Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also controls gradual water loss , retaining just the right amount of moisture your skin needs . |
| 2 | David has always , for a time , hitched his rocket on somebody who is powerful — no question about it — he 's powerful himself , but he needed an injection of ruthlessness which Ken Pitt , being a very sweet , nice man , was n't giving him at the time . |
| 3 | As we are dealing with the larger species of Cichlasoma our suggestions will be aimed at this group of fish . |
| 4 | Until comparatively recently this hope looked greatly at odds with the realities of international law which was prepared to acknowledge the sovereignty and hence the legality of states whose boundaries or existence are the result of force , uphold treaties imposed by coercion , and in general allow that war is an international sphere . |
| 5 | The area that is modern France displayed within its boundaries a great variation on the Romanesque architectural theme , since it was not one nation but a number of states whose buildings were influenced by climate , materials and purpose . |
| 6 | We discover that the contrast is based upon a particular set of values which science is believed to embody , and which is apparently lacking in the humanities . |
| 7 | In fact she has made a cryptic entrance already in the fifteenth line of this canto : ‘ … of Berengar his heirs was this Eleanor ’ . |
| 8 | postman Pat 's lifelike van , and Jess the Cat , all combine to bring to life on stage the world of Greendale which children know so well from their television screens . |
| 9 | And if modernism is the result of a stage of differentiation whose onset is proper to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , then modernity is the product of a much earlier stage of this differentiation process . |
| 10 | Again the notions of legal fictions and of rituals whose meaning may alter despite continuity of formal behaviour are useful . |
| 11 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |
| 12 | It is clearly dangerous to be too sweeping about the type of support which fascism received , for the evidence is far too diffuse and fragmentary , but it would be fair to accept Wal Hannington 's point that the allegiance to the trade unions and the Labour Party prevented the working class and the unemployed being attracted to fascism though he felt that , ‘ Every locality where the unemployed remain unorganized is a potential breeding-ground for this country , just as it was in Germany . ’ |
| 13 | But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it . |
| 14 | The result is patterns of support whose basis is probably far more complex than it appears to an outsider and which also perhaps includes the expectation that love and affection themselves will be reciprocated ( Summerfield , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | The speed of change which Professor Hoskins deplored is well brought out here by his remarks about a stopping train through Rutland . |
| 16 | For non-Marxists , then , Marxist theories can never be disproved empirically because the theory can always be reworked or ‘ false consciousness ’ invoked to explain any apparent aberrant behaviour which appears to be inconsistent with the general logic of the objective laws of change which Marx originally formulated . |
| 17 | He will take on a role as the head of a special unit in a hospital , and they will need to adopt the roles of experts whose help is needed in dealing with a particular patient whose case is causing him great concern . |
| 18 | In this book authorities are said to be limited also by the kinds of reasons on which they may or may not rely in making decisions and issuing directives , and by the kind of reasons their decisions can pre-empt . |
| 19 | When the ‘ victim ’ is , say , a government agency such as the Inland Revenue ( UK ) or Medicare ( US ) , or another vast transnational organization , or when it is millions of individuals deprived of trivial amounts of property , or when whole countries or even continents are ‘ victimized ’ as in the case of bribery and corruption of Third World governments or legal officials , or the exportation of products whose consumption is only really safe in a western cultural environment ( Chetley 1979 ) , then it is possible for the corporate official to convince himself that there is no real person suffering , and therefore there is no real criminal victim . |
| 20 | The dozen bottles of champagne which Branson sent , with a note ‘ Sorry , I had to do it ’ , were returned to him . |
| 21 | Sharpe had fought the French for over twenty years , yet he had never seen the Emperor and , all unbidden , a sudden and childish image of a man with cloven tail , sharp horns and demonic fangs stalked Sharpe 's fears that were made worse by the Emperor 's real reputation as a soldier of genius whose presence on a battlefield was worth a whole corps of men . |
| 22 | In addition , the use of herbal cigarettes reinforces the habit of smoking which smokers need to overcome . |
| 23 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 24 | I am afraid Mr Simon Murison-Bowie , in whose area of expertise your proposals lie , is out of the country at present , but I will put your letter before him on his return . |
| 25 | That part of the collection 's rotation has worked surprisingly well but it has necessitated the temporary removal to storage , or to its branch in Liverpool , of masterpieces which visitors expect to find on permanent view . |
| 26 | In a case involving a sum of money the property of a foreign state and whether it is proper that it should be paid to a firm of solicitors whose authority to act on behalf of that state is in question , the court should , with the assistance of an amicus if necessary , decline to make an order for the payment out of a sum in court to a firm of solicitors without being satisfied of the authority of that firm of solicitors . |
| 27 | An hour and a bath later , soothed by foam , caffeine and nicotine , she could face anything , particularly the week or fortnight of freedom her performance had earned for her . |
| 28 | The degree of freedom which teachers in England are allowed to exercise and the responsibility with which they exercise the power vested in them is a major factor in the unique nature of English primary education . |
| 29 | It is the abuse of freedom which homosexuals have won which distresses me . |
| 30 | Turning to the dramatic developments in East European countries , the Labour leader warned that the taste of freedom their people had been yearning for would turn sour unless they gained material advancement . |