Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fowler and Gower held him up for a while with 91 for the third wicket , but by the close of play he had two more — including a caught and bowled — and on Monday morning , cutting down his run-up , he polished off the tail to finish with 7 for 53 . |
| 2 | They frequently break down , dealing , as Berridge ( 1985 ) argued , a very personal blow to the children and young people ; they are difficult to find ; they demand , if they are to work , levels of support which field social workers can not guarantee ; and some young people , and some children , do not want them . |
| 3 | The primary emphasis of the work is on the support networks of old people living in the community ; that is , all those people who provide company , advice , help and other kinds of support which make continued independent living possible . |
| 4 | This terminological ambiguity symbolizes a basic contradiction embodied in the whole process of change which followed 1868 , a running tension between those who looked back and sought to revive what they saw as the best in Japanese tradition in the face of a Western onslaught , and those who looked to the future and were prepared to accommodate the values and techniques of their competitors , if only to compete effectively with them . |
| 5 | So , whilst it is possible to identify some broad directions of change it remains difficult to decide the precise implications . |
| 6 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 7 | AREAS OF SKIN WHICH BECOME THICKENED AND LUMPY WITH IRREGULAR RED-PINK EDGES . |
| 8 | The most deeply spontaneous , the gut reaction , from every viewpoint except the destitute , or of a criminal ready to pay for the advantage of robbing by the risk of himself being robbed , or of the kind of anarchist who acclaims private theft as a blow to the oppressive institution of private property , is of being threatened . |
| 9 | A magic circle in which she locks our destiny to this increase of tenderness which renders this work human , moving and unchallengeable . |
| 10 | It seems that in Japan microlights are restricted to flying no more than 1.5 kilometres from point of take-off which gives little chance of developing mature navigational skills . |
| 11 | Allied with the servants of the four powers of Chaos they seemed unstoppable . |
| 12 | It is beautifully detailed but in a musical rather than analytical sense , offering a degree of presence which communicates real emotion where the programme offers it . |
| 13 | We looked in some detail at some aspects of protection which included certain kinds of technical and formal performance , the indirect handling of painful subjects and projection , the latter including some aspects of the teacher 's most flexible strategy , teacher-in-role . |
| 14 | Fortunately there is a kind of illustrator who remains acceptable to the adults and respectful of the young reader . |
| 15 | What they do is to introduce a new element into the concept of responsibility which involves more than free will and reason ; now a third party is present and is an active participant in the language game in which responsibility has a role . |
| 16 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ The kind of smell which makes sick people worse must interfere with the vigour and vitality of those who are well , but at all events it is sufficient to show that sick persons are injured thereby ’ , per Stephen , J. in the Malton Manure case . |
| 18 | There is a large measure of agreement within the literature that the structure of bargaining which becomes associated with a particular country 's industrial relations system is not simply the result of chance occurrence or historical accident , but develops instead because of identifiable forces . |
| 19 | Well there are ways are n't there I mean even in traditionally , I mean what of wet-nursing I mean that 's an example is n't it where a woman gets another woman to do the job for her . |
| 20 | Seen from a purely theoretical standpoint , the leap of faith which produces this kind of doubt completely bypasses the question of truth . |
| 21 | Others have sought a reconciliation of the positions that these terms represent , and there is an abundance of literature which examines this relationship in advance of the Situationists . |
| 22 | These settlements felt at least as detached from England as the Massachusetts Bay Company , and of course they had less of a legal foundation , because they had no charters of their own . |
| 23 | Of course they had some value , in an informal way , as precedents , but the precedent here might easily be not that non dubito is now admissible , but that some relaxation of wording is allowed where family property expectations are involved . |
| 24 | Of course they got used to it , just as they got used to the closing of the railway , the death of the last squire , the demolition of the hall , the theft of the common land . |
| 25 | Of course they get fouled . |
| 26 | Of course they get covered mud and |
| 27 | ‘ They do n't cost British industry or taxpayers a thing , but of course they take all their expertise abroad . |
| 28 | Firstly , fibre-rich foods are more filling and thus satisfying , though of course they take more work to consume as they require more chewing . |
| 29 | And of course they closed all the night classes , did n't they ? |
| 30 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |