Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think she 'd knitted it herself out of old pieces of string she 'd saved from the children 's birthday presents . ’ |
| 2 | Out of 105 items of prey he examined , only 7 were pieces of lamb compared with 3 entire fox bodies and 25 rabbits . |
| 3 | This letter was only the beginning of a case with a long history , and by piecing together a number of disjointed fragments of information we can obtain an unusually clear picture of the sequence of events and of Anselm 's reactions to them . |
| 4 | In the case of human beings of course you have to notice that men seem to have an advantage because as I think I mention i in the lectures , it 's perfectly possible , you see this happening in our own society which is supposed to be monogamous , perfectly possible for a man to get married , raise a family and then in his forties to desert his wife and raise a second family . |
| 5 | Because of these methods of production he is also able to make special tools to order , one such recent order was for hooked turning tools . |
| 6 | If the review is to command the support of all sides of industry it must be seen as being thorough and in-depth . |
| 7 | Utilities Xtradrive is one of those bits of software you can install and forget — in every test we 've thrown at it , it has been totally transparent to the user — but even so , there are some interesting utilities included with it . |
| 8 | In one of those swings of mood she experienced , swooping backwards and forwards like a pendulum , Blanche was frothy again . |
| 9 | One of those flashes of shyness he has . |
| 10 | By one of those quirks of fate he was at Plas Menair for a canoeing course when he ran into Phil Eccles whom he had last seen in the Australian desert . |
| 11 | Write down the names of four records/pieces of music you would use in advertisements . |
| 12 | In the view of successive Secretaries of State it is essential in the interests of national security and of any other grounds for which a warrant may be issued that no such inference should ever be capable of being drawn . |
| 13 | By the Act of Settlement 1701 , ‘ Judges ’ Commissions [ shall ] be made quamdiu se bene gesserent , but upon the Address of both Houses of Parliament it may he lawful to remove them . ’ |