Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] of [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six teams of experts are going to Russia and two to Ukraine for placements of six months to a year ; each team consists of between four and six engineers , who will install computerised protection systems and leak detection devices . |
| 2 | When compared with A.J. Foyt , Mr Mansell came to the Indianapolis 500 with no record to speak of in Indy Car racing . |
| 3 | As previously mentioned , this is not the type of inhibition talked of in Freudian books which , in that context , means to suppress feelings . |
| 4 | This is surely the self spoken of in modern terms as the ego , the lower nature which St Paul urges Christians to crucify , so that the true self , created by God and nourished by the Spirit of Christ , may take over . |
| 5 | These matters confirm me in the view already expressed that the disturbance complained of in this case is not actionable . |
| 6 | But these schemes , dramatic as they seemed , fell somewhat short of the comprehensive social planning dreamt of by some to eliminate social evils . |
| 7 | For an asset disposed of after 5 April 1985 , a form of relief known as an indexation allowance may be claimed . |
| 8 | Though deeply Anglo-Catholic he rejected what the world thought of as Anglo-Catholic fuss , a mistaking of the right vestment for the right religion . |
| 9 | Initially on arriving at the site a panel consisting of between four and six persons is chosen , after careful screening to eliminate those with poor olfactory perception , to observe the odour . |
| 10 | It is usual for a class to consist of between 12 and 16 students divided approximately equally between male and female , and this size of class is likely to be maintained throughout the training course until the finals period in the last two terms . |
| 11 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |