Example sentences of "[adv] [noun pl] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard never realized — up to now he has seen only copies of the Night Watch and the Birth of Venus ; indeed of everything , from electron microscopes and openers to the muddle of plasticine , string , and electric flex in the toy drawer at home . |
| 2 | Hybridizing with other species and forms dampens this ardour to some extent , but some varieties on offer are merely forms of the base species , and therefore can present problems in a small garden where space is limited . |
| 3 | But although trade passed through Southampton , it was not necessarily merchants of the town who were handling it . |
| 4 | The memory task may have been made inappropriately difficult by preventing subjects from using strategies such as mentally retracing the route and scoring as correct memories only aspects of the situation which could not have been provided from previous knowledge . |
| 5 | Mostly musicians spend their time jerking off in front of others and guitar and bass-playing readers are basically fans of the idea of that , but the truth is that it 's all individual — every neck on every guitar just has to feel a certain way . |
| 6 | The people would understand , he thought ; if they did n't , they were obviously supporters of the maniac Sam , and would be properly shot . |
| 7 | In the west , however , the acupuncture meridians and their accompanying acupuncture points were viewed with great scepticism and were considered to be merely figments of the imagination . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most difficult problem to be coped with ( apart from grammar and syntax which are quite outside the scope of this book ) is that of semantic shift — the new meanings which Classical words acquired in medieval times , sometimes making them unintelligible to readers who remember only fragments of the language from their schooldays . |
| 9 | Also , I seem to remember , although ca n't be sure , being told that you can now produce Data Only versions of the tape following a Change Request that Simon put to Ray Hawi on 8 May . |
| 10 | Evening after evening Father McGiff sat at his desk , ashamed of his indulgence , upbraiding himself for his inability to drag his eyes away from the window which , like some perverse crystal ball , conjured up only ghosts of the past instead of promises of the future . |
| 11 | But these difficulties of understanding are only reflections of the intellect 's limitations . |
| 12 | The spots and patches visible on the Moon were merely reflections of the Earth 's imperfect relief in the Moon 's smooth and crystalline surface . |
| 13 | Thus ideology and the ‘ superstructure ’ are not merely reflections of the material economic ‘ base ’ , but exist in a dialectical interactive relationship with it . |
| 14 | But from a Christian point of view , so it is argued , ‘ Providers of capital are merely owners of the capital goods … |
| 15 | But left , right , above conceivably might be merely qualities of the perceiver 's own visual field and not at all relations in an objective space . |
| 16 | It is an accomplished work of art , and it was made to terrify , and to give noblemen with guilty consciences ( especially depredators of the monastery 's lands ) bad dreams . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , given the failure to repeat the practice of a mid-decade Census as first carried out in 1966 , this source can provide only snapshots of the population at ten-year intervals , the most recent being 1981 . |
| 18 | Youthful offenders were also believed to be getting younger , and according to one magistrate parental authority was at such a low ebb that ‘ it is melancholy to find that some parents are not ashamed to confess that children of seven or eight years old are entirely beyond their control ’ , while another thought that ‘ in nine cases out of ten , children are entirely masters of the position ’ . |
| 19 | The joyful occasion brought together members of the Order 's community , including Bro . |
| 20 | In a unique experiment , police called together members of the public for an all day seminar to discuss how to turn the tables on the burglar and thief . |
| 21 | Currently a solicitor does not have a right of audience ; only members of the Bar may appear before the court , although , again , reference should be made to the provisions of the Court and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 22 | Yet apparently members of the public are beginning to buy these pictures , which were previously bought only by geologists and oil companies . |
| 23 | Do all members of the family necessarily have the family disease ? |
| 24 | The only mandate that most electors consider they have given to newly-elected Members of Parliament is to support the party and its leader ; certainly , the Prime Minister expects , and usually gets , the support of the mass of the parliamentary majority party and the entire hundred or so members of the Government that is formed . |
| 25 | Their ministers ( if such a term can be used of the great officials such as the treasurers and hetmans of Poland and Lithuania ) were irremovable ; and the principle of the liberum veto meant that any of the two hundred or so members of the Diet ( Seym ) could nullify the work of an entire session by recording a single dissenting vote . |
| 26 | So shots of the family 's arrival help to start things off while the picnic marks the middle of the day , and serves to break up what might otherwise be a too lengthy sequence of beach games . |
| 27 | He swiftly integrated the 300,000 or so men of the Resistance army ( the FFI ) into the ranks of the regular army and disbanded a Resistance-run paramilitary force known as the milices patriotiques . |
| 28 | As a result they are merely measures of the degree of indentation of the coast , and ‘ tell little which a good map does not tell much better ’ Johnson , 1919 , P. 171 ) . |
| 29 | But by and large these are only examples of the gesture as an item on its own , MacMillan is one of the rare choreographers who has used occupational gesture as an integral part of the dance . |
| 30 | They 're obviously men of the world who understand that people who have mellowed and matured |