Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This of course put me in the wrong . |
| 2 | This of course takes us into the domain of attitudes and feelings of the learners , and is an area more influenced by emotion . |
| 3 | This of course impressed him . |
| 4 | And this of course brings us back to the practical and philosophical implications of the unstable text . |
| 5 | ‘ Singularly foolish of Mother to leave it lying around . ’ |
| 6 | I felt as if half of Sheffield expected us to get to Wembley so it is a relief that we 've actually done it . ’ |
| 7 | It has often been objected to this account that it does not fit all of consciousness , that some of consciousness refutes it . |
| 8 | Cermait said , rather huffily , that it was a well-known fact that even an acorn-full of poteen sent you fast asleep , and Fintan gave vent to a derisive hoot . |
| 9 | How many tens of boxes have you got ? |
| 10 | As long ago as Plato it was believed , ‘ if a person be guilty of impiety let him be punished with death . ’ |
| 11 | Dave said : ‘ It 's hypocritical of Dixons to sack us . |
| 12 | Studies of simple brains like that of Aplysia tell us quite a lot . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I warned you not to make a habit of this , ’ a deep voice remarked gruffly , close to her ear , and she realised that the swaying sensation was that of Fen carrying her to her own bunk . |
| 14 | The record of the Alliance in power was one of pragmatism , perhaps not very different from that of labour had it retained control . |
| 15 | And the Pioneers were right to see in the dispossession by the consumer interest of the rights of the workers in the Manufacturing Society as a fundamental change of Co-operative purpose and as implying the acceptance of a much more limited expectation for it , but wrong not to recognise that that change , that limitation inhered in the idea of a dividend itself : for that , more than anything else , activated the potential conflict of interest created by the differing functions — that of workers making things for sale and that of consumers buying them to use . |
| 16 | Although many commented that it was too early in the session to form definite views , nearly two-thirds of respondents said they thought the additional assessment was an appropriate assessment method . |
| 17 | In the country , the underlying tide of opinion is favourable to Labour : in six months , Gallup 's ‘ fitness to govern ’ test has turned from a negative to a positive while , remarkably , two-thirds of respondents believe they would be better off under Labour . |
| 18 | For those living in residential care , more than half did not know the difference between private and public homes ( p. 187 ) , whilst two-thirds of residents said they had had no choice as to which home they might enter . |
| 19 | Nationwide , some two-thirds of Democrats say they want another — unspecified — candidate to take on Mr Bush . |
| 20 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 21 | This eye-mask device is extremely common among fish , with literally hundreds of species employing it , and it is also widely seen in snakes and frogs . |
| 22 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 23 | Hundreds of people said they had sent cash but never received a car . |
| 24 | Contestants need hundreds of points to carry them off , but are lucky to get into double figures ! |
| 25 | I tried many many times , and hundreds and hundreds of ways to find him , and the man just does n't exist , or I 've been told he does n't exist . |
| 26 | Hundreds of schools doing it . |
| 27 | The British crown lacked power ; Alexander III of Russia described it as ‘ hardly to be counted as a monarchy , but rather as a Crown by election ’ . |
| 28 | How much of Shakespeare do you have to do or do you have to do it all ? |
| 29 | Even the most honest of men find it surprisingly easy , through the film of time , to recall their own actions quite differently from the way in which objective evidence makes it clear they in fact occurred . |
| 30 | More than four-fifths of non-executives thought it was undesirable for one person to be both chairman and chief executive . |