Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [vb base] [vb pp] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , there are many studies of primitive communities which not only claim that this possibility is realized but depict in detail the life of a society where the only means of social control is that general attitude of the group towards its own standard modes of behaviour in terms of which we have characterized rules of obligation … |
| 2 | I have already made my views clear : officials have written to every education authority about which we have received evidence of a failure to carry out its statutory duties — and we will continue to pursue the matter vigorously . |
| 3 | There is a natural tendency to incline towards that which we no longer have , that which we have lost possession of with the passing of time . |
| 4 | and the fear of people for each other that that lot might take away what I 've got sort of thing . |
| 5 | A similar switch-over type of story can be written by doing what I have counselled writers of full-length detective stories not to do : by slipping in a tiny clue in the hope that readers will miss it . |