Example sentences of "of [det] [be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said well I would of that 's the whole point . |
| 2 | In the centre of that was the final touch — one deep red rose . |
| 3 | He dared not conjecture , but the possibility of that was the only thing that prevented him from abandoning her . |
| 4 | Examples of this are the phonetic information and the etymological descriptions of words . |
| 5 | In English , the most obvious examples of this are the cliched openings of jokes like ‘ Have you heard the one about the … ? ’ or personal anecdotes : ‘ Listen ! |
| 6 | Examples of this are the brief discussion of Free Indirect Speech , and the extensive investigation of turn-taking in popfiction in a vein similar to that of Conversation Analysis . |
| 7 | The corollary of this is the increasing emphasis that has been placed on urban policies , such as Inner-City Partnerships and Enterprise Zones . |
| 8 | A classic example of this is the dental crown where diseased or damaged material is removed from the tooth and is repaired by placing a restorative cap over the remaining tooth . |
| 9 | A prime example of this is the genuine difficulty any Pope would have in recognising that Anglican priests are real priests since this would mean that when Pope Leo XIII declared in 1896 that Anglican orders were ‘ utterly null and void ’ , he was either silly or wrong or both . |
| 10 | An example of this is the former workhouse at West Hill Hospital in Dartford , Kent . |
| 11 | A good scientific example of this is the current work on molecular biology and the human genome project ( HGMP ) . |
| 12 | An excellent indicator of this is the phenomenal increase in the 1980s in commercial sponsorship of what used to be considered purely cultural events , such as operas , museum exhibits and sports . |
| 13 | An example of this is the general manager of the Cardiff store , who started out as a cook just five years ago . |
| 14 | An example of this is the young man with the enlarged spleen whose story was told in Chapter 1 . |
| 15 | An example of this is the second sentence of |
| 16 | A leading example of this is the European Science Foundation which has sponsored research programmes in both the physical and social science aspects of environmental change ( ESF 1990 ) . |
| 17 | Install a hard disk card — the advantage of this is the apparent ease of installation , also it is completely additional and leaves the two existing floppy drives , again the disadvantages are cost and potential damage which I could cause installing it . |
| 18 | A linguistic clue of this is the limited grammar of Lok 's language , particularly its paucity of clauses with a direct object or clauses with a human subject . |
| 19 | To the west of this is the great narthex with , behind , the complex façade of pinnacles , mosaic decoration and sculpture . |
| 20 | One example of this is the declining balance method , in which depreciation is recorded as a constant proportion of the depreciated book value ( or written-down value ) over the anticipated life of the asset . |
| 21 | Much research which contributes useful information to sociology is carried out by non-sociologists , and perhaps the best example of this is the decennial census of population without which British sociology would be hard pressed for much data about our society . |
| 22 | One of the simpler aspects of this is the relative importance of syntax versus semantics . |
| 23 | A possible explanation of this is the continuing polymerisation and cross linking of the fibrin . |
| 24 | Representative of this is the Corporate Report 's statement ( p. 38 ) : |
| 25 | A paradigm example of this is the vexed question of spatial visualisation . |
| 26 | One of the most notorious examples of this is the Common Fisheries Policy introduced — significantly — in 1971 . |
| 27 | Probably the most spectacular example of this is the large gaming or divination board found in the East Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth : it was covered with plaques of ivory , plated with gold and further decorated with plaques of crystal backed with silver or blue paste . |
| 28 | The antithesis of this is the extreme secularization of the Roman Empire , in which the institutional and political instincts ( these being essentially Apolline impulses that define the place of the individual ) were credited with absolute validity . |
| 29 | The three best known examples of this were the sacred bulls : Apis , herald of Ptah at Memphis ; Mnevis , herald of Re at Heliopolis ; and Buchis , herald of Monthu at Armant . |
| 30 | One example of this was the frequent necessity to enter data on transactions twice because of the lack of integration of fundholding and clinical software systems . |