Example sentences of "[noun] of [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the cyclical view , Momigliano says that the principal upholder of it in Greek historiography was Polybius ( c . |
| 2 | There was a bench at one side of it with empty tea cups on it and some comic papers . |
| 3 | On top of a worker 's take-home pay , we are charged 53% of it in social security payments — that is 15% employee 's contribution and 38% employer 's . |
| 4 | Part of the deficit of the mainland colonies with Britain was covered by their exports to the sugar islands , part of it by increased indebtedness to British merchants . |
| 5 | Unlike the House of Lords it is elected , but it is elected by local councillors , an overwhelming majority of them from small country ‘ communes ’ . |
| 6 | The only glimmer of it in early NEP was , ironically , the attitude of one Georgian , Stalin , towards his own national birthplace . |
| 7 | There was a constant stream of them from early morning all through the day , but my work ended at five in the afternoon , when I was free to go and meet my friends . |
| 8 | It is indeed a case of ‘ the day of small things ’ and it is the doing of them with good-humoured patience and the appreciation of others doing them that makes the sum of these tiny parts such a very considerable one at the end of the day . |
| 9 | Then they made fun of him in mock homage , spitting at him and hitting him . |
| 10 | Not an academic himself , Braverman began his working life as an apprentice coppersmith and spent much of the rest of it in socialist journalism and in publishing . |
| 11 | Half of the 6,000 women questioned admitted to having intercourse before marriage and a quarter of them to adulterous intercourse after marriage . |
| 12 | Since the hero takes the castrato to be a woman and makes a sculpture of him/her in female form , castration is linked to problems of representation . |
| 13 | In the end , this passion of his for generating paper got to be so ridiculous that we had T-shirts made up , with the DEA logo and OPERATION MAKAKOPI in big letters across the chest . |
| 14 | Essentially the four areas are computational modelling , what contribution a do n't write these down because they 're not the same as the ones on the board , but it 's looking at the role of computational modelling in perception , although you could start off with a broader definition of it within cognitive psychology . |
| 15 | The first use of it in British diplomacy seems to have been by the Paris embassy in December 1852 : by the middle of the following year the missions in Vienna , Berlin and Florence could also communicate in this way with London , and from 1878 British diplomatic telegrams were numbered in the same way as despatches . |
| 16 | Critical is the view that the event is stored and that the particular realisation of it in linguistic form is variable and does not depend on stored information of agent , recipient and so on . |
| 17 | For him these first moments of meeting each day were so exciting an elixir that he always tried to make them last as long as possible , and the sight of her in full flight on her bicycle never failed to set his blood tingling . |
| 18 | Right : sometimes it 's easier to get the hang of it on dry land |
| 19 | In the pyramid of control , according to both the formal theory and the practical application of it in organizational design , authority would reside in individuals by virtue of their incumbency in office and/or their expertise . |
| 20 | It was difficult to get good shots of them in dense undergrowth , and once again , British rain had upset my hopes . |
| 21 | This driver is clearly central to the performance of the 103/2 , handling as it does the bulk of the frequency range , though there was certainly no gamble involved in its incorporation into the Reference range since KEF had already utilised another version of it with notable success in the baby model , the 101/2 . |
| 22 | a miniature amount of it on audio description , so from that point of view there they , was sort of fairly well down the line with the money anyway they , they had |
| 23 | S. H. There was a lot of us on reserve duty at St George 's Hall , about forty or fifty of us , and one bloody bobby sat there with us and they sent for him . |
| 24 | She 's had a hectic Christmas — one long round of shopping , cleaning and cooking for the entire family , including Malc 's brother and his wife and his mother , who has become confused and forgetful since Dad 's death and Lynda has taken care of her with selfless dedication . |
| 25 | In the older nation states , after the war , fascist parties disappeared ( although they have begun to re-emerge on a small scale in recent years ) , regional and nationalist parties have been formed within existing states , there has been a succession of new political parties ( and destruction of them by military intervention ) in Latin America , while in some European countries there has been a revival of liberal and ‘ centre ’ parties and the emergence of ‘ green ’ parties . |
| 26 | He had seldom been to the village and only once on foot but he could remember the layout of it with surprising clarity . |
| 27 | A contractual obligation , such as an exchange rule gives rise on the face of it to strict liability . |
| 28 | For the CNAA 's relationships with the polytechnics in the 1970s the uncertainties surrounding this question , and the different interpretations of it by different polytechnic directors and within the CNAA itself , were to be of central importance . |
| 29 | If so , please take note of it for future reference . |
| 30 | The fact that voters think Mr Major has not campaigned impressively has apparently made little difference to their view of him as Prime Minister and party leader . |