Example sentences of "of [pron] [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 2 | The fundamental strength of the Libertarian Ideal consists of nothing more than the proud assertion that freedom is an end-product that people value . |
| 3 | Miss Marple is , in fact ( quiet-mannered village pussy though she was ) , an example of nothing less than the Great Detective . |
| 4 | On each level there is an enormous splash , then the biggest of them all as the falls collapse into the basin below , there to boil and fume furiously , and send a cloud of white spray floating across the countryside . |
| 5 | Developed through having had this magazine of my own since the age of six , and listening to the Top 30 every Tuesday only to run off instantly to the typewriter in order to compile my own personal Top 30 which totally conflicted with how the world really was . |
| 6 | Soviet and Vietnamese officials could not , however , simply replace the ZOPFAN proposal with one of their own since the Third World confirmed its support for a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality at the Delhi and Harare Non-Aligned Summits in 1983 and 1986 . |
| 7 | Even more documentation arrives with SuperCalc 5.5 , mainly because the data manipulation features are given a book of their own and a name — Silverado . |
| 8 | However , events take a path of their own and the picture finally brings him the happiness it seemed to promise all along . |
| 9 | It was at this stage , too , that the fields were granted an independence of their own and the aether , which had been considered necessary for providing a mechanical basis for the fields , was dispensed with . |
| 10 | an organisation whose structure lends itself most readily to ensuring that employees work effectively for the achievement of their own and the organisation 's goals . |
| 11 | Although the more generally noticed constructional shoreline features are the large sand and shingle formations , interesting minor features are to be observed on many beaches , among them beach cusps and sand bars , for the formation of which little or no longshore drift is necessary . |
| 12 | The bureaucracy , according to this line of analysis , exercises neither class power of its own nor the power of classes to which it is affiliated . |
| 13 | DSRM are in the Auckland District League , 100 years old this year and planning a bunfight of its own before the summer 's out . |
| 14 | The trolley also had a mind of its own and a tendency to advance crablike , sideways . |
| 15 | The KC-400 Brush Pen range offers attractions of its own and an ample colour range for the serious user . |
| 16 | This Report has argued that music can have a life of its own and an ability to communicate without the support of words . |
| 17 | Umberto Eco 's magisterial novel The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ) , for example , plays on the dialectic between the reader 's curiosity about the medieval world and his/her almost total ignorance of it ( funnelled , as Eco explains in his Reflections on the novel , through the observations of the novice Adso ( Eco 1985 : 33–4 ) ; between the sense that the historical world ( the abbey and the cultural and religious context of the time ) is a world of its own and the sense that it is connected to the world of the reader . |
| 18 | Every sort of love has a value of its own and the wonderful thing is that there is a limitless supply if we care to call upon it . |
| 19 | The federation broke up in 1964 and David said : ‘ Zambia decided to continue a service of its own and the finger of fate pointed at me . |
| 20 | In an extreme case such as the Yorkshire estate village of Thrybergh the squire 's hall was in a class of its own and the parsonage was far superior to the rest . |
| 21 | The government then developed a momentum of its own as a focus of loyalty that ran against the party system . |
| 22 | It seemed to have a life of its own as the needle ate up the cloth . |
| 23 | Finance of any resulting centre was on a one-for-one basis , the ILEA matching expenditure of school funds by a grant of its own if the advice and guidance of its support team was carried out i practice . |
| 24 | But immediately Hilton makes it clear that such a life-style involves an active life of its own if the peace that is sought is to be found , for it may not be had : This has been defined earlier as : Such an active component of spiritual endeavour is a concomitant of man 's temporal nature . |
| 25 | And Sparta , who normally had no fleet of her own and no naval tradition , could not attack any other Athenian tribute-district except the ‘ Thraceward Region ’ . |
| 26 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 27 | A kind woman , she had had three children of her own and a heart as large as her ample body . |
| 28 | Louise was , in fact , that curse of the couturier , a woman with a mind of her own and a strongly individual fashion intelligence . |
| 29 | Or perhaps it was just lack of choice , the need for a home of her own and a child . |
| 30 | Sonny had been Thailand 's foremost classical dancing teacher , with a school of her own and a television programme . |