Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A final change of level takes us under the archway into the next small grassed and planted area , an altogether quieter space . |
| 2 | WHEN it comes to press manipulation , the Ministry of Defence has nothing on Apple Corporation , maker of the famous Apple microcomputer . |
| 3 | ‘ Determination in favour of [ the first and second respondents ] of their defence of settlement entitles them to judgment on [ the petitioner 's ] claims … |
| 4 | This view of physics sees it as a body of knowledge , or a system , which can explain all other bodies of knowledge . |
| 5 | This kind of mourning leads us to side with the poor , and to take action alongside them . |
| 6 | This of course takes us into the domain of attitudes and feelings of the learners , and is an area more influenced by emotion . |
| 7 | Such an astigmatic view of course excludes them from the main focus of research . |
| 8 | The mass of the people were not recorded because the evidence is limited to the loan book , which of course excludes everyone with less than £5 , a class which in Coventry amounted to as much as 80 per cent of the total , though in other provincial towns the proportion was not as high , that of sub-£2 assessments being lower than in the countryside . |
| 9 | The application of previously defined style or property sheets to large amounts of text allows it to be rapidly converted from one form into another , merely by adjusting the rules written into the style sheet . |
| 10 | You see , for me a good game of football involves lots of intricate passing . |
| 11 | There are many people around who call a spade a spade , but who do so in such a rude , offensive way , that this kind of plain-speaking becomes something to be avoided . |
| 12 | According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body . |
| 13 | But it also happens that in the organization of recorded knowledge for retrieval the profession of librarianship finds itself at an interesting point of crisis . |
| 14 | This schematic way of thinking channels us into an obscurantist cul-de-sac instead of regenerating our culture . |
| 15 | And the partnership 's life is a short as a task completed or as long as a connected , improving spiral of programme sustains it through renewal . |
| 16 | On the other hand , a court of equity addresses itself to the amount of costs that the mortgagee should be allowed as a condition of redemption . |
| 17 | The clarity of light throws everything into sharp relief against a backdrop of clear blue sky . |
| 18 | The social stigma of alcoholism sees it as a disgrace rather than a disease that is beyond the control of the sufferer and for this reason ( and their own " denial " — which will be explained later ) friends and family may be reluctant to accept the true nature of the diagnosis . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , The Logic of Fantasy has something of a two-world structure of its own . |
| 20 | My conception of sport elevates it to the realms of art , where the producer finds room to express himself and the consumer studies and appreciates ; both seek satisfaction . |
| 21 | New dishwasher owners are usually horrified when they find that a 3 kg box of detergent costs anything between £2.59 and £5.93 , depending on where you shop and whether you buy a supermarket own brand or one of the well-known names such as Finish or Sun . |
| 22 | One believer in the limits of law puts it like this : ‘ laws are often ineffective , doomed to stultification almost at birth , doomed by the over-ambitions of the legislator and the under-provision of the necessary requirements for an effective law , such as adequate preliminary survey , communication , acceptance , and enforcement machinery . ’ |
| 23 | But it is worthwhile to reiterate that , in a sense , every book published about recent history is of value as a source and the conventional ‘ official ’ documentation does not necessarily occupy in recent history the commanding place which its comparative isolation in a sea of illiteracy gives it in earlier epochs . |
| 24 | Another observation was of the isolation which can be experienced by the housewife , despite a close and happy marriage , when a move of residence deprives her of the company of friends . |
| 25 | The latter type of fuel lends itself to underwater storage for several decades . |
| 26 | Like many areas of sociology , the sociology of punishment lends itself to ( often radically ) differing approaches which provide rival explanations of penality . |
| 27 | Driving out of town leaves us with nothing , except everything behind us . |
| 28 | This declared ambition to reach a broad readership beyond the closed bastions of academia brings one to the first fissure in the book . |
| 29 | This sort of evidence leads me to the conclusion that the continents , rather than sailing about the earth until they met in catastrophic collisions , separated and came together again repeatedly along the same general lines . |
| 30 | One is that the history of evolution shows it to be a process of radiation rather than of progression . |