Example sentences of "[det] [noun] of [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Melanie of his must have been a right madam , thought Leonora when Penry went off to get himself a glass of whisky . |
| 2 | Some aspects of it may shock you . ’ |
| 3 | I vividly remember , although I was in a thoroughly sleepy condition , telling him that in my view the only proper justification for an enquiry about Mr Profumo 's personal life depended on the possibility that some act of his might have compromised security , because he obviously had information which was secret . |
| 4 | We 'll have a bit of this type of We 'll have , have a bit of that tying wire . |
| 5 | Once you have some ideas of what would suit you , you will need help to take these ideas forward . |
| 6 | And what the soldier wants will enormously affect what this belief of his will make him do . |
| 7 | The dust spreads far and wide in the wind , and there is a good chance that some particles of it will happen to land in another stream , hitherto not ‘ infected ’ with the seeds of this kind of dam-making clay . |
| 8 | Another half-hour of it would have sealed a momentous victory . |
| 9 | I want her back at Mass next Sunday , and if you ca n't persuade her , then this belt of mine 'll have to do the talking ! ’ |
| 10 | erm If you were not so much an artist as a technician , you became as a technician interested in what this camera of yours could do , and therefore George Albert Smith , who was primarily I would say a technical man rather than an artist , he was very interested in the trick film . |
| 11 | During the second year of life children start to develop some understanding of what will upset and annoy a sibling . |
| 12 | After his long , slow climb Stoneley had found himself to be a novice at office in-fighting , some examples of which could make the brutal intentions of a common criminal seem almost harmless . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , potential creators of university-related science institutions in the UK could do worse than read Koppes 's book for some idea of what might await them . |
| 14 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 15 | JUST when you may been ready to despair , it seems that this country of ours may have found something of its heart , or perhaps its soul . |
| 16 | He believes he can shape the world to his conception ; that this scheme of his will answer all the questions . ’ |
| 17 | A penny novelette plot you might think , but Susan Hill deals with the themes of love and jealousy with such delicacy and such understanding of what might happen but never does that this , her first novel for 16 years , is equal to her best . |
| 18 | A DoT spokesman said : ‘ These trips of his may sound like jolly larks , but he is being very irresponsible . |
| 19 | However , it would help the student if he were introduced to it briefly and with simplicity , not only because a knowledge of serialism is essential to an understanding of today 's music , but also because so many aspects of it can enrich other methods of composition , even in other styles and idioms . |
| 20 | His fear focused his whole concentration on the tiny circle of steel pressed against his flinching neck , and on the white-knuckled finger he could imagine curled round the little half moon of metal — the least movement of which would blast him out of existence . |
| 21 | Particularly important for these bees are certain groups of orchids , each species of which may offer 2–18 ( mean 7–10 ) different compounds , some of which are unattractive on their own ; however , eugenol , methyl salicylate and vanillin are highly attractive individually . |
| 22 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 23 | We may conclude that violence is such a wide term that we need a typology , each item of which may have its own consequences and causes and so be best dealt with by different interventions . |
| 24 | She looked at her friend and wanted to ask whether she had a few days to spare , because that was how long any description of him would take . |
| 25 | ( f ) because the stock is convertible , any transfer of it will attract stamp duty at one half of one per cent ; |
| 26 | The duchess being bride to the heir presumptive , with the princes gone , any issue of hers would have been regarded by many as rightful sovereign of the realm . |
| 27 | Well any wife of his would have had a miserable life ! |
| 28 | My Heart bleeds to see the Concern he is in ; and it would be the utmost Satisfaction to me , if I could hope any thing of mine could contribute to his comfortable Subsistence in his old Age : I therefore beg of you to take the Key of my Buroe ; and if any thing is to be made of my poor Papers , that you will , for my sake , endeavour to promote a Subscription for his Benefit , which you so kindly have propos 'd for mine |
| 29 | Since the hunt for Dinah began , police investigations have revealed the existence in Britain of almost 2,000 religious organisations , any number of whom could have had representatives or followers at the three-day pop festival . |
| 30 | There may be truth in such a suggestion ; and my own dislike of it may stem from nothing more profound than my intense dislike of the word ‘ leisure ’ , suggesting to me , as it does , the spectacle of some drone-figure sitting in a deck-chair while someone else mows the lawn , or a grim marina , packed with empty yachts . |