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

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1 Behind the specific accounts of meaning we offer in this book lies the general theory of Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1974 ) .
2 And what the other bit of information you got any odd snippets of information you 've got written down there .
3 And I 'll remember , as well , those strange fragments of memory I had when we arrived , because they certainly were n't anything from my memory .
4 bloody packets of blood you know what oh , and it 's ten percent of
5 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 .
6 After a 20 minute incubation at 22°C , MgCl 2 ( to 10mM ) , CaCl 2 ( to 2mM ) and 0.0625 units of DNase I were added , mixed and incubated for a further 60 seconds , after which time 20µg of proteinase K in 100µl of a buffer containing 1% SDS , 100µg/ml tRNA , 200mM NaCl , 20mM EDTA was added and the reaction incubated at 50°C for a further 20 mins .
7 I took the coach , and after thirty-six hours of travelling I got down at Thornfield village , and almost ran across the fields in my hurry to see the well-known house again , and its owner .
8 They receive no extra remuneration whatsoever for their duties although at some times of course it can be quite dangerous .
9 In an official statement , the BRE said that the few cases of rot it knew about were in every case directly attributable to rising damp or to rain penetration :
10 However , even when the dinner was over , their ‘ guests ’ showed no sign of leaving , at which point the Emperor began to pull on the ends of his moustache — one of the few signs of irritation he ever allowed himself .
11 In some cases of damage it might be wise to ascertain whether or not there was any similar damage prior to the accident .
12 In some cases of urgency he can introduce regulations with a shelf life of up to 12 months without consultation ( s11(5) ) .
13 After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends .
14 In our first few hours of membership we are highly attuned to some of the assumptions .
15 Corbett and Ranulf finished off the meagre scraps of food they had begged from the kitchen and hurried down .
16 Panel ( A ) : Nuclei treated with different concentrations of DNase I were digested with Kpn I , the blot probed with 5' Ea Sac I/Sal I ( Sc/S ) ( see Panel ( d ) filled box for exact location ) .
17 Panel ( B ) : Nuclei treated with different concentrations of DNase I were digested with Eco RI and the blot probed with Ea 695 ( P/K ) .
18 ‘ There are very few aspects of Englishness I actually hate .
19 Colours also may get distorted as the eye lens gets yellower with age ; in some pictures of Mulready he believed he could demonstrate this defect .
20 Sir Thomas , however , or rather his stomach , clearly did not agree , for halfway through the entremets , with a few words of apology he absented himself from-the table .
21 After a few months of therapy it is usual for even the most intense form of cat phobia to disappear .
22 It makes it easier for it to fall out , when a woman is pregnant , in the last few months of pregnancy she produces lots of hormones which relax the muscles in her body do n't they ?
23 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 .
24 When they entered the jungle again , the Moi several times spotted banteng , but what few traces of seladang they found proved to be cold trails .
25 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 .
26 The word seemed to him to describe perfectly the smelly , often damp cakes of earth they were forced to burn since coal supplies had been so reduced by the constant cancellation of goods trains .
27 First , I draw out the outline of the motif on to a mylar sheet , with all the outlines for the different areas of colour I want to use .
28 But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive .
29 In some areas of science we want to ask questions about phenomena of which children already have experience .
30 It is possible to sequence learning in interdisciplinary contexts , but for some kinds of content-sequence it is undoubtedly much easier to keep a steady eye on the subject .
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