Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking of his earlier remark , Cassie said bluntly : ‘ Well , I 've only just about got one foot in the middle class bracket , myself , so perhaps you 'd be slumming if you made love to me , which is so obviously what you have in mind . ’ |
| 2 | The reason we do so is entirely based on our perception of what older people should and should not be allowed to do for themselves — at their age . |
| 3 | A quick glance between Rose and the girls was enough for them to know that it was better to make no mention of their elder brother . |
| 4 | The government , the report adds , ‘ should take a lead by setting a good example in the context of its own employees and disseminate the information which enables firms to see the full costs of the permanent loss of their older workers . ’ |
| 5 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |
| 6 | It is the result of their lower position in the occupational ladder , the pattern and timing of their migration , their family size and household structure , as well as the result of the discriminatory practices of British society . |
| 7 | At one time the two water companies were in active competition and any person paying the rates , whether landlord or tenant , could change his water company as easily as his butcher or baker … although this state of things has long since ceased , and the companies have come to an arrangement so that the people can not now change their supply , all the same , the result of their earlier competition remains . |
| 8 | A locum consultant failed to spot the result of her earlier test and arranged for a totally unnecessary exploratory operation . |
| 9 | From this time Louis-Napoleon found himself alone with his mother , as a result of his elder brother 's going to live with their father , for ex-King Louis had established himself in Tuscany and had insisted that his wife entrust their elder son to his charge . |
| 10 | Higher body temperatures in the daytime could be the result of our greater activity when it is light , with muscle effort producing the increased heat . |
| 11 | For the sake of convenience I shall apply the term la nouvelle critique to the complex of ideas emerging from the Paris of the 1960s , including many diverse strands : the ‘ classical ’ structuralism of the early Barthes , the poststructuralism of his later work , the deconstructionism of Derrida , and whatever name one gives to the work of Foucault and Lacan , in taxonomic historiography and dissident psychoanalysis respectively . |
| 12 | The two brothers were present in court because of the foul murder of their younger brother , William , who had been found strangled . |
| 13 | On the chest of drawers was a photograph of his elder brother Pedro in uniform , his pale patrician face the image of Angel 's , except for a black moustache . |
| 14 | For Marx , democracy is a historical phenomenon which is far from having unfolded all its possibilities , and the principal agent of its further development is the working-class movement . |
| 15 | In fact , he has usually been regarded as the supreme Minimalist painter , but perceptions have been changing through a closer study of his earlier work which reveals him as an artist whose origins lie in painterly Abstraction . |
| 16 | Consider the king penguin : the male is the one that incubates the egg , carrying it around on its feet and protecting it for months from the Antarctic weather with a fold of its lower belly … |
| 17 | I therefore offer readers an extract of my elder friend 's memoirs , taken from the book which his daughter Aliki Costakis and I are currently preparing for publication . |
| 18 | This was , when all is said and done , class legislation : enacted by one class for the betterment of its lower brethren ; not for the correction of its own bad habits . |
| 19 | Their most useful contribution has been a fresh appraisal of his later work created at Moret-sur-Loing where his art culminated in the marvellous series of depictions of the south-west facade of the town 's church ( 1893–1894 ) . |
| 20 | Cocks was only ten years old when his father died , leaving him heir to his paternal grandfather 's baronetcy and estate at Dumbleton , Gloucestershire , and the remainder of his upbringing was entrusted to the strict guidance of his elder sister , Dorothy , who regulated the family to her own pattern of godliness . |
| 21 | Comprises an elegant essay by Sutherland Boggs on Degas ' development with particular reference to his use of pastel followed by a discussion by Maheux of his use of pastel including pastel paste and peinture a l'essence , his choice of papers and use of fixative , the latter crucial to the effect of his later sheets . |
| 22 | The influence of these broad parameters makes itself felt in the opening pages of the Report , to the extent that the Committee is prepared to revise its very terms of reference in the light of its wider concerns . |
| 23 | I hope that Mr. Vance , with whom we have been in touch in the past 24 hours , will feel able in the light of his further explorations to suggest to the Security Council that a peace-keeping force should be sent . |
| 24 | Matthew Cooper , for example , got there on only one game , a 23-points feast against Ireland at Athletic Park , and at the expense of his older brother Greg who played the four earlier tests and who had long prospered in Mains ' Otago side . |
| 25 | These experiences , and the death in action of his elder brother , Peter , resulted in a pronounced strain of melancholy in his character . |
| 26 | To a revision of the poem published in 1803 he added the lines , ‘ Methinks , it should have been impossible/Not to love all things in a World like this ’ , his words seeming to carry the weight of his later regret that his unclouded times with Sara were so quickly over . |
| 27 | This being the case , a crisis of capitalist economy is not a crisis of society in terms of the catastrophic visions of some of the early Marxists , but , on the contrary , crisis is a normal condition of its longer term equilibrium . |
| 28 | In the past , ‘ yardstick-plus ’ costs have been permitted , mainly in expensive urban locations but also in some rural locations in recognition of their higher building costs . |
| 29 | In 1929 the name of the Tramways Department was changed to Blackpool Corporation Transport , in recognition of its wider operations . |
| 30 | This arrangement left Hortense with the responsibility of her younger son 's education , which she decided to entrust to a private tutor . |