Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [noun] of the " in BNC.

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1 Every staff member who leaves , retires or ceases their employment of the Bank , should be replaced by a full-time official .
2 The effect of such imagery is to enrich or enlarge our concept of the male , or of what may truly be said to be ‘ masculine ’ .
3 Neuroscience , which depends upon a materialist CTP for the explanatory force of its explanations of the mind , can not , therefore , sustain any claim to be explaining or advancing our understanding of the basis of perception , or of the mind .
4 The regarders , like the verderers , were frequently amerced at Forest Eyres for failure to carry out their duties to the satisfaction of the judges — for failing to appear with the other regarders to make the regard , or to take the regarders ' oath , or to present their rolls of the regard on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or for losing their rolls , or for incompleteness in their returns .
5 Write about a journey to an unfamiliar place , a place that , when you visited it , fractured , ruptured or enlarged your understanding of the world .
6 The linguists were allowed to diminish or extinguish their study of the sciences : the scientists , if they were to maintain a full programme in three separate sciences , had no time to waste on languages .
7 As in Belcourt I think to myself : I am seeing what he saw , the same light , the sky , but it fails to work as it should ; it changes nothing , neither enhances nor diminishes my experience of the place .
8 He remained in York 's employment until the Restoration , first in the French and then in the Spanish armies , and became his groom of the Stole and one of his closest friends .
9 Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story .
10 He was very untypical of the modern world who dislike the modern world and make their dislike of the modern world perfectly evident of other people
11 I have some time to spare and would like to sit down and read my copy of the biography of Berlioz .
12 Instead of being taken for granted as a set of explanatory standards which will bolster and enhance our understanding of the social world , individualism may appear to offer only a narrow and distorting lens through which to inspect it .
13 On the face of it , this is a month when you should be concentrating on your future and accepting your share of the limelight .
14 TIMES have changed considerably since a youthful Austin Rawlinson attended his first swimming gala , well before World War 1 , and realised his love of the water had helped him develop an outstanding talent .
15 It 's becoming a favourite pastime , combining the thrill of the chase with the joy of the bargain which is why we regularly try and bring you news of the latest openings .
16 For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style .
17 Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package .
18 ‘ The person shown on television having an exchange of words with David Campese has come forward and given his account of the incident .
19 Nothing is known about his employment from 1815 to 1830 , when Messrs C. , H. , and G. Enderby proposed an Antarctic sealing voyage , and appointed him master of the brig Tula ( 150 tons ) , which was not a good sea boat , with the cutter Lively and twenty-nine men and boys in all .
20 The modern world is one which confuses and plunders our sense of the past ; one where even the concept of ‘ heritage ’ itself is hi-jacked and distorted .
21 The Danish blocking of Maastricht has at least made it possible for Britain to argue for ‘ no Single Currency ’ and to suspend her membership of the ERM , an option formally closed by the Treaty .
22 To enable pupils to identify with situations , beliefs and experiences of people in the past and to increase their awareness of the influences which have shaped attitudes in the past .
23 However , if on hearing or reading these sentences people computed their structures , which conform to standard rules of English syntax , and used their knowledge of the semantics of English to interpret these structures , they would not be misled by them .
24 Forty-six years on , John Edelnand , now living in Luton , revisited Gwrych Castle and the neighbouring village of Abergele and found his memories of the local people still clear :
25 So he said to himself : ‘ This is the place where I was simply terrified ! ’ and remembering his fear of the previous day , he promptly shied again although he had not been hurt the day before .
26 I woke up screaming with terror and distress , and told my mother of the dream .
27 When Lars Ake Wilkstrom , Chairman of the Swedish Deaf Association , addressed the BDA Congress of 1986 at Rothesay , Scotland , and told his audience of the benefits to the Swedish deaf community from the official recognition of their own language they were astonished and excited .
28 Mrs Thatcher is very much alive to new ideas , ‘ ideas that support and implement her view of the world ’ , as somebody inside her ideas market put it .
29 Observers noted that some changes , such as that which enabled President Fidel Castro to declare a state of emergency , and appoint himself leader of the National Defence Council in such an event , merely institutionalized already existing situations .
30 Managing Corporate Affairs and Public Relations — a five-day residential course , for senior executives wishing to update and improve their understanding of the strategic role of Public Relations , and for senior PR Managers wishing to maximise their effectiveness within their organisations .
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