Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 2 | Consumerism — there was some mention in the circular about taking note of the views of the people both of the users of services and their carers , the consumers of the range of services . |
| 3 | They rode silently and watchfully , aware all the time of the footprints of the Friar ahead of them and of the silent menace of the trees on either hand . |
| 4 | He drew the logical conclusion : in order to bring in the harvest , school children , students , and even soldiers should be sent into the fields to collect the fruits of the earth regardless of their lack of agricultural training ‘ as was customary before ’ ! |
| 5 | Where the exclusion clause is embodied in a signed contract , the general rule is that the signatory is bound by the contents of the document regardless of whether he has read or understood them ( L " Estrange v Graucob Ltd [ 1934 ] 2 KB 394 ) in the absence of the plea of non est factum ( Saunders v Anglia Building Society [ 1971 ] AC 1004 ) . |
| 6 | Evening after evening Father McGiff sat at his desk , ashamed of his indulgence , upbraiding himself for his inability to drag his eyes away from the window which , like some perverse crystal ball , conjured up only ghosts of the past instead of promises of the future . |
| 7 | In her view , past promotions should have focussed on individual sections of the population instead of trying to interest everyone at once . |
| 8 | That parcel consists of two school-books , specimens of the hand-writing etc. of George Green , a Son of the late Mr. Green of |
| 9 | It emerged after the first reports of the Dushanbe violence that there had been a demonstration on Feb. 10 in Frunze , the capital of Kirghizia , likewise sparked off by rumours of the resettlement there of Armenian refugees . |