Example sentences of "[prep] of " in BNC.

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1 Without doubt one of the liveliest and most sought after of the Tyrolean resorts , Kitzbuhel offers everything .
2 Despite staying for a week , spent mostly looking after of course , I found that the close bond I experienced having witnessed 's birth took a lot longer to develop with .
3 WITHIN A RELATIVELY short period of time , Ferruccio Furlanetto has established himself as one of the most sought after of all operatic basses , recording for no less than five out of the world 's six leading recording organisations .
4 And I suppose it was some of my great grandfathers or some of them , had the looking after of them .
5 And then I do n't know where he went after of course .
6 And remember , the Junta that decided on the invasion of the Malvinas , at least tae of them , were of Italian extraction .
7 ‘ There were tae of them , ’ he said as he drove on .
8 ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’
9 ‘ Five years it took them , the first tae of them spent in these waters , so Ah would guess Darwin 's first tentative thoughts about the origins of species started here . ’
10 President : Gen. Denis Sassou-Nguesso ( since 1979 ) , who is also C.-in.C. of the armed forces .
11 In 1586 the President , the Earl of Pembroke , reported that the Examiner 's office was ‘ furthest out of course of any one thing in that court ’ .
12 A fear that ‘ techne … will soon be silenced by the high technology ’ ( Amalgamemnon : 5 ) lurks behind the futuristic tales of these novels which echo the suspicions first hinted at in Out of the intentions of those who implement technological innovation .
13 I do emphasise this definition , which relies upon the influence upon the value of money being direct , being exercised upon particular prices ; for of course all economic policies have an effect upon the value of money and thus upon prices , including incomes .
14 ‘ She 's my adopted daughter , ’ I said , for of course she was so in my mind although not yet in fact .
15 I had no idea that Dad could drive a horse , but this he did in great style for of course he had spent his boyhood on various farms .
16 Here they had to part with their horses , for of course there could be accommodation for only a few animals in this castle itself .
17 Rufus grinned , for of course Adam had told him all about Hilbert 's will .
18 For of course Aragorn and the others , including Frodo , are in their feelings of confusion and meaninglessness absolutely wrong — ‘ infatuated ’ , ‘ bewildered ’ , drowning in a bog of mere events , caught in a strangler 's net of wyrd .
19 For of course the Pacific is still influenced by the Atlantic that once dominated the world : the ties that bound the world together yesterday — personified by the men and women who came out from the West to trade or to peddle religion , to colonize , annex , smuggle or fight — these ties still exist today , though more weakly , with less influence and fewer and fewer people enrolled in the process .
20 Given this revised definition , it becomes natural to talk about preserving and defending democracy rather than achieving it , for of course it already exists in such fortunate countries as Britain and the United States .
21 He bit his lip as he said it , for of course in the past Sylvie had often wanted Katherine to be miserable .
22 ‘ When I left the palace , ’ Hope replied , gravely , and using the speech to transact the casual reciprocation of his own card , ‘ both princesses — for of course Mathilda too is secure in that entitlement — ‘
23 For of course , though the market is always sensitive to innovations , and must in part of its production promote them , the great bulk of market production is solidly based on known forms and minor variants of known forms .
24 ‘ But one likes doing things for people , ’ said Ianthe firmly , for of course she had been brought up to think that one should , though perhaps this situation was a little different .
25 If we approach these tensions from the perspective of assuming that these represent the dialectical poles , or at least some of them ( for of course others could be discussed here had we the space : for example the tension between " knowing how " and " knowing that " in design activity ) of a design activity which encompasses all of these in a vertical moment of synthesis , a synthesis that is counterposed horizontally ( ie over time ) by the changing movements of the activity itself ( from product critique through to problem definition to cognitive modeling of potential solutions etc ) , a movement of understanding and practice which parallels in its sphere the circle of historical understanding and historical praxis ( and just as the latter is the " way in which history itself moves " so the former is the " way praxis itself moves " ) so design can be seen as embodying that movement in its movement from or across actuality ie in its activity of transformation from one set of " givens " to another ; in its movement from problem to product .
26 and er that 's how I remember it by except for of course the war ended in nineteen forty five but were n't
27 Recently , we 've come to think er , even more strategically about the projects , and organisations we 've chosen to support for of course , two reasons .
28 In Paris , Menem and his entourage met with President François Mitterrand and French ministers on Feb. 17 during of a three-day visit .
29 Vultures rarely kill their own food , but are known for tidying up after the kills of bigger mammal predators such as of lions .
30 Adams , president of Sinn Féin , has had to suffer the ignominy of the wholesale rejection of his party in the republic , as well as the embarrassment of IRA killings — such as of eight Protestant workers at Teebane Cross in January — that he feels unable to condone ( but , also , unable to condemn ) .
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