Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] of [noun] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fielding held the crimson menu ( silken , tasselled and beautified , reminding me and my fingers of Selina and her secrets ) in slender brown hands , the wrists cuffed in pale blue and the gold links taut on their chains . |
| 2 | Despite my wealth of experience and my time as an instructor , I had become over confident in my own ability . |
| 3 | Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party . |
| 4 | But Chapman said later : ‘ If we had lost at Wembley , my opinion of Jack and his value to the Arsenal would not have changed in the slightest . |
| 5 | He admitted that it saddened him to realise that ‘ my youth is gone — not my love of life or my energy , but I mean the time when one feels so lighthearted and carefree . ’ |
| 6 | It expresses my love of Burma and its people which continued well into old age . |
| 7 | When I was assigned to investigate Ruggiero 's kidnapping , Pietro made a statement to the press drawing attention to my lack of experience and my political views and demanding that I be replaced immediately . |
| 8 | her chest of drawers and her desk just wo n't go . |
| 9 | ‘ I think there is a major difference between Nick Drake and Sandy Denny and a ‘ rock casualty ’ like Sid Vicious , ’ Boyd says , ‘ in that there was a direct correlation between their level of fame and their musical talent . |
| 10 | Mrs Jihan was waiting outside the examination room , knowing in her heart of hearts that her husband has departed . |
| 11 | No matter what he and Bernice had been through , she knew in her heart of hearts that his guilt over what he had done to Ace on Heaven — and before — was a weakness : a button which would always work to throw him off balance when pressed . |
| 12 | Its metaphors of inevitability and its intricate dialectical traps construct a myth of Enlightenment which has emotional as much as analytic power . |
| 13 | The reason why that was founded was because we thought that the women 's movement in this country and its channels of communication and its publications and so on , including Spare Rib at the time , just did not reflect the struggles of either Black women in this country or any other movements within other countries , especially within Third World countries . |
| 14 | In effect , we will complete each theory by articulating both their criterion of responsibility and their test for the limits of obligations , so that they may face each other as fully prepared contestants for the honour of being liberal theories of contract law . |
| 15 | Attention will be oriented to the imagery and assumptions about reproductive physiology on which methods of contraception and their evaluation are based . |
| 16 | Thus , protestant loyalists fight incorporation into a united Ireland for the reason that their perception of protestantism and their values of polity contain a powerful rejection of catholic monopoly , which they identify with catholicism tout court . |
| 17 | The traditional railway goods depot , with its acres of sidings and its own cranage and cartage facilities , has declined almost to the point of extinction . |
| 18 | They were mostly sympathising with her loss of form and her problems . |
| 19 | I take it that these are essential to capitalist society and that what has to be explained are their precise bases , their degree of effectivity and their often largely unintended consequences . |
| 20 | The former have not attached much importance to emotions and to the unconscious in their analyses of society and its development , or not at least recently . |
| 21 | The London Stock Exchange invariably requires that a company seeking a listing provides in its articles of association that its shares will be free from any restriction on the right of transfer and free from any lien ( see the Yellow Book , section 1 , chapter 2 , para 4 and section 9 , chapter 1 , para 1.2 ) . |
| 22 | Thus the two end products of the development of modern culture , its degree of abstraction and its degree of specificity , are the component parts of the sense of alienation in the modern world . |
| 23 | How a nation safeguards the freedom of the meanest and least powerful of its people to protest , and how , it goes about redressing the just grievances of those and of others , will determine in part its degree of civilisation and its right to a place in the pantheon of nations . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , society will no longer accept that a self governing profession can be unaccountable for its exercise of power and its use of resources . |
| 25 | And so Rose was patient with her fits of crying and her colic and her teething fretfulness . |
| 26 | The prime attraction of amber rests on its smoothness , its ease of handling and its colour , ranging from a transparent varnish-like effect to a deep brown or cloudy yellow colour . |
| 27 | there is an asymmetry between the incumbent and the opposition parties : ‘ the incumbent 's policies and personnel have been put to the test of very recent practice at the time of election , while the oppositions ’ probable performance can be inferred only from its statements of intention and its previous performance in office ’ ( Kramer , 1977b , p. 699 ) . |
| 28 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 29 | Members of metalworking families were far more likely to change their place of residence than their trade . |
| 30 | The government 's scorched earth policies aim to isolate the FMLN and eliminate both their sources of supplies and their popular support . |