Example sentences of "of [det] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 2 | At the end of four weeks , they 're eligible to claim , shall we say , then at the end of that four weeks they can then get a cheque for whatever period they 've been off . |
| 3 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 4 | I have pleasure in enclosing copies of some recent responses we have made to important Government consultations : |
| 5 | I have pleasure in enclosing copies of some recent responses we have made to important Government consultations . |
| 6 | With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life . |
| 7 | In view of the presence of the Prince there , and especially in the light of some critical remarks he had made recently about the IRA , I had expected a posse of police to be guarding the entrance gates . |
| 8 | The paper was based on the exploratory findings of some 30 interviews he had conducted with radio astronomers and biologists . |
| 9 | By insisting that the two groups have the same distribution of some extraneous variable(s) we may be introducing unreal constraints , e.g. smokers and non-smokers do not have the same age distribution in the population . |
| 10 | It all began with the discovery of some pencilled jottings she had made during her painting trips in the wilds of northern British Columbia . |
| 11 | This I did three times before getting in , largely on the strength of some Moroccan paintings I had recently completed . |
| 12 | If we contrast this collective alcoholic mania with the manic structure which I have attributed to the personality of the ruler of such totalitarian societies we can see an interesting opposition . |
| 13 | In view of these discrepant results it seems unlikely that coexisting HBV infection plays a significant role in the aetiopathogenesis of alcohol related liver damage , at least in areas of low HBV prevalence such as Britain . |
| 14 | Even those who do not share his political opinions readily pay their tribute to the range of his intellect and the graciousness of his character ; more remarkable still , even those whose intellectual qualities are the equal of his , but whose moral qualities have degenerated in contact with the sordid atmosphere of politics , never speak of him with an affected amusement as a religious bigot or a narrow-minded moralist ; in the remarks of these latter politicians I often detect a tone of rather wistful regret , as if they were conscious in themselves of a loss for which the world they have gained has by no means compensated . |
| 15 | It was just one of these regular lunch-parties he has so that he can keep in touch with people he would n't otherwise meet . |
| 16 | On the basis of these expressed views we hypothesized that attitudes towards the use of the booklet , with the attendant possibility of consequent change , would generally be more favourable in the northern than in the southern schools . |
| 17 | In one of these dusty tomes he read in wonderment of the treasures of Tutenkamen and it was this that ignited in young Garrett a fire of enthusiasm for treasure hunting that still burns strongly today . |
| 18 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 19 | In some of these early Sonatas I even find the fortepiano to be of advantage , particularly in the first movement of Op. 7 where quick passages should come down like hail : the action is lighter , and the incisiveness of fast forte notes much bigger . |
| 20 | If there is a prevailing thread in the history of these state-owned enterprises it is the constant under-assessment of risk — of the lack of imported materials to supply a manufacturing process , of failure in the supply of inputs ranging from petrol to fertilizer , of farming communities not producing the cash crops to keep a processing plant in operation , and of failing to find competent management for complex operations . |
| 21 | With some of these sociological theories we are perhaps again witnessing the process we identified earlier with the aid of Raymond Williams . |
| 22 | When he had one of these fancy feelings he was never entirely wrong . |
| 23 | ‘ If I 'd got engaged to anybody else , any of these young girls you cite , they 'd expect things from me I 'm not prepared to give — ’ |
| 24 | One of these many memories I find myself repeating , even today is to retrace our Sunday morning walks from my home in Pilrig , Leith , to a hotel near the Tron Kirk ( where my aunt worked as a housekeeper ) stopping first at a statue , halfway up the Mound , of a kilted figure representing the Black Watch who died in the Boer War . |
| 25 | To remind the reader of the nature of these two choices they are repeated below . |
| 26 | Simone 's gran , Gwen Turner , said : ‘ If it had n't been for the prompt action of these two ambulancemen I do n't know what would have happened . |
| 27 | Of these two approaches I have adopted the first , formally at least , since my first chapter is concerned with scepticism , and there are constant if sporadic references to one form of sceptical argument throughout the book . |
| 28 | Now because of these two problems we violate er a couple of assumptions of ordinary lease squares right , and as a result , the upshot of this is that we get biased estimates of our parameters A B C and D , right , they will be biased and also they wo n't have the minimum variants property right , they wo n't be the best estimators you , the statistics you talk about blue estimates , best linear and biased alright . |
| 29 | By the balancing of these two polarities we achieve ‘ well-being ’ — a state without conflict . |
| 30 | Using either of these two methods you know exactly what you are receiving in your own currency and can adjust your price accordingly . |