Example sentences of "[verb] of the [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you know of the two men 's relationship ? |
| 2 | Frederica was irresistibly reminded of the two dolls leaning lifelessly on the doll 's house dresser , staring , in The Tale of Tao Bad Mice . |
| 3 | The Executive Council , consisting of the two premiers , would meet at least once every six months to co-ordinate the implementation of the Supreme Council 's decisions . |
| 4 | The Federation of Malaysia , consisting of the 11 states of Peninsular Malaysia and the two states of Sarawak and Sabah situated on the northern coast of the island of Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , is an independent member of the Commonwealth and a parliamentary monarchy . |
| 5 | The Federation of Malaysia , consisting of the 11 states of Peninsular Malaysia and the two states of Sarawak and Sabah situated on the northern coast of the island of Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , is a parliamentary monarchy . |
| 6 | There was a trinity within everyone , consisting of the three powers of the soul which corresponded to the three divine Persons : memory , understanding and will ; it enabled us to be , to know and to love what we are in the same way as God knows and loves himself . |
| 7 | Because the Executive Council , consisting of the three officials and four elected members of the Legislative Council , did not have majority support from the elected members of the Legislative Council , its budget proposals were radically amended by the finance committee . |
| 8 | The helpful thread of Ariadne ; the artistic weavings of Arachne ; the spinning and snipping of the three Fates . |
| 9 | Because the insect is on both sheets of glass , you can think of the two sheets as passing , at an angle , through each other . |
| 10 | Have you heard of the Thirty Years War ? |
| 11 | The TNF relation COURSE will now consist only of one tuple relating to the ‘ course ’ B74 and the TNF relation COURSE-MODULE will consist of the THREE tuples relating to the COURSE B94 . |
| 12 | These consist of the two Archbishops ( of York and Canterbury ) , the three senior bishops ( of London , Durham and Winchester ) plus 21 others . |
| 13 | Whether from shame or fear of the all-pervasive Mukhabarat security police , people are reluctant to talk of the four civilians in Maan who were killed - they do not use the word ‘ martyred ’ as would Palestinians on the West Bank of the river — during the ‘ sorrowful events ’ as they are known in official parlance . |
| 14 | Disraeli was later to talk of the Two Nations , the Rich and the Poor , who could exist side by side in the same country with no knowledge of each other 's way of life . |
| 15 | In Fig. 11–5 a comparison is made of the two grants . |
| 16 | The apparatus consisted of a delicate torsion balance from which were hung masses made of the two materials under comparison ( e.g. 30 mg masses of gold and aluminium ) . |
| 17 | This is reflected in the relative use made of the two methods ; though use of the Hague Evidence Convention is increasing and may ultimately change this pattern . |
| 18 | A survey has been made of the twenty-six judges who were active Law Lords during the period 1952–68 together with two Lord Chief Justices , two Masters of the Rolls and one president of what was then the Probate , Divorce and Admiralty Division . |
| 19 | The process of the development from parable to allegory can be clearly seen when a comparison is made of the three accounts in the Synoptic Gospels . |
| 20 | The same must be said of the two sets of Images , for although there is no shortage of incidental felicities , I feel that the pianist is apt to over- project this music instead of allowing it to speak for itself . |
| 21 | What would the two children we once were have thought of the two adults we had become ? |
| 22 | Two classes of category were identified : the first consisted of the 41 types occurring most frequently in a window of + or - 2 word positions , to capture those words in close grammatical construction with the node . |
| 23 | The Northern Territories ( known in the Soviet Union as the Kuriles ) consisted of the four islands of Shikotan , Etorofu , Kunashiri and the Habomai group , seized by Soviet forces in the final days of the Pacific War in 1945 . |
| 24 | They 've not in the past shown themselves to be very honest erm nor very keen on going into their own archives , and I think it 's , actually takes people like me , who live on the border-lines if you like of the two cultures , to go in and discover erm sometimes embarrassing documents , embarrassing information , to confront them with it , in their own language , so that they have to take stock . |
| 25 | In the meantime , in order to prepare to work the system themselves , the Corporation wished to be rid of the fifteen cars that were the property of the B.E.T. , and asked them to remove them forthwith . |
| 26 | You always hear of the 2 goals they had disallowed … so ! ? |
| 27 | If keyboarding of the two texts could not be run in parallel , some other arrangement would have to be adopted which allowed the overlapping of phases . |
| 28 | Nothing more was seen or heard of the two men , and after a few days , the event was forgotten . |
| 29 | I have spoken of the three triggers , those stimuli on which Tod 's body gives judgment . |
| 30 | This monograph consists of the nine papers presented at a two day international symposium held at the University of Manchester in April 1988 . |