Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 2 | We looked in some detail at some aspects of protection which included certain kinds of technical and formal performance , the indirect handling of painful subjects and projection , the latter including some aspects of the teacher 's most flexible strategy , teacher-in-role . |
| 3 | Of course they had some value , in an informal way , as precedents , but the precedent here might easily be not that non dubito is now admissible , but that some relaxation of wording is allowed where family property expectations are involved . |
| 4 | In the premier league it 's West Ham against Swindon at Upton Park … last season of course they faced each other in the first division … in London Town came out on top and it was this win that sparked their promotion run … so let's hope it 's lucky for them again |
| 5 | Erm but of course they did other work you know , which was of a general character . |
| 6 | Well when we came here of course we had certain furniture and we just sort of er , er and we , I do n't know what other people did , we just erm furnished a room at a time until we got |
| 7 | Er as you got older of course you got different meals , but as youngsters we ate a terrific amount of bread and jam . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course you needed more money . |
| 9 | Maire Carroll , serving in the shop and hating it , felt a firm and vicious sense of satisfaction over the fate of Eve and Benny , but of course she pretended great care and concern . |
| 10 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 11 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 12 | In a low and antagonistic frame of mind she accepted that Ace was never going to have any time for her . |
| 13 | In my rather disgruntled frame of mind I rebelled that night against the long way round . |
| 14 | To this extent , in establishing the service , certain governmental and educational authorities were signalling with all the pomp and circumstance of legislation that youth did constitute a separate and , in important respects , an immature source of labour which required special treatment . |
| 15 | Concomitant with the mystical theology inherited by the medieval English mystics , and also governing their thought and expression was a dialectic about the mode of living which enabled mystical experience and a vocabulary to express it . |
| 16 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 17 | Cathedrals are also , to a small extent , helping to revive the tradition of patronage which produced such riches in the past . |
| 18 | Farmers throughout the region have welcomed the end to the months of uncertainty which surrounded recent EC talks to reform the community 's farming policy . |
| 19 | In the five days of violence which resulted official estimates suggested that at least 30 people died ( including one MP ) and several hundred were injured . |
| 20 | After this assault Mosley reputedly was forced to discipline his own followers in order to maintain order in the BUF , and to discourage further acts of violence which invited retaliatory action by the authorities . |
| 21 | The established system conceived of marriage as an act of incorporation which maintained social status ; it kept the family name from being lost and the family property from being distributed . |
| 22 | By adopting this method of study he wasted less time and it also enabled him to learn more efficiently . |
| 23 | What was achieved by the great expansion of research which produced these drugs and the clinical innovation which adopted them so freely ? |
| 24 | The great Whale had turned its terrible gaze upon her , transfiguring her once-smooth skin into sheets of light which hid deeper firefly gleams , like the Northern Lights back on Earth . |
| 25 | The network of ditches was in many cases originally designed to take advantage of the winter flooding of the rivers and enabled these areas to be managed as water meadows , a particular form of management which produced good quality hay crops , but is no longer practised or possible with the improvement of drainage and flood prevention . |
| 26 | So it was that when I was asked to contribute an account of Elizabeth Taylor 's novels to a book of reference I remembered these words and wrote that her motive power was Love : ‘ Not the love that is a four-letter word , nor yet anything so theoretical as Christian charity , but most certainly a great virtue . ’ |
| 27 | In favour of marriage he noted such things as children , companionship and home comforts : ‘ picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire , and books and music perhaps ’ . |
| 28 | As a man of honour he had little alternative but to accompany his friend to America . |
| 29 | During the expedition which was undertaken in the depth of winter he passed 5 weeks in the bush without seeing a civilised being sleeping occasionally in a Tent , sometimes under a cart but more frequently on the bare ground wrapped in a Kangaroo skin rug still he had not had a cold or the slightest disorder … ’ |
| 30 | And when we begin to gain , if only the merest glimpse of the deeply ingrained brutalities and prejudices embodied in what was judged to be ‘ right ’ , then we can see more clearly that the Garotter 's Act was not so much a moment of panic which led respectable England off its true course , but a mature expression of the existing social relations — including the self-assumption of the mighty , and their attitudes and actions towards the lower orders and the plebs . |