Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In America Dr James Tyler Kent was appalled by such modifications , feeling that many of the practices which Hahnemann had campaigned against had crept into the practice of homoeopathy itself in the one hundred or so years since its rediscovery .
2 ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else .
3 It is obvious that her cares very deeply about the theatre and acting , from the teaching of drama itself to the condition of theatre countrywide .
4 The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day .
5 Probably the best known Vulcanian deposit is one produced by an eruption of Vulcano itself in the 1880s .
6 At the present point in time there are those who are of the opinion that no sacrifice is too great for our democracy , least of all the sacrifice of democracy itself to the power of the judges and enslaving legal limitations .
7 The civilization founded on these existed in mature form in the United States of America in 1880 , and had just been extended , at last , to the whole of Europe itself outside the extreme south-eastern corner .
8 Some art historians detect the hand of Leonardo himself on the canvas , and it 's now generally accepted to be the most perfect version of the Last Supper in existence .
9 MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell .
10 Conviction oozes from every sentence like the very ichor of life itself from the metal life-support systems of the Bronze Giant of Fangorak .
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