Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , in every other aspect of economic behaviour we now espouse a liberal philosophy . |
| 2 | In a classic piece of political misjudgment he even told his party conference in a speech that the poll tax would win the Tories the next election . |
| 3 | Ultimately when time reduces our prized telescope to some orphaned lenses adrift in a little heap of metallic oxide we sadly shake our heads over the debris and say ‘ this was a telescope ’ , or , in Pythonesque terms , ‘ this is an ex-telescope ’ . |
| 4 | Detached objectivity in such matters is clearly very difficult but since it is quite evident that migrating birds and fish and even insects are often capable of solving the most intricate and unpredictable problems of solid geometry it hardly makes sense to argue that a purely mathematical rationality is an exclusively human characteristic . |
| 5 | On the last side 's Violet , a reworked blues with references to Messiaen in it , some of Miles Davis 's most exquisite slow playing is to be heard over slurred , sliding chords and the kind of empty space you hardly ever hear him loose in these days . |
| 6 | As an example of direct derivation we here prove a law relating IF and ALT that is apparently more powerful than the law unc we already have . |
| 7 | In probing the sources of undeserved distress they generally look outwards to the people across the valley , or over the hill . |
| 8 | By early 1832 the insurrection in Jamaica had so underlined in many abolitionists ' minds the presumption that slavery was the source of social disorder they unambiguously demanded ‘ nothing short of the total and immediate Abolition of British Colonial Slavery ’ . |
| 9 | Instead I 've been thrust into the sort of social whirl I never experienced in Nottingham — or in London , for that matter . ‘ |
| 10 | But even under this camouflage of contemporary tat you still had the strongest impression that her limbs were as lovely as her face . |
| 11 | If you use a ruler or some sort of straight edge it really does help because it 's very |
| 12 | To anyone fed up with yet more recordings of standard stuff I eagerly recommend this fine CD . |
| 13 | And in his discussion of the parts played by people of exceptional talent he simply asserts that these individual capacities are to be explained as the result of social circumstances . |
| 14 | In the case of suburban-type housing , the view of domestic life it ultimately reflects is a strongly traditional one that has its origins in the early development of industrial capitalism and the ensuing ideological split between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ life developed by the Victorian bourgeoisie . |
| 15 | In a display of breathtaking arrogance he virtually destroyed the career of the Argentinian defender Vincente Pernia , who he tormented with twisting runs and terrific ball skills . |
| 16 | Instead of centring his analyses on the knowledge derived from the experience of the subject , Foucault investigates the conditions of emergence of the subject as the basis of knowledge ; he argues that at the same time as it was widely proposed as the one saving good of human civilization it also facilitated a more sinister operation . |
| 17 | Another Pest Control technician who has n't graced these pages is Ted Critchett who covers the Portsmouth area , and as his Branch Manager Neil Gibson says , ‘ after 15 years of hard effort he more than deserves it . ’ |
| 18 | In a world of rapid change they never change . |
| 19 | In addition to insufficient budget in a time of deep recession we now realise that TECs are facing an unmanageable task . |
| 20 | An example will serve to illustrate this point : Leigh Hunt was a vegetarian , and praised ‘ in glowing words the cauliflower swimming in melted butter ’ ; Wordsworth wryly asked whether ‘ if by chance of good luck they ever met with a caterpillar , they thanked their stars for a delicious morsel of animal food ’ . |
| 21 | So there the subject rested for a while , except that we agreed to purchase coffins at some future date to put by in readiness for the inevitable , but owing to the usual pressures of day-to-day living we never got around to it . |
| 22 | It was the kind of existential pressure I always remembered him applying , sometimes with aggression . |
| 23 | How long she would have stared into his beautiful cool eyes before he chose to release her she 'd never know , because at that moment the band struck into the opening bars of ‘ If you knew Suzie ’ , demanding her attention as with an exclamation of pleased surprise she half turned to watch them , her mouth curling into a spontaneous smile . |
| 24 | And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things , in creating something that has never yet existed , precisely in such periods of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names and little cries in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honoured disguise and this borrowed language . ’ |
| 25 | That is , to the extent that the responses were the result of critical reflection they clearly show that left policies were lacking in credibility and attractiveness , yet insofar as the responses represented an uncritical carrying over of the ‘ media ’ line this would seem to suggest that the concerns of the left failed to strike the masses as of immediate practical importance ; the left policies can not have appeared to meet the practical needs of the working class , or else the Labour identifiers polled would not have been content to reiterate the media line with regard to those policies . |
| 26 | ‘ The statement of compliance with the Cadbury Code will be reduced to the sort of anodyne stuff you sadly read about the employment of disabled people in directors ’ reports . |
| 27 | ( b ) Nature of modal matrix We now turn to the confluent form of Equation ( 1.16.7 ) , viz. AX = XA , and we shall deal with this by using the example of the numerical matrices A and B above . |
| 28 | Right FIGURE 4 Over a lightly brushed area of red oxide I hurriedly scumbled cadmium red deep using a flat hog haired brush . |
| 29 | Why the hell do you think we come ? ’ — Blackpool woman representative queuing to enter the conference headquarters hotel in the small hours ‘ I 'm bound to say that when considering some examples of modern architecture I enthusiastically join those who say , ‘ God bless the Prince of Wales ’ . ' |
| 30 | Apart from relief of intestinal obstruction he also experienced relief of dysphagia that supported the hypothesis that oesophagitis had developed secondary to vomiting in the presence of large bowel obstruction . |