Example sentences of "[vb past] four [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One volume , but two books : title-page of Mathematical Magick ( 1680 ) , which described four methods of flight : ( 1 ) by spirits or Angels ; ( 2 ) by the help of fowls ; ( 3 ) by wings fastened to the body ; ( 4 ) by a flying chariot . |
| 2 | The report , written by consultant Geoffrey Sinclair , used four sets of government data on changes in land use to give " consensus " figures . |
| 3 | We used four sinkfuls of hot water , made up of 14 ltr of hot , 4 ltr of cold per sinkful , plus one sinkful of cold to rinse glasses and a final sinkful to wipe draining board , clean bowl , etc . |
| 4 | For our analysis we used four measures of dental disease . |
| 5 | The court heard that when the Deputy County Engineer inspected the dump site on 15 April , he found four bags of pelleted asbestos exposed on the site , pellets scattered on part of the site and for 70 yards along the access road and one pellet at the entrance gate to the site . |
| 6 | Judge Alfredo Gustilo said in Manila Burton 's claim that he did not know the contraband was among his belongings was ‘ absurd ’ because customs police found four blocks of hashish hidden in the pair of shoes he had on at the time of his arrest . |
| 7 | STOCKHOLM ( Reuter ) — A prosecutor formally charged four men of Palestinian origin with a series of terrorist bombings against various US and Israeli offices in Copenhagen and Stockholm between 1985 and 1986 . |
| 8 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 9 | Twite ( 199Oa ; 1990c ) analysed four years of daily closing price data on futures on the Australian Stock Exchange All Ordinaries Share Price Index , computing returns as the natural logarithm of the price relatives . |
| 10 | In addition to having two such obviously up-and-coming youngsters as Myra and Janice , Scotland contributed four members of the nine-strong Great Britain and Ireland team for the Vagliano Trophy match in Italy , while they also had a representative — namely , Julie Forbes in the British side of four which won the team event at the Canadian National Championship . |
| 11 | She stirred four spoons of sugar into her cup . |
| 12 | Compiled from information contained in StB and police files , the list of alleged informers comprised four members of the Communist Party , three from the ruling Civic Forum , two from the Society for Moravia and Silesia and one from the People 's Party . |
| 13 | A breastshot waterwheel built of wood and iron , sixteen feet in diameter , drove four pairs of millstones until the mill ceased to operate commercially in 1955 . |
| 14 | Between these two peaks there intervened four decades of joyless satyromania , two or three hundred invariably unsatisfactory encounters with ‘ dumb pump handlers ’ : working-class youths , often from army backgrounds , who cheerfully milked Ackerley for all he was worth and then disappeared . |
| 15 | Patient 's father Tom Stephenson claimed his son Ian suffered four years of abuse . |
| 16 | Rensis Likert distinguished four systems of management : |
| 17 | We identified four pairs of complementary roles commonly adopted by teachers and parents in their encounters with each other : |
| 18 | Stevens identified four types of measurement scales : nominal , ordinal , interval and ratio scales . |
| 19 | Lord Denning identified four categories of occupier : ( a ) A landlord who lets premises . |
| 20 | The revelation that the villagers recognised four types of diarrhoea seems to have come as a surprise to BRAC , suggesting insufficient research on the part of BRAC prior to launching its programme . |
| 21 | The swoops followed four months of intense undercover work centred on the Scotland Road area . |
| 22 | Edgar Schein developed four models of individuals in general , which have implications for their roles in employing organisations . |
| 23 | With judicious use of hot water , I enjoyed four cups of tea , and then found that the rain had stopped . |
| 24 | With Candarli Ibrahim Pasa 's succeeding Bayezid Pasa as Grand Vezir in late 825/late 1422 ( ? — more likely 824/1421 ) , however , Molla Fenari enjoyed four years of enormous influence in the state . |
| 25 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 26 | Earlier , in the first systematic exposition of his new conception , Marx ( Marx and Engels , 1845–6 ) indicated four stages of development in the division of labour and the forms of property , in European societies , from tribal property to the communal and state property of antiquity , then to feudal or estates property , and finally to modern capitalist property . |
| 27 | Whereas Indian , Malay , Arab and Chinese merchants had by and large traded peacefully for the exotic treasures of the islands since before the time of Christ , the marauding European buccaneers sought to own and control the real estate itself , and began four centuries of infighting . |
| 28 | The Parachute Regiment seemed to have the best time , for it was based in Europe yet each-company spent four months of each year abroad on training attachments . |
| 29 | From these four components sprang four characteristics of ‘ traditional ’ policy . |
| 30 | When this happens , knit four rows of plain knitting . |