Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been far more difficult however , despite the film technology , to assess the extent to which the gestures are used naturally yet significantly in the more taxing contexts of play and what some researchers call ‘ free living ’ . |
| 2 | He left Darlington Hockey Club for Norton a few seasons ago to improve his standard of play and his new club is currently lying fourth in the prestigious northern premier league . |
| 3 | We had two other rooms on the ground floor , a sort of kitchen and what most people would have called a large cupboard , but which Grace liked to describe as the parlour . |
| 4 | The emergence of Champagne and its early wines |
| 5 | Screen-writer , you see , demands of studio , absolute solitude essential , come and go as I please , often not there , vagaries of genius and its errant locomotion , several forged references available from heads of Oxbridge colleges , principals of Shakespeare Schools , even one on House of Commons paper . |
| 6 | Before I go into the details of the report 's findings and the accompanying and interesting , if depressing , press statement by the Minister on 9 September , I should say that there is not only increasing public awareness of the problems of smoking and its long-term consequences to the health of smokers , but an increasing awareness of the dangers of passive smoking , particularly to children . |
| 7 | In her largeness of heart and her sincere desire to help all who needed it , Miss Green has never spared herself . |
| 8 | Today , the combined circulation of Esquire and its worthy competitors is 250,000 — and growing steadily . |
| 9 | They too , spoke enthusiastically about , for example , the opportunities offered by The Machine Gunners for emotional empathy with the world of the child versus the world of the adult ; the emotional pleasure pupils frequently found in empathizing with Billy 's relationship with the hawk , and the themes and topics raised by Kes ; the complex nature of the link between humans and animals offered as a theme in The Red Pony ; the thematic possibilities of the Irish location of Across the Barricades together with its handling of prejudice ; and the understanding of allegory and its special features which might be well illustrated by a reading of Animal Farm . |
| 10 | For the moment let us focus on Said 's subsequent point that if Orientalism and anthropology derive from historicism , this is by no means a thing of the past : of more recent sciences , Said singles out in particular that of world history as practised by Braudel , Wallerstein , Anderson and Wolf , which he contends is still derived from the enterprise of Orientalism and its colluding companion anthropology , and which has refused to encounter and to interrogate its own relationship as a discipline to European imperialism . |
| 11 | Although he inherited FE 's dark , almost saturnine good looks and something of his addiction to alcohol , which he later overcame , he had neither his father 's gift of oratory nor his boundless energy . |
| 12 | This hierarchy shows the general subject area of building and its subordinate subject areas : building materials , auxiliary construction practices , construction in specific materials , wood construction , roofing and so on . |
| 13 | With the successful launch of Illustrator and its rapid acceptance by the professional market it became obvious that programs of this type were marketable and Aldus took on FreeHand . |
| 14 | Furthermore , Lord MacMillan observed that ‘ the categories of negligence are never closed ’ , thus leaving the way open for the broadening of the concept of negligence and its later application to a great number of different situations . |
| 15 | Once one goes beyond the relationships which are governed by privity of contract and its statutory extension , the rules governing the enforceability of leasehold obligations are simply stated : 1 . |
| 16 | Robin Child 's influence has gone far beyond the limits of the classroom and his Marlborough pupils : he has lectured widely , here and abroad , to teachers , art societies , art colleges , educationists , church audiences and schools ( some subsequently sending their own heads of department to Marlborough to see how it 's done ) on many aspects of art and art history , the philosophy of teaching and his own approach to it . |
| 17 | When I was assigned to investigate Ruggiero 's kidnapping , Pietro made a statement to the press drawing attention to my lack of experience and my political views and demanding that I be replaced immediately . |
| 18 | Their extracellular domains are very like those of cadherin but their cytoplasmic domains differ , being specialised for forming desmosomal plaques and , thereby , attachment to the keratin intermediate filament cytoskeleton rather than to actin . |
| 19 | Morality , religion , metaphysics , all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness , thus no longer retain the semblance of independence . |
| 20 | The generally massive expansion in financial services , the ‘ Big Bang ’ , the LDDC 's location close to the City , £400 million of public-sector support in the first five years of existence and its extensive powers to acquire land , all placed it in an exceptionally favourable situation . |
| 21 | Remember , too , the history of tobacco-growing and its intimate associations with colonialism and slavery . |
| 22 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 23 | Then there will be many people and organisations she will need to notify of her date of removal and her new address , such as the Gas and Electricity Boards ; the Department of Health and Social Security , for the transfer of the drawing of her pension to the post office near your home ; the local rates office , income tax office , and television rental office ; the bank manager , and building society or other places where she may have invested her savings ; her insurance agent , the headquarters of any pension fund to which she may belong , the telephone manager , and the post office for the redirection of her letters ( for which a form has to be completed and a fee paid ) . |
| 24 | Chlor-chemicals general manager Bob Hunt said : ‘ Results like these indicate the degree of confusion that exists around the use of chlorine and its natural presence in the environment . |
| 25 | Junker resistance to the abolition of serfdom , their mistrust of the new powers of industry and their blank incomprehension when faced with the idea that their estates could be run more profitably on other than feudal lines set them on a course that was to have a profound impact on German history . |
| 26 | Mark 's meeting with the Irish Minister of Industry and his loquacious officials was pure theatre . |
| 27 | Both bring into being an increase in the socialization of production , through division of labour and its necessary co-ordination ( potentially alienated , potentially collectivized ) . |
| 28 | They will be responding to the conditions produced by earlier phases of uneven development and building on the inheritance of previous geographies of earlier divisions of labour and their associated structures of dominance and subordination . |
| 29 | Eye witness accounts of the destruction of the church on 13 February 1945 , during Sir Arthur ‘ Bomber ’ Harris 's fire bomb raid on the city , are also asked for , as these might help in identifying blocks of masonry and their original location . |
| 30 | there is an asymmetry between the incumbent and the opposition parties : ‘ the incumbent 's policies and personnel have been put to the test of very recent practice at the time of election , while the oppositions ’ probable performance can be inferred only from its statements of intention and its previous performance in office ’ ( Kramer , 1977b , p. 699 ) . |