Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 2 | But that 's one of the strengths I suppose of the social work qualification , that it is a generic one so |
| 3 | As regards finding more ‘ absolute ’ tempo area indications for automatic mechanical instruments : there are mechanical noises on the recordings I made of the 1793 and undated Niemecz mechanical organs associated with the turning of these instruments ' flywheels . |
| 4 | But unlike those Marxists who conceive of the mass media as no more than relay systems working on behalf of the dominant classes , some have forcefully argued that systems of maintenance and reproduction do not necessarily operate smoothly ; there are contradictions , there is social and political dissent and there is political struggle . |
| 5 | Newspaper , radio and television reports are intimately involved in the formation of our images of the places beyond our immediate experience , and the pictures we form of the places featured in our study are no exception . |
| 6 | Then the rest of the year was covered , a month at a time , by each of seven vassals , in return for the fiefs they held of the count . |
| 7 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
| 8 | I am well known here for the checkings I make of the movement of ships . ’ |
| 9 | Situated around the base of each wing is a variable number of articular sclerites which consist of the tegulae , the humeral plate and the axillaries ( Fig. 27 ) . |
| 10 | It is important that as Christians we conceive of the corporation as a community which has as an objective more than just profit maximisation . |
| 11 | In the intertestamental days we read of the Messiah , ‘ God will make him mighty in the Holy Spirit ’ ( Psalms of Solomon 17:37 ) , and in the Targum or Commentary on Isaiah 42 : 1 , the Servant is seen as the Messiah , and God says of him ‘ I will cause my Holy Spirit to rest on him . ’ |
| 12 | Certainly we can not rest with the three ordinary ideas we have of the distinction between the causal items and their effects . |
| 13 | When I felt able , I returned to the house where Lem , the embalmer 's brother , gave me all the particulars he had of the accident and suggested the police department would have any further details . |
| 14 | It was also unduly limited in the kind of explanations it offered of the course of events , explanations which appealed overmuch to the actions and dispositions of individuals , stringing them together into a complex story of aims and intrigues . |
| 15 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 16 | But even the most rudimentary reading of his many surviving letters will reveal passages which speak of the pleasures of reading with or to Mrs Moore . |
| 17 | In January 1859 , however , the cause of press reform took a turn for the worse when the tsar appointed a Committee on Press Affairs which smacked of the committee of 1848 . |
| 18 | At the other end of the building some very different experiments had been going on involving nuclear physicists who knew of the existence but few of the details of ZETA . |
| 19 | It 's curious , I feel I have less to tell about it : I know what it was like , it was daily life ; it does n't stand out , make a tale , like the things they told of the past . |
| 20 | Amongst the most pertinent critical observations he makes of the fabliaux is that they are neither truly crude and naive , nor pretentious . |
| 21 | His major contributions to Welsh scholarship , however , were the numerous studies he published of the intricate structure of the four branches of the Mabinogi and of aspects of the Arthurian legend , a field in which his interest had been aroused by the work of Sir John Rhŷs [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | Campaigners launched a direct offensive against contemporary medical theories which talked of the inevitability of the male sexual urge , arguing that they failed to take proper account of Darwinist insights . |
| 23 | The first details we have of the latter , in the Host 's invitation to him to follow the Monk , initially suggest , if we still believe appearances and associations can be a sign of character , that he is as likely to turn out as the threadbare and serious Clerk on his horse " " as leene as is a rake " " does ( I : 284 ) as to prove to be what the Monk has proved not to be : |
| 24 | Neither has a sylph-like figure , and in their love-duet in Act II they resembled the engravings one sees of the singers of a century ago . |
| 25 | The research by the Policy Studies Institute on the Metropolitan Police outlined the typifications they had of the public , contrasting the ‘ slags ’ and ‘ ordinary people ’ ( 1983b : 180 ) . |
| 26 | Looking up at the stars I thought of the goddess Nut , her breasts spangled with constellations . |
| 27 | Wulfstan was not interested in recording this , presumably because as he thought that a king should levy only light taxes he disapproved of the procedure . |
| 28 | There are innumerable passages in both the Jewish and Christian scriptures which speak of the ineffable greatness and holiness of God . |
| 29 | It should be noted that data on the ethnic origin of babies who died of the sudden infant death syndrome are collected only in certain areas , and the definitions used are inconsistent , being based either on mother 's country of birth or her own report of her ethnicity . |
| 30 | Perhaps this is one of the most vivid examples we have of the effect of the pictorial image on the medieval mind . |