Example sentences of "of her [noun] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The descent of her inheritance was the object of intense rivalry in the early 1470s between Clarence , who had married one of Warwick 's coheiresses , and Gloucester , who married the other . |
| 2 | The descent of her inheritance was the object of intense rivalry in the early 1470s between Clarence , who had married one of Warwick 's coheiresses , and Gloucester , who married the other . |
| 3 | Then she ran , tears freezing like diamond on her lashes until the periphery of her vision was a refracted blur of irised light , out into the frozen night-desert of Mars . |
| 4 | In the middle of her chest was a gaping hole where the viscera had been removed . |
| 5 | Yet the heartening aspect of her story was the way Diana had come to terms with her life and how , with the help of friends and counsellors , she was finding her true nature . |
| 6 | Comfort loved him so much herself that his admiration of her friend was a kind of justification of the friendship itself . |
| 7 | The neck of her gown was a collar of spun gold , and the front was open , court style , to the level of her breast . |
| 8 | The degree of her responsibility was the key to the Appeal Court 's decision yesterday . |
| 9 | Then , as if the cotton of her nightdress was a hindrance to him , she felt his fingers busy at the ribbon ties at the shoulders . |
| 10 | It suddenly occurred to her that total disregard of her escapade was a very subtle punishment indeed . |
| 11 | When she was absent , the shadow of her presence was the assurance of a world of love . |
| 12 | She was an excellent shrewd local politician and a comfort to her at the end of her life was the defeat of the atrocious plans of the Merrell Dow Chemical Company to build a plant near her beloved River Blackwater , the last campaign in which she played an active part . |
| 13 | His examination of her cousins was every bit as cursory . |
| 14 | The loss of her leg was a devastating experience ; apart from the practical side of coping with hair loss due to the chemotherapy ( radiation treatment for cancer ) and the difficulties of learning to walk with her artificial leg , Ann 's self-image underwent an enormous change . |
| 15 | She was a bio-chemist and one of her abilities was a phenomenal memory . |
| 16 | The scintillating white heat of the flame at the core of her being was a governing force , demanding obedience to the passion that had lit it . |
| 17 | The ground of her being was the soil of France that nurtured her issue and the produce she once sowed and reaped , and now bought and sold . |
| 18 | It was also unthinkable to have to admit to this maternity nurse that the sex of her baby was the last thing she had ever worried about . |
| 19 | The interior of her car was a furnace and she frittered a few moments wandering in the graveyard after opening the car doors to cool it . |
| 20 | If I am to do better than merely throw up my hands and assert that Alison Kraemer was in some indefinable way ‘ the real , right thing ’ , then I would suggest that the distinguishing characteristic of her ascendancy was the way she denied you any possibility of mitigating it . |
| 21 | The result of her impetuosity was a thousand-mile journey up the Nile and a book about her adventures published in 1877 . |
| 22 | Yet the most important innovation of her era was the televising of Parliament , under the kind of controlled circumstances ( no snoring MPs , no empty backbenches ) that she so approved of . |
| 23 | Grandma Williams was hit most seriously of all by it ; the death of her first-born was a crushing blow and she died herself soon afterwards . |
| 24 | Jo loathed her blobby nose , her receding chin , her long body , her short legs , her droopy ass , her fat thighs , her white skin that absolutely refused to tan and her brown hair which frizzed and which her mother would n't even let her frost ; she accepted that she would never look like Faye Dunaway , never be a Prom Queen and that most of her body was a total disaster area , but she knew with absolute certainty that she had great tits . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the future of her career was a constant background worry as the days and weeks of her appointment at Rummidge ticked away like a taxi meter . |
| 26 | Piaget 's name for this important first stage in the child 's long struggle to make sense of her environment was the sensori-motor stage , since at this time the child is seen as only being able to make sense of what is happening around her in terms of establishing relatively simple relations between her motor actions and the associated sensations . |
| 27 | But , however much her body yearned for submission , to let her will melt away in the pleasure Luke 's expert hands could give her , still in the background of her mind was a sense of holding something back . |
| 28 | At the back of her mind was the thought that he might be with someone else . |
| 29 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
| 30 | She was taking eight months ' leave without pay from Coronation , but in the back of her mind was the odd feeling that she would n't be going back , and she did n't quite know what it meant . |