Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] of [det] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found confirmation of this in the one fact that nearly all nineteenth-century anthropologists were agreed upon , that what characterized primitives ( if not perhaps the most primitive ) was the predominance of kinship ties as the organizing principle of society . |
| 2 | I find confirmation of this in the fact that in describing Pelops 's wing of the gable he ends with Alpheus . |
| 3 | Certainly neither Attlee nor Bevin took account of those in the Labour party who suggested that Britain could or should pursue a " socialist " foreign policy , nor did they accept the claims of the Labour left that the United States was more aggressive than the USSR . |
| 4 | Because the different zones of the sea are so interlinked — many creatures making use of several in the course of their lives — the ocean environment is far more vulnerable than it at first appears . |
| 5 | Thus a household with say , current low net income may have high expected future incomes and we may want to take account of this in the design of policy . |