Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | about up to my waist type of thing . |
| 2 | The first movement quotes from my opera Inquest of Love , itself inspired by The Magic Flute . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's funny , I 've spent most of my life thinking of advertising as a sort of dirty business , but in fact the same mechanisms work : you get input from someone , you get inspired and you give back . |
| 4 | My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's . |
| 5 | Masters in this hall , my jug cup of joy overflows . |
| 6 | Last year the pests were replaced by harmless , pretty creatures who loved my city oasis of colour and scent . |
| 7 | But all this is hindsight : it is a series of thoughts and feelings which sprang from a visit on a painful occasion ( my mother 's funeral ) , and not from my childhood experience of childhood itself . |
| 8 | My ex head of department 's wife used to teach at Hull University . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm Clarisse , ’ the actress said , ‘ well , that 's my stage name of course , my real name is Meg . |
| 10 | And she used to sleep in and then a little bit after that she went to live in Liverpool with my grandmother and went to work there so s I I s I was the sort of erm eldest one at home then you know so I felt as if I was more or less responsible for looking after my mam sort of thing . |
| 11 | Various studies have been conducted in order to assess the extent to which computer analysis of text can contribute to the generation of a practical classification scheme . |
| 12 | When Adrian writes ‘ Nobody even noticed I was in the room ! ’ with its exclamation mark of outrage at the end , part of us says ‘ Of course they did n't notice . |
| 13 | A splendid reservoir and its catchment area of heather moorland and conifer forest are managed by the RSPB in agreement with the Severn-Trent Water Authority . |
| 14 | As she walked down the companionway to the lower deck the breeze moulded her couture suit of cream silk bouquet against the contours of her body . |
| 15 | Robbie wanted to ask if he really found her hair worthy of poetry . |
| 16 | The Government has clearly abandoned its election promise of tax cuts ‘ year on year ’ . |
| 17 | Another Surrealist inheritance which distances Situationists from the more radical utopians is their blanket condemnation of work . |
| 18 | Division Broadcast of Leicester has spent 10 years building up goodwill for its Digivision range of colour and monochrome display monitors for computers . |
| 19 | Earlier this year , Peugeot replaced its PC range of hammer drills with a higher specification range of percussion machines with confusingly similar code numbers . |
| 20 | The sums of money that have to be paid for these efforts and sacrifices will be called either its money cost of production , or , for shortness , its expenses of production ; they are the prices which have to be paid in order to call forth an adequate supply of the efforts and waitings that are required for making it ; or , in other words , they are its supply price . |
| 21 | Third , because there is reason to suspect that the Prime Minister herself might prefer a devaluation to further expensive and , probably , futile attempts to ‘ buck the markets ’ by penalising her heartland constituency of home owners . |
| 22 | Despite a slump in the company 's margins , Bear Stearns & Co. raised its investment rating of Apple Computer Inc to ‘ strong buy ’ from ‘ buy ’ following the company 's fiscal second-quarter earnings report — figures , page five : analyst Andy Neff says he made the change because concern about Apple 's results was overdone ; commenting on the figures , Apple says it expects to resume growth — in earnings , revenue , unit sales , and market share — in the second half of its fiscal year , saying that the fall in profit was down to pricing pressures , the costs of new product launches , and a constraint in supplies needed for manufacturing , the latter two drains being short-term ; he noted that despite supply constraints , second quarter unit growth was up over 70% in its Powerbook notebook computers , while total Macintosh unit growth was up over 385 ; the European market continues to be slow , but sales in Japan are leading the way for continued growth of the Apple Pacific business unit ; gross margin was 38.5% of net sales in the second quarter of fiscal 1993 , down from 44.0% a year ago . |
| 23 | Because of all the bad press that miners got and in a sense Quix was responding from higher up probably by saying you know well take the b they took the box away in fact at the end of the miner 's strike and then when this strike came along they thought it would n't you know the the they that was their rule sort of thing . |
| 24 | During the evening designers Jean and Martin Pallant of Motcomb Street showed their Spring Collection of afternoon and evening dresses . |
| 25 | The series and parallel arms of the ladder are dual , resonant , reactive networks , their impedances being ; To make the product independent of frequency requires under which condition Satisfaction of condition ( 9.47 ) causes the series and parallel arms to resonate at the same frequency and there is 100% transmission at that frequency . |
| 26 | Now we have man er we have illnesses which effect balance of course and your blood pressure 's one , how 's your blood pressure ? |
| 27 | Outukumpo Electronics has appointed Hobre Instruments as sole UK agent for its Courier range of X-ray fluorescence analysers and samplers for on-line elemental analysis in process streams . |
| 28 | But then there was the journey , with its repeat performance of doggy protests . |
| 29 | wrong , but they did n't like to play cos all those from up the lane were coming to their club sort of thing . |
| 30 | Her specialist area of interest is psychoanalysis , the body and its representation . |