Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he means is that although in one sense the competitively won money is very desirable — it gives a terrific boost to Imperial 's research and , because many of the contracts are from industry , keeps the university closely in touch with the real world — it actually contributes next of nothing to the core costs of the college , of which , of course , academic salaries are the largest single component . |
| 2 | The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights . |
| 3 | These were Clione , and I cam to think of them as the party animals , always feasting and fighting and mating . |
| 4 | With a stock exchange investigation under way into heavy trading in Dixons ' options ahead of the announcement , it emerged that as many as 300 people would have known of the bid shortly beforehand , many of them on the credit committees of lending banks . |
| 5 | At present the Survey files in Edinburgh contain the details of over 100 000 boreholes sunk in Scotland , the majority of them in the coalfield areas . |
| 6 | Oliver spent all of his on the plastic ducks and collected ten prizes . |
| 7 | Well I mean , well that 's it , you know selection of everything like the starch foods |
| 8 | Such was Kylie 's hatred of what she called ‘ pirate ’ pictures of her that she instructed her lawyers to look into ways of suing those who published unofficial photographs of her on the myriad items of memorabilia that filled shops all over the world . |
| 9 | Yours sincerely , ( Prof. ) Richard von Krafft-Ebing girl is obviously fairly intelligent , and so will find it hard to find a man worthy of her among the servant classes ; and how will she meet anyone else ? |
| 10 | Socially reclusive , emotionally recessive — it might be asked whether Larkin had any life at all ; the student radicals at Hull who daubed denunciations of him in the university lavatories presumably thought that he should get one . ’ |
| 11 | I 've still got bits of it about the porno magazines and that though . |
| 12 | The starting point must be the teacher 's current perception of the problem if there is to be a widening of awareness and reframing of it as the exploration proceeds . |
| 13 | In drawing up his list of inhabitants of Corfe Castle in 1794 , the compiler justified his efforts by claiming that it would not only help the overseers keep in touch with actual and potential needs , but would " enable the magistrates to form an opinion on the propriety of applications for parochial relief on the one hand , and of the refusal of it by the parish officers on the other " . |
| 14 | And I was absolutely amazed and I think all of us on the opposition benches were absolutely amazed at the city board that you appeared to have no proposals whatsoever to do anything about that situation . |