Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a tight style of play which relied on physical strength . |
| 2 | One source said the general was closely scrutinising the list of telephone calls of support he received from senior officials during the coup to see who called , and whether it was before the rebellion was known to have failed . |
| 3 | Although signatures can be added after the initial printing of the Motion ( and usually are ) , its impact is judged very much on the amount of support it receives on first printing . |
| 4 | When master-manufacturers talked of the danger of communism which lurked behind any limitation of the absolute right of employers to hire and fire at will , they meant not social revolution but merely that the right of property and the right of domination were indistinguishable , and a bourgeois society must go to the dogs once interference with property rights was permitted . |
| 5 | Up and down and over and over , again and again and I 'd marvel at the bulk of prayer they made in any one day . |
| 6 | The idea of freedom which lies behind this kind of demand is confused in the same way as the idea of equality which calls for standardisation . |
| 7 | Two other areas of Anderson 's character , his pomposity and his urbanity are describable through discourse analysis , though we must also examine the complexity of his utterances and the level of formality he uses in particular speech situations if we are to establish the consistency of these traits . |
| 8 | Well er , a building society , I do n't know whether people realize , but there are limits to the amount of protection you get on large sums of money . |
| 9 | The final bit of luck we had on this job was while we were refinishing this table . |
| 10 | Thus , what is required is a special type of description which accounts for all types of differences and equivalents . |
| 11 | Three more informants identified the clash of registers in " the sort of description you expect of old Salzburg and the simile " " like a half-eaten lunch " " " , which , again , they were unable as yet to resolve . |
| 12 | Now tell me what erm what sort of preparation you did for this . |
| 13 | This dogmatic teaching about how the faith should affect experience is fundamental to the insight of the mystics into the living reality of the being of God and thus to the substance of the game of faith which participates in this being . |
| 14 | A biblical example of the first problem can be seen in the hopeless compromise of faith which resulted from religious syncretism in the ninth century B.C. On entering the Promised Land , the Israelites found that every piece of the land had its own deity , its own ‘ Baal ’ ( meaning ‘ lord ’ or ‘ possessor ’ ) . |
| 15 | What is actually happening of course we know in that case what is actually happening , because nerves erm er neurones in , in the base of the brain are actually sampling the blood flow as it goes through with sugar level and when the sugar level drops to a critical point , some of those neurones start to fire and as they fire gradually the message is passed on up to the higher brain centres and eventually you get the feeling you 're hungry . |
| 16 | Yes , well I mean we 're aware of that and of course we went through this question of distances on Friday . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course we thought about political problems , but everyone in Israel suffers from the same ones , ’ says Igor , a railway engineer studying at the Mevasseret ulpan . |
| 18 | So now of course we want minus three to plus three , so we want the axis down the middle . |
| 19 | So it is worth considering briefly here how to write a chase scene or a scene of action , something of course which comes in many other sorts of crime fiction . |
| 20 | I was friendly with one of the local farmers , and I had in mind on one of our " stand-downs " to run a small flock of sheep through the Lion , I would , of course he dressed in ancient drover gear and had no doubt that it would cause something of a riot at the Lion . |
| 21 | It 's very expensive to for what it is , I mean it 's fifteen pounds a ticket but if you , if you 're a member of course you get in reduced |
| 22 | Erm , what of course you do on that form is it 's not just how much people are paid , it 's how much they 're paid , plus benefits times two . |
| 23 | So Barbara , meself and a couple of the kids came along , , a couple of the kids were in on this , backing away sort of thing , and of course she went on this used car lot , and she 's looking at these Volkswagens , and John was doing his bit , I believe you like Polos . |
| 24 | I approached it as a pilgrim , though today of course it looks like any other golf club ; the members are indigenous and they are Japanese . |
| 25 | He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes , they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who 'd done it , see . |
| 26 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 27 | Of course I refused with much indignation , and he grew very angry . |
| 28 | Perhaps the main defence has been to construct an imagined community of resistance which cuts across all internal divisions by emphasizing the levelling effects of racist oppression . |
| 29 | Bogie was the kind of hellraiser who lived at one end of the scale . |
| 30 | Council , although , the amount of money they give for this kind of research is pretty sparse ! |