Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [adv] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackson Pollock was driven by a despair which was partly his and partly that of the culture which nourished him , to refuse this act of faith : to insist , with all his brilliance as a painter , that there was nothing behind , that there was only that which was done to the canvas on the side facing us . |
| 2 | It occurred to me that so many of the people who influence our lives are people who have been unjustly treated . |
| 3 | so erm er th the thought , the thought did occur to me that perhaps one of these times he 's gon na actually go beyond just like talking , and perhaps touching somebody . |
| 4 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 5 | This would seem to overcome the problem of segmenting and labeling areas of poor acoustic quality , and so minimise the problem of deciding which and how many of the alternatives should be maintained during left to right processing . |
| 6 | The captain may put on a very good act , convincing not just himself but even some of the passengers ; though whether their floating world will come through depends not on him but on the mad winds and sullen tides , the icebergs and the sudden crusts of reef . |
| 7 | He seemed — in a way I ca n't really explain — to be protective towards me and also ashamed of me , for the sake of my mother perhaps . |
| 8 | I looked at set-backs as if they were predetermined , as if a fixed number of them were waiting for me and once one of them was overcome the number to come decreased . |
| 9 | Hillary is nothing if not aware of the pitfalls that lie ahead . |
| 10 | I wanted to shoot them all , but there were many of them and only one of me . |
| 11 | Of the four bedrooms , two had beds in them and only one of them had bed-clothes on it . |
| 12 | I said I was myself but , but what get 's me is people stand there chat , I mean your walking behind them and then all of a sudden there just stop dead , and you must be carry on walking oh god there 's about twenty of them there blocking the fucking isle |
| 13 | those employed in senior management may by the nature of their jobs be fully aware of what is required of them and fully capable of judging for themselves whether they are achieving that requirement . |
| 14 | It might be best if you and not one of us were to deal with the boy . |
| 15 | The report suggests that the police regard true rape as occurring where one or preferably two of the following criteria are met : ( 1 ) complainer is attacked in her own home by intruder(s) ; ( 2 ) ‘ respectable ’ complainer attacked by strangers ; ( 3 ) complainer is severely beaten up ; ( 4 ) complainer is attacked by assailants wanted by or known to the police for crimes of violence ( especially against women ) ; ( 5 ) assailant uses weapon ; ( 6 ) assailant apprehended at scene of crime . |
| 16 | If you attempt to remove the cover from this type of pickup then you will certainly break one if not both of the coils . |
| 17 | The weather was the worst for many years , and the news from the Continent as the advancing armies uncovered first one and then another of the German concentration camps was almost unbelievable and quite horrific . |
| 18 | There was no need to tell Mrs Blakey everything because so much of it just did n't make sense . |
| 19 | ‘ Katrine was closer to her than anybody and very fond of her . |
| 20 | He was a congenial colleague to A. E. Housman [ q.v. ] , and in 1936 , the year of Housman 's death , brought out a brief memoir which , though mainly concerned with Housman 's scholarship , throws more light upon him than almost any of the studies by literary persons . |
| 21 | It is not as it may be interpreted a message of hope that the sun might still wake him but rather one of despair that even the sun is at a loss and does not know how to wake him . |
| 22 | Zafonic 's awesome 3 length annihilation of subsequent Group One hero Barathea in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket stamped him as potentially one of the greatest milers of all-time . |
| 23 | Believe it or not one of these is the dirty one one is the not very dirty one and one is the clean one . |
| 24 | You could be proud of it or not proud of it . |
| 25 | And why is it that not one of the seven demands of the women 's movement specifically addresses questions of housing ? |
| 26 | I accept that , although I gather that even the German Parliament is deeply divided on how much of it and how much of the Government should move from Bonn to Berlin . |
| 27 | This is the second talk in a series following the history , sort of Victorian fashion , but not just what people wore but hopefully explaining why they wore it , both the actual manufacturing , physical why they wore it and perhaps some of the psychological reasons behind the changing fashion . |
| 28 | The specialist architectural press ignores this amorphous school of design , while even the Prince of Wales has nothing to say on the subject , reserving his spleen for imaginative buildings that he and so many of his future subjects profess to hate . |
| 29 | But we still have the dialect and the sort of tone of it and and phrasing of it but so much of the old vocabulary is just disappearing altogether . |
| 30 | Nowadays many of us find that a bit strange , after all I do n't think any of us or very few of us here in this room have actually given our express consent to be British subjects . |