Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] of [no cls] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain schools of thought hold , for instance , that the ancient Greek art of ‘ pankration ’ , brought to China by the invading armies of Alexander the Great , along with the martial art of Graeco-Roman wrestling , gave birth to some forms of kung fu . |
| 2 | We walk in and see these tables of hors d'oeuvres , and people standing round them , and then Sam Peckinpah takes a look at me and he says , ‘ Do n't you think you ought to have something to eat ? ’ |
| 3 | That was not the only service rendered by Clement to Edward : he exonerated the king from his oath to the barons concerning the Confirmation of the Charters in 1297 and annulled the clauses in the Articles on the Charters in 1300 which prescribed twice-yearly excommunication of all violators of Magna Carta and of the Forest Charter . |
| 4 | Because they 'd got a tremendous struggle on , they 'd got a tremendous struggle on , they were struggling against tremendous odds , they were struggling against er er all sorts of er er of er of trickery , that er was being conducted by quite a quite a few of the er quite a few of the major powers . |
| 5 | er the air force , the German air force , aye , they had a go as well , they they they they they they they were providing all sorts of er er strafing and bombing , er comma . |
| 6 | bit this traffic because there 's snow falling all over the county there are going to be people erm in all sorts of er er problems . |
| 7 | As Lord Wilberforce stated , there are many types of prima facie or preliminary determination and the requirements of fairness in one area may be unsuited to another . |
| 8 | The reports of the amnestic effects of protein synthesis inhibitors were first ignored , often on the same sorts of a priori grounds that had led to my initial scepticism , and only after some struggle accepted by these definers of the field . |
| 9 | He also underwent several periods of de facto house arrest and trial for treason between 1956 and 1961 . |
| 10 | Terrines and pâtés are both creations of haute cuisine — keep away from those which are based on offal and pork — good substitutes are light chicken terrines , fish and vegetable versions . |