Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] of the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
| 2 | The compensation claim was of symbolic importance to the Sandinistas and followed a 1986 ruling by the International Court of Justice that the US had broken international law and had committed illegal acts in its support of the former contras . |
| 3 | … on the physical resource of water in all its spatial and temporal inequalities of occurrence , and by its conceptualization of the many systems subsumed under the hydrological cycle … |
| 4 | In comparison to their parent of the same sex , those who responded to the questionnaire were more likely to be engaged in non-manual occupations ( difference 4.2% to 28% for men and 2.7% to 28.7% for women ) . |
| 5 | ‘ For example , a decreasing number of persons still object to locally based provisions for mentally handicapped people because understandably their picture of the latter is bounded by bizarre and frightening images often associated with traditional mental handicap hospitals … |
| 6 | Her main interests were the cinema and horse-racing ; she drew upon her knowledge of the latter in Brat Farrar ( 1949 ) , a novel featuring a false claimant to an estate . |
| 7 | Her case for the defence is notably restrained , unlike her treatment of the same subject in Dickon , a play published posthumously in 1953 . |
| 8 | Fiszbach 's supporters had meanwhile declared , on Jan. 29 , their intention of forming a separate Social Democratic Union ( SDU ) , and their repudiation of the former PUWP 's assets . |
| 9 | Of no mean magnetism himself — Lawrence thought highly enough of him to make him the recipient of some of his most excruciating introspections — Curtis was the inspirational force of that curious organization , the Round Table , in whose journal of the same name Lawrence published his article on the new imperialism in the Middle East . |
| 10 | And some of them , of course , emigrated to the United States because they could n't cope with life back in the old lands , the Shakers , are they part of the same sort |
| 11 | Perhaps his most popular work , the Turangalîla-symphonie , was a commission from Koussevitzky , fusing his rich and instantly identifiable harmonic language with complex Hindu rhythms : it was his study of the latter that led to his formulation of ‘ total ’ serialism , first seen in his Studies in Rhythm of 1949 . |
| 12 | Uyeshiba developed the techniques of aikido from his study of the many styles of jiu jitsu in Japan . |
| 13 | For example , there was an oil smear on his jacket of the same type as that he used in his car . |
| 14 | The husband would appear to be liable to capital gains tax on any increase in value of his share of the former matrimonial home between the date of the transfer into settlement and the date of the deferred sale . |
| 15 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 16 | Apollinaire , who at the time was fascinated by the interrelation of the arts , and was exploring the visual possibilities of poetry in his Calligrammes ( for which one of the original titles was Moi aussi je suis peintre ) , was inspired by Delaunay 's paintings Les Fenêtres to compose , late in 1912 , his poem of the same name , in which the means are to a certain extent analogous . |
| 17 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 18 | Take the moment in the ‘ Pantomime ’ from part three where Pan/Daphnis declares his love for Syrinx/Chloé ( fig. 173 : Rattle , track 12 , 0′53″ ) : Abbado 's LSO strings slide around in an appallingly sticky manner here , whereas Rattle 's declaration is whispered , tender and somehow delightfully aware that this is ‘ play ’ within a play ; as is his treatment of the same passage forte a few bars on ( at 1′44″ ) , you can sense Pan 's mock desperation as Syrinx disappears among the reeds — it is a deliberately exaggerated gesture ( back of hand against forehead ? ) and very amusing . |
| 19 | We were just finishing our tour of the many dressing , examination , and clinic rooms off the Hall when Mrs Fields was summoned to Matron 's Office to discuss her next holiday dates . |
| 20 | It is this perspective on the genetics of psychosis that provides an entry-point into our understanding of the latter 's probable association with creativity . |