it is not surprising that educated men of the second half of the century were immensely impressed with its achievements .
16 Because of these methods of production he is also able to make special tools to order , one such recent order was for hooked turning tools .
17 After all the signals of rejection she 'd sent out at the apartment — despite Marlin , despite the dangerous streets , despite the hour , despite their bitter history — she 'd come , bearing the gift of her body to his bed .
18 Although it takes a few minutes for the body to send out any strong signals of satiety it is probable that chewing and swallowing movements do begin to send messages to the brain .
19 He says that if Sainsbury 's is allowed to build a supermarket on the outskirts of town it 'll be the end of many small business in the town .
20 On the outskirts of Plzeň I see that bizarre mixture of heavy industrial plant and allotments which is so characteristic of almost every major East European city .
21 The temperature in Bardufoss regularly reached minus 30° C here on the outskirts of Corlu it is frequently plus 35° C at midday .
22 In his outpourings to the readers of Ink he had compared bureaucrats to the police , the army and prison officers .
23 He did n't deserve it , yet she could n't stop the cold sick waves of fear she felt at what might happen to him .
24 It is not , though , beyond the bounds of possibility they were used to control the large numbers of rats that inhabited the countryside in the Middle Ages and thereafter .
25 Whenever the courts draw a line to mark out the bounds of duty they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the responsibility of the defendant .
26 Collins only wants a wife because he feels that in the eyes of society it is about time for him to be married and to have settled down in life .
27 In the halls of Death she dwells , and in the garden of Queen Persephone …
28 When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month .
29 I could say that in spite of ties of affection I have been lonely all my life .
30 In the view of successive Secretaries of State it is essential in the interests of national security and of any other grounds for which a warrant may be issued that no such inference should ever be capable of being drawn .
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