Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course they work on a Saturday . |
| 2 | And of course you do about a yard and then you 're stuck . |
| 3 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 4 | Small desert rodents and the Bedouin goat can survive short periods of dehydration which result in a 20–30 per cent weight loss . |
| 5 | It 's because that 's the sort of trace you get with an oxygen minimum around eight hundred metres . |
| 6 | It had not been lived in recently it had none of that slight warmth of humanity you find in a dwelling whose inhabitant has gone out for the day . |
| 7 | So now if I need a ‘ new ’ piece of equipment I go to a reputable second-hand wood working machinery dealer . |
| 8 | It explains why judges must conceive the body of law they administer as a whole rather than as a set of discrete decisions that they are free to make or amend one by one , with nothing but a strategic interest in the rest . |
| 9 | The type of teacher you get in a school like this is often enough a screwball , an outsider , or so I should guess . |
| 10 | Culture may be defined as those ideas , traditions , points of view and modes of behaviour which exist amongst a particular people , and which are transmitted , through learned behaviour , from generation to generation . |
| 11 | These are important questions for people who want to monitor the amount of alcohol they consume on a regular basis and perhaps replace their standard consumption with products that are reduced in alcohol . |
| 12 | An easy way to do this is keep track of the units of alcohol you drink in a week . |
| 13 | However , there are a number of post-war schools of thought which lie in a direct line of descent and which continue a distinctive democratic elitist pattern of argument . |
| 14 | They will be devising packages of care which draw upon a variety of sources of support . |
| 15 | However despite the great variety of demi-caractère ballets staged since 1789 there appear to be only three main sources of gesture which contribute to a particular style for a particular ballet . |
| 16 | From this high point of religiosity we descend to an ironic concluding sentence , recalling another leitmotiv which makes its first appearance in passage [ 3 ] : [ 6 ] " Dear me , dear me ! |
| 17 | Moreover , since immature goats are subordinate to older ones , they may well have to give up any patch of food they find to a larger , more dominant animal . |
| 18 | This model incorporates all different categories of information which interact in an ongoing manner to constrain the processing of a sentence . |
| 19 | The quality and amount of information you have about a subject can mark you out as a specialist who is an invaluable source of advice for others . |
| 20 | Carbonate which is not quite the salt not the sort of thing you get from an acid normally like sulphuric , sulphuric acid give you the sulphate . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's not the sort of thing I notice about a solicitor . |
| 22 | Initial identification of variables has not generally been discussed as a problem , presumably because linguistic elements of English which vary in a socially patterned manner are often very salient and sometimes rather general throughout the English-speaking world . |
| 23 | Thus , for example , all versions of positivism which rely upon an exhaustive sources thesis might be refuted by the undoubted circumstance that criminal law incorporates and generates moral standards . |
| 24 | The easiest way to find the wide range of cover you need at a competitive price is with a policy which packages together a number of covers and is specially designed for a certain group such as self-employed tradesmen . |
| 25 | The Americans that I have spoken to tell me that the average amount of fluid they use in a case is 24 to 32 oz . |
| 26 | People want imitation Bernard Dunstans and little feathery bits of painting which look like a painterly painting and are n't too upsetting or dramatic . |
| 27 | We canna have everybody putting eights , nines and tens and nobody putting ones , twos , and threes because then it it becomes meaningless er , in relation to the section it 's got to bear some relation to what sort of standard you expect from a child at at such |
| 28 | ‘ No , the police are keeping that quiet too , and it 's hardly the sort of detail you print in a family newspaper . |
| 29 | There are several styles of year-dating which start with a day in the month of September . |
| 30 | However , the committee was concerned about the effects on business of the high rates of interest which occur in an inflationary economy . |