Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A UK-backed debt plan based on the so-called Trinidad terms agreed at a Commonwealth finance ministers ' meeting in Trinidad in September 1990 , enabling the poorest debtor countries to have two-thirds of their debt written off and the remainder rescheduled over 25 years , failed to win support after opposition from Japan and the USA . |
| 2 | ESTATE agents valuing every house in Britain for the new council tax have had many of their estimates thrown out by the Inland Revenue . |
| 3 | Children were then able to sit in front of their range dressed up in old fashioned costume and role-play . |
| 4 | The drapes were drawn over all the windows , the enormous marble-topped table that dominated the room lit by overhead lamps , the wash of their light thrown up on the six members , two of them women , sitting around it . |
| 5 | , sales specialist , and on the arrival of their son born on . |
| 6 | Something had punched her chest ; she felt the refrigeration unit of her suit cut in , she felt rather than heard the tearing , rippling , screaming boom of the explosion . |
| 7 | He observed Jane Pargeter come out of the kitchen — the neck of her shirt folded up , her forearms freckled but brown from a recent holiday with the same attention to detail . |
| 8 | With what she was going to leave to each of her relations written down in it so that when she got fed up with one of them she could just strike his name out ! ’ |
| 9 | As he stood at the door trying to persuade her of the importance of other more pressing political issues , one of her cats shot out of the door , into the road and under the wheels of a passing lorry . |
| 10 | On June 27 Israel Galeano , the " contra " military chief known as Commander Franklyn , and 100 of his soldiers handed in their weapons to UN forces in a formal act marking the end of 11 years of civil war . |
| 11 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 12 | Renoir had some of his canvases taken down from the wall so that Modigliani could look at them more closely . |
| 13 | On that thought , a streak of fairness smote Fabia and she became guiltily aware that , since he must spend a good deal of his time cooped up in his office , it was no wonder that he wanted to enjoy his walks without any prying journalist asking the ‘ whys and wherefores ’ of everything . |
| 14 | if it is considered that the information content is of paramount importance then it is valid to so construct a resource centre that every student may spend most of his time wired up to a dial-access system so that all he need do is dial a number , press a button and then sit passively absorbing what he sees on a screen and hears in his headphones … |
| 15 | If the film was , say , Old Mother Riley Goes to Paris , you 'd have three of your doormen dressed up as Old Mother Riley , which was a very cheap costume to hire , and you 'd build an Eiffel Tower , put it on a barrow and go round the town during the busy shopping time . |
| 16 | First you need a scale floor plan of your workshop drawn out on graph paper marking where all the doors and windows are , and , if they are already fixed , where all the electrical points and outlets are . |