Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Society viewed as a system for production and distribution , conceived of independently of the actors ' representations or justifications of the system , is what was later called the ‘ social formation ’ . |
2 | It was just after we got married , , and he was a Lancashire lad , he came from somewhere of the suburbs of Manchester , I 've forgotten whereabouts he was |
3 | There 's probably a list in there of the ones you 're supposed to give them to . |
4 | Initiation into his high-hab brat gang did not involve mutilation , except perhaps of the emotions . |
5 | Turning to the boy , he said firmly , ‘ If you ever again raise your hand to either of the children or your mother , I shall … |
6 | For a British army encamped on ancient Carthaginian ground , it was perhaps natural to enjoy without too many qualms some at least of the diversions which Livy suggested had got the better of the Carthaginians . |
7 | well certainly I believe Mr he , I do n't think he went into the same detail as Mr I , but Mr certainly left me the impression that some at least of the brochures were , went into more than one addition , yes |
8 | As indicated in the first chapter , there has evolved during relatively recent times a " traditional " listing of Muftis , the tradition beginning essentially with Mustakimzade and reaching perhaps definitive expression in the widely-used the equally widely-used chronological history by Danismend , and , more recently , Altunsu 's In respect at least of the origins of the institution this tradition has triumphed over another of some antiquity , advanced by Katib Celebi and followed by Hezarfen and the western authors d'Ohsson and Hammer , which names Hizir Bey ( d. 863/1459 ) , the first kadi of Istanbul , as the first Seyhulislam and which differs in several other respects from the now-accepted account of the succession of fifteenth-century Muftis . |
9 | One way in which some at least of the problems might be reduced would be if the technology concerned were not promoted and managed by a national agency ( eg the CEGB or electricity board ) but rather by the local authority . |
10 | They included gross and shifting uncertainties about money , great division of counsel in the General Assembly of the Company , fundamental differences of opinion between two at least of the engineers called on to survey the route , James Barnes and Thomas Telford , and , above all , the engineering of a very difficult route . |
11 | Although the academic study of Roman law took a long time to have practical effect , by the 1170s and 1180s it was occasionally cited authoritatively in some at least of the courts of the south . |
12 | This course would enable 5 Corps to be tactically disposed in the light of new policy , or ( b ) a proportion at least of the numbers should be returned to Italy and concentrated under the same arrangements that are being made for surrendered personnel of Army Group SW . |
13 | Such reaction gave birth to two at least of the names applied to architectural styles . |
14 | But if this food is in short supply and the whole population is in danger of dying out , then cannibalism makes sense : it maximises the food supply and vastly increases the chance that some at least of the tadpoles will survive . |
15 | Two at least of the features — consciousness and conspiracy — are difficult to operationalise and rarely demonstrated satisfactorily by empirical means ; direct empirical evidence for common objectives and awareness of group consciousness is not easy to envisage , because of the nature of the referents , and it is not surprising therefore that elite theorists such as Wright Mills have tended to use their sociological imagination to provide a plausible construct of indirect evidential demonstration . |
16 | The celebration must take place between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. , and must be preceded by a publication of banns or the obtaining of a Registrar 's certificate or a Bishop 's or Registrar 's licence , and unless a special licence is obtained from the Archbishop of Canterbury , must take place in a recognized place of worship or Registrar 's office situate in the district in which one at least of the parties resides . |