Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony did no more than repeat his run of the morning . |
| 2 | In elections to the Landtag ( provincial parliament ) in Upper Austria on Oct. 6 the extreme right Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) more than tripled its share of the vote , winning 17.7 per cent ( 5 per cent in the last Upper Austria provincial elections in 1985 — see p. 34110 ) and 11 seats ( three hitherto ) . |
| 3 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 4 | The re-furbished flats were more than contributing their share of reducing the UK target of 20% reduction in CO 2 emissions — 15 years ahead of schedule ! |
| 5 | In fact , however , he adapts the few terms he does borrow to fit his case , rather than forcing his view of narrative to comply strictly with linguistic principles . |
| 6 | In the general election the Labour Party made sweeping gains , more than doubling its share of the seats in the Dáil at the expense of Fianna Fáil , which won its lowest number of votes since the 1920s , and Fine Gael , which suffered its worst result since 1948 . |
| 7 | In Edwin Hill & Partners v. First National Finance Corporation a finance company which had a legal charge over B 's property to secure a loan came to an arrangement with B whereby they would develop the property themselves rather than exercise their power of sale under the charge . |
| 8 | Yes , I mean I have a very helpful husband , but he 's helping , he sees him himself as helping me rather than doing his share of it without having to ask what help I need . |
| 9 | But , although increasing your intake of fruit and vegetables has numerous advantages and benefits — both are generally low in calories and rich in Vitamin C which helps keep colds at bay — it is possible to eat too much . |
| 10 | Civil war hampers their efforts but rather than cease their work of ‘ renewing the earth ’ they often labour at night to avoid the constant threat of bombings from the air . |
| 11 | Put on , on the bottom of the blank line , rather than putting it top of the total line . |
| 12 | She knew better than to ask what kind of business . |
| 13 | The chicks have taken Indian names after regions of their natural habitat , Sisquoc was born on 30 March and has more than doubled his weight of 201.9 grams . |
| 14 | There are also the exciting poses that come at the end of some of Ashton 's pas de deux as the two characters declare their love , for example , when Oberon cradles Titania in his arms at the end of The Dream and , even more excitingly , when Colas lifts Lise high on one arm it the end of their dance in Act II of La Fille Mai Gardée as if to crown her queen of the harvest |
| 15 | as if to confirm his train of thought there came a great crashing and a screeching of metal . |
| 16 | For all that , it was a key letter and sounded a new note , and it was his first written in French , as if to underline his sense of liberation from the worst aspects of things Dutch — their narrow-mindedness , their lack of joy . |
| 17 | His heart was beating agitatedly , as if sharing his sense of foreboding . |
| 18 | Ruthie folded her arms , as if to emphasize her lack of responsibility for the shop she was minding . |
| 19 | Please could you tell me if giving my tank of Goldfish and Black Moors tonic salt and King British W.S.3 , will cure White Spot ? |
| 20 | But even if treating our awareness of our own mental states as topic-neutral plausibly explains why we are not aware of our brains as such when we are aware of our mental states , it does not explain why knowing fully about the brain does not include knowledge of the nature of experience . |
| 21 | He shrugged his shoulders and smiled as if deprecating his lack of education . |
| 22 | This challenge can be very threatening to men and to white people , partly because changing your interpretation of the world is an uncomfortable experience , and partly because a change of attitudes inevitably causes social change , and this in turn brings about a shift in power relationships . |
| 23 | Clayton continued working in the darkroom while pursuing his goal of becoming a photographer . |
| 24 | We are operating with fewer layers of management ; and we have reduced overhead and indirect positions by some 50,000 , while maintaining our tradition of full employment . ’ |
| 25 | Comparisons with the 1914–18 career of Monty should be viewed with the knowledge that this outstanding man was gravely wounded while leading his platoon of the Royal Warwicks early in the conflict and this slowed his promotion considerably . |
| 26 | Looking for the mound from where he stormed the Irish town while researching her biography of Cromwell , she asked a local priest for directions . |
| 27 | A church minister talking about his feeling that he should n't cry while doing his job of taking a funeral service even when he has known and loved the dead person . |
| 28 | Lendl has never found it difficult to look sullen , and while blaming his lack of form on the fact that this was his first match indoors since the final of the Nabisco Masters in New York last December , lack of motivation was perhaps a greater factor . |
| 29 | In 1682 Ralph Thoresby , the Leeds antiquary , ‘ saw the glasshouses ’ as he passed through Silkstone , and when John Warburton came that way in 1718–19 while preparing his map of Yorkshire , he pinpointed the position of the glasshouse to the right of the road that crossed the stream just to the south of Silkstone church . |
| 30 | Syria will determine whether to accept any resettlement , or whether to continue its support of the refugee demand to return to Palestine , as a function of its own regional objectives . |