Example sentences of "of [adj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage it is sufficient to note his readiness to refer to the weakness and failings of his own religion which is a human construct and an expression of that which underlines all religions . |
| 2 | The only kind of music he liked was sung music and of that he liked all sorts — opera , lieder , folk , country , rock , jazz , soul , the blues . |
| 3 | And it was indeed hope , education and reformation that dominated the sphere of juvenile justice in these years , most solidly embodied in the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 which consolidated these developments in the treatment of young offenders . |
| 4 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 5 | At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell : |
| 6 | Erm look I 'll put June on from Mansfield first of all I wanted thirty seconds worth of famous dogs cos we had er why Nottinghamshire 's dogs are too dumpy earlier on did n't we ? . |
| 7 | First of all you want three things . |
| 8 | By the end of 1981 we had 310 collections and reckoned to have covered about three-quarters of the region . |
| 9 | The first class consists of those which handle real numbers . |
| 10 | An attempt should be made to quantify the likely usage through enquiry of those who attend back-to-nursing courses and through local advertisements which seek information from those who would consider coming back to nursing if a child-minding service was provided . |
| 11 | It is also true that the religious practice of those who attend vocational schools has been significantly inferior to those who attended catholic secondary schools , at least in the 1970s ( Nic Ghiolla Phadraig 1980 ) . |
| 12 | Admittedly , most of those who attend such demonstrations are , as the government has said , self-righteous prigs who mistakenly believe that they are the only ones interested in peace . |
| 13 | Several of those who shared those discussions are now big names in the art market . |
| 14 | It addresses the needs of those who use public services , extends people 's rights , requires services to set clear standards — and to tell the public how far those standards are met . |
| 15 | But we were not taken into the confidence of those who determined media-generated arguments between agendaless and ideologically bankrupt parties . |
| 16 | The decision in Chamberlain was also followed and referred to in Vestey v IRC 31 TC 1 but Lord Reid did give a warning : The ingenuity of those who devise these schemes is such that it might be rash to say that property can never be comprised in a settlement unless it is charged with rights in favour of others , but I think as a general rule this must now be the test . |
| 17 | The ingenuity of those who devise those schemes is such that it might be rash to say that property could never be comprised in the settlement unless it is charged with rights in favour of others , but I think that as a general rule this must now be the test . |
| 18 | This step is important in that organizational transformation always necessitates the need for changes in the behavior of those who hold key roles in the organization . |
| 19 | Of this latter group , 39 per cent were classified in manual occupations , compared to 33 per cent for shareowners as a whole and 28 per cent of those who owned non-privatisation shares . |
| 20 | Once the bane of those who owned glassfibre yachts , osmosis can now be dealt with using a number of techniques . |
| 21 | As ‘ t is no better reckon 'd , but of those Who worship dirty gods . |
| 22 | It follows that the meaning of ontological claims becomes fully transparent only if such claims are seen in the context of certain life-modalities of those who make such claims ; in effect , all such claims become interpretable as forms of man " sown self-understanding . |
| 23 | The list of those who receive set-aside payments in The Sunday Times article reads like the pages of ’ Burke 's Peerage ’ . |
| 24 | Some of those who answer such questions incorrectly may do so because of slips or lack of recent practice in the topics concerned . |
| 25 | The existence of competition between organized groups of people sharing interests , and their peaceful mediation by neutral governments , has been the central argument of those who analyse liberal democracies in terms of the pluralist model . |
| 26 | Three out of four children are aware of cigarettes before they reach the age of 5 whether the parents smoke or not ; at 10 years old as many as 40% of boys and 28% of girls have had at least a few puffs of a cigarette [ 1 ] and about one third of those who become regular smokers have started before age 9 [ 2 ] . |
| 27 | Some of those who commit sexual crimes claim that they are mentally ill or were victims themselves . |
| 28 | Norman MacAskill , Inverness , said the Conservatives ' case for re-structuring councils was fraudulent , as the majority of those who wanted single-tier councils saw it as part of the move to a Scottish parliament . |
| 29 | I once went to the trouble of having a pair made in the finest white doeskin but fortunately I have now outgrown such extravagances in much the same way that I have outgrown the petty conversations and banal posturings of those who frequent literary gatherings or , worse , television studio canteens . |
| 30 | Willis presents evidence to show that his competence is cumulative and so ‘ makes it sensible to speak of the working class not as an abstract group of those who share similar interests but as an organic whole with real and used inner connections ’ ( Willis , 1976 ) . |