Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew it instinctively in spite of the curtness of his words . |
| 2 | With astonishing rapidity the sick man-gathered the threads of the battle into his hands . |
| 3 | Because of the shape of its talons , as if they were inescapable |
| 4 | Informal linkages often develop because of the frequency of their meetings and the closeness of their working relationship , something fraught both with dangers and opportunities ( see Elcock , 1986 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 5 | The prevailing winds originate from the south and south-west , a consequence of the frequency with which depressions ( with their anti-clockwise circulation ) pass to the north of the islands . |
| 6 | On one side of him was the complex inhabited thicket of the hedge in which flocks of bullfinches competed for fodder and invisibly singing warblers were stationed at thirty-yard intervals ; on the other was a great sloping reach of field , the earth a reddish copper colour and patterned like a Japanese garden with the swirls and furrows left by machinery . |
| 7 | He 'd seen her shudder and was rising to his feet , his gaze resting momentarily on her breasts , making her self-consciously aware of the thrust of her nipples against the stretch fabric . |
| 8 | He rubbed some of the powder in his hands , sniffed it and threw it back on to the ground . |
| 9 | Clerical Medical has designed this Plan to help you to make the most of the profit from your savings over the next 10 years . |
| 10 | Archaeology therefore has the ability to impose , with relatively few complications , the particular contemporary boundaries of the nation-state upon its findings , and to identify these as the prehistory of Germany or Italy . |
| 11 | The threat by the INTO in respect of the removal of its investments , the placing by SIPTU of its National Office Network at our disposal , the many letters of encouragement and the great assistance given to our members on the Picket Line are some of the indicators of this . |
| 12 | In the late eleventh century , Osbern , the precentor of Christ Church Canterbury , wrote both a life of St Ælfheah , the archbishop killed by the Scandinavians in 1012 , and an account of the removal of his relics from London to Canterbury in 1023 . |
| 13 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 14 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 15 | The state also has authority to determine disputes which arise out of the operation of its laws . |
| 16 | If anything , it enhanced it , made you aware of the broadness of his shoulders , the firmness of his muscles , the long , lean power of his legs … |
| 17 | The fact that the active edge in the Rule above is not modified means that , in principle , all interpretations will be found regardless of the order in which operations are carried out . |
| 18 | Along with the knights , the chaplains , and the officials , there travelled the ladies of the court with their servants , and a sizeable contingent of young boys . |
| 19 | Nowadays , those same players and their sons and daughters , led by the example of professional tennis players , and more recently national associations , are looking at the effect of the court on their bodies as their main priority when choosing a court or a club to play at . |
| 20 | There is ample authority for the proposition that the inherent powers of the court under its parens patriae jurisdiction are theoretically limitless and that they certainly extend beyond the powers of a natural parent : see for example In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 25B , 28G . |
| 21 | The shift in the relative balance of economic and political power in later Tokugawa away from the Bakufu domains in the more urbanized centre of the country to its rivals on the peripheries , especially those in southwestern Honshu , Kyushu and Shikoku , did little to mitigate this urban emphasis among the national leadership . |
| 22 | As we noted at the start , the policy concerns of the country in which academics work are an important factor in determining the kind of International Relations that they will study . |
| 23 | Anyhow the upshot is , one way or another I 'm lying in the front seat of the Boomerang with my trousers round my knees and copping a twenty-dollar blowjob from a speed-fuelled Zulu called Agnes . |
| 24 | Reports said that the government had given assurances that there would be no retrenchment in the first year of privatization and that workers would be entitled to buy up to 10 per cent of the shareholding in their factories . |
| 25 | The stench of the frowsty rooms as much as the picture of the misery of its inhabitants left him pale . |
| 26 | She looked at Adam and saw the mark of the spear between his eyes ; blood had flowed , streaking his face . |
| 27 | Even if these were surmounted , two fundamental questions would remain about using the average wealth of a country as an index of the well-being of its citizens . |
| 28 | Newco and its advisers should consider how the target has taken care of the well-being of its employees , and whether it has conformed to health and safety legislation . |
| 29 | Most people , however , think of the well-being of their relatives first . |
| 30 | When she got the blade of the shove between her teeth and began to worry it I called a halt . |