Example sentences of "of [noun] [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the most convincing demonstration of the spread of change is that support was withdrawn from Mr Livingstone in every part of the country except London . |
| 2 | So it seems to me that what Williamson has shown in one particular case is clear evidence of punctuation , but no reasons at all that I can see for supposing that the mechanism of change was any other which Darwin described over a hundred years ago . |
| 3 | The essence , of course , of WFP is that competition should exist between providers . |
| 4 | He furnished much of the office from his own resources although his annual salary of £250 was some 20% below the WEA 's nationally recommended minimum for District Secretaries — a reflection yet again of the District 's precarious financial position , then in deficit in excess of £100 . |
| 5 | Another feature of Plowden was that expenditure had to be presented by function ( i.e. by programme , so that social and political priorities could be debated ) , by type of expenditure ( current and capital ) , and by relevant spending authority ( central/local government ) . |
| 6 | Secondary qualities of objects are those arrangements of its corpuscles which cause certain ideas in us as sentient beings . |
| 7 | There has of course been some criticism in the books of the decision in Stilk v. Myrick which is somewhat differently reported in the two sets of reports , but Campbell 's reports have the better reputation and what I have referred to as being the law on this point is referred to as ‘ the present ’ rule in Chitty on Contracts : see , also , Cheshire and Fifoot . |
| 8 | The danger of course is that sponsorship for itself , in itself becomes more important than the actual regattas . |
| 9 | Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium . |
| 10 | Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium . |
| 11 | Well all this side of First Avenue of course was all country all this was fields and corn fields and what have you |
| 12 | ‘ The Sons of Dives are another group . ’ |
| 13 | The most crucial lesson of experience is that aid , by itself , achieves nothing . |
| 14 | The reason why I run culture and ideology together to identify the institutionalization of consumerism is that consumerism in the global system can only be fully understood as a cultural-ideological practice . |
| 15 | Erm a fraction of money is another thing they use it for . |
| 16 | An additional problem with plant sources of calcium is that calcium is not well absorbed when it is present without a rich protein source . |
| 17 | A further cause of tension is that devolution does not fit the concept of democratic centralism favoured by many Left-wing MPs . |
| 18 | To dismiss what happened as the Labour Party merely showing its true colours , does not explain why Labour actually supported legislation which was immediately condemned by many who were considerably to the right of Labour 's quite-right-enough Deputy Leader , Roy Hattersley . |
| 19 | With regard to the last of these , the sphere of circulation is that part of the social formation in which exchange takes place , through the buying and selling of all commodities ( including labour power ) . |
| 20 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 21 | Typical of his dramatic handling of words is this passage from ‘ Quanto piu m'arde ’ ( published in 1540 ) . |
| 22 | One of the main tenets of behaviourism is that behaviour can be shaped through reinforcement by reward . |
| 23 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 24 | The key to Humphrey 's concept of consciousness is that sensation is not the passive reception of stimuli , but an active process in which the organism responds by sending messages to do something . |
| 25 | Openness in discussion , the acceptance of the searching question and the admission of uncertainty are all signs of the process of change proceeding at an appropriate rate for the individuals concerned " ( Briault and West 1990:20 ) . |
| 26 | Whether and how that might lead to radical change of practice was another issue . |
| 27 | The hit movie Grease , starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John , is one of Kylie 's all time favourites . |
| 28 | The alleged advantage of incorporation is that tax on profits retained within the business can be paid at Corporation Tax rates , 25% in the case of the Small Companies Rate or 33% main rate , rather than Income Tax at the individual 's marginal rate , currently 25% or 40% . |
| 29 | The only branch of academic analysis which , by virtue of its title , might have been thought to represent a candidate for this specific area of study is that sub-section of anthropology known as material culture studies . |
| 30 | KENNETH BAKER 'S brave vision of Agincourt is each day looking more like an avant-garde film version of the Little Big Horn . |