Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — occurring medially ; glottalisation is normal after a stressed syllable : ‘ butcher ’ [ ] ‘ matches ’ [ ] ‘ watching ’ [ ] This makes the medial occurrence of look more similar to a medial two-consonant-phoneme cluster . |
| 2 | Rights of sanctuary once available to miscreants who reached a church altar no longer have any foundation in law but the colleges of Oxford retain a similar privilege . |
| 3 | Secondly , the reformed monasteries of the tenth century were of necessity largely aristocratic in composition , and had they been perceived to have no function in aristocratic society , they could not have been as successful as they were . |
| 4 | On the contrary , since the enterprise is an organization with a complex internal structure and of necessity relatively autonomous from political control , it is capable of developing its own internal interests and agenda ( cf. Levy 1987 ) . |
| 5 | Usually such classes only run once a year , which may leave someone who has come to the point of decision too late for that year 's class in limbo for several months . |
| 6 | We tend to conceive er generally of faith very much in personal terms , we see it as personal faith . |
| 7 | The internal hierarchies of the print system were of course broadly coherent with more general social hierarchies , or they could not have been so effective . |
| 8 | Many of the users are children and many of the routes utilise Woonerven , whose design is of course already satisfactory for carrying neighbourhood cycle traffic . |
| 9 | Gironella is of course also interested in the formal qualities of these works , but it is the subject matter , the content , which really holds his imagination . |
| 10 | Odometer readings are of course notoriously unreliable as a guide to the distance travelled by the car . |
| 11 | But this approach , which elevates individuals into subjects , is of course not available to Poulantzas . |
| 12 | Of course not all of the elderly of the future will be relatively affluent , and , to repeat , we need to be alert to inequalities among the elderly — between age cohorts and within them : the cohorts who will be bringing more occupational pensions and owner-occupied houses into old age will also bring in experience of early retirement and early run-down of resources due to unemployment . |
| 13 | This is of course not valid near the ends but if the solenoid is long enough , eqn ( 3.71 ) may be regarded valid for most of its length . |
| 14 | Given what is said of the need for an ordinary background , the condition-set is of course not sufficient for an effect in an ordinary sense , where a sufficient condition is precisely one that necessitates the effect . |
| 15 | The dump was of course strictly off-limits for all except armaments personnel , and I ca n't say it was very exciting when we got there . |
| 16 | This is of course directly contrary to the past experience of most British ‘ curriculum managers ’ , certainly at secondary level . |
| 17 | Street kids — and their elders , the Liverpool ‘ bucks ’ — were of course inevitably guilty of whatever charge the patrolling constable thought appropriate . |
| 18 | In general , on small-scale maps it is of course quite pointless to be too precise . |
| 19 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 20 | Your choice of iconography is of course highly significant in this context . ’ |
| 21 | This is of course very easy since what the spreadsheet has stored in cells C and D is a time serial number . |
| 22 | We should come one day at dusk and the bunny hoppers will be out , or of course very early in the morning . |
| 23 | . And er in fantasy land erm if you 're responsible for I T you 're of course very secure in your job you 're a very happy employee because vendors will always come along and solve all your problems and ensure your personal security and success . |
| 24 | It is of course very difficult for the eye to register detail when it is not trained to look for it ; it is only when true students of the Gothic , like the elder Pugin , begin to distinguish the styles of different periods , that the buildings of the past really come into focus in the novel . |
| 25 | It is of course very difficult for us to reconcile ourselves to such a perspective . |
| 26 | Holding the industry constant in this way is of course only possible in broad terms . |
| 27 | This is a source that is of course only available for the twentieth century . |
| 28 | Such drastic tactics are of course only justifiable against a violent attack . |
| 29 | The more compressed style is of course more likely in the carefully constructed world of literary expression , but it lacks the dynamic punch of the conversational sequence . |
| 30 | Later she went to stay with her uncle and aunt at Bonsam Hall , which was of course too grand for us to visit . |