Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl 's eyes lost their sparkle as the faintest of rumbles came to her ears , and Mr Beckenham was sorry he had drawn her attention to it . |
| 2 | Sharp is claimed to be leading the world in the area of development and production of individual/home information tools and plans development and exploitation of ‘ the next-generation of products based on their ‘ Personal Information Tool ’ initiative which advocates considering communication among people and co-possession of information going beyond the conventional personal idea and creating a new life culture ’ — Their words not ours ! |
| 3 | Postscript language and application developer Adobe Systems Inc , Mountain View , California last week launched , Adobe Acrobat , a range of products based on its Carousel Postscript document interchange technology ( UX No 407 ) . |
| 4 | Wilcox began by stating that the percentage of products rejected by their own inspectors was five per cent , which he considered far too high , and another one per cent was returned by customers . |
| 5 | Only Scholl has the expertise to provide a comprehensive , effective , high-quality range of products to care for your feet and deal with all common footcare problems . |
| 6 | Over the crest at the High Cross , erupting suddenly out of the declivity beyond , and certainly from the Welsh gate , the hard drumming of hooves burst upon their ears , coming at a gallop . |
| 7 | As I trudge my way home through the city streets The cats and the houses retreat And a thunder of hooves beats in my mind And I gallop through acres of wheat . |
| 8 | In 1987 the University of Wales Press published a collection of essays written by his admirers in his honour . |
| 9 | At the same time he gave alms with his own hand to the poor from a basket of coins placed by his side . |
| 10 | The great majority of solicitors continue in their traditional ways , making their staple living from conveyancing , probate , advising middle-class clients in minor disputes and business affairs , and litigation — though some firms prefer not to do the last if they can help it . |
| 11 | The consequently enlarged margins , especially when tied to the acquisition of operations shed by their rivals in peripheral territories , open up new avenues of growth unsuspected by ‘ rational ’ calculations of advantage . |
| 12 | British Nuclear Fuels has always denied that its operations cause the sort of dangers alleged by its critics , and affirmed that its discharges and exposure levels are kept within the limits laid down by the regulatory authorities . |
| 13 | The Law Society also recommends that each client is given an indication of the balance ( if any ) of moneys standing to his credit with the firm . |
| 14 | Hufton notes more surprising instances of widows continuing in their husbands ' occupation as gaolers . |
| 15 | Now with the monsoon season over , and several more boatloads of Cambodians reported on their way by Indonesian officials , Australian immigration authorities are preparing for yet another major influx of refugees . |
| 16 | They give high selectivity for one product , but so far only a limited range of reactions falls within their scope . |
| 17 | These can be substantial — one , at least , reaches over a million entries — but — they appear to have no obvious advantage over the databases described above , except , perhaps , when they afford the prospect of immediate supply from stock of titles held in their files . |
| 18 | The fifth algorithm , due to Scott and Markovitch , invents an efficient hierarchical classification of objects according to their behaviours under actions . |
| 19 | And Braque : ‘ When the fragmentation of objects appeared in my painting around 1910 , it was as a technique for getting closer to the object … ’ |
| 20 | Beaked whales generally have only a single pair of teeth protruding from their lower jaw , and instead of teeth they use a ribbed palate to get a firm grasp on their prey . |
| 21 | The handsome , blond cavalier of her youth was now bald and red-faced , with only a couple of teeth left in his head . |
| 22 | What historians do is a set of activities structured by their social relations , to each other and to their audiences . |
| 23 | Indeed , as the study of the law emerging from the application of these laws makes clear , it was the formalisation of war , bringing a set of rules to apply to its conduct , which men were trying to achieve . |
| 24 | Armstrong 's interest in and love of birds began during his childhood in Northern Ireland and found their first mature expression in his prize-winning book Birds of the Grey Wind ( 1940 ) , as much a contribution to literature as to natural history . |
| 25 | Her fingers were tingling with the warm smoothness , and she stood there looking puzzled or undecided , the packet of notes loose in her hand . |
| 26 | The Institute has warned auditors who carry out circulation audits that the specimen letter of engagement the Audit Bureau of Circulations issued to its members in November last year is not in a form agreed by the Institute . |
| 27 | But he adds , ‘ there is an increase in the number of cases coming to our attention ’ . |
| 28 | This is a curious feature of this kind of pressure group activity ; to some extent the power of groups depends upon their ability to forswear the more direct weapons in the pressure group armoury , to avoid mounting vociferous opinion-forming campaigns or threatening forms of direct action . |
| 29 | A study of some West Riding parish registers has found that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , farming was the only occupation where more than half of sons remained in their fathers ' places of residence . |
| 30 | When Ralph of Diss searched back through ancient and modern history for parallels to the revolt of 1173–4 he found more than thirty examples of sons rebelling against their parents , including some from the recent history of both Anjou and Poitou , but he cites no case of a Queen rebelling against her husband . |