Example sentences of "of [pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It becomes interesting when it seems that Jane might hit Tom , or when one of them stops for a moment and thinks . |
| 2 | Fourteen fucking quid fifty a pair and one of them disappears on a charity night ! ’ |
| 3 | They can be differentiated along a continuum , one end of which consists of a community of individuals sharing everything , while the other end is characterized by a number of family groups which share a house , and perhaps other things as well , but whose degree of involvement as individuals in the collective is limited . |
| 4 | The results of the Survey are presented in two sections , each of which begins with a summary of its major findings , while a third section outlines the main conclusions suggested by the Survey . |
| 5 | The results of the Survey are presented in three sections , each of which begins with a summary of its major findings . |
| 6 | The S120 has its own stereo chorus which is dealt with by the remaining two rotaries on the front panel , the second of which doubles as a presence control . |
| 7 | There are other elements in Campbell 's thought : he seems to think that the most perspicuous model of the mind to employ in understanding human knowledge sees the mind as embodying a structured hierarchy of functionally characterized capacities , each of which works in a way analogous to natural selection ; and he defends his view as part of a ( reductive ) explanation of how the capacities comprising human rationality have evolved . |
| 8 | These passages in my view admirably define what is meant by colore officii and effectively dispose of any suggestion that because the person making the demand holds some official position that of itself amounts to a form of compulsion . |
| 9 | ‘ No daughter of mine goes near a bastard like that ! |
| 10 | Most of it consists of a list of banned substances by brand name , IOC category , points for and against from the doctor 's point of view , contained substances resulting in the ban and misuse resulting in the ban . |
| 11 | Faith , my friends , is the prospect that all our relationships can be transformed , it 's openness towards a movement of grace , a path to discover just how little life is of our own making and how much of it comes from a gift which is not our own . |
| 12 | This picture of myself develops from a myriad of experiences , particularly from the feedback I get from other people . |
| 13 | ‘ Miss Kenton , if you for one moment believe I have time on my hands , that displays more clearly than ever your great inexperience , I trust that in years to come , you will gain a clearer picture of what occurs in a house like this . ’ |
| 14 | Go down Via Francesco Sforza , and look out for the façade of the church of San Giovanni in Conca , the majority of what remains of a church that once stood in Piazza Missori . |
| 15 | Colombia is the most dramatic example of what happens to a country where informal economic activity — in this case drugs — gets control . |
| 16 | While political consistency can be over-rated as a virtue — Ted Heath being an example of what happens to a politician whose mind remains fixed while the world moves by him — the rapidity with which Kinnock changed position may have damaged him more than his supporters thought it would . |
| 17 | He 'd no idea of what happens in a demo ! |
| 18 | Significantly , while the particular rules of what counts as a reason ( substantive rationality ) vary across disciplines , the rules of procedural rationality ( as I will call it ) are more or less universal across disciplines . |
| 19 | Notice that the determination of such rates presupposes an understanding of what counts in a culture as ‘ deliberate ’ , and that a high rate need not necessarily be viewed as a bad thing by the culture concerned . |
| 20 | Berlusconi , unabashed by his own creation of what amounts to a duopoly , bangs the drum of the free market against RAI , claiming that the licence payers ' money is being squandered to break down unwanted competition . |
| 21 | During these months we found that we were part of what amounts to a movement in Britain today , with churches springing up everywhere . |
| 22 | How do you plan your actions on the basis of what seems like a contradiction in this and other research ? |