Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham was supported by Manchester City boss Peter Reid who said : ‘ Wright 's a quality player , the sort of striker to keep you on your toes . ’ |
| 2 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 3 | Lemos resigned on March 25 , allegedly in indignation at the failure of Barco to defend him against opposition charges . |
| 4 | The author of Acts identifies himself as a man named Luke , and modern scholars concur that he is identical with the author of Luke 's Gospel . |
| 5 | Now , centuries later , it had decided to invite a number of experts to advise it on cosmology . |
| 6 | ‘ Easy — a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing , General . |
| 7 | The lack of coins deprives us of the evidence to form any assessment of their dynastic histories or tribal boundaries . |
| 8 | For example , what , if any , knowledge is required on the part of a payer at the time of payment to entitle him to recovery at a later date ? |
| 9 | Schools of beginners spend lots of time in the water at first , but who cares when it 's warm ? |
| 10 | But it is still too early to be certain , and the jury must remain out until there is sufficient evidence of a true change of heart to distinguish it from the earnest gestures of political expediency . |
| 11 | Carnelian , spying through the eye-screen from wherever , had immediately begun withdrawing the hydra into the warp of Chaos to save it from extinction . |
| 12 | Would he also look to a change of driver to help him with the draw he will want at Augusta ? |
| 13 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 14 | The diversity of crime accounts for the unconvincing nature of attempts to explain it by all-encompassing theories . |
| 15 | This must of necessity put you in a very weak defensive position and I would maintain that this is responsible for losing more bouts than any other factor . |
| 16 | The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE . |
| 17 | A final change of level takes us under the archway into the next small grassed and planted area , an altogether quieter space . |
| 18 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 19 | Nor need the scenery always be dramatic : the languid countryside of Norfolk lends itself to exploratory trips with Albion Rides ( Tel : 0603 87125 ) . |
| 20 | Donegal 's insistence on playing the short ball out of defence cost them at least two points , a luxury they could never afford in a close scoring game . |
| 21 | His arrest was ordered by the Algiers judiciary after the Ministry of Defence accused him of inciting the army to mutiny . |
| 22 | Also joining IHM is the one-off prototype Westland 30–300 G–HAUL , which has been in storage at Westland 's Yeovil factory since the Ministry of Defence cancelled it in favour of the larger EH–101 . |
| 23 | WHEN it comes to press manipulation , the Ministry of Defence has nothing on Apple Corporation , maker of the famous Apple microcomputer . |
| 24 | Typical of artists to read nothing except what they happen upon and then to pontificate about life and art and the way the world is going . |
| 25 | ‘ Determination in favour of [ the first and second respondents ] of their defence of settlement entitles them to judgment on [ the petitioner 's ] claims … |
| 26 | Concepts borrowed from anthropology aid our understanding of social structure , while the techniques of physics enable us to date the past . |
| 27 | This view of physics sees it as a body of knowledge , or a system , which can explain all other bodies of knowledge . |
| 28 | Waves of smell hit you as peasant women cycle past towing brown-encrusted oil drums filled with the precious produce of the city 's latrines . |
| 29 | This kind of mourning leads us to side with the poor , and to take action alongside them . |
| 30 | The superintendent slipped the phone back into its cradle and a crease of worry tucked itself into her forehead . |