Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | With such a wide range of displays from around the world in one massive exhibition there is something for everyone of all ages and interests . |
2 | With no more than fourteen university lecturers in the whole country with a knowledge between them of five South Asian languages , there was clearly a dearth of linguistic knowledge in higher education which was unlikely to be rectified through new appointments , given the shortfalls in funding . |
3 | Now there would be no reason for further contact between them of any kind , a prospect which painted dark shadows beneath Leonora 's eyes , and bleached the colour from her face to the point where Elise began muttering darkly about anaemia . |
4 | Three tracks are from previous albums — Desperate Move ( driving , excellent and written by JMT stablemate Steve Coleman ) , Body & Soul ( as with Round Midnight below , a standard given a singular and distinctive modern treatment ) and Rock this Calling ( a modern jazz blues ? ) — while four are previously unrecorded by her : the melancholy-then-strident Do n't look Back ( highlight for me of this album ) , the quixotic Soul Melange , the Monk/Williams ‘ standard ’ Round Midnight ( a refreshingly individual rendition ) and My Corner of the Sky ( a modern son , which reminded me of an uptempo Ella Fitzgerald scat rendition … but with a rock group ) ; all bar Round Midnight are Wilson compositions . |
5 | I 've no wish for someone of unknown parentage to inherit after my death . ’ |
6 | If they provide excellent support for someone of heavy build they 're most unlikely to suit anyone lighter . |
7 | However , although the age of consent is fifteen , it is illegal to prescribe the oral contraceptive for someone of this age . |
8 | For someone of this persuasion , who does not want to attribute everything to the workings of power , the problem obviously arises of why the sexes should have distinctive linguistic subcultures at all . |
9 | Which I mean is after something of ten years in which case erm I would have that there 's a thorough investigation so that actual , you know , er progress back it around the town as well as possible , er need money put into it , but I think that that 's what some of these places with , with no hope of a short term bypass need . |
10 | After lots of hard work during the day , Terry invited everyone to a special ‘ Black & White ’ evening which produced some wonderful sights . |
11 | Lots of new developments on the hair-care front this month , so after lots of intensive washing , spraying , spritzing , tweaking , curling and crimping to try them out , here 's our pick of the best : |
12 | I know a guy who bowls at the Bromley Bowling Club in exactly and he told me that they have professional green keepers who look after lots of different greens and they come into them once a week or whatever . |
13 | It would be as foolish to argue about which of these views is correct as it would be to argue about whether algebra or geometry is the correct way to solve problems in science . |
14 | I 'm going to introduce this abbreviated momentictiture here in the hope that during the course of the lecture I 'll be able to add comments about which of these factors lead to which of these results . |
15 | You need to consider those antecedent events that prompt you to break a diet , and then think about which of these things you can avoid or change in some way . |
16 | We have some patterns of expectation available to us , indeed , but we are at the mercy of the poet for which of those patterns may lie ahead of us . |
17 | For which of these excursions was he in the company of Yeats ? presumably from the Pound papers now at New Haven it would not be hard to come up with answers to these questions . |
18 | It should be within the competence of everyone of moderate ability who has worked properly and who directs his mind to what he is being asked . |
19 | A plethora of books of topographical views at home and abroad used steel engravings , many of them of poor quality . |
20 | But a number of able scholars , most of them of liberal sympathies , were drawn into western academic life and played a leading role in guiding western research . |
21 | She was in search of a closer knowledge of her great-uncle , and here were informed friends of his , one of them of long standing , who could surely tell her a great part of what she wanted to know . |
22 | The railway stations of Asia , Australasia , and Africa reveal to the full the range of styles , many of them of great elegance , which could be encompassed in station architecture world-wide . |
23 | Emus wandered over the open country hooting their hollow cries ; and troops of kangaroos , some of them of gigantic size , grazed peacefully in their primitive pastures . |
24 | Since all goods are donated , most of them of high quality coming from the more affluent within and outwith the parish , charges for them can be minimal so providing a social service as well as a subsidy towards the hall expenses . |
25 | It is , however , due to the large number of copies which the Romans had made of Greek masterpieces , some of them of high quality , that we owe our wide knowledge of such work today . |
26 | More than seven thousand have gone on to become officers , some of them of high rank . |
27 | It makes fifty stops en route , some of them of considerable duration , and , as has been shown , much time must be wasted at stations . |
28 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
29 | It makes one wonder about that when one hears of someone of such frailty being pursued and put in prison for failing to pay a tax that everyone recognises was nonsensical from the moment that it was introduced . |
30 | You will probably think of plenty of additional points of your own . |