Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [noun] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While France stands shoulder to shoulder with Germany , and the two countries together account for half the EC output , the exchange rate mechanism will survive , representing a beacon of hope for federalists who still see a common currency as the bridge across which Europe must pass to a federal future , and a baleful threat for the sovereign Britishers , who see it as a black hole which could draw EC members inexorably into the same destiny . |
| 2 | Of course at school they always tell you that you should do a secretarial course , which was absolutely dreadful , and they put you off the idea of a career in the theatre just as much as they can . |
| 3 | The Wye is used for a whole range of activities including people who just want to walk the banks or go for picnics . |
| 4 | As she notes , ‘ economic rationality led in neighbouring villages to the creation of rules of cultivation which sufficiently resembled one another for us to classify them as a system ’ ( p. 273 ) . |
| 5 | Again , we can take a pattern of notes in chords which completely lack distinctive character : But with a decisive rhythm , the melody becomes vital : Note how irregularities of movement are frequent . |
| 6 | Instead , she channels the commitment he foresaw into publishing , putting long hours and a great deal of enthusiasm into work she obviously enjoys . |
| 7 | There are other aspects of the division of labour within industry which also have a spatial form . |
| 8 | Even though her aim was eventually defeated , it led to a lot of confusion amongst teenagers which still persists . |
| 9 | This is largely true , though some artists do use ‘ body colour ’ occasionally , especially solid white to give that additional accent such as highlights and sparkles of light on water which sometimes give the same results as scratching out . |
| 10 | After sixteen years of fishing for zander I still find it a magical absorbing pastime . |
| 11 | It does seem fairly common for children to produce project work consisting entirely of reiterations of knowledge they already have , rather than advancements of that knowledge . |
| 12 | ( In setting out this table , the assumption is made that you are fit enough to practise your chosen form of exercise without doing yourself any harm . |
| 13 | If we ignore the majority of buildings in villages which invariably date to the sixteenth century and later , we are left with settlement plans of bewildering complexity . |
| 14 | This is not true of places in Britain which otherwise much resemble Tyneside , namely Glasgow and Liverpool . |
| 15 | There were repeated instances , in fact , of assaults on policemen who then found it necessary to draw their truncheons and fight their way out of a crowd . |
| 16 | And after running out of ideas against Watson he then appeared to run out of strength and motivation and was actually looking at the canvas instead of into his opponents ' eyes in the seventh round when he was flattened by a thumping left jab . |
| 17 | So , what are the benefits of additives in foods we commonly consume ? |
| 18 | I mean erm the second main paymaster of myself you know is the University in fact and erm without them I do n't suppose I could have sort of financed the extra side of sort of clothing everything else for my mayoralty . |
| 19 | I think a lot of people are put off computing by the thought that it 's very technical and very difficult to get into , and I think in some ways it still is and there 's a sort of group of experts who rather jealously guard their knowledge , so in that sense , yes , they could short cut and remove skills that perhaps people should have . |
| 20 | And that was all , except of course for 3 cwt of catalogues from companies we never deal with and which we get sent through the post anyway . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , we 'll be trotting them along to probation or a solicitor or whatever and getting that side of things dealt with , etc. etc. , so we try to stitch together some sorts of packages for people who otherwise fall through . |
| 22 | The point is that by thinking of concepts as variables we also begin to think of suitable ways of reflecting their character by numbers . |
| 23 | We have a lot of families in poverty who simply can not feed themselves . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Information should be collected as to the goings-on in parts of Ulster of organisations which lately have been supplied with arms and are being detailed for eventualities . ’ |
| 25 | And there were a clutch of gongs for people who also write . |
| 26 | This chain , however , ends with the production of means of consumption which no longer enter in material form , i.e. as use-values , directly into any process of production but into the process of personal consumption … |
| 27 | Experience shows that the greater the degree of acceleration that a test attempts to achieve , i.e. , the further removed are the conditions of test from actual market conditions , the greater is the risk of occurrence of changes which never occur at market conditions , i.e. , the test no longer merely accelerates changes occurring under ‘ normal ’ conditions . |
| 28 | It is a labour of love by a cast which includes some of Scotland 's finest and best known actors , and while being an expression of passion for theatre it paradoxically undermines the title John Byrne gave to the last of his celebrated trilogy . |
| 29 | No , no , it 's not only their own er we have got er entries from W I members of other villages , but mainly its from the members who live in the villages and of course that is the beauty of the book , where it differs from the normal travel book , it 's the story of villages by people who actually live in them . |
| 30 | His parents , brother and sister emigrated to the United States when he was a youngster and he was brought up by his grandmother , and it was only the lack of cricket in America which later deterred him from joining them . |