Example sentences of "[noun] of [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she is describing are characteristics of herself as a person , qualities of her own individual personality . |
| 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 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 4 | If the Girls were ‘ Tillerized ’ into thinking of nothing but the Tiller organization , so was Jennie . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | [ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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) ) . |
| 10 | This immediately puts the farmer on the defensive and reinforces the public 's perception of them as a complaining , dissatisfied group . |
| 11 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 12 | They live only in warm parts of the world , the bulk of them in the tropics . |
| 13 | Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’ |
| 14 | I see , so that measures the speed of them across the screen this way you can time it . |
| 15 | The one who rides that horse of his like a madman . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) There may be a time lag between the occasion of the alleged rape and the reporting of it to the police . |
| 17 | As you probably read in the quality press , FIMBRA are always being taken to task for er not spotting investment groups that have gone too far , er and er when you get the collapse of something like the Levitt group erm which you 'll be aware of perhaps was the er sort of boxing and impresario type route that was taken by the man in the dicky bow . |
| 18 | We had enough of Blobby yesterday , without any mention of him on the programme again . |
| 19 | Ever since Ben had first found that single mention of him in the journals . |
| 20 | She had seen mention of it on a newspaper placard earlier that morning . |
| 21 | Although there is no mention of it on the map , I could swear that the tiny loch has a crannog in it . |
| 22 | When a recording is ‘ live ’ , as this one is , it should say so on the cover , and if that 's too difficult or exhausting there should be mention of it at the beginning of the booklet . |
| 23 | ‘ That was n't in my contract , and there was no mention of it in the programme Giles and Cavell have outlined for me either . ’ |
| 24 | Red lights bleed from behind wire mesh , ankle-height , like the burning eyes of something in the sewer out of a John Carpenter film . |
| 25 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 26 | Imagine that you are watching a home movie of yourself as a small child of seven or eight years old . |
| 27 | It is unrealistic to expect Novell to spend money to develop Unix for the good of everybody at the expense of their own company . |
| 28 | It is unrealistic to expect Novell to spend money to develop Unix for the good of everybody at the expense of their own company . ’ |
| 29 | You and your so-called friends make spectacles of yourselves at the party , litter the garden with debris and vandalise this fountain . |
| 30 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |