Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They too , spoke enthusiastically about , for example , the opportunities offered by The Machine Gunners for emotional empathy with the world of the child versus the world of the adult ; the emotional pleasure pupils frequently found in empathizing with Billy 's relationship with the hawk , and the themes and topics raised by Kes ; the complex nature of the link between humans and animals offered as a theme in The Red Pony ; the thematic possibilities of the Irish location of Across the Barricades together with its handling of prejudice ; and the understanding of allegory and its special features which might be well illustrated by a reading of Animal Farm . |
| 2 | it would have gone to either the sales manager or the regional managing director of the Eastern region of at the time |
| 3 | The only intimation of the working class outside of a meeting with TUC leaders is Harry 's memory of his grandad ( Socialist Worker , 18 June 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Here , then , not only is there no contradiction between the former analysis and the more complete view of the infinitive taking into account its generalized person , but the latter actually gives a fuller understanding of the posteriorizing movement of to by specifying its starting point and its end-point : the positions occupied by the two representations of person involved . |
| 5 | Curates in deacons ' orders did not ask evangelical Bishops how many of their clergy were of the catholic persuasion at half-past nine on August evenings , or indeed at any other time . |
| 6 | THIS SEASON of violent contrasts started for me on TV-am where , as part of the Christmassy Victorianisation of After Nine , I sat on the sofa in bustle and bare bosom ( well , upper bosom anyway ) and suitably black-lace-becapped to be a Fin de Siecle ( nineteenth variety ) agony aunt . |
| 7 | This intrinsically interesting statement does serve to demonstrate the nature of the botanical information in at least some of the early accounts . |
| 8 | Notwithstandingfor that this is predictably possible , the little light yellow-green bumpouses poked their little selves up ( or out , whichever scale you are looking at the plane terrain of the global strain with for ) and waved to one another as a positive signal . |
| 9 | and indeed in terms of the low figure of of of thirty one thousand it it 's statistically conceivable that no local needs would be met . |
| 10 | She knocked loudly on the kitchen door and waited for a moment , aware of the total silence from within the room . |
| 11 | While these descriptions of the semantic value of to + infinitive are too specific to be adequate characterizations of the potential meanings involved here ( in fact they correspond to actual meanings of the construction in particular contexts ) , they are nevertheless faithful reflections of the potential meaning of to and of the fact that the latter always evokes the bare infinitive 's event as an after-position with respect to some position before its realization . |
| 12 | Designated children had to fall within the age ranges 3–4 years or 16–18 years and to have been under the care or formal supervision of the local authority for at least six months . |
| 13 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 14 | These radical revisions of the conventional account by no means diminish our awe at what Newton achieved in mechanics , mathematics and optics . |
| 15 | While these descriptions of the semantic value of to + infinitive are too specific to be adequate characterizations of the potential meanings involved here ( in fact they correspond to actual meanings of the construction in particular contexts ) , they are nevertheless faithful reflections of the potential meaning of to and of the fact that the latter always evokes the bare infinitive 's event as an after-position with respect to some position before its realization . |
| 16 | It was just one aspect of the continuing legacy of Round The Horne . |
| 17 | Should not John Major have taken the opportunity to cut away more of the dead wood from among the cabinet 's other 20 members ? |