Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something in my story or my way of telling it had evidently touched him . |
| 2 | These reports had at least a grounding in real events , or my memory of them . |
| 3 | And I do n't know which has nagged at me most , the lack of courage shown by this brave man in fending me off and declining to discuss what he had done , or my lack of courage in declining to write about it . |
| 4 | I could follow her drift for seconds at a time , until the half-gratified sense of effort — or my awareness of watching myself — intervened , and scattered my thoughts . |
| 5 | Forget the texts I spent months researching and editing , or the nineteenth-century works from the collection of the Neue Gallery under the cloths , or the texts on the walls , or my use of black and white for nearly thirty years which was used in Kassel as a reference to the Documenta IX logo ; these are all mere details in the formalist 's eye . |
| 6 | Few , if any , suspected the doctor or my father of being involved ; or if they did they did not say so . |
| 7 | As they listened in class to the dialogues which the children were constructing for themselves they were able to see quite clearly where their preparation had been deficient and where their teaching of new material had not been thorough enough . |
| 8 | The exceptions are their use of a narrow category of supremely confidential information ; and ( much more likely and practical ) where their contracts of employment contain enforceable restraint clauses . |
| 9 | so that even if we get a young person coming out of the workshops that may not be the best electrician going , we can find them something in a related area — an electrical warehouse , where their knowledge of the bits that they know will be put to good use and they 'll still be in that environment they want to work in . |
| 10 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |
| 11 | Tranquillizers should be prescribed only for short periods to help patients through crises where their levels of anxiety are such that their coping ability is grossly impaired . |
| 12 | India is the home of this strongly aromatic plant where it is perennial , and where its history of use stretches back many thousands of years , It is regarded as sacred by the Hindus and was much used for disinfecting where malaria was present In the house . |
| 13 | Industry sources say the company is likely to adopt the same marketing strategy as in the US , where its range of domestic batteries are targeted predominantly at women . |
| 14 | The one person whose placement broke down ( WG ) moved to a large institution and then to a small private home at the last datapoint , where her level of participation shows some decrement . |
| 15 | Abuse of possession which the defendant already has may take many forms , such as sale accompanied by delivery of the plaintiff 's goods or their documents of title to another , pawning them , or otherwise disposing of them . |
| 16 | These should include an indication of how the participants of the consensus group were selected and whether their conclusions were based on their original research or their interpretation of the available literature . |
| 17 | Applicants do not necessarily know the relative lengths of queues or their chances of obtaining housing in one sub-district rather than another . |
| 18 | Either taxes will have to increase to cover the social and medical needs of the retired and elderly , or their standard of living will diminish sharply . |
| 19 | Others are amnosics either because they have no sense of smell , or their sense of smell has become temporarily impaired due to prolonged exposure to an odour . |
| 20 | It is essential , as HMI argued in 1983 , ‘ that all pupils should be guaranteed a curriculum of distinctive breadth and depth to which they should be entitled irrespective of the type of school they attended or their level of ability ’ . |
| 21 | It is merely a contract between the creditor and the joint debtor which does not affect the liabilities of the other joint contractors or their rights of contribution or indemnity against their co-contractor . |
| 22 | Firstly , knowledge on the part of the seller , bailor , transferor or their agent of the purpose for which the goods are sought . |
| 23 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 24 | But the very poor could not afford to lose their children 's wages or their care of younger children whilst mothers worked . |
| 25 | That is , all productive units are merged into a single firm without any change in their numbers or their costs of production , and further that this newly created firm acts solely as a costless decision-making and co-ordinating mechanism for the activities of what were formerly the independent units . |
| 26 | People came in and out , but he did n't really notice them or their words of encouragement . |
| 27 | In a Financial Times poll of senior businessmen , 70% said the budget made little or no difference to their companies or their view of government policy . |
| 28 | The inauguration was attended by the US Vice-President , Dan Quayle , who had a brief meeting with Callejas and the heads of state or their representatives of Belize , Costa Rica , Guatemala , El Salvador and Venezuela , centring on the situation in Panama . |
| 29 | Sawyer and Darton put the position accurately and succinctly in English Books 1475–1900 : ‘ Certain editions are valued for their peculiarities , their rarity or their beauty of production , but not , from a collector 's point of view , so highly or so often as the amateur who possesses an old volume believes . ‘ |
| 30 | The expected utility of a non-member can be written as The ith worker joins the union if and only if , that is , where Thus the individual joins when his or her evaluation of the reputation gain from complying with the custom of membership exceeds the utility loss from paying union dues . |