Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 2 | She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep . |
| 3 | In addition , the Scheme allows for payment to be made in some cases where the assessment of probability of causation would be insufficient for liability to be established in the courts . |
| 4 | We found , however , some cases where the definition of reasonableness had become a bone of contention and subject to tense renegotiation , especially by Japanese investors . |
| 5 | These texts share a fighting tone and a conviction that established forms of literary study , and in some cases even the concept of literature itself , have to be overthrown . |
| 6 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 7 | He successfully invaded Sudan to the south in 1820 , making it effectively a colony , and in some eyes even a part of Egypt . |
| 8 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 9 | Rather , indicate in a few words how the rest of your answer would proceed if you had time . |
| 10 | Despite the high profile launch , just a few months later the audience of Eldorado was only 2.4 million people , ‘ fewer than Gardeners World , ’ as the Daily Express pointed out . |
| 11 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 12 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 13 | There can be few jurisdictions where the location of a major university programme was determined by the location of the oldest prison . |
| 14 | Well I only got a few responses so the rest of the votes I made up . |
| 15 | Some years ago a number of philosophers of science and some scientists had the vision of a unified science in which all the separate disciplines would be integrated within a set of all-embracing , mutually coherent theories . |
| 16 | Write some ideas here The cause of all this is a common problem in society today -we tend to judge people on their ‘ professional status ’ , in other words what they do and how much they are paid . |
| 17 | A few years later the duchy of Austria was awarded to one of the sons of Rudolph of Habsburg . |
| 18 | Occasionally the enquiry becomes public knowledge ; a few years ago a copy of the authority for an enquiry into a well-known high street retailer appeared on the front page of a national newspaper . |
| 19 | A few years ago the cousin of a Sumatran friend of ours was killed by a singularly persistent elephant . |
| 20 | A few days later a group of nobles keen to impress Aurangzeb broke into the quarters where Dara was being kept , a small garden outside the walls of Shahjehanabad towards Nizamuddin . |
| 21 | It 's very much concerned with the training and Ministry of Elders and a few weeks ago a part of our programme we held a very successful and lively meeting on the subject of church membership . |
| 22 | A few weeks ago the Secretary of State , Sir Keith Joseph , announced that he would like schools and the educational world generally , to explore whether they could define specific objectives for particular subjects . |
| 23 | There were some constituencies where the interest of a local patron was so strong that he effectively had the power of nominating MPs . |
| 24 | However , there are some instances where a change of control can affect the underlying assets . |
| 25 | Occasionally a gelding , or even a mare , may be so aggressive that there is a real possibility of it seriously injuring another horse , especially if there are shelter sheds another horse can be trapped in , although for some horses even the corner of the paddock is enough . |
| 26 | In other words , were some factors e.g. the rise of Labour , more or less important than others , e.g. the First World War ? |
| 27 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 28 | There are aquatic arrangements ( probably influenced by the black and white mosaics , showing marine scenes , which were so popular in Italy , in the second and early-third century : see Clarke 1979 ) and other such scenes e.g. the mask of Neptune , fish and dolphins of no. 18 . |
| 29 | The code also covers timeshare operators — who need lists of individuals to mail or telephone — and members of the DMA should only supply these lists where the content of the timeshare advertising complies with the British Code of Advertising Practice . |
| 30 | From these considerations alone the justification of doubt as to the universality of the intra-familial relationships and development postulated by Freud , mentioned on page 64 , will be evident . |