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 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 3 | Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 6 | The photograph of her with the older woman was well done , though . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The two friends took stock of everything in the immediate vicinity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the resurgence of nationalism in Europe and in other parts of the world , in diverse forms , has made this once again a major issue for political analysis , and I shall return to various aspects of it in the next chapter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When the chicken leg is cooked , cook the stuffing by the side of it on the same plate , according to the instructions on the packet . |
| 15 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 18 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
| 19 | What is certain is that the corn milling firm of Reynolds and Allen were using at least part of it during the 1860s . |
| 20 | Is he aware that what he achieved , or failed to achieve , might please the little Englanders behind him but will be a tragedy for the people of the United Kingdom and the Scottish part of it through the 1990s ? |
| 21 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 22 | I reject absolutely any charges of racism on the part of anyone in the Tory party in the Langbaurgh campaign . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is symptomatic of our age that we wish to declare the existence of everything in the loudest possible way . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For a moment there was a flash of something in the dark eye . |
| 27 | The article gives the possibility of legal action against individual sellers or suppliers , or groups of them from the same economic sector , or against their trade associations . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | The Murcia ruling gave the PSOE 176 seats , a majority of one in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies . |
| 30 | In 1980–81 , for example , there were 62,000 students in Wales following non-advanced courses , the majority of them in the 35 colleges , as compared with 14,000 on advanced courses . |