Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of [pos pn] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , yes , that 's absolutely right , and I think we 've always taken it as part of our responsibilities here really that they should extend over towards students in schools as well as students here at the university , and we do of course do quite a lot , in various ways , across the science area , to contribute towards science in schools . |
| 2 | Incidentally we view the cleaning as part of our job not yours , so the burners are completely sealed to the hot plate . |
| 3 | Yes , we 're going to see as part , as part of our time together , we 're going to see a couple of films and you 're going to enjoy those I 'm sure . |
| 4 | Again , due to limitations of time I am unable to attend many of the events which you are kind enough to notify me about in advance , so as part of your planning why not appoint someone to write an article and take a photograph for the Catholic Voice . |
| 5 | The typical large business 20 years hence will have fewer than half the levels of management of its counterpart today , and no more than a third the managers . |
| 6 | She remembered the point of origin of her journey distinctly . |
| 7 | Hundreds of clones of its design soon poured on to the market , selling even more millions . |
| 8 | Babies are n't very nice for the first couple of years of their lives either , though it is modern to say the opposite . |
| 9 | It happened during the final couple of years of my marriage when , tired of the humiliation my husband 's affairs imposed on me , I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine . |
| 10 | In fact towards the end of the book looking at the overall picture it seems that everyone else 's life ends happily in marriage apart from Pip 's , and him meeting Estella in the end completes this sort of feeling of his life not being complete.fulfilled . |
| 11 | Patients with fibromyalgia often complain of exacerbation of their symptoms when the tender points are stimulated by pressure , electric current , needling , or vibration . |
| 12 | I suspect that a number of ethologists of my generation occasionally feel the same way about ethological generalizations to human beings . |
| 13 | One might have thought that these divisions would at least cease to operate in church , but there too Kerr advocates a rigid hierarchy : ‘ The best of all systems of arrangement is to place the family and their guests in front , strangers of position next behind them , and the upper and lower servants , together with strangers of their classes respectively , in successive order . ’ |
| 14 | If someone like a foster carer , relative or a step-parent has looked after your child for 3 years or more they can apply to a court for custody of your child even if you disagree . |
| 15 | Mr Clinton intoned ominously that within minutes of his speech tonight to a joint session of Congress , the ‘ special interests ’ would be out in force . |
| 16 | On 31 March a cheque was received from A. Debtor in settlement of his account less an agreed discount of five per cent . |
| 17 | Bush repeated on Oct. 24 the comparison of Iraqi President Saddam Hussain with Hitler and denounced the " rape of Kuwait " and Iraqi " crimes against humanity " , while at a rally on Oct. 30 ( campaigning in support of Republicans in the mid-term congressional elections on Nov. 6 ) he gave warnings of the possibility of a US military offensive , urging the US public to " stay together in support of our kids halfway around the world " . |
| 18 | She and Carlo were staying a night , possibly two nights , because Carlo had n't felt up to snuff all the summer ( here young Carlo groaned wearily and leant against a wall in confirmation of his feeling considerably below snuff ) . |
| 19 | She was lost and alone and lived in fear of her parents ever finding out she had a baby . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ She 's got to be in fear of her life really . |
| 21 | He was more in command of his emotions now , and he turned back into the room . |
| 22 | If you are a writer , the majority of your income may come from performances of your music either on the radio , the television or at live concerts . |
| 23 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 24 | Moscow established a special relationship with fellow-travelling Mexican labour leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano ( similar to their connections with Brazil 's Luis prestes ) , in recognition of his following not only in the labour movement but also amongst the university communities . |
| 25 | One tells of Drud , or Nightmare , familiar in folk-tale , another tells of an uncanny , supernatural instance : a master gunsmith could hit anything in range of his rifle even if he could not see the object . |
| 26 | ‘ Is he in need of my medicines again ? ’ asked Cadfael practically . |
| 27 | This exclusive , candid picture by People lensman David Graves shows Strachan sharing a joke with Souey — back in charge of his team only weeks after triple heart by-pass surgery . |
| 28 | Voters had limited information about the policy positions of the parties and often supported a party in spite of its policies instead of because of them . |
| 29 | Mr Justice Johnson , who jailed the 37year-old Marquess for failing to pay £10,534 to his estranged wife Becky , said he had been acting in excess of his powers when he imposed the sentence . |
| 30 | But no matter whether the ballet lasts one , two or three acts the choreographer must be fully in control of his material so that every detail of the characterisation of the whole cast is appropriate to the general atmosphere and environment within which the plot unfolds . |