Example sentences of "[pron] and [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They urged friends to join them and so the Society of St Peter Apostle was born a hundred years ago in France . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Captain Freddie 's position in Punta Arenas was an unusual one and largely a result of the Falklands war . |
| 7 | The did n't reserve anybody and quite a lot of their men at forty was taken away to the army . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Having heard of Miller 's industry , he made the suggestion to him and thus the idea of a small Dictionary was conceived . |
| 10 | Wilson saw Henry Barrett in him and even a flash of his Grandfather Barrett . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Classic — a team without a woman on it and not a mention of cystitis or breast cancer , the menopause , or any of these things . |
| 15 | This article describes the experiment and considers what might be learned from it and how the televising of the House is now proceeding . |
| 16 | IT SICKENS me that hit records promoting the drug Ecstasy through hidden messages in the lyrics have been allowed when there have been so many deaths from it and now the hospitalisation of Flake model Rachel Brown . |
| 17 | I 'd just like to I do n't think this is a strategic matter in the in in the terms which you are now defining it and indeed the issue of self containment , my understanding is only the universe is self contained . |
| 18 | I have constructed a kitchen out of flatpacks with only one minor nervous breakdown and one remarkable shouting match involving my wife , her mother , myself and how a length of pine beading ought to be attached to several wall cupboards . |
| 19 | Since the outbreak of the war Harriet had rather prided herself that she and Tom had been able , for the most part , to manage their property by themselves and certainly the employment of any domestic help at this juncture seemed a luxury to which she was almost ashamed to admit . |
| 20 | The national companies such as Mexico and Venezuela are still re-organizing themselves and obviously a lot of time , effort and nervous energy is being spent by people on figuring out what to do in the C I S , where there are obviously great opportunities , but great risks as well . |