Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery . |
| 2 | A discharge from the urethra can sometimes be demonstrated during the medical examination , but , since the urethral opening in the female is hidden between the folds of the labia , such a discharge will not be apparent to the woman herself ; even if she examines herself , the natural moistness of this part of the body will tend to mask any contribution from the urethra . |
| 3 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 4 | Council representatives heard about the experiences of two representatives — Tony Fox FCIB , Worthing , and David Dimmer FCIB , Bristol . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , you 've heard about the traces of tranquillisers found in the deceased 's blood ? ’ |
| 6 | Yet he also makes clear that a number of the best poets in his anthology were unbothered by developments in London : ‘ Some homely writers had clearly never heard about the requirements of polite taste ’ [ ECWP , p. xxvi ] . |
| 7 | The bronze sheeting was held to the cap , cheek-pieces , neckguard and mask by fluted strips of bronze riveted through the edges of the foil to the cap of the helmet . |
| 8 | Hanson 's Peabody subsidiary is criticized for the effects of its coal mining activities on Navajo land in Arizona . |
| 9 | Professor Bourdieu 's work is of great , great value and is one of my main sources of inspiration for the sociology of culture developed through the pages of this book . |
| 10 | It also , and this is new , includes ‘ the type of company and its principal business activities , ’ the type to be ‘ given by reference to the classification prescribed for the purposes of this section , ’ while the principal business activities ‘ may be given by reference to categories of any prescribed system of classifying business activities . ’ |
| 11 | Penteli was an important quarry near Athens in Greece and recent research has distinguished between the products of the upper and lower quarries . |
| 12 | There are regular guided tours of the state rooms of the chateau , whose contents and decoration were mostly arranged during the restorations of the nineteenth century and are not very remarkable , with the exception of the tapestries . |
| 13 | The complicated ballot sheet was also relatively easily altered for the purposes of electoral fraud . |
| 14 | Commonly , rectal distensibility is determined as rectal compliance and calculated as the changes of volume and intrarectal pressure ( ) . |
| 15 | A cheese ‘ n ‘ wine evening has been arranged for the co-ordinators of the existing neighbourhood watch branches in the Village Hall on Monday , 28th September at 7.30 pm . |
| 16 | A cheese ‘ n ‘ wine evening has been arranged for the co-ordinators of the existing neighbourhood watch branches in the Village Hall on Monday , 28th September at 7.30 pm . |
| 17 | At the Apollo 16 landing site ejecta from the crater South Ray was examined for the effects of exposure and it is estimated to have been exposed on the surface for about 2 Ma . |
| 18 | If the plant material needs to go in a press , a small one is probably adequate for your needs , and will not be too heavy to carry , and if it should be pressed between the pages of books , then take a supply of blotting paper and telephone directories with you . |
| 19 | However , I do still have a squashed , rather brown and mildewy rose pressed between the pages of a book somewhere , so I suppose that could be classed as my first attempt ! |
| 20 | The capital gain or loss calculated for corporation tax purposes on the disposal of property , plant , equipment or other assets is usually measured as the difference between the sale price and the base cost of the asset plus a deduction for indexation ( an allowance given for the effects of inflation during the period of ownership of the asset ) . |
| 21 | Count Hubner was referring specifically to the reception given for the members of the diplomatic corps on 1 January 1854 , the first of these occasions in which the Empress participated since her marriage . |
| 22 | Every year the mentally handicapped girls of St. Raphael 's Convent , Brentford , work hard to master and learn an item for their Christmas Display which is given for the Sisters of the Convent and nursing staff of the Infirmary , where the girls live . |
| 23 | If , on the other hand , ‘ domicile ’ had the meaning which that term had been given for the purposes of the application of the Brussels Convention , it must be assimilated to residence . |
| 24 | they are , or propose to become , participators in a joint enterprise and the advice is given for the purposes of , or in connection with , that enterprise . |
| 25 | A brand of religion peculiar to the country and its people , where saints and miracles were part of everyday life and idiots were revered as the children of God . |
| 26 | Doctors have been concerned that requests for repeated medical examinations , while justified for the purposes of forensic evidence , might be detrimental to their primary responsibility for the child 's health and well-being . |
| 27 | During the ninth century a struggle developed for the souls of the Slavs between the two Christian confessions , the Eastern Church based in Byzantium and the Western Church based in Rome . |
| 28 | Developed for the purposes of palaeontology concerned with sudden and massive extinctions of life forms , a review of the implications for parts of physical geography has been provided by Dury ( 1980a ) . |
| 29 | The debate on how the rule should be formulated for the purposes of the American Law Institute 's Corporate Governance Project has revealed the battle lines of those who favour leaving the disciplining of management to the market and those who see an important role for the courts . |
| 30 | ( HOCBUL ) , formed for the purposes of the experiment by the BBC and independent television . |