Example sentences of "of [pron] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have in front of me some photographs from a collection of settlers ' memories . |
| 2 | Some district council 's elect all their councillors once every four years — others elect a third of them each year with a year off while the county council elections are held . |
| 3 | Syria , or rather Antiochus , pollutes the Temple of Jerusalem on the eve of a final war which will give him victory over Egypt , but which will soon be followed by the deliverance of the Jews and by the Last Judgement : " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence " ( 12.2 ) . |
| 4 | The end was in sight for a number of them that day in Chorzow : Alan Ball , sent off , unable to contain his frustration ; Ramsey , the most successful of England 's managers , sacked within a year . |
| 5 | ‘ Do any of them own horses like ours ? ’ |
| 6 | We 're dealing with fear , we 're dealing with a sense of vulnerability and impotence and how do you teach grown ups to deal with those issues , because a lot of them erm the for a lot of them these kinds of questions go to the very centre of who they are , their self image . |
| 7 | The quarrel would n't do either of them any good with the Establishment Department , but he thought he knew which one it would harm most . |
| 8 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 9 | This was to be the third of my many run-ins with that typically British authoritarian institution , which is never happy unless making trouble . |
| 10 | I finger the necklace often these days as I think of my many friends in that country . |
| 11 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 12 | ’ On reading these lines I realised that , if the word ‘ starving ’ were to be substituted for the word ‘ dying ’ , they could be read as a description of my own attitude at the time I was anorexic . |
| 13 | At the time he reached his last book , Human Knowledge , he had abandoned the claim that you could show that the world could be logically constructed out of sense experiences , and adopted a much more Kantian outlook , in which , while he erm said that all our inferences about the world must begin from sense experiences , all that the philosopher can do , is to make explicit the premises that are required in order to infer from the transitory data of my own experiences to the enduring existence of material things and the much more sophisticated kinds of existence which their minute constituents have . |
| 14 | The stimulus for these changes has been a combination of my own experiences of doing mathematics and the discovery that my pupils could do mathematics in ways that I had not appreciated before . |
| 15 | Every song on the album contains something of my own experience over the last year but the words are applicable to everyone . ’ |
| 16 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 17 | Because of the problem with the boarding kennels , and the general recession , I started pouring more and more of my own money into the charity to keep it going . |
| 18 | I will have much more to say about the biochemistry of these events in the context of my own experiments in the next chapter ; I do n't want to get into great detail here but instead would emphasize that Kandel explains the reflex and its habituation and sensitization by a series of reductions . |
| 19 | ‘ But I 'm scared of my own squad in terms of numbers . |
| 20 | I can not think of my own knowledge of the physical world in terms of my dispositions to behave , but only as my dispositions , construed as operating in the world of which |
| 21 | The latest of SAVE 's publications is Bright Future : The Re-Use of Industrial Buildings , written with the architect Francis Machin , who is best known for his futuristic conservatories , but whose conversions include the transformation of my own barn into a library and office . |
| 22 | I was happy in the work because of the acceptance by the government of my own interpretation of the task of public relations , namely not to be a propagandist agency acting on the assumption that the government was always infallibly right ; not only to be an information service about government policies , plans and activities ; but to be an agency interpreting the government to the people , and feeding back to the government the reactions and feelings of the people . |
| 23 | I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’ |
| 24 | I listen to , and patiently explore , the feminist challenge in a forthcoming book , and will again spare you an airing of my own views on this occasion . |
| 25 | Again I am suspicious of my own bias of taste . |
| 26 | Although I had always lived in a freezing cold damp house and spent a lot of my own childhood in hospital and even remember my own mum referring to our flats as pneumonia houses , in my ignorance I had never made the connection between our living conditions , ill health and the social and environmental climate . |
| 27 | ‘ And to the end that you may deal for me without hindrance , to bring about this peace , I undertake that I will not henceforth , at least until I do withdraw this word , have any ado of my own willing with any English company in arms , but will forbear them as you counsel . |
| 28 | The findings of my own investigations into New Age groups and publications are also noteworthy . |
| 29 | An integration of my own life-experience through reflection , self-examination and help from others . |
| 30 | ‘ It would n't look right to be out of my own house on Christmas Day , ’ she answered ; that they were not yet married was left unsaid . |