Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sometimes employers only think of workplace nurseries and are put off by the expense . |
| 2 | Reports by other human rights organizations also spoke of government efforts to " Islamicize " the Nuba , and of widespread killings and " disappearances " by government-backed militias , in addition to looting by SPLA forces . |
| 3 | Dykes are vertically discordant intrusions often composed of dolerite and they frequently exist in swarms . |
| 4 | He uses these elements effectively to speak of validity in the aesthetic field . |
| 5 | Their fossils often occur gregariously as they lived , forming beds largely composed of fossil shells . |
| 6 | It was a boarding-house where foreigners and theatrical folk lived in upstairs rooms and the kitchens always smelt of stew and roasting meat , currant buns and freshly baked bread . |
| 7 | The Social Climbers by Chris Darwin and John Amy ( Mainstream , £12.99 ) — A black-tie dinner in a blizzard on the 22,000-foot summit of Peru 's highest and most unpronounceable mountain , where the guests almost die of hypothermia , sets a world record , raises money for charity and gets Charles Darwin 's great-great-grandson on to a Japanese television show for freaks . |
| 8 | Builders also warned of disaster with 9 per cent fewer homes being built . |
| 9 | The above bare statement of the facts tells nothing of the mental agonies suffered by persons wrongly accused of murder and by the members of their families . |
| 10 | To undertake this kind of management requires considerable knowledge and close personal relations between central and field workers , qualities only bred of confidence and maturity of judgement which can only come with time . |
| 11 | IT WILL probably be a month before the results of an official inquiry are published and sceptics silenced , but experts in New Zealand are already calling the voyage of the Rose-Noelle one of the most remarkable stories ever told of survival at sea . |
| 12 | The bridesmaids wore very pretty dresses also made of ivory wild silk with pale pink sashes and circlets of white flowers on their heads . |
| 13 | There was general unemployment in the country which in turn affected the attendance of audiences so offers of work were dwindling . |
| 14 | Twelve patients also complained of diarrhoea defined either as frequent passage of small amounts of stools or as habitual passage of liquid or semiliquid stools . |
| 15 | The verderers were intended to act as a check upon the paid Forest officers in the interests of the Crown , but the numerous instances already cited of peculation and extortion on the part of the latter seem to indicate that the verderers were in many instances overawed by the authority and influence of the wardens and foresters of fee . |
| 16 | One does get the feeling , none the less , that many traditional teachers still think of film as being a classroom novelty useful to give their students a welcome treat : yet many students , watching the grey , flickering images uncertainly projected on to unsuitable screens by elderly and noisy equipment in stuffy ill-curtained rooms , may be forgiven for wanting a bit of first-rate formal teaching as a relief . |
| 17 | Not as many as women die of course but men even die of breast cancer . |
| 18 | The Franchise Affair ( 1948 ) , a story of two women wrongly accused of kidnapping , and based on an eighteenth-century cause célèbre , was another popular work , later to be made into a film . |
| 19 | Suitable transport boxes usually made of polypropylene or cardboard with and without filters on the air vents are commercially available ( Williton Box Co . |
| 20 | Free marketeers even talked of privatisation . |
| 21 | Our politicians still speak of help coming just around the corner , but in the inner cities of England and America , among the chronically unemployed , among the young faced with the long-term prospects of AIDS or the imminent threat of annihilation , there is little talk of hope . |
| 22 | German economic theoreticians now talk of konfliktpartnerschaft , permanent but not mutually destructive struggle , as being the key to the country 's remarkable economic performance . |
| 23 | In contrast to reaggregates using whole stromal cell preparations , lymphocytes were not recovered from reaggregate cultures of 14-day precursors and stromal preparations previously depleted of class II + epithelial cells . |