Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hashmat Ara Begum , a community worker in the Borough of Camden told me that she too had come across the most contemptuous attitudes among Health Visitors . |
| 2 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 3 | Says singer Michael Stipe : ‘ The very weird religion of celebrity scares me . |
| 4 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 5 | Up to now the US airwaves have been free , but there are moves to license any new frequencies that become available to the highest bidder — some argue that television should go entirely by cable to free capacity for radio communications : the US Federal Communications Commission is supporting a bill in Congress to free 200MHz of government-controlled radio frequencies for commercial use , in part through auctions ; the National Association of Broadcasters said it would support the bill if broadcast frequencies were exempt from the auctions ; McCaw Cellular Communications Inc is also a supporter of the bill . |
| 6 | It was further agreed that Joe McGhee be asked to write to the association of Chaplains to invite them to send a representative . |
| 7 | Thinking of Lee made him remember Uncle Walter 's medals that he still had in his pocket . |
| 8 | Thinking of badness gave her one of her ideas . |
| 9 | Thinking of Bonanza got me on trying to figure his reaction if Vecchi got hooked for the Mahoney killing . |
| 10 | So far from craving for crumpets I was firmly resisting repatriation and trying hard to stay where I was ; the kindness of friends enabled me to do so . |
| 11 | It will take a great deal of money to do it properly and I 'm only interested in doing it if I have the support to give me a chance of winning . |
| 12 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
| 13 | When they meet one another , they gingerly caress each other 's long legs and only after a great deal of hesitation do they come to closer quarters . |
| 14 | We had a good deal of fun doing it . ’ |
| 15 | Certainly as far as Western Europe is concerned there is a good deal of evidence to support them . |
| 16 | It started with a piece of foolishness that could have got me into a deal of trouble had I not have had a wise check in time from the inspector . |
| 17 | But you understand that someone went to a deal of trouble to sharpen it , well in advance , and so must have planned the murder . |
| 18 | One particular candidate responding to the survey went to a great deal of trouble to commit his decidedly anti-headhunting views to paper . |
| 19 | Moreover , the ambiguous meaning of ‘ caring ’ , especially the unarticulated elision of ‘ caring for ’ with ‘ caring about ’ , adds important emotional overtones to these tasks : ‘ the dominant cultural perception of caring sees it as involving essentially female qualities ’ ( Baldwin and Twigg , 1991 , p. 123 ) . |
| 20 | McMillan was an extremely hard worker but a certain fluidity in his perception of time made him sometimes an unpredictable colleague . |
| 21 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |
| 22 | However the evidence suggests ( see pages 75–6 ) that it is more likely that this decision was reached at a later date , when the force of events made it seem imperative . |
| 23 | Force of habit compelled her to stop and straighten the quilt . |
| 24 | They are doving around Kuwait with a ring of minefields to protect them . |
| 25 | My only desire was to keep these hideous creatures at bay whilst I desperately looked for a gap in the ring of steel surrounding me . |
| 26 | At around $18,265 ( approx £10,000 ) the Spirit 's 0–60mph time of 6.8secs and top speed of 143mph make it ‘ one of the world 's fastest production sedans ’ according to Chrysler , and exceptional value in the US , where it is expected to compete against Ford 's $22,000 ( £12,000 ) Taurus SHO . |
| 27 | The capacity and speed of optoelectronics make it an ideal means for simplifying switching and routing with optical networking a possibility for perhaps 10 years time — a prospect that researchers from University College are currently co-researching with British Telecommunications Plc in Harlow . |
| 28 | The way she smiled as she exhaled a first lungful of smoke suggested she fully intended her remark to be ambiguous . |
| 29 | From there , a succession of dives fill you with awe . |
| 30 | Last year , it seemed he had matured enough to fulfil himself but a cruel succession of injuries denied him . |