Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He analyses most effectively Wellington 's perception of the interaction in a given situation between politics , diplomacy and military expediency ; but seldom as a piece of military history does it lift the spirit and stir the heart . |
| 2 | The emphasis on God 's revelation and on the faith that apprehends it raised the further question of what theology itself can speak about directly — the revelation , or merely faith 's apprehension of it ? |
| 3 | So Marcus 's explanation of nineteenth-century pornography , for instance , is in terms of this conflict between the overpowering demands of the sexual drive and a social fabric disrupted by massive change . |
| 4 | Only Hyde 's fear of his own death stops him from killing me . |
| 5 | Last night , Barnet assistant manager Eddie Stein turned down Flashman 's offer of Fry 's job on a full-time basis , although he will do it temporarily until the New Year , when the offer might be made again . |
| 6 | In saying this , it is likely that he had in mind not merely Lessing 's criterion of beauty , but his fundamental contrast between poetry and the visual arts . |
| 7 | So Wilson 's work of ‘ Cader Idris ’ , even if only seen by Green as a print , must have been of seminal interest . |
| 8 | I think she was a pest ; she sounds like a pest ; though admittedly we hear only Gustave 's side of the story . |
| 9 | The exaltation of Jesus to the Father 's right hand is not only God 's vindication of his spreading from Jerusalem person and his achievement ; it is the precondition of the coming of his Spirit upon the witnesses who are to carry on his mission ( Acts 2:32f ) . |
| 10 | She turned down Tracey 's offer of another drink , and agreed to speak to him again that evening . |
| 11 | Especially Bob 's suggestion of calling for people to sponsor |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't be shy — call me Naylor ! ’ he thundered , and suddenly Leith 's sense of humour got the better of her , and she burst out laughing . |
| 13 | It was n't only Chilcott 's promise of a tidy sum of money and six horses if he would take Topaz as his spouse which made Manfro want her . |
| 14 | It is perhaps Warr 's amalgam of democratic ideals with an advanced sense of history , both past and future , which marks him out as a significant political thinker of his time . |
| 15 | Perhaps Engelberger 's idea of the paradise on Earth is robots to substitute for human teachers , hospital nurses , and doctors . |
| 16 | Thus Walters 's analysis of government data for 1949 and 1951 concluded that different conclusions could be reached depending on the measure of morbidity adopted . |
| 17 | But in the discreet , epicene efficiency with which he clears away Casio 's bowl of vomit or dusts down Othello after his fit , he is the finicky gentleman 's gentleman , his body language strongly reminiscent of Dirk Bogarde in The Servant . |
| 18 | It was just Beethoven 's sense of what was going on outside triumphing over our own . |
| 19 | By 1715 when the syndicate took over Savery 's part of the patent there were engines in use in Staffordshire , Warwickshire , Cornwall and Flintshire . |
| 20 | Well , this is not Darwin 's theory of course , and today , we know erm , that this is in fact total nonsense . |
| 21 | In the resulting reshuffle Klaus Kinkel became Foreign Minister , while Möllemann took over Genscher 's post of Vice-Chancellor in addition to the Economics portfolio , and Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger ( FDP ) took over from Kinkel as Justice Minister . |
| 22 | As a courtier , he saw all issues in the light cast by the shifting world of court favour : thus Godoy 's support of the French alliance was consistently conditioned by his desire to use it against his enemies at court or his hopes of a safe retreat from these enemies in a Portuguese principality bestowed on him by France . |
| 23 | Thus Barthes 's account of wrestling does not seem so strange and unlikely as if it were merely his own and there were no alternative account against which his was implicitly juxtaposed . |
| 24 | That is exactly Tolkien 's view of evil . |
| 25 | M. Polanyi wrote that beauty can reveal truth about nature ; thus Einstein 's theory of relativity was extolled by a fellow scientist for the grandeur , boldness , and directness of the thought which made everything more beautiful and grand . |
| 26 | Thus Wittgenstein 's notion of a criterion seems to provide the sort of compromise we are looking for . |
| 27 | Thus Marx 's model of historical development was in many respects only a sketch which left many problems unresolved . |
| 28 | Thus Garland 's version of the prison suggests the mixture of Beccarian classicism ( proportionality for deterrent purposes ) and retributive justice ( proportionality according to desert ) that , as we have seen , was the hallmark of neoclassicism . |
| 29 | Thus Dewey 's policy of integrity of numbers has found great favour : an undertaking has been made that a piece of notation will not be revised and given another meaning . |
| 30 | From about 1563 until his death in 1590 they were held by Charles Fox , although he had to share the Signet with John Dudley ; and in 1590 Fox was succeeded by Fulke Greville , who had already taken over Dudley 's share of the Signet and had acquired reversions to the Clerkship of the Council in 1577 and the Secretaryship in 1583 . |