Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dig out the clumps of roots and divide them into smaller portions to replant or pot-up . |
| 2 | There are certain sorts of clothes that make you an ‘ OK person ’ ( like Levi jeans or Reebok trainers ) . |
| 3 | Once back upstairs in the box , he could not leave the mystery alone and his mind conjured up all sorts of solutions but analysing them brought no relief . |
| 4 | Six years later Harold Rosenberg , thinking of Pollock and praising him , wrote : ‘ The modern painter begins with nothingness . |
| 5 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 6 | Instead of the sunset raging a fire in them as Fernando had obviously intended , it had had the reverse effect — doused away a good deal of bitterness and left them with a certain sadness . |
| 7 | He dreamed up mad little schemes that both gave him a great deal of pleasure and helped him to avoid some of the inevitable boredom of an out-of-town tour production . |
| 8 | The night Ellie first wore the gown to the opera , her three eldest brothers all wolf-whistled her to the door and Patsy , his eyes like saucers , gave her a corsage of orchids and escorted her to the limousine which had come to collect her . |
| 9 | We are lucky in that we can draw on centuries of experience and combine them with modern materials in a way that will be pleasing from year one . |
| 10 | He rattled a huge ring of keys and let me out of the cell . |
| 11 | It compelled him to look closer ; to feel the smooth , damp surface ; to grasp the ring of iron that held it prisoner ; to look into the black space behind it . |
| 12 | And , as already mentioned , their dawn was bedeviled with controversy so that the leaders as well as sympathetic hearing people found themselves in dispute about the best methods of helping and educating them . |
| 13 | I respectively , to the anions and cations of solids and free them by neutralizing their charge ; water is thus a highly effective solvent . |
| 14 | In comparison to his contemporaries in 1967 he had completed a lot more films than most ; the difference was that his were a succession of B-movies that paid him little . |
| 15 | This account gives rise to two questions , both of them large and difficult : first , how do ideological state apparatuses ( ISAs ) constitute individuals ; and second , how can Althusser justify his claim that his theory escapes the tentacles of ideology and tells us how the world really is ? |
| 16 | The Parade is the stage and the great offices of state that enclose it on three sides are the décor . |
| 17 | We noted the omission of any mention of meat and asked her particularly about this , as there have been so many debates among anthropologists in recent years as to the origins of hunting and meat-eating . |
| 18 | This was the time she enjoyed most ; when she could relax in the cosy drawing room , with its pale green walls and deep floral armchairs , and with the cheery fire-glow sending out waves of warmth that made her deliciously sleepy . |
| 19 | If can recall to this day a book I had for review years and years ago in which the hero swaggered into a smart London nightclub , ordered a magnum of champagne and drank it down . |
| 20 | When we returned the traffic warden was waiting and launched into a tirade of abuse and threatened me with a ticket for all my disabled badge was displayed . |
| 21 | How about going wild and making squares of patterns and joining them to make a sweater ? |
| 22 | An advocate of home rule and agrarian reform , Walsh 's support for the controversial ‘ plan of campaign ’ earned him the displeasure of Rome and cost him the cardinal 's hat . |
| 23 | One of his most senior colleagues , Mr Michael Heseltine , the Environment Secretary , indicated that , if the Tories were the biggest party in a hung Parliament , Mr Major would draw up a programme of legislation and put it to the vote in Parliament rather than seeking any formal deal with the Liberal Democrats or Ulster Unionists . |
| 24 | In his study of Wolverhampton , Jones ( 1969 , pp. 348–9 ) maintained that ‘ the parties have enabled individuals to devise a programme of policies and to implement it , and they have presented these programmes to the public in a dramatic and comprehensive way , enabling the public to judge a team of men and measures ; thus the accountability of government to the electorate has been strengthened ’ . |
| 25 | We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents . |
| 26 | Whilst Hobbes described the rational structure of such a concentration of power and developed it into a veritable philosophy of power , Locke , taking up the challenge , demanded that the exercise of this power , although it was derived from the ultimate and unified source of all power the people remain divided by virtue of a fundamental decision . |
| 27 | This may confirm Joan 's fear of greed and make it more frightening for her to know about her own . |
| 28 | The Rattlesnake Round-up in Sweetwater , Texas , takes place every March to rid rangeland of snakes and make it safer for livestock . |
| 29 | ‘ To send a force with King Charles ’ official blessing is one thing , ’ Hotspur agreed with a hollow smile , ‘ to finance small parties of adventurers and let them slip away privately to Scotland is another . |
| 30 | The infusion of desire that rushed her was so immense that she obeyed instantly , drawing her legs up to his hips . |