Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how I tried to explain , he could n't see how the odd fifty pound note or bottle of whisky he spread around contributed to that image . |
| 2 | Philip thus forced upon the Netherlanders a degree of unity which had hitherto not existed . |
| 3 | This in his opinion , as well as in the opinion of many others in the literature , has led to the use of inappropriate methods of assessment which have not only distorted the character of what is taught , but also of the way it has been taught . |
| 4 | There is a particular form of best-rule which runs thus : |
| 5 | The card is equipped with 1 megabyte of VideoRAM which allows up to 32,000 colours to be displayed . |
| 6 | For example , ‘ What will happen if I shoot Auntie Flo ? ’ refers to the process of change which binds together you and your Auntie Flo . |
| 7 | You 're perhaps a little nervous of change you have n't got really a desire for adventure or anything too challenging . |
| 8 | ‘ To look at me , no one would take me for the Miracle-Worker , ’ Gabriel persisted , and he grinned and rubbed his short head of hair which had barely grown long enough for a single curl . |
| 9 | I need more certain light in which to catch and express the sense of exultation which has suddenly come upon me . |
| 10 | She filled him with a kind of exultation he had never experienced before and he found himself shaking his head . |
| 11 | But what I do think occurs , and this is bourne out er in my own case , I mean I 'm extremely reluctant to go into my staffroom simply because of the amount of smoking which goes on there . |
| 12 | At the church , note the direction of route which proceeds down between the two lakes and then keeps half left towards a barn and which is to left of and below distant tower of Preston Capes church . |
| 13 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
| 14 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 15 | No other man had ever managed even to light a spark within her , yet he had set her body aflame , and it had taken every ounce of will-power she possessed not to give in to the longing he 'd unleashed . |
| 16 | They skirted the edge of the open space , keeping to the borders of woodland which had once been landscaped , and Melanie was grateful , for she would have felt too visible , too exposed out on the sea of grass — a sitting target for some marksman , for the arrow of any figure in Lincoln green who might be flitting among the mossy trunks . |
| 17 | She felt again that same deep chill , that same sense of horror she had always felt when in the presence of such venom , as if she were discovering that evil really did exist , that liberal attitudes were vaporous , that filth could find its way into the universe and be embodied and spread relentlessly , terrifying those it infected . |
| 18 | Once the eagles had got used to the return of Minch they settled down for the summer months . |
| 19 | He was walking towards a new life , a kind of freedom which had only been an idealistic daydream for nearly sixty years . |
| 20 | Part of Keith 's interest in the documentary style of photography he excels in was , perhaps , further fuelled by the amount of time he has , over the years , spent in part-time social work which has given him access to various kinds of care units . |
| 21 | Worst case of heatstroke I 've ever seen ’ |
| 22 | But the overkill never degenerates into a lumpen morass of noise which afflicts much HM . |
| 23 | Yup , this is the old ‘ cultural crossover ’ in first gear , a barrage of noise which flinches not in the face of a Panzer tank . |
| 24 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 25 | Types of racism which do not conform to this model are either ignored , marginalized , or ‘ redescribed ’ in ways which deny their independent significance . |
| 26 | And the form of drug they had indeed been taking — a legal drug , as it happens , called alcohol — is under attack from the surgeon-general . |
| 27 | Fudah , 47 , was a professor of agriculture who had unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in legislative elections , most recently in 1990 . |
| 28 | Indeed , there is very little in the real world of electronics which does n't involve digital techniques and computing . |
| 29 | It complements EE in many ways and builds into a living encyclopaedia of electronics which keeps up with the ever advancing world of technology through regular updates/supplements . |
| 30 | And while these women were not displeased with the role of housewife they did not like housework , despite the fact that this was what they spent most of their time doing . |