Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the predominance of feudal relations in Russia it was impossible for the men of the 1860s and 70s to see that capitalism was already spreading and inevitably must do so . |
| 2 | Well three sort of top professors in America they |
| 3 | It may be sufficient to remark that when the instrument was demonstrated to an assembly of interested parties in Oxford it met with great approval . |
| 4 | While it is not necessary to cover all of these activities in detail it is important , if the interest of the audience is to be held , to show some indications of the passage of time . |
| 5 | It 's like one of these films in reverse you know . |
| 6 | And the other one , I wonder if the Council would consider , over sixties club , I ought to declare an interest I suppose , erm have two hundred members and they are distributing this Christmas , as they al always do , a three pound voucher to each of those members in office you know and I just wondered whether the Council would consider a small contribution towards that expenditure . |
| 7 | When Watkins put forward his observations regarding remnants of prehistoric alignments in Britain he ran head-on into official archaeological thinking which still believed in the Piltdown Man . |
| 8 | At a recent conference of educational psychologists in Scotland I was foolish enough ( again ) to be arguing for the practical importance of such grand-sounding notions as idealism and commitment . |
| 9 | In comparison with the constitutions of other countries in Europe it is difficult in Britain to substantiate the charge of excessive domination of the executive over a legislature . |
| 10 | It is reflected throughout Europe , and in Tervoort 's extensive study of 20 countries in Europe we can see the move toward the incorporation of signing in educational methodology : ‘ There is no change in favour of oralism and there is an atmosphere of change in the other direction all over Europe ’ ( 1983 : 143 ) . |