Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These young teenagers all millions of them all in this group that came down and took their bras and oh |
| 2 | ‘ Britain ’ is an inclusive term for a great diversity of customs and beliefs , not all of them consistent with each other . |
| 3 | And the author consists of trillions of those cells , many of them different from each other , organized with intricate architecture and precision-engineering into a working machine capable of writing a book ( my trillions are American , like all my units : one American trillion is a million millions , an American billion is a thousand millions ) . |
| 4 | Do you think that any of them any of those six were in bade taste you know not not really not really very pleasant shall we say ? |
| 5 | There are of course exceptions to the rules , and some of them well-known at that . |
| 6 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 7 | I would pause to wipe away a tear or two of my own at this point were it not for the fact that the dear departed , otherwise Rory Underwood , has decided not to depart . |
| 8 | For these services the king allowed Amenhotep to place statues of himself near to those of his sovereign at the Karnak temple , which was a great honour . |
| 9 | People were deemed to consent to the system of government they were born under when they came of age by virtue of the fact of their remaining within that particular society . |
| 10 | What is clear however , is that when hearing appeals from the Secretary of State as to whether there has been a material change of use , the courts have consistently held that the question is one of fact and have declined to substitute any decision of their own for that of the Secretary of State . |
| 11 | As the report points out , resources must be made available to those who enter residential care with no resources of their own for those ’ little extras ’ . |
| 12 | Inflation is far from dead , and surveys suggest that most young people still want to buy a home of their own at some stage . |
| 13 | They might like to make a family of their own with fewer members , and a simple house in which they can live . |
| 14 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 15 | Both GM and Ford have tried to introduce high-priced European models of their own without much success . |
| 16 | If women have no place of their own in much of sociology , they are firmly in possession of one haven : the family . |
| 17 | Erm I 've in fact , become a bit of a artist on , on accident book , and between the nineteen of June ninety two and sixteen and September , er December rather there were twenty two complaints logged about sickness , diarrhoea , sore throat , sore , and headaches , from the first floor erm , of which twenty of these complaints were from females , and two were from males . |
| 18 | Even if it began to howl or to wave its rattle , we would hardly claim that by so doing it was discriminating between the items mentioned and a myriad others ; indeed it would be odd to talk of its discriminating at all . |
| 19 | The small fishing harbour of Perdika , facing the Peloponnese , has no water of its own at all . |
| 20 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 21 | Yet we can still distinguish a ‘ European ’ history with themes of its own in these years . |
| 22 | She had had no life of her own for several years ; if she went out for half an hour , she had to leave messages all round the flat , telling Yury she 'd be back soon , otherwise he would panic . |
| 23 | As luck would have it , Sophie had had no arrangement of her own for this evening , and , either forgetting our pact , or not taking my need for it seriously as she knew my activities were , on her terms , so innocent , had dropped in to borrow some coffee . |
| 24 | Has very firm views of her own on most subjects , and she can be impatient with people who do not see things her way . |
| 25 | Right , so if I can give each of you one of these because that 's what I want to use these |
| 26 | For those of you interested in such things , when the ratio of the diameter to thickness equals 7.46:1 , the radius of the circle is equal to the diameter of the blank . |
| 27 | ‘ He is good at his job and I do n't want him to lose it because of something stupid like this . ’ |
| 28 | And I feel the growth of this world of mine most of all when I consider , not coolly but calmly , all the so-called " world-history " of the last ten months . " |
| 29 | Not a classic illustration of the thesis of Aggleton and colleagues , who have been looking at the lifespans of cricketers and report a two-year gap in favour of right-handers , much of it ascribable to fewer deaths in accidents or in war . |
| 30 | Rosa Mentasti has brought together some wonderful glass , much of it new to this reviewer . |