Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , I perceive this flower in front of me because light which has been reflected from it impinges on my retina and causes trains of nerve impulses to travel along the visual pathways to the visual cortex . |
| 2 | The Left had discovered that more was being expected of them than tolerance , but while the PRG had succeeded in setting an agenda based on fear , hatred and ignorance , Positive Images failed to popularize our own agenda of equality , choice and resistance to oppression . |
| 3 | I think we 'll only need three of them because daddy 's |
| 4 | The Government is restoring several of them as holiday flats , a slow process but tastefully done . |
| 5 | In brief , topic neutrality was invoked to explain why , within the materialist scheme , consciousness of our mental states is not sufficient for knowledge of them as brain states : what it can not do is explain why knowledge of brain states is not sufficient for knowledge of their nature as conscious states . |
| 6 | For the past twelve years ( eight of them as President ) , Reinz has been active in the Bundesverband der Deutschen Galerien ( founded in 1977 ) which orchestrates the annual Art Colonia . |
| 7 | By the late twelfth century , even in England , the function of the suitors had been reduced to this : a committee of them provided information to royal justices in a court which had become effectively or actually an offshoot of the king 's court . |
| 8 | The project involves the coordination of research terms in about twenty countries , most of them where English is the first language of the majority of the population or an official second language . |
| 9 | As for The Roches , we 've been big , big fans of theirs since way back — I 've been listening to them since I was about 13 . |
| 10 | She explained the minister 's ill-treatment of her as revenge for her withdrawal of an annual gift of £8 to the parish church when she found out that he had attempted to publish her charity . |
| 11 | Back on vinyl following a two-year bout of writer 's block , he 's surprised and depressed to find the media 's image of him as rock 's Mr Glum has survived , in spite of the exhilarating content of the new LP , These Immortal Souls ' ‘ I 'm Never Gon na Die Again' . |
| 12 | The sense of him as alien was withdrawing . |
| 13 | ( a ) If a legal concept is mentioned in the question , do not attempt a full explanation of it unless explanation is requested or necessitated by the question . |
| 14 | the other thing is to do with being fascist , yes , but you know you erm , you can talk about Russia , you know , running under the Czar and all the rest of it before communism came along . |
| 15 | We will encourage parents on income support to claim maintenance by allowing them to keep part of it before benefit is cut . |
| 16 | Are you saying , I want some attention , I do n't get enough of it because Mummy 's always too busy ? |
| 17 | They need to have genetic material , pollen , transported from one individual plant to another and they are prepared to sacrifice a substantial proportion of it as food to those that will do the job . |
| 18 | But he is likely to have a frustrating time of it as Industry Secretary until the economy recovers , wanting cash to fund his ambitious regeneration plans that will simply not be available in the next year or two . |
| 19 | Fazisi does not tell us about the birth of the dream and the background of the person who was the heart of it as Maiden does , it is not as personal . |