Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb -s] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stavrogin s prodigal scattering of reasons does more than leave the question open . |
| 2 | But an average-sized family of owls consumes some 1300 rats each year . |
| 3 | The life of aphids has some interesting features , as the drawing shows . |
| 4 | Also , the more tranquillizers are used , the older and less effective the plunger becomes , therefore , gradually , the same dose of tablets becomes less and less effective . |
| 5 | The following selection of cases illustrates some of the most common kinds of lawsuit which a haulier might have to defend . |
| 6 | There are no factual data that amalgamation of institutions has any advantages beyond economies of some central services such as catering and purchasing , and perhaps administrative convenience . |
| 7 | Anyway , news reaches me of how the most loyal of husbands handles this kind of situation without falling unconscious at the table . |
| 8 | As the tape makes its first pass , the first pair of heads scans half the tape . |
| 9 | The Song of Songs contains these words : ‘ I slept but my heart was awake . ’ |
| 10 | This paper was probably circulated amongst those interested and Miller 's advice followed , as the Register of Premiums and Bounties of the Royal Society of Arts contains many awards for the cultivation of madder , particularly in East Anglia and Kent , during the years 1755–67 . |
| 11 | This remarkable growth in the use of schools masks some equally remarkable differences between the social classes . |
| 12 | The national movement for the establishment of Compacts demonstrates some of the problems . |
| 13 | A reduction in the number of steps implies less excitation changes and , as we shall see in Chapters 5 and 6 , it is the speed with which excitation changes can take place which ultimately limits the time taken to move the required distance . |
| 14 | Use of n-grams requires little storage or processing but is less efficient at discriminating between acceptable and unacceptable letter strings . |
| 15 | In any event , however , the number of branches says less and less about capacity in banking . |
| 16 | A greater number of branches means more jobs , and more opportunities for promotion of existing staff . |
| 17 | That old-fashioned , risky art-historical game of influences makes more sense than usual here . |
| 18 | On sites where they are scarce , each is recorded like a small find , although on many sites the sheer quantity of finds makes this impossible . |
| 19 | A Tribunal of Commissioners echoes these sentiments in R(S)4182 , where they described the judicial process in tribunals as ‘ fair play in action ’ . |
| 20 | It is not that varying degrees of procedural protection should not exist : the range of licences demands this diversity . |
| 21 | The idea that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held different sorts of posts goes some way toward a possible explanation of the obvious confusion concerning the facts of the Muftiliks of these two men . |
| 22 | The theory of prototypes owes much of its origins to Wittgenstein 's ideas about word meaning [ 1953 ] , and its development to the work of Rosch [ 1975 ] . |
| 23 | It seems to me that unless you can convince yourself that a grouping of companies adds more than the sum of its parts , there is no raison d'etre for the company at all . |
| 24 | Now , suppose a manufacturer of catapults sells some to a wholesaler , who sells some to a retailer who in turn sells one to a young boy . |
| 25 | That is why Britain 's Institute of Directors has this week been rudely attacking the government for allowing the business renaissance of the past decade to be ‘ torpedoed by runaway inflation ’ . |
| 26 | The third class of sites covers those developed linear and road-junction sites where increasingly centralized tendencies had been responsible for the growth of an irregular internal street system well beyond the initial main roads . |
| 27 | The training of probationers encourages this transmission , because after formal training in the depot each recruit is assigned to an experienced senior constable in the station . |
| 28 | Henry Fielding wrote of the capital in 1751 : " What an immense variety of places has this town and its neighbourhood set apart for the amusement of the lowest order of the people . " |
| 29 | Identification and interpretation of conventions has little to do with the courts . |
| 30 | The Book of Proverbs expresses this dependence on God for trust in this way : |