Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore offer readers an extract of my elder friend 's memoirs , taken from the book which his daughter Aliki Costakis and I are currently preparing for publication . |
| 2 | ‘ Well this is one of my better suits for one thing . ’ |
| 3 | With one of my better inspirations . |
| 4 | ‘ Taking up rugby was one of my better decisions , ’ he said . |
| 5 | As it turned out it proved to be one of my better decisions ! |
| 6 | Before I regret the temporary arrival of my better nature , you 'd better let me make a few calls and see what I can do to get you home today . ’ |
| 7 | I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs . |
| 8 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 9 | Other parts of my argument derive from Malinowski , Mauss and Levi-Strauss , as well as from various of my younger contemporaries . |
| 10 | If I 'd have thought that Mrs Carrow would take it on herself to go down to the beach with little Celia that morning when one of my younger brothers came for me because my mum was ill , well I 'd never have gone , however much I was needed at home . |
| 11 | During one of my later crewing spells Vincent was anchored off Burnham on Crouch when we received orders to proceed to Poole as soon as possible . |
| 12 | Nuns , in a variety of roles , would populate odd corners of my later childhood . |
| 13 | Part of my later training had been at the hands of an ex-SAS instructor whose absolute priority for survival was evading the enemy ; and with doubt but also awareness of danger I guessed at an enemy above our heads , not a saviour . |
| 14 | One of my fiercer relatives , bilked of five hundred quid when a client was bankrupted , also claims that the bailiffs we have are useless . |
| 15 | We had nearly 14 years of continuous office and a lot of my older friends were worn out . ’ |
| 16 | At the front of my grandmother 's house one of my older cousins ran a shop . |
| 17 | complete exoneration of my older children and myself , from the taint of accusation of abuse , whether from the ‘ Chinese whispers ’ of social workers , or by dint of allegations obtained , parrot-fashion , from my children , by the heavy-handed verbal duress of the Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children , and police interviewers ; and |
| 18 | With the influence of my older brother and his wife ( he was active in the International Socialists and she was a raving feminist ) I continued to challenge these expectations of my future career . |
| 19 | Yet it was from Samsova , says Cohan , that the idea for A Midsummer Night 's Dream originally came : ‘ We had been talking about the company doing Forrest , one of my earlier works , when Galina mentioned The Dream . |
| 20 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
| 21 | Everything which is now taking place confirms that I have to be careful , very careful , even to the extent of disowning some of my earlier work if necessary . |
| 22 | In many ways it is an abbreviated version of my earlier work Flying Model Helicopters , which I recommend for those who require a fuller appreciation of the subject . |
| 23 | It might seem therefore that my more recent work had completely undone the results of my earlier work on singularities . |
| 24 | To recall the conclusions of my earlier analysis : we now have a capitalism in which the greater part of the means of production is possessed by impersonal capitalist enterprises — legally distinct subjects employing salaried managerial labour — the majority of whose shares is held by further impersonal enterprises . |
| 25 | The second move which might be made to counter the relativistic flavour of my earlier argument would be to argue that , despite the changing discipline-bound truth criteria , the intellectual enterprise as a whole is founded on certain context-independent truth criteria . |
| 26 | I wrote to the planning officer on 10 April 1991 enclosing a copy of my earlier letter , and again on 6 July 1991 when the matter was raised in the Minutes of the Land and Properties Sub-Committee , restating the Parish Council 's views and asking that they should be involved in the discussions of the future of the site . |
| 27 | The point of my earlier letter was that the existing standards of barrier widths are not adequate . |
| 28 | This is a development of my earlier comments about the distinctiveness of this study in trying to get to grips with a great city . |
| 29 | Some of my earlier comments ( 27.3.91 ) about the dangers associated with Reorganisation still appear relevant ! |
| 30 | ‘ Flameback ’ and N. nigricans were introduced into one of my quieter Malawi tanks where they were n't likely to be harassed . |