Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors of the paper do not suggest ignoring the age of the patient , quite the reverse : ‘ criteria appropriate for younger patients may not be suitable in the elderly , for whom effective stabilisation of disease , a partial remission , or a complete remission of short duration may be sufficient to achieve worthwhile prolongation of life with an acceptable quality of life . ’ |
| 2 | Mounted bird wings , stuffed mammals , galls , acorns , nests , seed heads , fungi , grasses — all sorts of natural objects were on view , or ‘ on feel ’ , for folk who ca n't see , but for whom tactile experience of different shapes and textures is a small compensation . |
| 3 | Picture a teenage girl in Morocco for whom premarital loss of virginity is culturally intolerable and who faces the ‘ choice ’ , under male duress , of tolerating anal intercourse , or of submitting to vaginal penetration knowing that she will thereby have to leave home for a life of prostitution ; she may even know that both are related to acquisition of HIV . |
| 4 | By now he conceded that individual rights for Jews , as in the western democracies , would not meet the needs of the Jewish masses in eastern Europe , for whom some form of group ( though not ‘ national ’ ) rights would be essential . |
| 5 | On the whole , the new families seem to be quite affectionate units and through them some elements of the moral tradition are being handed on . |
| 6 | But if motherhood is for them some sort of liberation , it is n't in the image of the " liberated lady " stereotype , Cosmo girl , sexy , single , childless and employed . |
| 7 | However , an equal number of players are working in situations were an ability to adapt to different musical landscapes enhances their earning power considerably , and for them this type of rig is a Godsend . |
| 8 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 9 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 10 | He could have complained to the top about my basic lack of professionalism but instead he went out of his way to try and help — and sometimes got pretty short shrift in return . |
| 11 | My friend Bar , though , was an East Yorkshire farmer 's daughter , and while she was cautious about my intellectual defiance of convention she had a country practical acceptance of the body and physical desire . |
| 12 | This same man wrote that he ‘ could not remember having ever felt , during my 52 years of life , the slightest symptoms of that curious disease — ambition — which craves for leadership , honour , money , or notoriety ’ . |
| 13 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |
| 14 | DURING my first year of A levels I noticed a swelling in one of my testes . |
| 15 | There is said to be many decorated examples using dot and line relief , but I have found only two such decorated ones during my twenty years of detecting . |
| 16 | During my 20 years of practice in the law , there has been a great deal of vehicle taking , in precisely the kind of circumstances that led to the promulgation of the Bill by the Government . |
| 17 | During my earlier periods of unemployment I had always , on a point of pride , provided for myself out of my savings . |
| 18 | Robb , who will be making his international debut over the distance , said : ‘ I had a lot more left at the end and can take several seconds off my winning time of 3 minutes 39.58 seconds in Rome if the race is fast . ’ |
| 19 | I am sure that I am not alone when I say that I learned more through the Iii-service courses organised by Basil Rocke than through my entire period of earlier , formal training . |
| 20 | This was surely the lesson of the Macdonald Inquiry 's critique of antiracist education at Burnage High School , and this is what I have tried to indicate through my critical interrogations of the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of multiculturalism and antiracism — especially in relation to the multifaceted nature of racism and the complexities of its intersection with gender and class ( see also Cohen and Rattansi , 1991 ) . |
| 21 | It is only through my imaginative shuffling of the aces that we are able to stay ahead of the pack . |
| 22 | Was this a sign , a reward for my good deeds of the morning , a promise of better things to come ? |
| 23 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 24 | The rock was unusual , but my Boston conglomerate experience helped a lot and the great protection boosted confidence for my first lead of the season . |
| 25 | And then , just as I was reaching for my battered copy of Einstein , Jon Snow gave away the secret . |
| 26 | Throughout my life I have been oppressed by society 's expectations , so the man in my life is not to blame for my constant questioning of what life can offer me , and women like me . |
| 27 | sgt wilko does a remarkable job — as for my constant hyping of frank — see that as norw. patriotism — i do not value wilko out from his ( non- ) use of frank — managing a club is a lot more than that … |
| 28 | It is an approach march of over 30 miles across some terrible moors , and the objective for my little band of happy warriors is two ( large ) bottles of beer ! |
| 29 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm known for my feeble sense of humour , ’ he laughed . |