Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pro-choice forces in the republic advised voters to vote ‘ yes ’ to travel abroad for abortion , ‘ yes ’ to receive information about abortion services ( both of which they did in large majorities ) , and ‘ no ’ on the ‘ substantive ’ issue because the preceding judgment in the Supreme Court was in fact more liberal : it permits abortion in Ireland if the woman threatens suicide . |
| 2 | All of which we have in this brochure defined for us . |
| 3 | Such increases as have occurred in on-licence sales have tended to be in products such as lager , cider , wines and spirits , many of which we purchase from outside suppliers in the form of proprietary brands . |
| 4 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 5 | David Bailey , the photographer whose lens pinned the swinging sixties forever to the wall , noted in 1985 that the mini-skirt was directly attributable to Jean Shrimpton 's legs , more of which he exposed with each successive photo session despite Vogue 's initial efforts to airbrush in what he 'd hiked up . |
| 6 | I mention this only because it is one of the dominant features in an inspector 's life , the shadow of which he feels at all times . |
| 7 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 8 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 9 | Liberal Democrats recognise the importance of the things we own in private but we also know the value of what we hold in common . |
| 10 | Not all of those , of course , as already noted , are reasonable-above all , any wholesale dismissal of what we get by direct awareness is entirely futile . |
| 11 | Indeed we no longer employ the word with full assurance , or are confident of what we mean by philosophical ‘ materialism ’ , now that we are forbidden to think of atoms as little balls out of which a universe could be constructed ; twentieth century physics has less substantial entities which would slip through one 's fingers . |
| 12 | At the most general conceptual level of what we mean by good neighbouring , the ideas are tapping very thorny problems of the sources of social cohesion and solidarity . |
| 13 | We could do worse than try to reach some understanding in the lesbian and gay communities of what we mean by this question . |
| 14 | But it is the Liber Censuum , compiled in the last quarter of the twelfth century and incorporating many of these earlier texts , by the papal chamberlain , Cencio Savelli — later to follow Innocent III as pope — that provides us with most of what we know about papal finance . |
| 15 | We are taught not to focus on the more difficult aspects of what we know about other people . |
| 16 | Of course , it is natural to examine a text in the light of what we know of ambient domains — its author , the period in which it was written , and so on — and to regard it as exemplifying or representing something of more general interest . |
| 17 | The lyricism that sells out to a state-ordained reality and solidarity is not the only lyricism we know , and it is the opposite of much of what we know by that name . |
| 18 | We were thrilled by her generous gesture in this the Guild 's Centenary Year , not least because the story she tells so well shows that much of what we do for Christian Aid is in the best Guild tradition . |
| 19 | Much of what we do in daily life is done by habit , which may be passed down from one generation to another . |
| 20 | it is hard to distinguish the effects of much of what we do from other processes , such as the natural maturation of children |
| 21 | That many of the findings here are similar to those of our other work on adult education , we feel adds to the value of what we report from this study of applicants . |
| 22 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 23 | All too often , what follows from it is rationalisation ; the justification of what we feel against all the evidence of our intelligence . |
| 24 | Thus in some areas much of what we see in later landscapes may have been determined in outline before 4000 BC . |
| 25 | The fatality involving Joe was an example of what we consider as one of the most dangerous aspects of extended cuts . |
| 26 | They sent letters appealing to customers to pay part at least of what they owed in 1955 and within a week the £600,000 had been reduced by £150,000 . |
| 27 | People with interest-bearing deposits ( and , with inflation roaring away , no sensible person held cash ) now find most of what they used as ready money locked away . |
| 28 | For secondary school teachers of mathematics who have been eager to respond to the call for investigative work , the introduction of GCSE coursework assessment may have come as a rational consequence of what they see as timely changes in the curriculum . |
| 29 | However , there is increasing discontent in Labour ranks from pro-Maastricht MPs tiring of what they see as time-wasting tactics . |
| 30 | The sight of blasted buildings in Belfast , Portadown and now Magherafelt sear the soul , because of what they represent in lost hopes and wounded civic pride . |