Example sentences of "[verb] of the [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Lastly there is a set of unoccupied ( empty ) levels ( sometimes called Rydberg levels or virtual levels ) consisting of the sub-shells 4d , 4f and all orbitals whose principal quantum number is 5 or more . |
| 2 | This network defines acceptable noun phrases as consisting of the categories determiner , optional adjective string , noun and optional prepositional phrases . |
| 3 | You may have noticed that the description we have given of the blocks world is quite unlike all the descriptions of the eight queens task . |
| 4 | Mm right now , now you mention that you phoned the police about when you had your purse stolen , erm are y have , what do you think of the police presence around the flats ? |
| 5 | I have heard of the Hibs casuals though , they attacked a Manc baggy band called Paris Angels a couple of years back and left the singer with stitches . |
| 6 | Gav , you speak of the Batts situation as if it were work : - ) |
| 7 | The temperature at a pressure of 1 bar is taken as a reference point from which , using the adiabatic lapse-rates of the particular mix of materials at each depth and their equations of state ( section 2.1.4 ) , calculations are made of the temperatures pressures and densities at greater depths . |
| 8 | Listening to the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) saying that it was not the Government who had thought of the citizens charter but Mr. Herbert Morrison reminded me that old habits die hard — in particular , the old habit , much beloved of socialist Governments everywhere , of rewriting history . |
| 9 | Can we move on then to erm purchase of the sports pitches . |
| 10 | It is quite clear getting rid of the Wages Councils would result in lower wages , poor jobs , and a move away from equal pay . |
| 11 | ‘ We believe the Tories know of the plans PDAG had for developing Welsh medium education because they 've spent years trying to avoid financing them . |
| 12 | There is scope for a thesis of sorts on the distinction between the Commission on Instructional Technology 's definition : " Instructional technology means the media born of the communications revolution which can be used for instructional purposes alongside the teacher , the textbook and the blackboard " ( AVI , April 1970 : 89 ) ; and the National Council for Educational Technology 's definition , for the UK , of educational technology : " the development , application and evaluation of systems , techniques and aids to improve the process of human learning . " |
| 13 | Please can the average age of the Alumni body be better reflected by the membership of our Alumni Committee which , judging from their photograph , is well beyond 65+ ? |
| 14 | He asked what had become of the keys Ruby had used . |
| 15 | The review that we undertook of the calls shows that the peak demands in are between eight A M and twelve midnight , so the four officers will work a sixteen hour duty scheme er of eight till four , four til midnight , and then the cover between midnight and A M will come fr eight A M will come from as it does at present . |
| 16 | Hormone replacement therapy consists of the hormones oestrogen and progesterone taken daily to help replace those lost or produced erratically at the menopause . |
| 17 | The girls , as in her mind she thought of the Misses Cardings , had trimmed it with a deep tone of lime-green velvet ribbon and in the heart of the bow at the side they had placed two tiny red silk rosebuds . |
| 18 | He thought of the funerals Timothy Gedge hung around . |
| 19 | Requirements concerning the degree of processing or working were made more flexible by doubling the tolerance of non-originating components to 10 per cent , abolishing the double threshold rule for some products and lowering the percentage of added value required for others , and reducing the threshold for obtaining derogations ( that is , waiving of the rules-of-origin requirements ) from 60 per cent to 45 per cent of local added value in finished products . |
| 20 | Shadow Trade Secretary Robin Cook threatened to release confidential papers which he claims show Mr Major as Foreign Secretary knew of the arms-to-Saddam policy . |
| 21 | If David had ever learned of the things Phipps had said to her , he would probably … |
| 22 | It was to be many years later that I learned of the strictures Tata had accepted once he had proposed marriage to my mother , a Roman Catholic . |
| 23 | Think of the sacrifices Daddy 's made . |
| 24 | I started to think of the stories Henry Mendez had told about Russell , piecing little bits of it together now . |
| 25 | She told her wrist computer to give the speeder the settings for the shuttle hangar , and as the automatic pilot cut in she turned , intending to climb up to what was left of the weapons deck . |
| 26 | And er he he always used to say of me , he say , Well you know er he was on the Executive , he said of the Trades Council . |
| 27 | But by all means if you 've got something bring it along and that would give us a starter for five I 'm keen to see us also trying to once we 've got this going going down the S P Q road ah had lunch with the other day at I mean it was I mean she was n't meeting him necessarily wearing a B A I E hat of not um and I think she I think she touched on that though while while while they were lunching. erm I put down progress because I was thinking of the Pilgrims Progress at the time |
| 28 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 29 | All that 's now left to show of the nights activity , are the tyre marks on the road . |
| 30 | All that 's now left to show of the nights activity , are the tyre marks on the road . |