Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb -s] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two children die , as number of cases triples in a week Hospitals on brink of ‘ red alert ’ for flu . |
| 2 | Batty Wife Cave is in a different category , having no pretensions to shyness nor modesty ; indeed , it thrusts itself upon the notice of passersby on the road just below the Station Inn on the north side , where a channel of pebbles emerges from a low entrance half-choked by stones and normally dry . |
| 3 | The schedule of meetings begins with a presentation of the proposals by the Developers , on Friday 1 November 1991 at 2.00 pm in Room 1.5 in the Regional Chambers , to which all members of the Council and appropriate officials are invited . |
| 4 | But few can doubt that Europe 's varied assortment of nations makes for a conflicting assortment of company commercial strategies and government policies . |
| 5 | Any but the simplest of questionnaires consists of a series of question sequences , each dealing with a different area of interest . |
| 6 | Frustration with the ineffectiveness of words lies behind a lot of physical violence . |
| 7 | Before that the chronological sequence of songs starts with a charming Gounod-like salon piece , and follows the composer 's development , after which the collection is crowned by the best-loved Verlaine settings . |
| 8 | As we saw back in section 12.5 , the building-up of reserves counts as a deficit ( an outflow from the balance of payments account to the reserves account ) . |
| 9 | Quite soon the loads on aircraft got too big for this method ( though shot-bags are still used from time to time for certain simple tests ) and nowadays the loads are applied by means of hydraulic jacks operating through very elaborate multiple lever or ‘ family tree ’ systems ; each of the hundreds of branches ends in a mechanical attachment to the wing surface . |
| 10 | Yet within the context of organized literary study , it is true that much of the difficulty students have in making sense of texts comes from a lack of information , or to use the older term , a deficiency in general knowledge . |
| 11 | It might be suggested that the disempowerment of parents arises from a combination of LEAs seeking to maintain control over the distribution of resources and professionals seeking to secure the autonomy of their professional role . |
| 12 | The number of sunspots varies with a cycle of 11 years . |
| 13 | The region 's season of workshops begins with a morning training session on reproduction technology on Tuesday 27 July . |
| 14 | The credibility of alternatives depends in a large measure on three factors : a new perspective on disruption and disaffection ; support for teachers ; a re-alignment of current resources . |
| 15 | This first annual review from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries comes at a time of ever-increasing activity , change and challenge within the work of the UK actuary . |
| 16 | Increasing failure to grow enough food on the part of farmers leads to a decline in productivity through a lack of energy and malnutrition particularly at times of peak labour demand , and an attempt to substitute less soil-conserving crop rotations . |
| 17 | ( d ) Action on receipt of replies Replies to a land charges search give the number of any land charge ( eg C iv ) , which may relate to your land . |
| 18 | Its plot is a ‘ circle of love ’ , as a succession of couplings begins with a nocturnal encounter between a whore and a soldier , and continues as the soldier has sex with a housemaid , the maid with her young master , the master with a married woman , and so on until we reach a count who returns us to the whore . |
| 19 | After Ghana , the list of successes dries to a handful of minnows , like Burundi , and island economies , like Mauritius . |
| 20 | Acquisition of goods leads to a ‘ greater aestheticisation of reality . |
| 21 | His larger-than-life statue with its slightly oriental cast of features serves as a warning that you are approaching the junk food area . |
| 22 | Processing of stimuli goes through a sequence of phases . |
| 23 | However a set of terms arrives in a particular document , it is likely that at some stage it was prepared by someone with some degree of legal knowledge . |
| 24 | SCHOOLS can not be run like assembly lines , the National Union of Teachers says in a booklet being sent tobusiness executives to ask their help in opposing any move to pay teachers according to classroom performance . |
| 25 | On the other hand , flexibility can operate to the disadvantage of these pupils if inappropriate compassion on the part of teachers leads to a lowering of expectations , and consequently of standards , for the individual child . |
| 26 | Indeed this selection of propositions reads like a summary of what is generally taken to be de Man 's contribution to the theory of language . |
| 27 | On the other hand , it will be argued that the large number of arrests points to a malaise of such dimensions that it can not completely be dealt with by a police investigation and that a wider inquiry is called for . |
| 28 | A mountain of melons evaporates in a wink . |
| 29 | A rosette of leaves develops from a stout , short rootstock . |
| 30 | A group of students undertakes as a project to produce a video programme . |