Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concepts are formed from numerous percepts of similar things , and are the way by which we deal with the millions of percepts we form daily . |
| 2 | I mean , I do n't know what sort of taxes they have on eh , on drink and that sort of thing , but I think Austria is more or less the same same sort of tax . |
| 3 | The short answer was that when I was working as inspector of taxes I used to give these talks , I was required to give talks . |
| 4 | Bearing this number in mind , you decide how many tokens your child will have to pay for a list ( something like a menu ) of rewards you have constructed , such as choosing a favourite pudding , staying up later than usual , a box of crayons or a special outing . |
| 5 | Instead of hatchets they have fans and as they pass through the soldiers ' camp they hit the soldiers and say : " There you are dead . " |
| 6 | You bring lots of people in at junior management and through a series of apprenticeships you cream off the people who get to the top . |
| 7 | The Soviet aversion to this multilateral arrangement and the apparent Soviet-preference to deal bilaterally with Vietnam , Laos and Kampuchea reflects the Soviet opposition to the creation of blocs outside Soviet control , even if the blocs are constituted of states they accept as ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 8 | A variation is the adjective checklist in which respondents are asked to indicate any of a list of adjectives they feel apply to themselves or to others , or to a product , etc . |
| 9 | At MCA , like elsewhere , there 's a weekly A&R meeting where we discuss the progress of acts we 've signed , we play new tapes and also screen what other companies are looking at . ’ |
| 10 | Not only did Wilson have a good ‘ pair of ears ’ , in musicbiz speak , but she was also a formidable negotiator , tenacious in the pursuit of acts she wanted to sign , and in fighting her corner over day-to-day interdepartmental matters . |
| 11 | From Bethlehem at the beginning of his Gospel to Rome at the end of Acts it is the one Spirit active throughout : first showing us the nature of that messianic salvation brought by Jesus , and then showing us how it was spread . |
| 12 | Perhaps the outstanding legacy of Napoleon 's invasion lay with the bevy of experts he had brought with him who created the " Institute d'Egypte " producing numerous volumes that were to launch Egyptology in the Western academic world and , in time , to remind educated Egyptians of former glories . |
| 13 | ‘ The peasant economy can be defined quite simply as that Form of farm production ( and associated activities ) in which the producer and his family till the land themselves , generally utilising their own means of production ( tools and instruments ) , with the object of directly satisfying their basic needs , although for a number of reasons they may find themselves required to sell a part of their produce on the market in order to obtain goods which they do not produce . |
| 14 | For a number of reasons they normally fail to reproduce , and are present only for the lifetime of the individual(s) . |
| 15 | Subjects in Study 3 were members of the Unit 's subject panel , thus most had participated in previous experiments at the unit , for a variety of reasons they may be generally better at this type of task than those recruited through a newspaper advertisement appealing specifically to drivers . |
| 16 | A number of reasons we felt were relevant : |
| 17 | There are lots of reasons we may feel worried about this . |
| 18 | So if you , I mean , to go back to our initial proposition , whilst on the face of it it seems curious that in the area in south China where one would expect land reform to be easiest to achieve the communists adopt a much more moderate , slower , cautious policy but for a whole variety of reasons we , we 're , we 're tending towards the view that that would be the most appropriate anyway . |
| 19 | We had originally intended to freeze our budget at precisely the level that it has been at the last two years for a variety of reasons we have decided that it is sensible to actually bring it down yet further . |
| 20 | With all that said of course the transition period is going to be very dangerous for the kind of reasons we 've been talking about already and I think is right too when he says that er , the so called nationalist in the non Russian Republics , if you 're a Democrat in a empire , then you are inevitably a nationalist as well because you want your nation to have its natural human rights . |
| 21 | And for a number of reasons we we felt that this was n't appropriate er primarily because it 's it 's an inflexible approach . |
| 22 | For a number of reasons I can not accept Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’ |
| 23 | Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ? |
| 24 | Cos I was asking , for a number of reasons I was asking for floor plans for our , you see . |
| 25 | for all sorts of reasons it may fail to fulfil its potential . |
| 26 | For a variety of reasons it was not possible to hold interviews with members of the music and drama departments , or with any representative of the senior management . |
| 27 | Fourteen two , erm the great problem is it 's easier to get if an afternoon meeting can finish at a reasonable time , then I can probably but erm I think if you , if you 're looking at the clock when home in the evening for a number of reasons it might be then I would this and unless we can sort of put a restricted time on the agenda which is impossible , I can imagine coming down here at two o'clock for the meeting . |
| 28 | That i that is completely infeasible for all for all sorts of reasons it would be grossly unfair on council tenants to throw them out of their house . |
| 29 | Well erm apart from my own experience erm I witnessed , I could n't even m er name as many erm instance of bullying that went on in my regiment erm and for all different kinds of reasons you know . |
| 30 | But that 's what that 's one of reasons he wanted you to go up cos he 's got this letter . |