Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 2 | We looked in some detail at some aspects of protection which included certain kinds of technical and formal performance , the indirect handling of painful subjects and projection , the latter including some aspects of the teacher 's most flexible strategy , teacher-in-role . |
| 3 | There was no fairy tale finish for Oxford United in the big cup game at the Manor last night with Aston Villa winning 2-1 … but better news of Swindon they put six goals past Torquay … |
| 4 | Of course they had some value , in an informal way , as precedents , but the precedent here might easily be not that non dubito is now admissible , but that some relaxation of wording is allowed where family property expectations are involved . |
| 5 | In the premier league it 's West Ham against Swindon at Upton Park … last season of course they faced each other in the first division … in London Town came out on top and it was this win that sparked their promotion run … so let's hope it 's lucky for them again |
| 6 | Erm but of course they did other work you know , which was of a general character . |
| 7 | Well when we came here of course we had certain furniture and we just sort of er , er and we , I do n't know what other people did , we just erm furnished a room at a time until we got |
| 8 | Er as you got older of course you got different meals , but as youngsters we ate a terrific amount of bread and jam . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course you needed more money . |
| 10 | Maire Carroll , serving in the shop and hating it , felt a firm and vicious sense of satisfaction over the fate of Eve and Benny , but of course she pretended great care and concern . |
| 11 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 12 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 13 | BROUGH JUSTICE : When Jack Charlton was boss of Middlesbrough he had star players of the quality of Graeme Souness , left , and David Mills , right . |
| 14 | Funny little things like the way he could find a mental case to confess to every gangland killing , and the number of prisoners who had sudden heart attacks while he was questioning them . |
| 15 | In a number of cases it ousted earlier conventions , such as the indiction or year of grace ( see later ) . |
| 16 | It was an instructive couple of hours which showed that sport can cross any barriers . |
| 17 | A recent survey in West Surrey and North East Hampshire asked district nurses how many clients they had with ulcerated limbs ; the number of times they visited each patient ; and the types of treatment given for a specific month . |
| 18 | A couple of times we had big branch and stuff . |
| 19 | Not only was it the structure of attitudes which concerned these scholars , but also they were interested in the dynamics of attitudinal change . |
| 20 | Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage . |
| 21 | Table I shows the number of subjects who received each test substance , mean age , and the site of colonic infusion . |
| 22 | In fact their performance was slightly better than a control group of subjects who had one night 's sleep deprivation with no prior selective deprivation . |
| 23 | In a low and antagonistic frame of mind she accepted that Ace was never going to have any time for her . |
| 24 | In my rather disgruntled frame of mind I rebelled that night against the long way round . |
| 25 | To this extent , in establishing the service , certain governmental and educational authorities were signalling with all the pomp and circumstance of legislation that youth did constitute a separate and , in important respects , an immature source of labour which required special treatment . |
| 26 | Concomitant with the mystical theology inherited by the medieval English mystics , and also governing their thought and expression was a dialectic about the mode of living which enabled mystical experience and a vocabulary to express it . |
| 27 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 28 | Another pair of defectors who caused endless headaches were the Petrovs who changed sides amidst bizarre publicity in Australia in 1954 . |
| 29 | They formulated a series of demands which included equal pay for women . |
| 30 | In a last ditch effort to keep the public sector buoyant , bank credits to the private sector were yesterday frozen by the Governor of the Bank of Crete who ordered private enterprises to pay back state loans as soon as possible . |