Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb base] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were signs , especially in 1988 , that the players appeared to be trying harder in the one-day internationals than in the Tests , and the traditionalists — who of course regard themselves as the real cricket lovers — feared for the future . |
| 2 | This of course put me in the wrong . |
| 3 | He urged people not to let the short-term problems of recession blind them to the long-term truth . |
| 4 | At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture . |
| 5 | The portraits of Chatterton have something of the importance to the novel that the living and ageing likeness has in The Picture of Dorian Gray . |
| 6 | They remain different ways , because the institutions of natural science involve the practice of giving causal explanations with the aid of models and statistics , whereas those of religion involve nothing of the sort . |
| 7 | The day begins at sunrise and an army of engineers check everything from the fuselage to the fuel valve . |
| 8 | If the temperature also rises above the bees ' favoured level of 35°C , a group of workers position themselves near the entrance with their tails pointing outwards and then start fanning their wings so that the stale air is wafted out . |
| 9 | Do reductions of poems have anything like the same psychological reality ? |
| 10 | Alternatively , however , it may be that considerations of meaning take us beyond the scope of scientific method . |
| 11 | ‘ For your own sakes , for your families ' sakes , for God 's sake , do n't let the selfish pursuit of thrills blind you to the implications of this body in the coffin and to the awfulness of the activity you are involved in , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Yes I just want to explain very quickly for people who do n't know what we 're talking about , Leslie , because a lot of people join us by the minute , er , MPs on the Commons ' Heritage Committee , have said , they think it 's a very good idea , that if you have more than one telly , you should pay twenty pounds for the second one , and who knows , twenty pounds for the third , and twenty pounds extra for the fourth . |
| 13 | Thus the new reality is that a small group of people substitute themselves for the class as a whole and decide what is best for all . |
| 14 | Lovers of opera know it as the setting to Benatsky 's ‘ White Horse ’ operetta : you can still enjoy eating apple strudel and cream on the balcony of the 350 year old White Horse Inn . |
| 15 | This is not surprising when one considers the ways in which the attitudes and structures of society condition us from the early years of life . |
| 16 | Its status as written narrative fiction and its function as a means of communication provide it with the wherewithal to participate actively in present-day debates about the future of social institutions . |
| 17 | All of us who bear the name of Catholic join you at the outset of Lent , we say ‘ we 're with you ’ . |
| 18 | These type of thoughts put us in the mood to feel anxiety . |
| 19 | What clues do the source information , length of book , date of publication and length of discussion give you about the nature of the different writings ? |
| 20 | The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred . |
| 21 | Where standard discussions of autonomy place it in the context of rights , freedom and equality , paternalism and rationality , here it is discussed in conjunction with questions of fantasy , how we treat others , social and personal relations , and responsibilities . |
| 22 | That is , when we inform someone by means of language we retrieve a message from our model of reality and by means of the encoding and decoding of language transfer it to the addressee , who then fits it into his own model of reality . |