Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her death , he 'd moved out into one of the back rooms , and Aunt Ruth — although she supposed she 'd have to stop thinking of her in that way — had taken the other . |
| 2 | It is not an entity or an origin , although the language we use may predispose us to thinking of it in those terms . |
| 3 | The mass of new , hot rock forcing its way up through the crater floor had both helped to displace the water from the crater , and heated it up to nearly boiling point , so it was a scalding torrent that flashed down the valley , travelling at a speed of something like ninety kilometres an hour . |
| 4 | Most prejudicial to the reputation of the Church was the sin of simony , the buying of something of spiritual value for money , such as ecclesiastical office or advancement , or charging for ordaining a clerk or for the performance of any other spiritual service . |
| 5 | As regards the cyclical view , Momigliano says that the principal upholder of it in Greek historiography was Polybius ( c . |
| 6 | By this time , the Magdalene , the Virgin and others of those closest to Jesus had disappeared , and there is no further mention of them in scriptural accounts . |
| 7 | There is no mention of them in any movement order . |
| 8 | 1859 — 1919 : ‘ They [ Joseph 's contemporaries ] tested every man 's views by his actions , by his carriage of himself on all sorts of occasions . |
| 9 | A repeat of anything like that form will be enough to see off his modest rivals . |
| 10 | There was a bench at one side of it with empty tea cups on it and some comic papers . |
| 11 | There would be a gap of anything from six months to a number of years over which a veil was drawn . |
| 12 | Is the Prime Minister aware , first , that people will want to study in detail what he has brought back and will need far more time to do that , and , secondly , that a treaty committing us to a European union probably represents an even bigger change than our entry into the Community in 1975 , the long-term effect of which over many Parliaments will be great ? |
| 13 | He left the cardboard box on top of his wardrobe , where it remained until 1973 , when he cleared away every trace of himself from 29 Champney Road . |
| 14 | The figure of one in four crimes being reported refers to crime in general , and this ratio of recorded to unrecorded crime varies according to the particular crime . |
| 15 | On Sept. 6 the three Baltic Foreign Ministers , A. Saudargas ( Lithuania ) , Janis Jurkans ( Latvia ) and Lennart Merri ( Estonia ) , went to Brussels to present a request for associate membership of the European Communities ( EC ) , which had already formally stated its recognition of them as independent states . |
| 16 | I have always been exclusively attracted to girls and wimmin in any sexual or deep emotional way ; it has always been a part of me as grey eyes or dark hair . |
| 17 | Last night heartbroken Sandy , who lived with Brian at Didsbury , Manchester , said : ‘ Everyone who knew him has lost a part of themselves through this tragedy . |
| 18 | It 's mainly for adults , but the Home Office is considering using part of it for young people awaiting trial or sentence.It 's that potential for criminal cross fetilisation that 's worrying the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 19 | I do n't feel a part of it to any degree . |
| 20 | To me it seems particularly loathsome and , when you look at the experiences in countries like America where it operates , you 'll see that we want no part of it in this country . |
| 21 | Part of the deficit of the mainland colonies with Britain was covered by their exports to the sugar islands , part of it by increased indebtedness to British merchants . |
| 22 | His lips continued to hold her captive , weaving some dark spell around her that seduced her senses and lured her into sharing a virgin part of herself with this man … this man , with whom , of all the men she had ever met , she wanted least to share these secrets of herself . |
| 23 | This generates a climate for the technological upgrading of industry as a commercial proposition , and it also ensures that hardware and software are conveniently available , at a price , for those who wish to take advantage of them in any sphere . |
| 24 | I can detect nothing in the evidence , even on the debtor 's version , to suggest that Marshalls misled or took advantage of him in any way . |
| 25 | Traditional mytho-history had simply polarized the time-bound , mortal existence of ourselves in This World of Imperfection against the timeless , immortal perfection of The Other World of . |
| 26 | She says she 's spent her life living modestly , as Eric wanted , but now she wants to blow a bit of it on some fun … |
| 27 | Unlike the House of Lords it is elected , but it is elected by local councillors , an overwhelming majority of them from small country ‘ communes ’ . |
| 28 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 29 | We have another description of him at this date from a diarist who happened to meet him . |
| 30 | She 'd had a cocktail of them at some point that morning . ’ |