Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only answer seemed to be to feed a couple of minutes every half hour or so . |
| 2 | The following song was broadcast on the radio and was on sale in the record shops , yet the wearing of miniskirts a few years later was denounced as improper and an example of western sexual decadence and permissiveness ! |
| 3 | The dropping of the detailed prescription of hours a few years later did not disturb history 's dominant position among the core subjects of the liberal , grammar tradition . |
| 4 | Your issue on the use of images a few months ago was excellent so why not stick to your own guidelines ? |
| 5 | I thought the tide must have turned , so I was probably proceeding in a series of zigzags a little way upstream , and it was no use looking ahead for Joanna , for she 'd be lying off our quarter . |
| 6 | In one set of trials the type of match required was varied from trial to trial while in a second set of trials the same match was required for a fixed number of stimulus presentations . |
| 7 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 8 | For thousands of years a few men have searched for these human fruits ; they have filled their minds with the lovely ideas and have taken up their long search and watch on the lonely shore of the other world . |
| 9 | Take the cardboard seal out of the lid and drill a circle of holes the same diameter as an uplift support ( whichever you can get ) . |
| 10 | not a constable but is protecting or escorting another person by virtue of powers the same as or similar to those of a constable for that purpose ; |
| 11 | One critic , reviewing Field of Dreams a few years ago , claimed Hollywood was now besotted with the family . |
| 12 | In the context of the transfer of businesses the former approach can amount to forcing the worker to work for someone he or she has not chosen . |
| 13 | Which one wa I I ca n't remember what I sa I was saying a f a lot of things a few minutes ago . |
| 14 | From the day of the first admission of patients no fewer than 90 persons had applied for medical relief . |
| 15 | ‘ There is no reason why these people can not be integrated within the community and pay their share of rates the same as anyone else . |
| 16 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 17 | In response to a frantic waving of arms a few minutes later , I opened up our trusty Seagull motor and chugged round the harbour arm to brave the swell . |
| 18 | Some day , she supposed , Fen would be setting up home there with his girlfriend , and the less she knew about the interior of Chimneys the less material her jealous imagination would have to fester upon . |
| 19 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin arrived in Sofia on Aug. 3 as the guest of President Zhelyu Zhelev , with whom he held a first round of talks the same day , signing a 10-year treaty of friendship and cooperation before leaving on Aug. 4 . |
| 20 | Later that day , and with a good half-inch of our respective hair on the floor of a Soho salon , we hit the black suede pump shop , where I was noiselessly relieved of a week 's rehearsal pay on a pair of boots the same as the ones which fell apart in three months last time and a pair of the suede pumps ( ‘ EVERYBODY 'S wearing them ! ’ ) which , one week later , were flat and circular like dinghies . |