Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not lumps of clay awaiting the potter 's wheel of their parents ' influence to fashion their personalities , but equal partners in taking initiatives and creating contretemps . |
| 2 | Overweight male execs squeezing themselves behind the wheel of their Mercs ; they died of heart attacks . |
| 3 | Fernand indicated with outspread hands and a jerk of his shoulders that the whereabouts of Monsieur Gebrec were a matter of total indifference to him . |
| 4 | Lewis got up and pulled the curtains across with a pettish jerk of his hands . |
| 5 | About daily life in the first established , Lewes , surprisingly little has remained ; it never really achieved the independence many other similar towns acquired , remaining essentially a manorial borough of its lords , the de Warennes , for most of the middle ages . |
| 6 | The new religion had to be seen to meet existing needs , and not to overtax the courage its converts would need to break with the religion of their ancestors . |
| 7 | Let me be a free man — free to travel , free to stop , free to work , free to trade where I choose , free to choose my own teachers , free to follow the religion of my fathers , free to think and talk and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty … |
| 8 | ‘ I carry no religion , ’ he told her , ‘ but if I did it would be the ancient Jewish religion of my ancestors ’ . |
| 9 | The gist of it was summed up in the formula cuius regio , eius religio which meant that each king or prince had the right to choose the religion of his subjects . |
| 10 | Christianity was the justification of conquest and exploitation : Atahualpa had died a convert ; from the scaffold his nephew Tupac Amaru had denounced the religion of his ancestors as a fraud . |
| 11 | It put off the facing of her ghosts , but it gave her conscience some respite . |
| 12 | for the social life of the family — spoiled , noisy , aggressive , destructive ‘ brats ’ are not welcome in other people 's homes and contribute to the social isolation of their parents ; |
| 13 | Accordingly , as for example in Bentham 's design for a prison , Fine ( 1979 p 85 ) observed : " … inmates were to be subjected to a perpetual supervision in the isolation of their cells by an " inspector " , whose presence was always visible in the shape of the central guard tower , but whose particular focus and conclusions were neither within the vision , knowledge or control of the suspected . " |
| 14 | The excellency of this extraordinary man lay in the propriety , beauty , and majesty of his characters , the judicious contrivance of his composition , his correctness of drawing , purity of taste , and skilful accommodation of other men 's conceptions to his own purpose . |
| 15 | Or again , for the ruling class or race against which such a movement rebels , as long as its authority is secure there are very strong practical advantages in thinking of its subjects as incapable of governing themselves , happy and carefree in their poverty , innately inferior in intelligence , out of work only if lazy , loyal and grateful for all one has done for them unless misled by irresponsible agitators ; it is only when they start to be dangerously restive that it becomes practically useful to understand their motives and capacities better . |
| 16 | ‘ They never do , after twelve strikes , all thinking of their tummies . |
| 17 | Claudia battled with the urge to crown him with the coffee , only restraining herself by thinking of her plans . |
| 18 | As he turned the torch towards the door to the house , he gasped with horror , then screwed up his eyes for a moment , thinking of his kids , before letting his gaze rest again on the ghastly thing that dangled before him . |
| 19 | Christmas , for Phil Prior and for her young son , was made less painful by the kindness of her neighbours . |
| 20 | I have always relied on the kindness of my friends . |
| 21 | The kindness of our neighbours helped us over this difficult period . |
| 22 | He then deals with Cnut 's death , the grief of his subjects , and the quarrel over the succession . |
| 23 | For this I thank Selina 's duty-free perfumes and bath essences , the laundry-fresh tang of her clothes , the costly oiliness of her flesh and its smooth secretions . |
| 24 | I suggest we work at a readjustment of your ideas . |
| 25 | When attempting to reconstruct the past evolution of physical landscape and to establish the chronology of its stages of evolution , we are confined to ‘ windows ’ of limited and varying opacity and size ( Lewin , 1980 ) . |
| 26 | For example , coins provide the fullest and most systematic source for the names and titles of Roman emperors and may sometimes provide the basic framework for the chronology of their reigns . |
| 27 | You see I am very careful in settling the Chronology of his Poems ; such a Genius is a Curiosity ; and one wou 'd willingly know which are his first Productions . |
| 28 | Thomas Carter came right out and told you that he thought England was the only truly civilized country in the world and that as the most English of English cities , Oxford was its heart and soul , the core of everything that had formed us , the repository of our values and the guarantor of our standards , an expression in stone of our whole Western civilization , a cultural Stonehenge which , etc , etc . |
| 29 | After this comes 26 weeks of real training , which starts with basic counter operation and then extends to cover the entire range of bread and confectionery manufacturing processes , as well as the necessities of system management which is an area of growing importance with the increasing computerisation of our operations . |
| 30 | Organised by Lingotto Fiere , this exhibition has invested a great deal of its hopes in a rigorous vetting system which is intended to bring the level of buyer reassurance up to that , for example , of the Grosvenor House Fair . |