Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other people , more strong-minded than me , use the reverse tactics of promising themselves a reward when they have done something difficult . |
| 2 | if the Yanks of left it a bit later they 'd of missed all the action |
| 3 | He leaves the questions of defining what a group is , and of how it acquires the capacity for influencing the mental life of the individual , until later . |
| 4 | The court gave effect to this clause , stating that the parties should have considered the potential difficulties of using what the court called " a single alternative dispute resolution process " for all disputes under the contract before making their contract . |
| 5 | Power trickles down the edifice with the effect that those who actually deliver the service , teachers and lecturers , are the least powerful in terms of determining what the service is about , how it performs , how it should develop . |
| 6 | Sure , it 'll take your brain out , but in terms of following your every nuance , forget it . |
| 7 | If he fails to do so , the mortgagee will be entitled to an order of foreclosure absolute , the effect of which will be to vest the mortgaged property in him absolutely , but at the same time to prevent him — even if the property should prove insufficient — from claiming payment from the mortgagor , except upon terms of giving him a fresh right to redeem . |
| 8 | This initiative , in the event , paid off handsomely , both in terms of profit and in terms of giving us an illusion of independence when one of our consortia , which we shared with the Burmah Oil company , discovered oil in what is now the Ninian field . |
| 9 | As social anthropologists our major concern is with those ideas and ways of behaving which a given community takes for granted as the ‘ natural ’ order of things . |
| 10 | Three Valenciennes players have accused the French champions of offering them a 250,000 francs ( £33,000 ) bribe to lose a key game on May 20 , a few days before their European Cup final against AC Milan . |
| 11 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 12 | This , of course , particularly has the benefit for residents of giving them a little extra space during the evenings and weekends when , generally speaking , day patients do not attend . |
| 13 | What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain . |