Example sentences of "[adv] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately the building suffered more injury than what the men did , thankfully , but obviously of course the building by insurance it would still , it was still a nasty shock for the owner occupier of the house . |
| 2 | I recently had an interesting encounter with the honeybee and it only served to point out that regardless of size the degree of intelligence is quite extraordinary . |
| 3 | So of course the guy has to behave shocked , and she chases him around the bar . |
| 4 | ‘ So of course the informer — he worked for himself , not the state — tried to find some proof of this . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , none of us has got enough money to go into a high-class nursing home — at least as far as I know — so of course the wind was up all of us . |
| 6 | So of course the next question comes well well how do you manage to put it down , I guess ? hands we 'll come on to that . |
| 7 | all bit and everything 's come out so of course the horse is running around free and he 's trying to catch it |
| 8 | So of course the girl was laughing . |
| 9 | So of course the bike , the car 's for me to use in the evening , but last |
| 10 | Erm , but at the trot , when th the the legs are moving the diagonals are moving so of course the front and the hind foot come very close together |
| 11 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 12 | So of course the poor Welshman with not having a sense of humour booked him , and poor Ben came back with a twenty-pound fine . |
| 13 | Later on of course the change in the trade , components were readily got as cars became more popular . |
| 14 | Since starboard tack has right of way the starboard approach is particularly busy , with a line of boards queuing to go round . |
| 15 | As the narrative proceeds beyond Genesis , and becomes enmeshed in the story of the fortunes not of Israel the patriarch , but of Israel the people of God , it will prove much harder for the writers and compilers to keep the original purposes in view . |
| 16 | If a field of the data structure savedValues is used by a sub-program B , called by A , but not explicitly by A itself , then it will be listed as an input or output of B but not of A. The notation ( A|B ) means ‘ A or B ’ . |
| 17 | It is not of course the case that the interaction between the major and minor keys actually has this quality — indeed there is no interaction as such — we project that feeling quality onto the structure . |
| 18 | It is not of course the criminal acts themselves which draw the majority together , but the publicising and punishing of crime , with the public trial of law-breakers also helping to clarify the boundaries of socially acceptable behaviour . |
| 19 | It conveniently marks the beginning of nineteenth-century poetry , though not of course the end of eighteenth-century readers , who lingered on till after 1832 , so that in the first three decades of the new century a great battle of taste was fought out , largely over Wordsworth 's ‘ simple ’ poetry . |
| 20 | This line of argument supports , as beneficial to all , a certain kind of individualism , which is not of course the same as egoism . |
| 21 | An unrestricted scheduled fare is ideal , but is not of course the most economical means of travel . |
| 22 | Richardson is not of course the first great English novelist , but he is the first to be interested in houses , for the characters created by his predecessor , Defoe , and his contemporary , Fielding , are too often on the move to develop much awareness of their living space . |
| 23 | Few who lived when the aristocratic rule of taste prevailed would have questioned Sir Henry Wotton 's definition in the previous century of ‘ Every Man 's proper Mansion House and Home ’ as ‘ the Theatre of his Hospitality , the Seat of Self Fruition , the comfortablest Part of his own Life , the noblest of his Son 's Inheritance , a kind of private Princedom ; nay , to the Possessors thereof , an Epitomy of the whole World ’ , although , on occasions , this was not of course the reality . |
| 24 | The expression I is not of course the only such troublesome feature of English ; the following examples all present us with the same sort of problems ( with the relevant deictic expression italicized , a convention followed throughout this Chapter ) : ( 6 ) You are the mother of Napoleon ( 7 ) This is an eighteenth-century man-trap ( 8 ) Mary is in love with that fellow over there ( 9 ) It is now 12.15 The sentences are true , respectively , just in case the addressee is indeed the mother of Napoleon , the object currently being indicated by the speaker is indeed an eighteenth-century man-trap , Mary is indeed in love with the fellow in the location indicated by the speaker , and at the time of speaking it is indeed 12.15 . |
| 25 | But not of course the intrepid airmen who gathered for today 's briefing . |
| 26 | Nor does cran — seem to carry any meaning into newly coined forms : we can make sense , for instance , of billy-giraffe and nanny-giraffe by analogy with billy-goat and nanny-goat , and also of foot the fees ; but creations like cranbeads and bilbeads convey nothing , although one might have expected some interpretation such as ‘ small round red beads ’ and ‘ small round purple beads ’ . |
| 27 | This level of interactivity is the most flexible but it is also of course the most expensive and the most complex to use . |
| 28 | and also of course the fact that the German market had closed . |
| 29 | They were particularly impressed with the additional two and a half million for home care with the resources to go with it , together with the additional and also of course the eight hundred thousand for the er scheme . |
| 30 | There also of course the hours that |