Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I suspect that what we will find if we really are honest with ourselves that quite a lot of things which we see here are not always exaggerated from the point of the exercise , that we exaggerate things out of all proportion so that we can actually start looking at it and seeing . |
| 2 | Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ? |
| 3 | The distributors , Harman Audio , tell me that virtually every type of speaker is available , with either open or sealed back options . |
| 4 | On that very point sir I 'm grateful to the honourable member for giving way but would he not agree with me that actually the failure of G A T at the end was that by which Caribbean bananas failed to be protected . |
| 5 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 6 | During this month I led the life for which I had always yearned hunting big game on my own in the wilds of Africa ; but now I realized that this expedition had meant more to me than just the excitement of hunting . |
| 7 | Ah , that 's within the training , but if you got ta , if you 're gon na train somebody or especially a group of people you 've got ta have some objective that is specific . |
| 8 | What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being , a soul , an inner mind , and inner life , an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities , more plastic , more powerful , more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind , life or body ; especially , it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces , movements , objects of the cosmos , a direct feeling and opening to them , a direct action of them and even a widening of itself beyond the limit of the personal mind , the personal life , the body , so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of out too narrow mental , vital , physical existence . |
| 9 | To show the world how many princes felt it worth their while to dance attendance on him , Henry invited them and also the King of Navarre to a court he planned to hold in Limoges at the end of the month . |
| 10 | In this characteristically elusive passage it is not clear whether Marx means that the social relations of a smallholding peasantry make it easy to tax them ( ‘ Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy ’ ) or control them and therefore the bulk of society — uniform and routine administration being more effective than administration requiring flexibility , discretion , decentralization , and so on . |
| 11 | They urged friends to join them and so the Society of St Peter Apostle was born a hundred years ago in France . |
| 12 | ‘ I will be drinking apple juice , ’ says Derek Foster , ‘ but I can tell you that already the feeling of anticipation is utterly indescribable . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Camblet ’ , a word as old as Marco polo , or even springing from earlier Arabic associations , connects into ‘ Camelot ’ , fine cloth , finer than camelhair with which it became commonly associated , finer than wool , as fine as silk itself and perhaps a combination of camel and wool and silk . |
| 14 | Ah computational modelling is easier for me to present to you but then the role of context might become more important so you can appreciate it , in which case I shall give you that first . |
| 15 | Thus , most economists agree that the key issue is not ownership itself but rather the severity of the market competition , or its substitute government competition policy , which the industry faces . |
| 16 | There was not enough action and they were just too predictable , that they simply did not scare me but surely the point of a horror book is to scare you ? |
| 17 | The modern world is one which confuses and plunders our sense of the past ; one where even the concept of ‘ heritage ’ itself is hi-jacked and distorted . |
| 18 | It 's something that not a lot of people take notice of , as I say , until they become a victim of it . |
| 19 | Captain Freddie 's position in Punta Arenas was an unusual one and largely a result of the Falklands war . |
| 20 | I thought I heard something but then the oaf of a guide urged his horse back , shouting out questions which would have roused the dead . |
| 21 | She finally admitted to herself that even the risk of another snub was preferable to her growing anxiety about what lay ahead . |
| 22 | The did n't reserve anybody and quite a lot of their men at forty was taken away to the army . |
| 23 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 24 | Having heard of Miller 's industry , he made the suggestion to him and thus the idea of a small Dictionary was conceived . |
| 25 | Wilson saw Henry Barrett in him and even a flash of his Grandfather Barrett . |
| 26 | It is also clear from Walkley v Precision Forgings [ 1979 ] 1 WLR 606 and Chappell v Cooper [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 463 that where the plaintiff commences an action during the primary s11 or s12 limitation period but then puts himself in a position where he can not pursue it , for instance by letting his writ expire without service or delaying so much that his action is struck out for want of prosecution , the court will have no power to exercise s33 discretion , since it is the plaintiff 's own action or default which has prejudiced him and not the operation of s11 or 12 . |
| 27 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |
| 28 | There was more to it than just a change of style . |
| 29 | The full implications of this are best indicated if we observe that far more is involved in it than merely the uniqueness of the revelation in Jesus , solely the issue whether there is genuine access to knowledge of God in any other place . |
| 30 | When the fins of fossil specimens are carefully dissected , the lobes at the base are found to be supported by one stout bone close to the body , two bones joined to it and finally a group of small bones — the pattern that is found in the limbs of all land vertebrates . |