Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to the elaboration of rules that we direct our attention in the next chapter . |
| 2 | So what makes a good bedroom in the eyes of hoteliers and what do their guests expect ? |
| 3 | Rose looked helplessly down to where the old lady still flailed against her pillows , catching her breath on each series of cackles as they left her throat . |
| 4 | You can sense the interdependence of words when they change their significance according to the words around them . |
| 5 | Well I feel erm really that we should have a little bit more compassion amongst ourselves as women and when I had my first child I had a very good friend who went through the pregnancy with me who is waiting for a child to arrive by adoption , and she had the baby a couple of months after I had my baby . |
| 6 | Immediately , Dora put her expression to rights , even squeezing out a polite smile of thanks as he set her glass in front of her , the epitome of a well-bred Englishwoman who never reveals her feelings before servants or foreigners . |
| 7 | Middlesbrough 's battle-weary troops were cheered by thousands of fans as they made their way to a civic reception in an open-topped bus . |
| 8 | For instance , in the UK the Confederation of British Industry publishes a four monthly basis a national survey of the opinions of a lab sample of companies whether they expect their sales , exports , production , employment and investment to remain stable or change . |
| 9 | It is the concrete being that reasons ; pass a number of years and I find my mind in a new place : how ? the whole man moves ; paper logic is but the record of it . ’ |
| 10 | Well that 's the best thing , cos I 'm on a case a couple of weeks and I rang your police on Friday night |
| 11 | It would be a pretty poor state of affairs if we abandoned our traditional puddings , leaving only the tourists to appreciate them . |
| 12 | Klatzky , Clark and Macken ( 1973 ) found that children learned nonsense words for the positive , extended , ends of dimensions before they learned their negative counterparts . |
| 13 | If you have no social life or circle of friends when you start your single lifestyle then it requires more effort on your part . |
| 14 | ‘ I was surprised to hear that he was married but I wanted a change of surroundings so I packed my few belongings and went with him there and then . |
| 15 | This was the first time that father and son had been separated and it is apparent that Leopold undertook much of the organisation for the visit , advising Mozart and his mother of places to stay , even giving the costs of meals as they made their way through the German states . |
| 16 | In many ways the challenge of qualifying games could have made life much easier for Vogts , who has had the problem of motivating his team to play two years of friendlies before they defend their World Cup crown in 1994 . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher gives Mr Gorbachev the warmest of welcomes as they start their talks at Number Ten . |
| 18 | The airline 's commercial director , Mike Bathgate , said : ‘ This is a leisure and business link and we have enjoyed a high level of enquiries since we announced our intention to launch services from Stansted . ’ |
| 19 | There have been a lot of sacrifices but we have our own identity again . ’ |
| 20 | The university 's patenting and licensing experts give advice and students are allowed to drop out of courses while they pursue their business interest before returning to school . |
| 21 | He became convinced that his nose was deformed and saw another analyst regularly for a few months , but he recovered — at least until the next lot of symptoms after he rejected her advice and interpretations and simply told himself to stop thinking about his nose so much . |
| 22 | We had come in search of raptors and we saw our first after only five minutes of walking . |
| 23 | Clearly he had long since trained himself to tune out all awareness of boys unless they menaced his engine or coachwork . |
| 24 | He seized a horrible pair of forceps and I closed my eyes as he started flexing his muscles . |
| 25 | Mr Clarke believes the crackdown will deal with a hardcore of persistent offenders who can clock up scores of crimes before they reach their teens . |
| 26 | We will be meeting them with a hail of stones if they show their faces . ’ |
| 27 | Urgent or not , Sladen was experienced enough to give them thirty seconds of plati-tudes while they kicked their briefcases under the table , tugged at their waistcoats — both MI6 men wore them even on a hot June day — and shuffled their papers , although few of them were prepared to put much paperwork on view . |