Example sentences of "[subord] of [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shrewsbury , the Sorbonne and Pembroke College , Oxford , enabled me , or so I thought , to pass for white , although of my grandfathers one had been a railwayman on the London and Northwestern and the other a clerk in Bristol Gas Works . |
| 2 | In addition to virtually dissolving the Army — a measure described by contemporary witnesses as " completely crazy " — the Prime Minister , Casares Quiroga , refused to distribute arms to the political and trade union organizations of the Left , evidently more afraid of the Republic 's supporters than of its enemies . |
| 3 | This criticism of the model is thus more a criticism of the form in which it is put than of its substance ; the form can be changed to take account of the criticism without changing any matter of substance . |
| 4 | The UBC was never more than a small minority of the parliamentary party , with a general attendance of about forty , and its influence was more a result of its being first in the field of opposition , than of its numbers or its members " economic power . |
| 5 | Louisa was left feeling that she had been appointed audience to a play of the wife 's devising , one in which the heroine 's suffering was the principal theme and which might , indeed , have been moving had not the sense of theatre been so pronounced , and had the script been less expressive of a plaintive heart than of its tribulations . |
| 6 | In March , however , the Halifax decided against this course of action while it became apparent that the Abbey National was going to face some opposition from its members who feared that an incorporated society would be more interested in the welfare of its shareholders than of its depositors and borrowers . |
| 7 | Topsel 's compromise was to suggest to his readers that ‘ with a wary and discreet eye we must avoid their harms , making more account of their use than of their persons ’ . |
| 8 | This is a history of the media , rather than of their times . |
| 9 | The lower status of general courses may be more a function of the students who take them than of their content and the association with ordinary rather than honours degrees . |
| 10 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 11 | A further complication in the case of a crystalline solid is the possible appearance of lattice modes , which involve motions of whole molecules rather than of their constituent atoms . |
| 12 | Various links have been proposed and discussed , but they are on the whole more revealing of the disparity between the two problems than of their convergence . |
| 13 | The type of household lived in is better considered a consequence of the stage they have reached in their life course than of their age per se ( Dale 1987 ) . |
| 14 | Similarly , the resources of elderly people are more clearly explained in terms of their stage of life than of their age . |
| 15 | Moreover , the effects of damage will be much more a function of how many modules have been damaged than of which modules have been eliminated . |
| 16 | If Marek was right , Tatyana had taken her own life less as a result of the news of the murder Blanche had brought , than of her son 's dreadful confession . |
| 17 | Lydia thought how the country people sometimes took on the look of the land itself , especially the old : how Angharad seemed more part of the land than of her family . |
| 18 | In the abbey church of St Seurin at Bordeaux , for example , he could see Roland 's horn , the sound of which might have summoned reinforcements to Roncesvalles but which Roland , more careful of his reputation than of his life , had refused to blow until it was too late . |
| 19 | Bernie himself was becoming quite fond of her and Noreen thought he saw more of her than of his sister . |
| 20 | Others , myself among them , are not convinced that Cromwell was the sole architect of the Privy Council , which may have been in part the consequence of his fall rather than of his predominance . |
| 21 | Oliver was annoyed that Angelina had deliberately chosen to sit next to Sir Thomas ; Angelina was determined to bring Sir Thomas to book as soon as she could ; Gwendolen was similarly annoyed at the sight of her rival on Sir Thomas 's other side and bitterly aware that she herself was viewing considerably more of Sir Thomas 's back than of his face . |
| 22 | Well they called it , cos of its bill |
| 23 | Well cos of what Romeo did and anyway I did n't know about how much Paris wants to marry her . |
| 24 | Mary 's got mum to write a letter cos she does n't want to do games cos of her leg . |
| 25 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 26 | She said that she penalized her cos of her weight . |
| 27 | But I said to her she never gets higher than a commended cos , she knows it 's cos of her weight . |
| 28 | Her words come out funny — sort of muffled like , cos of her lips . |
| 29 | Well yesterday apparently he told her that she had better turn up this morning cos of her excuses . |
| 30 | Well mainly cos of me mum of an evening , cos she 's not been too good , so I 've been up and down . |