Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hirst is on the mend after cracking his ankle at Highbury a fortnight ago , and Bright said : ‘ I like his style of play and feel we can work well together . |
| 2 | After the initial period of assessment and support it should be possible to formulate a treatment plan . |
| 3 | You could almost say there 's a kind of rule that says you ought to write in fairly free verse nowadays and that you 're making a kind of statement if you do n't . |
| 4 | ‘ But in order to carry on business it is necessary that the reputation of such a corporation should be protected , and therefore in the case of libel or slander it must have a remedy by action . |
| 5 | But in order to carry on business it is necessary that the reputation of such a corporation should be protected , and therefore in the case of libel or slander it must have a remedy by action . |
| 6 | And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills . |
| 7 | Sue said : ‘ We 're confident of the success of Mossburn and hope it will prove to be a real crowd-puller . ’ |
| 8 | If it is not those of Garrafad and Carnach we will soon have to face , it may be our own people . |
| 9 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 10 | They will pour forward with so many bodies , banking on the law of averages that says they will pick up 50 per cent of what falls into the box . |
| 11 | As for those defeats at the hands of Botham and Sidcombe I would rate both , in footballing terms , as nightmares . |
| 12 | Hinges and latches on garden gates are very prone to rust — the action of opening and closing them will wear away any protective coating you may apply . |
| 13 | She could only think of Adam and pray he would be all right . |
| 14 | The peck landed somewhere around her right ear , accompanied by an awkwardness of movement that implied they would have rather avoided the situation . |
| 15 | However , it can be used if you can ‘ read ’ your card and work out the maximum number of tucks or loops you will be collecting . |
| 16 | Make a feature of it , do n't just stick it into a piece of furniture and hope it will look right . |
| 17 | There was a school of thought that said they should kill the human , whose mad eyes followed them around the floor . |
| 18 | IBM is saying it 's delivered a million copies of OS/2 and predicts it could reach two million by the end of the year : Microsoft Corp voiced scepticism about the number to The Wall Street Journal to which IBM VP Jim Cannavino retorted , ‘ A stork did n't bring [ the one million copies ] and I assure you I have n't cooked the books . ’ |
| 19 | A northern sense of identity concentrated by the frustration of spirit that knows it could manage better what its southern overseers only botch is pressure enough for a new drive for progress . |
| 20 | I was full of threats and said I 'd get the right weapons to fight the marchioness , but it was a bluff . |
| 21 | There are no real limits , other than disk storage , to the number of sizes and styles you could produce using Fontware but it can be very frustrating to find that the size you want is n't there and have to go back to the font compiler to produce it . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , here 's a delightfully low-key set of instrumentals that suggests he should write the score for one of those film noir remakes set in small town America . |
| 23 | We talked about each department erm being able to invest in their own technology and make their own er decisions on what sort of database or interface they would use to deploy their applications . |
| 24 | Games between the two Irelands never have been and with so much at stake , both in terms of points and pride it would be a mite optimistic to forecast something like 3–2 . |
| 25 | But , as he assured Southey on 21 October , he was resolved to be true to his word , even as he contemplated a future with ‘ her , whom I do not love — but whom by every tie of Reason and Honor I ought to love ’ . |
| 26 | Imagine yourself on holiday ; think about where you would be , what you would be doing , the kind of food and drink you 'd be eating and enjoying . |
| 27 | The officers blame the private catering company for the standard of food and say they should be sacked . |
| 28 | While the withdrawal of Peter Elliott and Tom McKean weakened the European Relays competition held in tandem with a field event international match between Britain , Italy and Hungary , the Tynesider took it upon himself to elevate the proceedings with the kind of form that suggests he could challenge for an Olympic triple jump medal in Barcelona in two months ' time . |
| 29 | The fundamental underlying principle of homoeopathy is that what a remedy can cause in the way of symptoms and signs it can also cure — that is , the principle of treatment by similars . |
| 30 | The quantity of finds depends on the type of site being excavated , and for sites that produce a large quantity of finds , the tasks of washing and marking them can be lengthy . |