Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ran out of printed business cards over a year ago , and I 've now run out of my stock of the blank cards ( which in view of my handwriting have a rather negative impact in any case ) . |
| 2 | Any of my colleagues have a number in their mind ? |
| 3 | None of their farmers have a |
| 4 | The pattern of change of many of the houses built before 1700 , and the fluctuating fortunes of their owners provide a pretty good history lesson . |
| 5 | The fighting and horror stories from Bosnia seem a world away as fifteen refugee children and six of their mothers watch a video in Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | Frank reports from Bavarian localities where the government and police agencies were in closer touch with reality than many of their superiors give a clear impression of the mood . |
| 7 | Even so , recent re-estimates of their weighting suggest a degree of caution in evaluating their contribution . |
| 8 | Michael Brookes of Nomura suggested that headhunting firms , to justify their charges , should be prepared to accept that part of their fees reflect a performance-related element . |
| 9 | Even women who are supposedly resigned to the ordinariness of their features register a quiet complaint . |
| 10 | But this class of molluscs includes not only the greatest number of living molluscan species , including those that have most successfully colonized land , but also some of their shells have a financial value that may even be out of proportion to their aesthetic qualities . |
| 11 | The scratching of poultry in fields and the value of their droppings add an unmeasured profit . |
| 12 | So if a beetle carries both types of gene , about half of its offspring receive a wild-type gene and half receive a pearl eye gene . |
| 13 | The detailed functioning of the panel is the subject of further discussion in Chapter 7 , but we may note that the minutes of its meetings reflect a considerable involvement of at least one DCSL in key initiatives . |
| 14 | Some of its members undergo a change of attitude as the team goes about its ordinary work . |
| 15 | Some of its leaders fear a revival of left-wing parties waving the banner of social justice . |
| 16 | The classic lines of its exterior conceal a combination of microchip technology and decades of Ford experience . |
| 17 | The hotel has a bar and breakfast room and all of its rooms have a bath/shower , WC , radio , TV and telephone . |
| 18 | All seven of her faces wear a blank expression . |
| 19 | The last few months of her journal witness a severe crisis in her life when , having produced a scientific paper on lichen ( nowadays considered ahead of its time ) , her researches were dismissed in a high-handed and sexist way by the Director of Kew Gardens to whom she presented her work . |
| 20 | The varying periods of copyright have caused difficulties : Paul Klee for instance , who died in 1940 , is in copyright in France and Germany and therefore monographs on the artist and other reproductions of his works require a royalty to be paid on the books circulated in those countries . |
| 21 | The seventeen volumes of his survey provide a remarkable survey not only of poverty but of employment and religious observance in London . |
| 22 | Though Larry does not ultimately succeed in reintegrating himself into the world , his efforts to come to terms with the consequences of his experience in the death world of his hallucination indicate a potential mode of interpersonal relation that would provide the basis for a more ‘ sane ’ existence . |
| 23 | However most of his paintings have a classical fore , middle and back ground . |
| 24 | She is a lady of high birth who has lost her father and now sees one of his friends meet a similar terrible death . ’ |
| 25 | His ‘ damp fold ’ technique for rendering draperies derives from Byzantine art , while the curvilinear patterns of his folds show an unprecedented degree of stylization . |
| 26 | The law and procedure of his court have an international rather than a purely English character ; it administers a law which is to be found in the medieval maritime codes , such as the Laws of Oleron and the so-called Law of Rhodes ; in the background , as a supplementary law , is the Civil or Roman law . |
| 27 | Most of his pieces carry a specific theme . |
| 28 | Most of his pieces carry a specific theme . |
| 29 | Indeed the first part of the book is by far the more revealing since his recent conquests are so much more celebrated than are the tales of his friendship form an early age with John Emburey , his innings of 87 at the age of 18 for the Ilford 1stXI against Trevor Bailey 's Westcliff and his early days with Essex when he would arrive at 2nd XI matches on a moped , his cricket bag strapped to his back . |
| 30 | IN May , June and November three eclipses falling in the money market of your chart indicate a degree of changeability . |