Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun sg] of things " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS typical of the contrary nature of things that just as the impression grows that Rangers will progress inevitably to a higher plane and leave lesser sides to their own devices , along come Airdrie , all skint knees and sweat , to sow a couple of doubts . |
| 2 | ‘ That congregational aspect — which is a pretty Presbyterian word and I quite like the connotation — of the emotional effect of things happening to people while they 're gathered together , that was the big thing in the early acid clubs , that feeling that you were in a place with 200 people all going the same way as you , all into being there , enjoying being in this mass of people … … |
| 3 | He stuck to these attitudes through the 1820s and after , and could see no reason to take up the new liberal and radical ideas , which aimed at further break-up of the existing order of things . |
| 4 | The experience of tragic art confirms that the relation of pleasure and awareness is two-way ; if a welcoming of the sharpest awareness of things from which we most deeply recoil , without any reservations of the sort of ‘ This hurts but it is good for me ’ , can make even the fate of Lear or Oedipus enjoyable , it would seem that there can be no involuntary quickening of awareness without joy . |
| 5 | The New Testament message was consistently eschatological , having to do with the end of the present order of things and the coming of something quite new ; and Jesus himself represented the final flowering of the apocalyptic spirit of late Judaism . |
| 6 | I thought it filled in the , the kind of , some of the biographical kind of things we do n't have time to do in the course . |
| 7 | The church ensures that this concept of being part of the social order of things is adhered to . |
| 8 | Overall , it 's best to leave the photographs out of the electronic side of things altogether and get them reproduced optically for you by your printer . |
| 9 | Thus it may well be that French Canadian is derived historically by the addition of an adjectival sufffix to the geographical term French Canada , but it is clear that in the mind of most users the adjective is used to take a subset out of the larger class of things or people Canadian , as shown , for instance , by the general refusal in Canada to use the historically natural opposite term English Canadian otherwise than for those descended from inhabitants of Great Britain and in particular England ( see Orkin , 1971 ) . |
| 10 | If you 're a theist , you will say , ‘ Well , here is Russell 's deeper conviction of the true nature of things bursting through the false , restrictive , scientific intellectualism into which he endeavoured to confine it , and so what we have here , when he calls the world unjust , or fearful , or whatever it may be , are his true , his ultimate convictions peeping through . ’ |
| 11 | For him it was part of the natural order of things that a rising ‘ larger nation ’ like Prussia should absorb Poland and the Poles . |
| 12 | Death en masse was becoming part of the natural order of things . |
| 13 | In terms of an element in their appeal antislavery reformers saw this line of argument as an effort to exploit the material interests of public and policy-makers and even slave-owners and therefore a second order argument only , despite their ability to relate liberal economics to a conception of the natural order of things . |
| 14 | But in other modes of production some external factor is needed to legitimate this arrangement ; and Balibar claims that this is why certain political conditions , or a certain kinship structure , may be represented as a feature of the natural order of things , rather than being regarded as implied by a mode of production . |
| 15 | Most of his contemporaries would have shrugged their shoulders and let it remain as part of the natural order of things . |
| 16 | On a wider front , men everywhere seek to view their way of life and culture as part of the natural order of things , as indeed a fact of nature . |
| 17 | Breeding and sex in general were a part of the natural order of things to the people of the old farming community ; and this is another aspect of it that reminds us of its ancient roots . |
| 18 | In the vast majority of cases hierarchical inequality is taken for granted as part of the natural order of things . |
| 19 | We know that , in general , the literati became the bureaucratic agents of the established political order and that they always took it for granted that hierarchy is part of the natural order of things . |