Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must of necessity put you in a very weak defensive position and I would maintain that this is responsible for losing more bouts than any other factor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This of course put me in the wrong . |
| 4 | He urged people not to let the short-term problems of recession blind them to the long-term truth . |
| 5 | At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture . |
| 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 | erm and you know and that would be their kind of bible get one with a lock on |
| 8 | Alternatively , however , it may be that considerations of meaning take us beyond the scope of scientific method . |
| 9 | Now that 's not particularly sensational , and that 's where the drugs and the alcohol abuse level comes across , and that is the emotive term , but what I 'm saying really is the symptoms which that teachers are displaying of stress manifest themselves in an increase in er abuse of alcohol which could only be the odd extra drink , or the odd 5 cigarettes a day , and sleeping tablets , and that becomes an issue when you have n't got a teacher who 's not in control the following day , but you certainly have a teacher who 's not 100% , and that 's where the effect on the child tends to occur . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Does the Secretary of State dismiss him as a dismal Jimmy , or does he agree with me that Mr. Watkin knows what he is talking about ? |
| 14 | The lesson here is simple : do n't flirt with trouble Aim away from the hazard and let your natural shape of shot leave you with a shot from the fairway . |
| 15 | All of us who bear the name of Catholic join you at the outset of Lent , we say ‘ we 're with you ’ . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |