Example sentences of "[noun] of [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the court held that marriage as an institution is , by definition , the association of someone of the male sex with someone of the female sex , gender having no relevance . |
| 2 | Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’ |
| 3 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 4 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 5 | The two friends took stock of everything in the immediate vicinity . |
| 6 | Although the links and influences of one upon the other are far from clear , it is not irrelevant to an understanding of the accounts to know how the pupils represent the character of their community . |
| 7 | Every gesture , each movement has something planned , even the way he arranges himself in a chair , his hands behind his head , catching glimpses of himself in the polished surfaces , squinting at his reflection , all with an inquisitive vanity . |
| 8 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 9 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 10 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 11 | More might be attempted ( Ayer , 1954a ; Alston , 1976 ; Hannay , 1979 ; Wilkes , I 978 ) but we have , I submit , gone some way in analysing consciousness with the general conception of it as the interdependent existence of subject and content . |
| 12 | I reject absolutely any charges of racism on the part of anyone in the Tory party in the Langbaurgh campaign . |
| 13 | This would never yield anything like a reduction of one to the other , but Carnap supposes that it still allowed us to claim that the concept of a material object could be reduced to ‘ autopsychological concepts ’ , those which concern the nature of one 's own sensory states . |
| 14 | Consequently , the starting point for the restoration of the equilibrium must be its disruption , the function of which in the present case is to restore the balance , but at the same time on an even more deeply contradictory basis . |
| 15 | For a moment there was a flash of something in the dark eye . |
| 16 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
| 17 | The Murcia ruling gave the PSOE 176 seats , a majority of one in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies . |
| 18 | Dickens has an horrific description of it in The Old Curiosity , Shop ( 1841 ) , when it had reached the rock bottom of filth and ugliness , and of human degradation . |
| 19 | Though in the mid-850s Burgred , king of Mercia , and the West Saxon king , Aethelwulf , joined together in a campaign against the Welsh without any indication of the subordination of one to the other ( see below , p. 195 ) , the evidence as a whole suggests a West Saxon subjection to the Mercians in the mid-eighth century . |
| 20 | The motherboard can take a full 66MHz DX2 chip but there 's no easy upgrade socket — it 's a case of our with the old and in with the new . |
| 21 | Though Lewis is said to have found the task of writing these letters morally exhausting — entailing as it did the ceaseless identification of himself with the malign and diabolical point of view — their great strength is that , rather like a dramatic monologue by Browning , they reveal the speaker without succumbing to his terrible outlook . |
| 22 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past half-hour ! ’ |
| 24 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
| 25 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 26 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 27 | There is a portrait of him in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , vol. lxxix , 1953 . |
| 28 | While she stood staring at it , breathing heavily and conscious that if anyone had made a fool of herself during the past few minutes it was Melissa Craig , the phone began to ring again . |
| 29 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 30 | The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything … |