Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reform was ‘ a flash of lightning illuminating us for one moment only , to leave us in greater darkness ’ . |
| 2 | Its cries of distress saddened her for years . |
| 3 | Round , high-cheeked , boyish but with a scholar 's high brow , it was the face of a man of twenty-seven years of age nerving himself for an extreme deed , a supreme effort of will . |
| 4 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 5 | I mean I know through the summer holidays that I 've really got to get to work with him on his maths , likewise I know I 've got a lot of work to do myself for |
| 6 | On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ . |
| 7 | Schrödinger imagined an experiment in which a cat was placed in a sealed box with a sufficient supply of air to last it for the duration of the experiment . |
| 8 | If the public acceptance of psychoanalysis meant anything for secondary selection it did mean that the scientificity of any description of the mind became more suspect — its subjectivity more evident . |