Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] of course " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governmental pluralism was not of course peculiar to the early modern period . |
| 2 | The lower classes were not of course alone in making a habit of over-indebtedness , nor indeed were the middle classes . |
| 3 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 4 | Concern about the relation between national power and the strength of the population was not of course new . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The grand old duke was wrong of course . |
| 7 | Blanche was right of course . |
| 8 | Many of the leading relations are still of course quite symmetrical , as in the case of the production of religious prints and texts . |
| 9 | The novelist is now of course in middle age , but right back in his teens he wrote to his brother ‘ Man is a mystery ’ , adding that a lifetime spent trying to unravel the mystery would not be wasted . |
| 10 | Florence and Siena are there of course , but there are many other towns to discover such as Greve and Lucca . |
| 11 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 12 | This correlation is not of course self-explanatory but three plausible connections can be identified : the differential formation of ‘ class self-image ’ in the presence or absence of property-owning ; the rational calculation of self-interest on the part of the occupants of the different forms of housing , with regard to the tax and rent policies likely to be pursued by the parties ; and the flow of political information within the cultural milieu of the residential area . |
| 13 | Local government is now of course a major provider of services to the citizen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This great outlay of capital was not of course achieved simply by the diversion of surplus income from office . |
| 16 | Adult deaf activities were not of course confined to sports . |
| 17 | Historical explorations of sexuality are not of course new . |
| 18 | The results may be expressed compendiously as unc The numbers are not of course unique . |
| 19 | Er when the election , local elections were on of course , er er er i we were n not quite so friendly to each other , because er each had got candidates er contesting for the er for the same er for the one er particular seat . |
| 20 | That aspect of Lourdes is now of course utterly dominant : this is a place of pilgrimage and little else . |
| 21 | point to point may be amateur but there 's a few pounds to be won by following the form … the bookies are here of course … lets face it a race meeting without them is like a bottle of champagne with no bubbles … |
| 22 | The implications of these findings are not of course , encouraging . |
| 23 | Cost is not of course necessarily the major consideration ; none of the people the project sustained to six months or one year wanted to be anywhere else but at home . |
| 24 | Laura was n't of course , but you have to say that , do n't you ? |
| 25 | The idea was not of course original to Wordsworth , but his expression of it is unusually convincing ; and he is ahead of his time in his recognition of the ‘ subconscious mind ’ — this phrase had not yet come into the language , and Wordsworth 's ‘ workings of the spirit ’ — he has many other phrases — are not always seen to refer to this . |
| 26 | The Waylands were there of course . |
| 27 | The head office is not of course , necessarily the registered office and a company search may be necessary . |
| 28 | This kind of access to recording facilities is not of course practicable in many language teaching situations but it has considerable potential on intensive courses where students have many contact hours . |
| 29 | In the case of legacy per damnationem , the legatee was not of course owner , but he was the beneficiary of a civil-law obligation imposed on the heir by the testator : the words used for such a legacy , damnas esto dare , generated a liability at civil law for the heir to make over the property to the legatee . |