Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] of [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 2 | I had no food with me and , exhausted by the day 's walking and my mismanagement of the day 's end ( no sundowners that night ) , I went to bed early , in the room to the left , planning a stupendous breakfast the next morning in the first hotel en route for Fort William . |
| 3 | For everyone , I suppose , there is such a place , a place that is not , for it is a country of the mind — the medieval city , the ‘ fertile land between the two rivers ’ , my village of the heart 's desire . |
| 4 | Illustrated are some of the tickets in my collection of the Bishop 's Castle Railway and BC Transport Company material . |
| 5 | To suggest now that we should commit ourselves to establishing a funding council to carry out certain functions is to change the position that the hon. Gentleman adopted in Committee and my understanding of the Opposition 's view — |
| 6 | I thought of all the extra equipment his money would buy for Masquerade , and that 's how I tried to justify my acceptance of the senator 's proposal , but in reality it was because Crowninshield had invited me to play Galahad and I never could resist the lure of the dragon 's breath even if it did mean charging into idiocy like a fool . |
| 7 | When I parted them just a moment ago , the light outside was still very pale and something of a mist was affecting my view of the baker 's shop and chemist 's opposite . |
| 8 | It was now up to Larsen and himself to carry out their part of the night 's operation successfully . |
| 9 | We are waiting for a new quotation from Eurofighter for their part of the programme erm but in advance of receiving it I 'd not rather not speculate as to which impact it might have on the project . |
| 10 | We 've had some discussion with the College to seek to resolve this , and the proposals erm , are set out in paragraph four , three , er , in that it would mean that the College would not take over the ownership of the site , er , and it , but , but they would continue to occupy their part of the site er , effectively rent free from the County Council , but if , at any time , they decided they , the College wanted to move away from the site , it would revert to the County Council , it would n't actually become a College asset . |
| 11 | If their assessment of the scientist 's standing and contribution to his discipline is favourable , the project goes ahead . |
| 12 | During trials involving child defendants , expert witnesses , usually psychologists , are called to give their assessment of the child 's level of understanding . |
| 13 | What people are doing when they 're gambling on horses is placing their assessment of the horse 's chance of winning against the odds offered by the bookie . |
| 14 | In the morning she wondered if her inspection of the villa 's water-works might not have been part of a dream and looked carefully to confirm that the letter to Signora Kettering was still in her handbag . |
| 15 | It is possible that juries would prefer to convict of murder in such cases so as to register their abhorrence of the defendant 's activities in general . |
| 16 | DUBLINERS turned out in strength last night to show their abhorrence of the IRA 's violence and to demonstrate solidarity with the bombing victims of Warrington . |
| 17 | For the assessment year 1985/6 , the Department of the Environment continued to use these raw Census figures , which show just over a million people in one-parent families ( very poorly defined ) , in their index of an area 's social conditions . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , when we asked deaf people to examine videotapes of teachers using simultaneous communication , their rating of effectiveness closely matched their rating of the teachers ' use of facial expression . |
| 19 | She saw leaves of the last fall encased inside them and , yes , it was cold , but there was a fine frosty light , and the mist over the lake made her think of a stoat 's white fur . |
| 20 | The room made her think of the children 's game where the floor is the sea and full of sharks , and you are only safe on the furniture . |
| 21 | Since Christie had the vote of the burgh of Stirling at his disposal after the Michaelmas elections of 1740 , when the friends of James Erskine of Grange were turned out of council by Christie 's party , Ilay and Milton showed their appreciation of the magistrate 's friendship by ensuring that Sir Robert Walpole recommended Mr. Christie to Sir Charles Wager to such effect that the admiral named Christie to the highly desirable post of lieutenant in a new frigate , with all the prospects of prize money which such an appointment entailed . |
| 22 | It went on to make two historic recommendations : that the Institution should give more overt support to the Society of Surveying Technicians , formed in 1970 by the General Council of the RICS , pointing out that the notion that the profession needed persons with technical qualification to ‘ come in at the bottom ’ and stay there was insensitive to human aspirations and naïve in its recognition of the Society 's worth ; and that practitioners should henceforth be required to undertake structured Continuing Professional Development ( CPD ) — a courageous and necessary proposal ( see below ) . |
| 23 | It is also worth nothing , I think , that although ‘ whole-person ’ , ‘ humanistic ’ approaches seem superficially to be opposed to behaviourism in their recognition of the individual 's personality , on closer inspection the two views on learning seem in one fundamental respect to be essentially alike . |
| 24 | Amongst Mirror readers , there was no difference between Labour and Conservative identifiers in their perception of the Mirror 's anti-Conservative bias , though Conservative Mirror readers were somewhat less likely to detect a pro-Labour bias . |
| 25 | Although not quoted as a reference over recent years , the Henley Standard continued its reporting of the Club 's fixtures and competitions , as it had from the beginning . |
| 26 | ‘ We know the rather negative condition reports ’ , says Filedt Kok , ‘ but the painting 's overall impact and its enhancement of the museum 's Rembrandt holdings is of more importance to us . |
| 27 | The six Hong Kong members of the BLDC subcommittee took the unprecedented step of publicly announcing their disapproval of the subcommittee 's proposals . |
| 28 | His student orchestra had been rehearsing Haydn 's Toy Symphony , with its imitation of the cuckoo 's call . |
| 29 | For instance , someone who expresses her opinion of a friend 's appearance very vaguely may be suspected of doing so in order to be polite ( saving others ' face is a common motive for vagueness , untruthfulness and withholding information ) . |
| 30 | Matey might not work so hard as McAllister did , or perform such menial tasks , like scrubbing the kitchen floor and whitening the front doorstep — which was next on McAllister 's list of duties — but she did her share and was never idle , even in her spare time — hence her membership of the ladies ' sewing circle and her encouragement of her housemaid , McAllister , to accompany her to it . |