Example sentences of "of the [noun] of [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew it instinctively in spite of the curtness of his words . |
| 2 | It is now not easy to talk to Bill Larnach for very long before becoming aware of the depth of his knowledge and the way in which , following the traditions of his birthplace , he has achieved a mastery of this very difficult subject . |
| 3 | Steve was doing the right thing ; he was going to marry the woman he loved even though she had a baby by another man , which was a true measure of the depth of his caring . |
| 4 | It can not be a radical political culture because of the limits of its concerns . |
| 5 | She looked at the arid ground and thought of the green of their garden and the neatness of the flowers in their window-boxes . |
| 6 | Because of the shape of its talons , as if they were inescapable |
| 7 | Because of the shape of its face , as if it were a prison |
| 8 | Because of the shape of its throat , as if it were a torture |
| 9 | shape of the shape of her face and hair . |
| 10 | Now I 'm much more aware of the shape of my nose and chin . ’ |
| 11 | Informal linkages often develop because of the frequency of their meetings and the closeness of their working relationship , something fraught both with dangers and opportunities ( see Elcock , 1986 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 12 | He 'd seen her shudder and was rising to his feet , his gaze resting momentarily on her breasts , making her self-consciously aware of the thrust of her nipples against the stretch fabric . |
| 13 | A LARGE congregation gathered for the consecration of the Church of Our Lady of Pity , Harlescott , Shrewsbury . |
| 14 | He had not forgotten that he was a Jew , but had recognized the power of the gods of his masters and had acted in accordance with their orders . |
| 15 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 16 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 17 | A German peasant farmer moving to the east was obliged to pay one sixth of the profit of his labour to a landlord , and only those peasants who took on more than 6.4 hectares ( 16 acres ) were given the opportunity to buy their land . |
| 18 | With sudden grim resolve , she pulled a large box out of the bottom of her cupboard . |
| 19 | A review of the notes of our cancer patients suggests that virtually none of the cancer patients were taking disease suppressant drugs , such as salazopyrin , regularly or at all . |
| 20 | " I agree they are beautiful , part of a forest , part of the fairy-tales of our childhood . |
| 21 | He held it there , and with the other hand cradled one of the globes of her breasts and jounced it , like a buyer testing a melon 's weight in the market . |
| 22 | Marjorie Thompson , the campaign 's general secretary , favours a ‘ cultural transformation of the peace movement ’ , allowing CND to campaign about the impact of the militarisation of our society on the environment , support democratisation and human rights worldwide , and oppose all unjust wars ( but not , as is sometimes implied , take the line of uncompromising pacifism ) . |
| 23 | The issue which brought Henry VIII into dispute with Pope Clement VII was the question of the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon . |
| 24 | The threat by the INTO in respect of the removal of its investments , the placing by SIPTU of its National Office Network at our disposal , the many letters of encouragement and the great assistance given to our members on the Picket Line are some of the indicators of this . |
| 25 | In the late eleventh century , Osbern , the precentor of Christ Church Canterbury , wrote both a life of St Ælfheah , the archbishop killed by the Scandinavians in 1012 , and an account of the removal of his relics from London to Canterbury in 1023 . |
| 26 | And yet , if it had not been a conquered repressed country from which so many of the flower of its youth were forced to escape , would Ireland have been able to produce sons like Henry Ford ? |
| 27 | The tumult and excitement great , I dined , or rather supped , at the Carlton with a large party of the flower of our side , off oysters , Guinness and broiled bones , and got to bed at half past twelve . |
| 28 | However , it can often be very useful for the formulation chemist to carry out some ad hoc tests on certain aspects of the stability of his/her formulation . |
| 29 | Her heart went out to Antoinette Gebrec , as yet happily ignorant of the fate of her son , and to Philippe Bonard , whose long-cherished dream had turned to a nightmare , while the man they both loved was lying in a broken , bloody heap at the foot of the cliff . |
| 30 | The old ‘ pussy-cats ’ as we called them were put together , and talked endlessly of the hardship of their lot . |