Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | There was sand everywhere between the knee-high crags , so I climbed on one of them for a better view . |
2 | No one is quite sure whether there will be more or less of them in a warmer global climate . |
3 | Before 1290 two successive chief justices of the King 's Bench were clerics , but the next two — from 1290 to 1307 — were laymen ; out of the fifteen judges of that court during Edward 's reign , eight were laymen , most of them in the later years . |
4 | The photograph of her with the older woman was well done , though . |
5 | ‘ Surely the photographs of him as a younger man — ’ |
6 | His hairline at that age was receding at the parting , giving every intimation that he might be bald one day ; not so , in the event — photographs of him as an older man show clearly that same hairline , looking very much the same as it had in the days of his youth . |
7 | A realistic budget will do three things for you : it will sort out the urgent essentials from the details which can wait ; make you feel good if you manage any or all of it at a lower price than your original estimate ; and inspire you to improvise , to consider if you could achieve an equally good effect and still fit in with what you can comfortably afford . |
8 | In the autumn , the sweeping tracts of it on the lower , treeless hillsides are the colour of rust , and it is then that it is scythed down , to provide bedding for the animals during the winter and , once suitably impregnated , fertilizer for the fields the following spring — in a neat ecological cycle . |
9 | Raskolnikov uses the blade of his axe on her , whereas he has just used the back of it on the older woman , crushing her skull . |
10 | The rights and wrongs of it were debated for some time and the feeling seemed to be that the TCCB had come out of it in a worse light than Gatting ; as the Melbourne newspaper The Age put it , ‘ Gatting , caught rumour , bowled hypocrisy , 0 ’ . |
11 | Althusser portrays Marx as extremely sensitive to this possibility , and appeals to his awareness of it in a further argument about the position of economic practice in the complex whole . |
12 | The harshness of the alcohol took his breath away and made him choke again , and Paul collapsed in a fit of laughter as he expelled half of it in a further bout of coughing . |
13 | The limitations in the work and conclusions of those of us of the older generation , may soon be painfully obvious if , in the future there will be an increase in the scale of the work and more opportunities for effective scientific study . |
14 | The most notorious tale in English literature made an agonizingly slow start ( at least for those of us in the seedier section of the viewing public ) . |
15 | However , a commitment to Free Will somehow understood , or the force of some image of Free Will , is likely to keep many of us from the further conclusion that the circumstance was exactly a necessitating circumstance . |