Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists are divided about which of the great apes evolved first from the Proconsul line . |
| 2 | This depends on the aims of the essay , but it might include : — a judgement about which of the competing arguments you have considered in your essay is correct or most persuasive ; |
| 3 | If both cooperate ( with each other , not with the authorities ) by refusing to speak , there is not enough evidence to convict either of them of the main crime , and they receive a small sentence for a lesser offence , the Reward for mutual cooperation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This should remind of you of the infinite varieties in any one colour and also set you thinking about texture . |
| 6 | Central to those ideals had been — at least since 1922 when Tawney published his Secondary Education for All — the extension of secondary schooling ( although , less precisely , not all of it of the grammar-school variety ) to the whole of the population . |
| 7 | What price a higher handicap for those of us of the bow-legged persuasion . |
| 8 | As none of the small libraries with establishments under 100 were in this group , this represents 43% of the libraries with establishments over 100 . |
| 9 | In one case , a company was found to have a decisive influence with a 39% shareholding , as none of the other blocks of shareholdings exceeded 4% , and so the company was in a relative position of strength . |
| 10 | As none of the various systems in use at that time were suitable , Intergraph began evaluating appropriate accounting software . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When you decide to get married , fix yourself up with someone of the old school , not one of those feminist flibbertigibbets of the kind Jim and I have landed ourselves with — undomesticated , never there , eyes set on further career mountains to be climbed . |
| 13 | Yeremi found himself thinking passionately of that anonymous slave abandoned in the pitch-dark tube , with none of the superhuman muscle power of a Scout to help him , and fetters to mock his efforts . |
| 14 | The Tuesday morning was overcast and dull with none of the compensating crispness that had helped Forester to crawl back to an alert state on previous days . |
| 15 | It was also a positive term with none of the negative connotations of Nonconformist or Dissenter . |
| 16 | The DACs give the function OUT1/SCALE to scale each half cycle to the same magnitude , which is said to provide a 20dB increase in loudness , subjectively , with none of the usual speech compression problems . |
| 17 | Wilson himself at his first meeting with President Johnson seems to have struck the right note with his claim that his was a forward-looking government with none of the imperial nostalgia of its predecessor . |
| 18 | We found him on the floor getting cold and with none of the other monkeys taking much notice . |
| 19 | The result is a door with all the appeal of hand-crafted timber , but with none of the associated problems of up-keep . |
| 20 | Wave power was ‘ back at square one ’ with none of the present crop of devices ‘ ready to go to large-scale trial ’ . |
| 21 | The women , too , had to cope with all the household duties , including feeding men and hired hands with appetites honed by constant fresh air and exercise , with none of the labour-saving aids which most women took for granted . |
| 22 | In 1987 , when she entered the House of Commons as the MP for Norfolk South West — a safe-as-houses rural Tory seat — she was already 46 , with none of the outward trappings of a high-flier , merely a proven ability to work swiftly and effectively and an unthreatening charm . |
| 23 | Supper at the kitchen table — bread coarsely cut and buttered , with none of the little refinements that were considered necessary for the family , who ate in another room . |
| 24 | The databases these packages sport are the simple flat-file kind , with none of the relational gizmos found in Access or Paradox for Windows . |
| 25 | Over time the interest group universe will be very stable , with none of the free-wheeling alliances and rapid organizational growth and declines expected by pluralists . |
| 26 | I had discovered in Egypt what seemed like a different religion : a thing of unimaginable heights and depths , of light and shadow with none of the vertiginous darkness of which Lili had spoken . |
| 27 | It was gentle , with none of the strident accent which would have been more in keeping with the circumstances . |
| 28 | Their world-view was essentially animatistic : every living thing and every outwardly inanimate thing too was a part of the living cosmos , and therefore imbued with something of the divine spirit . |
| 29 | He admired the company 's pre-war products — efficient little sports cars with something of the modern Lotus spirit about them — more than any other car , and for a long time he used Astons on the road . |
| 30 | Unfamiliar , clearly posed , these problems are made accessible not quite as history nor yet as fantasy but with something of the acceptable plainness of fairy tale challenges . |