Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his 1965 article , ‘ Aesthetic of Hunger ’ , enormously influential on Third World cinema and art , Glauber felt he had given ‘ the measure of my rational understanding of poverty ’ . |
| 2 | This is the distortion of perception referred to by Bruch , but I must add that in my case I see it less as a longstanding perceptual difficulty than as a consequence of my general state of confusion as to my self-image . |
| 3 | That comes within the responsibility of my fellow Under-Secretary of State , my hon. Friend the Member for Eastwood ( Mr. Stewart ) , who will have heard what the hon. Gentleman said about further applications . |
| 4 | ‘ You , the last remaining of my First Hierarchy of Hell . |
| 5 | Having my breasts removed was having my stigmata removed , the outer visible sign of my inner affliction of inferiority . |
| 6 | ‘ Just an example of my unfortunate sense of humour , I fear . ’ |
| 7 | Again I am suspicious of my own bias of taste . |
| 8 | I hope that hon. Members will bear with me if I paint a brief picture of my own borough of Shrewsbury and Atcham in Shropshire . |
| 9 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 10 | Mick and Paddy had been well briefed on most things , but in the last-minute rush they were not given full details of my self-made code of conduct . |
| 11 | Defendants are entitled to give evidence of their honest state of mind , and to explain why their dominant motive , irrespective of any dislike they may feel for the plaintiff , was to comment on a matter of public interest . |
| 12 | They told us that many customers would be ready to pay £30 more for a washing machine , say , to get it from someone who would have the payments collected weekly from their homes , simply because that fitted into the pattern of their normal use of credit . |
| 13 | Because of the drought , cotton farmers in north-western New South Wales are receiving only 10 per cent of their normal allocation of water from irrigation projects , while the cost of water has risen by as much as 30 per cent . |
| 14 | In the year 1990–91 , Innovation 's Franklin business was worth £1.2 million out of their total turnover of £4 million and since taking on the distributorship in 1987 they claim to have sold close to 300,000 units of Franklin product . |
| 15 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 16 | Such instances are not typical of their managerial system of control for it is unlikely that a single individual would be able to oversee a widely dispersed media empire . |
| 17 | Reverse-transcriptase ( RT ) -based PCR of total lymphocyte RNA has been shown to amplify specific coding sequences regardless of their primary tissue of expression . |
| 18 | It should be borne in mind that despite the fact that psychiatric diseases such as depression or manic-depression tend to be vastly over-diagnosed , particularly in sufferers from alcoholism ( in whom these features may be indications of their primary disease of alcoholism ) , some patients do have both addictive disease and psychiatric disease and need appropriate treatment for both . |
| 19 | Indeed le Baker observed that ‘ few nobles died ’ , and this comparatively low mortality is almost certainly to be explained in terms of their better standard of living . |
| 20 | This clarification was particularly needed in common law countries , such as Great Britain , because of their procedural requirement of privity of contract . |
| 21 | The deputies were to keep their privileges and pay until the end of their five-year term of office , in 1994 . |
| 22 | Not only the Siberian natives , who had long suffered from the systematic cruelty and exploitation of the invading white men ( see James Forsyth 's account in Chapter 4 ) , but also the ‘ old inhabitants ’ ( starozhily ) , Russian peasants , citizens and merchants fell victim of their virtual reign of terror . |
| 23 | It is a collective expression of extensive opposition to — even outrage at — the attempt by Henry VIII and Arran to stampede the Scots , the moment the opportunity appeared to present itself , into a complete denial of their long tradition of independence fought for and achieved in the teeth of English aggression . |
| 24 | Drugs from the ancient system of medicine Ayurveda are popular in India , and are believed to be safe because of their long history of use and their natural origin . |
| 25 | Of their long list of successes the most recent and most famous was the arrest , conviction and execution of two thugs , Browne and Kennedy , who had heartlessly blasted to death an Essex police constable named Gutteridge . |
| 26 | Undergraduate scholarships of the value of approximately £200 are open for award to students , usually in the summer vacation of their second year of study , for travel abroad directed towards the enlargement of their experience of music . |
| 27 | The 62 MPs reached a consensus ahead of their fifth day of talks on ending Lebanon 's confessional political system . |
| 28 | Latin America was the first region of the South to change all that , partly because of the influence of their regional organisation of communication institutions ( FELAFACS ) . |
| 29 | Indeed , it is a power of that nature which the revenue claim to have exercised in the present case , in the course of their general function of managing and administering the tax system . |
| 30 | In 1978 , on the basis of their professional knowledge of schooling and civil administration , the organization succeeded in obtaining the necessary government permission to open in Dalkey a multi-denominational school governed principally by the parents , the mode of religious instruction to be determined by them . |