Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb base] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 2 | Even the tail is carefully protected , fitting snugly into a deep groove on the animal 's rump , where two sheets of armour meet in a vertical cleft . |
| 3 | The following , for instance , is just one among thousands : ‘ cooperate most of the time , but on a random 10 per cent of rounds throw in a defect ’ . |
| 4 | This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years . |
| 5 | Further , women felt a responsibility to remain locked into that system of kin support in a way not replicated for men , who were more at liberty to ‘ get better jobs , migrate , emigrate and abrogate all responsibility for parents and siblings ’ ( ibid . |
| 6 | The Act also contains guidance for the courts as to the factors which they should take into account in deciding whether any of the statutory exceptions to the presumption in favour of bail apply in a particular case . |
| 7 | The two groups of villagers engage in a rough and tumble battle , and a peaceful settlement was only arrived at by the intervention of the schoolmasters from both villages . |
| 8 | In another move which shows that the board intends to live up to the word ‘ control ’ in its title , it sent a message to the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road , where Frank Bruno is playing in Aladdin , to the effect that Bruno will not be able to rub his genie 's lamp and in a puff of smoke reappear in a world title fight . |
| 9 | Although the two systems of government differ in a number of key respects , sufficient similarities exist to suggest that further work would be justified . |
| 10 | For most chemical reactions the rate of reaction is much slower than the collision frequency so you must assume only a small fraction of collisions result in a reaction . |
| 11 | We women of Britain believe in a Christian way of life . |
| 12 | As this is likely to be the last Scottish Question Time before the general election , will the Secretary of State indulge in a deathbed conversion and recognise the frustrations and hopes of the Scottish people about the present constitutional set-up ? |
| 13 | Then , when higher-order beliefs and intentions of interactants engage in a suitable way — by instantiating a sub-Gricean mechanism , say — certain actions ( token events ) can have occasion meaning . |