Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rex and Tomlinson 's ( 1979 ) study of Handsworth in Birmingham was undertaken with the intention of discovering something of the relationship of Asian and West Indian immigrants and their children to the class structure of contemporary British society . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll wait here , ’ Claudia said with no intention of doing anything of the kind . |
| 3 | He was the least well acquainted with Connon and had no intention of saying anything at the moment . |
| 4 | The whole company ethos of keeping everything within the plant and of not talking to television or papers survived even when all seemed lost . |
| 5 | Mr Gillance said : ‘ He turned to dishonesty in the hope of providing something for the two of them because by then they were in debt . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And this is where she 's really going to feel the benefit of having someone in the family who knows about insurance . ’ |
| 7 | She almost jumped forward and darted towards the side entrance , dashed through the gate , up the shrub-bordered path and into the yard where , at a far door , Aggie was standing in the act of handing something to the maid . |
| 8 | Using sharp needles and ink , they were in the act of tattooing something on the girl 's back . |
| 9 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 10 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 11 | It is not just a question of exchanging one for the other . |
| 12 | He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk . |
| 13 | Then you could sort of do something with the |
| 14 | erm well I was gon na come down as you know and sort of do something about the loos , but |
| 15 | It does have some impact I 'm sure that you 've been the training session and you thought it 's really good , really got a lot out of it and you 're quite surprised to see someone sitting next to you did n't like that much at all , you thought hmm wonder why that is because I found the content really interesting and it could have been the content matter did n't really sort of do anything for the people , it could have been the way it was put together , put over and the way it was actually structured . |
| 16 | The capital of Finnish Lappland is Rovaniemi , home of Father Christmas — or so it is said — and a town that easily overcomes the embarrassment of having everything but the airport lying south of the Arctic Circle . |
| 17 | The problem lies with systems of universal education which pretend that they are in the business of educating everybody to the limits of their potential , while hypocritically and determinedly doing the opposite . |
| 18 | This is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘ union ’ and is part of the Hindu philosophy of self-discipline which teaches self-control , with the aim of becoming one with the impersonal god force . |
| 19 | The climb was enjoyable in spite of knowing nothing about the mountain , but awareness of history does add to a climb . |
| 20 | ‘ It was a fifty-fifty chance of saving someone on the verge of death , ’ one source close to the surgeons said . |
| 21 | Er the chance of rejecting everything on the table , well he 's now taking it back and he accepts the point , the point about the Regional Policy and he accepts the point about a National Policy . |
| 22 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 23 | But at least she could be certain of one thing : it was n't a place where there was a risk of meeting anyone from the power station , at least not anyone who mattered . |
| 24 | I mean luckily you , you know , you 'd gone on a car , with a car so it 's a matter of throwing everything in the back and just going |
| 25 | The wine and the excitement of having someone in the house to talk to . |
| 26 | The six fabliaux selected for summarizing here are , if in any way at all , only slightly untypical in being generally longer than average , this being an efficient way of conveying something of the range of what is to be found amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 27 | So far the Musée Rodin has kept up a pretence of knowing nothing about the case while in reality keeping an extremely close eye on every aspect of it . |
| 28 | Progress will inevitably be slow but the dual-task technique offers the possibility of determining something of the nature of the dynamic interaction between the two hemispheres . |
| 29 | The earlier cases do not make any reference to the possibility of arresting someone for the sole purpose of questioning him or her with a view to obtaining a confession . |
| 30 | And to the possibility of seeing something of the Sicilian town . |