Example sentences of "[subord] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he read the evidence on primitive societies , where of course there was far less economic specialization , social cohesion was of a very rudimentary kind . |
| 2 | Programmed learning made significant contributions to education , particularly in industrial and military training ( where of course motivation is fairly high and the units of information to be assimilated are uncluttered by humanistic value judgements ) . |
| 3 | This would be equally true in a long tunnel , and in the giant 's beard was long , and in how long is the interval ? , where of course the referential loci of long are the entities corresponding to tunnel , beard , and interval respectively . |
| 4 | In this sense his Habsburg and Bourbon portraits are not dissimilar to Jasper Johns ' American flag series , except of course that the flag , whatever individuals may think of it , is unquestionably American , the lineage is clear . |
| 5 | Except of course that Boy was young , really young . |
| 6 | Except of course , you here in Europe do n't yet seem to know it . |
| 7 | There were the usual number of new faces to get used to , but they all seem a bit vague to me now , except of course for the one face that greeted me on my arrival in the Guard Room . |
| 8 | It is , perhaps , not very different from what anyone has to do today who is interested in the higher generalities of evolution , except of course that there is less need to get people to do specific jobs , because there are so many people publishing anyway . |
| 9 | Except of course … ’ she broke off to toss back the rest of the whisky and set the tumbler down on Hugo 's desk , ‘ except of course that I do n't suppose I shall be here long enough to make the adjustment . ’ |
| 10 | Except of course … ’ she broke off to toss back the rest of the whisky and set the tumbler down on Hugo 's desk , ‘ except of course that I do n't suppose I shall be here long enough to make the adjustment . ’ |
| 11 | It is up to you to decide which set of shapings you want to follow , but remember that as the garment is symmetrical , the shaping will be carried out on both ends of the work , except of course in the case of the sleeve tops that I mentioned earlier . |
| 12 | Her rent would have certainly been paid in advance and the rent man , whoever he was , would likely be the only one who would come down here , except of course the child 's uncles , and they must have been hard put to it to resort to this hole . |
| 13 | Now do n't you worry about that young woman that 's upstairs , Sergeant Joe , except of course I would n't want no talk goin' on . ’ |
| 14 | In fact no one knows where it is registered — except of course Noel Smyth and whatever parties he is fronting for . |
| 15 | It may indeed be possible to regard the present subject of study as yet another type of word-pairing — except of course that the " greater precision " may be a function of the whole line in relation to the previous line , and not just of one word in relation to another word . |
| 16 | Nothing on the bodies , except of course as you pointed out his genetic fingerprint . |
| 17 | In the first place , the rules by which the group lives will not form a system , but will simply be a set of separate standards , without any identifying or common mark , except of course that they are the rules which a particular group of human beings accepts . |
| 18 | Except of course from the landowners , many of whom find having an SSSI on their land not a privilege but a curse . |
| 19 | But each area is subdivided into concentric circles ( except of course they 're not circular ! ) . |
| 20 | so that it does n't alienate the person and , and , and they regard you as a , you know and that 's actually probably quite tricky , except of course that you ca n't just let them off , because you are actually an officer of the court . |
| 21 | And everything would have been fine , except of course nature took its course and I could no longer pretend that I was n't pregnant . |
| 22 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 23 | These cases about valuers bear some analogy with cases on domestic tribunals , except of course that there need not be a hearing . |
| 24 | Paula Hamilton is renowned as the actress in the Volkswagen commercial , who storms out of the house and throws away expensive gifts from her lover , except of course the keys to a new car . |
| 25 | There 's your four That 's your quadrilaterals , except of course for this one . |
| 26 | Except of course , I er , I , I could n't read my road map there in , in Brussels . |
| 27 | Ezra would have liked to see more of Max Beerbohm , whom he at least partially admired for his wit , although of course he could not have tolerated his philosophy of life . |
| 28 | In doing so I am rather like the doctor by the patient 's bedside , who knows ; although of course he does not tell the patient — that the outcome of the disease will depend upon something in the constitution of that patient which he can not control nor further influence and which he can not even ascertain , except by the event . |
| 29 | Ah ha , no ; it was n't quite as simple as all that , do n't you know , although of course it was an incentive day , and the Irish loved incentives . |
| 30 | Sex in Judaism is not only for procreation , although of course that is very important . |