Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | not on my list of like pleasurable er |
| 32 | This is exactly what I have attempted in this book , beginning in chapter four with my version of why so many black kids commit themselves to sport , then moving , in chapters five and six , to the experiences in family life and at school and how these affect the ties to sport . |
| 33 | All I 'm trying to tell you is how my account of how we tell the truth explains this fact , which apparently simpler accounts of how we tell the truth do n't do . |
| 34 | That 's not my understanding of how government guidance works . |
| 35 | ‘ And being in a confined space with you and a chainsword is n't my idea of how to relieve stress . ’ |
| 36 | Not really my idea of how to spend a holiday . ’ |
| 37 | And the Blackburn star insisted : ‘ Now I am playing under Kenny Dalglish I feel my chances of finally achieving my ambition of playing for Scotland must be enhanced . |
| 38 | He did the same with my patient of yesterday whose glaring eyes and cold extremities told their grim tale . |
| 39 | I I mean , my mother of often said she , the first she 'd saw about it was when , almost on the abdication . |
| 40 | One mark of a radical government is its politicization of hitherto relatively non-political areas . |
| 41 | FOLLOWERS of Clive Brittain are once again marvelling at bookmakers ' largesse over their assessment of tomorrow 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . |
| 42 | We hope that their experience of both SCOTVEC and centres will strengthen the systems verifier team and increase the support that we give to centres . |
| 43 | It depends upon their conceptions of how they ought , or would be best advised in their own interests , to behave with respect to these top-management definitions of their duties end obligations , their rights and privileges , and their relationships to the material technology , to higher authority , and to each other ’ |
| 44 | The CER had been very successful for New Zealand , which since 1983 had been able to increase by 170 per cent its exports of mainly agricultural products to the relatively large Australian market , as well as to correct a large bilateral trade deficit . |
| 45 | The Council has to make savings on its budget of nearly £10 million to meet Government targets . |
| 46 | Earlier , the hon. Member for Gordon ( Mr. Bruce ) appealed to the press to use some discretion in its coverage of tonight 's debate on the ground that scenes from the Piper Alpha incident inevitably would be harrowing for the relatives of those involved . |
| 47 | It 's not only in the dialogue that Harper Lee expresses the tension between the blacks and whites , but all through the book in her description of where people live , where they work , the churches they go to and her detailed description of the court room and how the black community sit on the balcony above , away from the whites , she gives us a vivid idea of the way life was in the 1930 's and sets the scene well . |
| 48 | By 1719 its absorption of so much of the unfunded debt was suggesting to ministers that they might also shift a proportion of the funded debt its way . |
| 49 | so you 're saying naturally arises because of its complexity of how it interacts ? |
| 50 | The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time . |
| 51 | Although she had no suspicions of Tamar 's interest in Gareth Davis , she had noticed a suppressed excitement in her mistress of late and worried as to what the cause could be . |
| 52 | O&Y , which is meeting its 91 bankers on Monday in Toronto to restructure its debts of about £10 billion , is already in its grace period on a $62m payment due on an $800m Eurobond secured by an office block in New York 's World Financial Centre . |
| 53 | This agreement , however , foundered upon the failure of the two sides to agree upon the details of the plan , and upon the refusal of the USA to depart from its practice of neither confirming nor denying the presence of nuclear weapons on board its naval vessels . |
| 54 | But as the key diagram stands at the moment , because it goes north of Knaresborough in its indication of where the route proposal will be , I think if that i key diagram is to remain , it is right for the examination to consider what the need for that route is as opposed to a route or any other route which goes between Harrogate and Knaresborough . |
| 55 | Are the continual efforts of Puppywatch — set up by Alan Clark and Tricia Roberts , with their circulation of vividly illustrated leaflets — being ignored ? |
| 56 | Jack 's last game for the Palace first team was on Easter Saturday , 3 April 1926 , when he helped Palace to a 1–1 draw at Gillingham , but 7,000 fans turned up for his Benefit match at Selhurst Park a little over a year later to show their appreciation of as fine a player as ever wore the Palace colours . |
| 57 | Mercury , or Mercurius as he was known to the alchemists , had been much on her mind of late . |
| 58 | I learnt a lot about her and saw her side of why she took up illnesses as a comfort . ’ |
| 59 | my holiday was later as usual and longer so , you know and there was a couple of other things not related to this which I 'd thought of doing and it 's sort of they evaporated , but erm , we did spend time talking to Ingy earlier in the year , you know , about publicity and I gave her lists of well such as things obvious things like Playback and Newsbeat |
| 60 | This wider meaning comprehends the normative attitudes held by the people towards government , their conception of how power ought to be regulated , of what it is proper to do and not to do . |