Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is problematic in the light of the theory that living organisms ‘ see ’ with their eyes ; the second was problematic for the supporters of Galileo 's theories because it clashed with the ‘ force of a vacuum ’ theory accepted by them as an explanation of why the mercury does not fall from a barometer tube ; the third was problematic for Roentgen because it was tacitly assumed at the time that no radiation or emanation of any kind existed that could penetrate the container of the photographic plates and darken them ; the fourth was problematic because it was incompatible with Newton 's theory . |
| 2 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 3 | But the smaller they are , the greater the probability within them of the sort of unacceptably crude proportionality that is furnished by the STV in Ireland and of consequent unfairness to all but the bigger parties . |
| 4 | This reminded me of the story of how Dame Janet allegedly tried to relocate the ducks which meet and mate annually on the landscaped patch in front of the Commons and atop its underground carpark . |
| 5 | The silence stretched between them like a length of tightly pulled elastic , and in the silence Alyssia could feel the hammering of her heart like a physical pain . |
| 6 | So that you 've got a vague idea of er what 's going to befall you for the rest of today ? |
| 7 | Leaning on a crutch , Mr Kurspahic , editor-in-chief of Oslobodenje ( Liberation ) , told editors and journalists at the awards lunch at London 's Savoy Hotel : ‘ Thank you for the feeling of not being alone in the world . |
| 8 | And I want to remind you of the history of when amalgamations take place , because a number of people have touched on that very point this morning . |
| 9 | Fill it up with diesel , and it should reward you with a return of comfortably over miles per gallon on average . |
| 10 | If you do this exercise it will provide you with an idea of how much time to spend on each assignment . |
| 11 | We 'd like to hear from you with the results of how you got on and how this book may have helped you decide what you want to do . |
| 12 | There you will meet a man who will brief you on the details of when and where the operation will take place . |
| 13 | Attendance on both days entitles you to a discount of over £50 . |
| 14 | When the whole brood were assembled their father regimented them with a series of fortunately ill-aimed blows and they all trailed off the way they had come . |
| 15 | ‘ Leaving them with the fear of not being able to find someone to share their emotional overload , their physical disablement and ultimately their death . |
| 16 | He did not enumerate them , but it is not hard to reconstruct them from the records of over half a century of Masai administration . |
| 17 | But it is difficult , it seems to me , to use them in a sort of very locational sense which is being suggested by their use as one of the criteria . |
| 18 | I found artefacts dating back a century and felt that it was important not just to preserve them , but to use them in the education of today 's children . ’ |
| 19 | You have them in the style of how you physically did it . |
| 20 | I would like to present them in the absence of both the Chairman and the Vice Chairman of planning so is it your wish that I sign both sets as a true and correct record ? |
| 21 | The idea was that the private sector would build and finance a number of roads and the department would pay a rent for them on the basis of how much traffic used them . |
| 22 | ‘ I was really lucky because I had a really great mother who would expose me to a lot of really great things . |
| 23 | The exquisite creation they had made of their own lives blinded them to the aspirations of less fortunate men and women . |
| 24 | But , feeling glad to have got him off the subject of how apparently her virginal innocence did not tie up with her being a married woman , ‘ Well , if you do n't mind , I 'll just collect my car and head back to England , and — ’ |
| 25 | Stiff and cold , she stared bleakly before her as the events of yesterday rushed into her mind . |
| 26 | Hubert described him as a man of very great genius and originality ; a man of learning but also of much modesty and simplicity of character . |
| 27 | Dr Thomas Arnold in 1836 described him as a man of incomparably greater genius than any of the Anglican divines and theologians , and to have given a far truer and more edifying picture of Christianity . |
| 28 | They were dressed in sober lounge suits and conversed in low voices , reminding him of a flock of rather dowdy sparrows pecking away at their food . |
| 29 | He smiled back at her , and the knife twisted still deeper in Shae 's stomach , robbing her of the pleasure of just a moment ago . |
| 30 | The upshot is that Marx never even concerns himself with questions such as the relation between individual perceptions to objects or the texture of feelings , sensations and thoughts , which might have led him towards a theory of where individuality occurs . |