Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb base] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Did the experience of plenty bring about a fundamental change in the American or British character ? |
| 2 | As 12-ounce cans of vegetables bounce off the side of my car , one of them smashing my rearview mirror and another sailing with surprising accuracy through my open car window and striking me on the shoulder , I decide to call it quits for the night and return in daylight . |
| 3 | After sending in a tape , with a biography , contact address and a photo , a useful approach can be to update the A&R department every time your band does one or a series of gigs. send in a sheet of paper personally addressed to your target A&R person . |
| 4 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
| 5 | The Society of Authors set up a powerful lobby , which convinced a Parliamentary Committee that the common law of obscene libel should be replaced by a modern statute which afforded some protection to meritorious literature . |
| 6 | One reason for the ubiquity of chants lies in the fact that a large number of fans move around the country to support their team at away games . |
| 7 | The police and the majority of defendants put on an arrogant front . |
| 8 | the note of nails screed down a blackboard |
| 9 | Only by raising loans in New York and Paris could the Bank of England prop up the pound ; but foreign bankers were unwilling to risk their money unless the British Government balanced its budget . |
| 10 | Nothing happened until , quite independently , a group of enthusiasts set up the Folly Fellowship in 1988 . |
| 11 | A third group of carers take on the job because they feel that they have to . |
| 12 | An experiment will be carried out in which pairs of individuals bargain over the division of a sum of money . |
| 13 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 14 | But on one side there is a greenhouse and vegetables , and on the other side an army of chickens peck over the brown dirt . |
| 15 | ‘ But we can not back down every time a group of tenants get up a petition against another tenant . |
| 16 | The Buddy Bear Centre — a former school — is currently without public funding , until the Department of Education carry out an inspection to assess it . |
| 17 | Drops of water trickle down the panes of glass . |
| 18 | Create the wrong fiscal package and a Third World country 's chances of development go down the tube . |
| 19 | On a single sheet of paper write down the main message of the report . |
| 20 | He said no bread would be baked this Sunday in the first of a series of one-day strikes if the 9,000 workers who produce nearly 80 per cent of loaves throw out the deal . |
| 21 | She watched groups of people come round the winners , groups of friends going into the two pubs on the harbour street , people hailing each other , saving places of vantage on the wall for their friends . |
| 22 | Physically and emotionally exhausted groups of people sit round the bed of the ill person feeling quite unable to leave even though they may have children at home or jobs to go to or a multitude of other functions . |
| 23 | At Richmond a lot of people get off the train and I take refuge in a Smoking compartment where the heat is not on . |
| 24 | lot 's of people dig up the pavement do n't they ? |
| 25 | He reached her bottom and let a couple of drops fall down the cleft . |
| 26 | We 've only just flipped off the radio when two tons of suede appear round the side of the building . |
| 27 | ‘ Hordes of girls hang around the racetracks and — ’ |
| 28 | First , bodies of thought take on a solidity through being structured around dominant paradigms . |
| 29 | DUTY AND DEFINITION Debates about the accountant 's duty of care go back a century . |
| 30 | Water of Leith Clean Up No replies have been received from the Scouts or Guides . |