Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process includes asking the originator to describe the idea , obtaining the reasons for his or her belief of its potential value to the company , and discussing the degree to which technical and marketing concerns have been addressed . |
| 2 | A plaintiff who is rendered permanently unconscious or whose awareness of his loss of amenities is otherwise impaired is thus entitled to a full award under this head . |
| 3 | Tell yourself honestly whether it 's the garment that 's wrong or your estimation of your own proportions . |
| 4 | All that vast enlargement of educational opportunity which has happened in the century since then and continues to accelerate has not robbed their vision of its truth nor their example of its value . |
| 5 | Labov reports ( personal communication ) that in his early work he once played back to a woman a tape-recording of her own casual speech to prove to her that her image of her accent was inaccurate . |
| 6 | The evidence shows that such children will make greater progress in English if they know that their knowledge of their mother tongue is valued , if it is recognised that their experience of language is likely to be greater than that of their monoglot peers and , indeed , if their knowledge and experience can be put to good use in the classroom to the benefit of all pupils to provide examples of the structure and syntax of different languages , to provide a focus for discussion about language forms and for contrast and comparison with the structure of the English language . |
| 7 | Far from condemning this local authority I hold that they behaved properly and that their exercise of their difficult statutory role was properly performed . |
| 8 | I have suggested elsewhere that their presentation of their evidence benefits from closer examination . |
| 9 | Since there is no suggestion that their perception of their own situations may itself be explicable in holist terms , the two accounts are distinct , but are also complementary ; the conceptual space occupied by agents reflects the constraints under which they labour . |
| 10 | He did not love her , but she would make a remarkable duchess , and the fact that she had inherited more than her share of her papa 's famous shrewdness was a bonus which would assist the Blaines and make their future secure . |
| 11 | In his letter announcing the betrothal , João had said that he would come to Ireland in the summer in order to take Sara back to Lisbon before the autumn storms , so her expectation of his arrival mounted with each passing day . |
| 12 | The memory of its brief period of medieval glory is still a source of inspiration to modern Macedonian nationalists , although their interpretation of its significance has been challenged by Bulgarian , Greek and Serbian historians . |
| 13 | It may be the case — I hope it is — that Borg has always been a much happier man than he has seemed , and that his resumption of his old trade is more a matter of idle curiosity about himself than it is a neurotic search for lost identity . |
| 14 | Comfort loved him so much herself that his admiration of her friend was a kind of justification of the friendship itself . |
| 15 | In fact , it could well be that his knowledge of her return to Eastlake had brought about her present anxieties . |
| 16 | There was no denying that his penetration of my mind , using my eidetic memory to distort the relation between representation and that which was represented , was strident , aggressive even . |
| 17 | It was held that his sale of his old car was not in the course of his business . |
| 18 | He realises that his value of her has decayed , and he does not seem broken-hearted . |
| 19 | What is evident , apart from the fact that Swegen on any reckoning spent much time in England between c.990 and his death in 1014 , is that our knowledge of his activities is patchy , and that English sources may omit important matters . |
| 20 | There is in fact a sceptical tendency in foundationalism of this sort , just because it leads us to see as problematic everything other than our knowledge of our own sensory states ; it acknowledges the danger that we might be unable to construct the superstructure which the foundations are intended to carry . |
| 21 | I came to believe that in the S.A.S. he had realised his ideal of chivalry in a contemporary setting ; and that with our marriage and my acceptance of his decision , the two halves of his nature had come together , and for him the enigma of character had been resolved . |
| 22 | Even if my assessment of its implications concerning the relative order of emergence of the intentional ingredient and of syntactic structure were held to be incorrect , the mechanism of that evolution might be of independent interest , and be seen as bearing on other problems besides ( especially in developmental psychology and theoretical linguistics ) . |
| 23 | If the acquirer 's solicitors are to prepare the agreement , it is very important that they are fully informed as to the acquirer 's aims and concerns about the acquisition and its assessment of its bargaining position and that they discuss the draft with the acquirer before it is released to the seller . |
| 24 | Elite theorists are preoccupied with the state 's capacity to adapt to its environment , its steering capacity , and its control of its subjects . |
| 25 | The tape — and her disclosure of its existence — would gain her Golding 's confidence . |
| 26 | In particular , her hatred of her body and her description of her breasts as ‘ useless lumps of flesh ’ echo the feelings of other girls I spoke to about the female body . |
| 27 | She surrendered herself to the melting awareness that was building within her , and her exploration of his mouth matched his in eagerness and abandonment . |
| 28 | It is the staff 's role to give an assessment on the girl and her basic care of the baby and her anticipation of its needs . |
| 29 | Matey might not work so hard as McAllister did , or perform such menial tasks , like scrubbing the kitchen floor and whitening the front doorstep — which was next on McAllister 's list of duties — but she did her share and was never idle , even in her spare time — hence her membership of the ladies ' sewing circle and her encouragement of her housemaid , McAllister , to accompany her to it . |
| 30 | But Conservative MPs are much less easy to classify , they have fewer dogmatic positions to maintain and their criticisms of their own party 's policies are therefore much less easy to dismiss in this way . |