Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 2 | Strip Search Two : An exhibition of the new breeds of comics also features characters as diverse as Tintin and Sid the Sexist , Krazy Kat and Biffa Bacon . |
| 3 | Emphasising that the early histories of anorexics rarely give evidence of gross neglect , and that terms like ‘ rejection ’ or ‘ lack of proper love ’ are unhelpful , she concludes that ‘ the details one learns are usually quite subtle ; the important aspect is whether the response to the child 's needs was appropriate or was superimposed , according to what the mother felt he needed , often mistakenly . ’ |
| 4 | The prouder and more articulate seaman had seen his pay and status in continuous decline from 1815 when , at the , end of the Napoleonic wars , " the government , without the least consideration for those who had battled on the ocean in defence of their king and country , disbanded the Fleets and cast adrift some thousands of Seamen suddenly to find employment in the merchant service " . |
| 5 | Movshon and his colleagues ( in Maunsell and Newsome 1987 ) have shown that this translation from the movement of edges to the movement of objects probably takes place in area MT . |
| 6 | The German gunners reply crashing in a couple of minutes later caused pat and I to get on the floor fast . |
| 7 | Comedy of humours basically means personality traits carried to excess . |
| 8 | Once work for wages became the norm , different kinds of strategies necessarily took shape , although individual waged work did not remove the importance of the collective unit . |
| 9 | A useful exchange of views always takes place and engenders an excellent team spirit , which proved its worth with the campaign for increased subscriptions when we all felt we were working towards the same goal and had a common purpose . |
| 10 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 11 | The first is that of font compatibility ; ie does Linotype 's version of Times really match Bitstream 's Swiss . |
| 12 | The politicians ' disapproval would have been sharper still had they been aware of plans already taking shape in the army to launch an actual invasion of mainland France if the regime refused to recall de Gaulle to power . |
| 13 | It is easy to forget that the Lutyens team of craftsmen only had access to traditional methods and materials . |
| 14 | The English House Condition survey , which the Department of the Environment published shortly before Christmas 1982 , showed a sharp increase in the number of homes now needing £7000 or more spent on them to bring them up to an acceptable standard . |
| 15 | The network of existence and of relationships seldom allows consideration of any problem to be considered in relation to one person alone . |
| 16 | Caroline Thomas , editor of the Biggles books , accepts the books reflect their period , but makes the point that the changing perception of words actually leaves Biggles ' use of a word like nigger open to misinterpretation by the modern reader . |
| 17 | Nowadays it is clear that this distinction is illusory ; scientific applications of computers often require character string manipulation and need many of the transput facilities of business data-processing , while business applications increasingly need sophisticated arithmetic calculation . |
| 18 | The writers of fabliaux commonly draw attention to themselves by naming themselves , signing their work at beginning or end , and they don a limited number of disguises as their narratorial personae — as in the case of Boivin de Provins described above . |
| 19 | ‘ THIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons finally set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains rising in fairyland fantasy before the rising sun . |
| 20 | Gazing from the window of the taxi , she watched the small groups of tourists , many of them from the ship , strolling in and out of shops eagerly purchasing souvenirs . |
| 21 | These procedures address the current problem of designers only having access to either none or all of the data for a CAD part , by introducing strict partitioning within each CAD part file . |
| 22 | A number of traders already use lists in the warehousing , tobacco and oil sectors in their own computerised validation procedures . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , an increasing number of schools now see withdrawal as only one of a widening range of options , only to be used where the child 's individually assessed needs suggest that this is indeed the most appropriate form of provision . |
| 24 | Though not strictly competitive , the selection of schools inevitably involves comparisons according to a range of formal and informal criteria , and since funds have until recently always been less than sufficient to serve all deserving cases , an element of competition is inescapable . |
| 25 | The redundant steelworker and a friend were returning home from a social club when they tried to stop a group of youngsters allegedly attacking traffic bollards . |
| 26 | More than one in ten of youngsters now gets clothes from Adams . |
| 27 | CAUTIOUS trading statements and mediocre results from a large number of companies today kept investors secured on the sidelines . |
| 28 | Combined with the number of companies already doing business in Japan , 71% of Scotland 's exporters either already trade with Japan or would actively like to do so . |
| 29 | but changes in the ownership and control of companies also took place between these dates , sometimes on virtually the same scale and certainly with the same consequences for programme contents . |
| 30 | It found that more than half of companies now use contract hire compared with only three in 10 during 1991 . |