Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So little of a reliable nature is known of Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's life , so prominent is the association of him with Aksaray that it is tempting to think that he passed his whole life there : such certainly is the thrust of the Ottoman sources as well as Melikoff 's article . |
| 2 | Second , the court held that marriage as an institution is , by definition , the association of someone of the male sex with someone of the female sex , gender having no relevance . |
| 3 | Stop thinking of her as another damn computer ! ’ |
| 4 | After her death , he 'd moved out into one of the back rooms , and Aunt Ruth — although she supposed she 'd have to stop thinking of her in that way — had taken the other . |
| 5 | The kindness of my Kildalton friends in thinking of me for their minister is encouraging as showing that no truly earnest , honest . |
| 6 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 7 | Thinking of them as numbers on a tall , thin clockface may be useful , so first put a large leaf into the twelve o'clock position and then one at six o'clock . |
| 8 | Let me put this in a less than shocking way , gotten away from thinking of everything in so-called ethical terms , because it confuses me . |
| 9 | Her mind was capable of thinking of nothing at all . |
| 10 | As commentators have pointed out , the story provides a case of the slow-witted hunter-gatherer , who is pictured as thinking of nothing but his belly , being smartly out-manoeuvred by the more sophisticated and clever shepherd . |
| 11 | If the Girls were ‘ Tillerized ’ into thinking of nothing but the Tiller organization , so was Jennie . |
| 12 | They are in a state of nervous excitement when awake though they lie thinking of nothing in particular because their minds will not work in an orderly way . |
| 13 | The moment the top stars of track and field stop thinking of themselves as entertainers , then the sport is dead . |
| 14 | Although he was fourteen years younger than Alexander , Daniel too was in the habit of thinking of himself as a survivor , a battered and grizzled survivor . |
| 15 | He sometimes wondered about his own death , but beyond thinking of himself on some long-distance collision course with annihilation , he could not imagine it . |
| 16 | Instead of thinking of it as a zero-sum game in which one side gains what the other loses , they are beginning to regard it as a positive-sum game from which both sides may gain , provided both play with skill and finesse . |
| 17 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 18 | It is not an entity or an origin , although the language we use may predispose us to thinking of it in those terms . |
| 19 | The reasons for our mortality become obvious as soon as we stop thinking of ourselves as individuals . |
| 20 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 21 | No doubt he exaggerated ( such was his wont where his conscience was concerned ) ; yet the only news she had received from Em herself had not been happy ; and now — to learn that she had suffered a miscarriage in that desert place at such a time of year , and that she had not felt able to share the grief of it with her own affectionate sister … |
| 22 | The Government have a great deal of which to be proud in their record since 1979 . |
| 23 | A good deal of it to the east of the Cherwell remains in use as a main road ( A41 and A4095 ) , the only important break in the line being caused by the growth of the Saxon town of Bicester , a mile to the north , in place of the now-vanished Romano-British town of Alchester . |
| 24 | Let me leave you there for the moment with my views of high morale as I saw it , and I saw a great deal of it during my constant circuit within the Command . |
| 25 | After so much walking , a great deal of it on cobblestones , her feet could do with a rest ! |
| 26 | One might add , however , that there is generally very little weather in most of Dickens 's country cottages either , although one finds a good deal of it in his towns . |
| 27 | No person acting under a proxy may vote in favour of any resolution which would directly or indirectly place him or any associate of his in a position to receive any remuneration out of the estate of the bankrupt ( r 8.6(1) ) . |
| 28 | While anger may stimulate the courage to do something , it may at the same time cloud the perception of what to be courageous about . |
| 29 | This immediately puts the farmer on the defensive and reinforces the public 's perception of them as a complaining , dissatisfied group . |
| 30 | Like Julia , in the earlier book , Beth catches things ‘ on the hop ’ — almost as a student whose mind is more imaginative than philosophical will react to a first reading of Bishop Berkeley by quickly turning his head , hoping to witness the sudden appearance or disappearance of those external objects which are supposed to depend on his perception of them for their existence . |