Example sentences of "of [pron] [pers pn] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Transnational practices are , of course , abstract concepts , but they refer directly to the practices of agents and derive meaning from the institutional settings in which they occur , and because of which they have determinate effects . |
2 | He also thinks beauty is that in virtue of which we call beautiful things beautiful . |
3 | He also thinks beauty is that in virtue of which we call beautiful things beautiful . |
4 | The door referred to in Katherine Mansfield 's sentence may not have existed , but plenty of other doors , of which we have real experience , do . |
5 | There are various particular material substances such as gold and lead , of which we have various ideas . |
6 | One of the earliest events in Mercurian history of which we have any record is the widespread obliteration of craters near the end of formation , or soon afterwards . |
7 | Sicily is an example at the northern extreme , of which I have personal experience . |
8 | The approach which I take to the subject is one concerned almost exclusively with the Anglo-American tradition , though Hegel is allowed into the last chapter , at the end of which I give some references to sample writings in the continental tradition , especially critical theory . |
9 | I think looking at the market you can , you can get a , erm detached , semi-detached sort of one you know one bedroom I suppose , |
10 | And er , of course I , when I go up there I , I read some of his you ken old books and that and this night I was up , he 'd Gallovadians you see . |
11 | This would be one example of what we call teleological explanation . |
12 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
13 | But even if that were the case , we could still maintain that research is not part of what we understand higher education to be . |
14 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
15 | The problem is as they know in their heart of hearts much of what they propose this year is not sustainable in future years . |
16 | Psychologists have also found that gradation facilitates the prevention of what they call retroactive inhibition , whereby new material is confused with old material in such a way that neither can be remembered . |
17 | In terms of what you write these days , are you thinking of a style ? |
18 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
19 | It was a sort of what you call public council grounds I suppose you know . |
20 | Bank credit card ( Access , Barclaycard , Trustcard ) Flexible credit facility up to an agreed limit averaging £400 ) , for cash loans or credit purchases from the 100,000-plus shops etc. taking the cards ; must pay at least ( say ) five per cent of what you owe each month , but can choose to pay more ; no interest if you pay in full within 25 days of monthly statement ( except for cash drawings ) , interest on rest of debt changes periodically if bank base rate changes much . |
21 | I see that in American television now there are a lot of what I call reality-based shows which are doing that also . |
22 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |