Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [coord] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffith was seduced by his own myth of himself and by the preoccupations of the Progressive era into believing that he was a serious thinker , whereas in truth he was an old-fashioned story-teller who had spontaneously discovered how the technology of film could be used to give stories a tremendous power . |
| 2 | For the purposes of s 287(1) , the meaning of the term should be confined to releases not given for full consideration , on the grounds that such a limitation was required by the context of s 287(1) itself and by the provisions of TA 1970 relating to company distributions as a whole ( ss 233–237 and 282–286 ) . |
| 3 | The figures generated by the snowball sample itself and by the nominations of this sample group have given us two sets of ratios of the hidden to known sectors . |
| 4 | The National Portrait Gallery habitually commissions portraits of notable figures for its collection , and , of course , members of the Royal Family are painted regularly , providing a time-lapse documentary of themselves and of the fashions of their age , both in clothes and in painting . |
| 5 | Carbon atoms can form bonds not only with themselves but with the atoms of important atmospheric gases , oxygen and nitrogen . |