Example sentences of "of [noun sg] was [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most accessible way of progress was through education , for most people had very little money and men were prepared to study in the early morning and late at night during a long week 's work — 10 hours a day for five days and five hours on Saturdays . |
| 2 | Initially , the immigrants provided too much competition for the aspiring local working class , as , coming from countries where the process of industrialisation was under way , they were able to use their knowledge and experience to seize the initiative in entrepreneurial activity . |
| 3 | She and Oliver were sitting side by side in the small parlour at Blue Horizons , having arrived unannounced while the Auguste Didier School of Cuisine was in session in the kitchen . |
| 4 | One of the most useful cases is Geo Mitchell where the limitation of liability was by reference to the purchase price . |
| 5 | The air fuge tubes ( 0.2 ml ) were a product of Beckman , Palo Alto , Calif , USA , and the microassay for measurement of protein was from Bio Rad , Richmond , Ca , USA . |
| 6 | That same design of fan was in use five hundred years ago on Møn : there was one in the frescos at Sandweg . … |
| 7 | His historicist account of the role of consciousness was in turn influential in the development of Goldmann 's ‘ genetic structuralism ’ and the Frankfurt School 's ‘ critical theory ’ . |
| 8 | Wilson , whose rejection of religion was on account of its encouragement of so much evil . |
| 9 | Yes , I mean you may well have seen on the television , some of the first film of some of the camps , that the first sort of rioting was about water . |
| 10 | Ugly rumblings from Germany suggested that the 25-year-old golden boy of tennis was under pressure from family and friends to drop Barbara , the daughter of a black GI . |
| 11 | Seldom has Philippe Chatrier , a man renowned for his forthright views , especially whenever he has felt the advancement or the image of tennis was at risk , been quite so outspokenly blunt , as in his final Presidential newsletter he issued before ending his 14 year reign in charge ( which & referred to in last month 's column ) at The International Tennis Federation . |
| 12 | If the nodal point of normativism was in Oxford , that of the functionalist style was the London School of Economics and Political Science . |
| 13 | The parties must also state that they have satisfied themselves that the value of the asset at the date of transfer was in excess of allowable expenditure plus indexation to date . |
| 14 | It had to be thoroughly discussed with all interested parties before being submitted for publication , and the speed of publication was about average for this sort of paper . |
| 15 | Cos I was reading in Hugh 's book that the very first sort of work was in surveys done in thirty seven . |
| 16 | ISRAELI and Palestinian leaders today urged their peoples to embrace a historic bilateral agreement to be signed soon , saying the chance of peace was worth sacrifices . |
| 17 | No formal record of Gloucester 's appointment survives , but his title of protector was in use by 8 May , confirming Mancini 's claim that the duke took immediate steps to have his position formalized . |
| 18 | No formal record of Gloucester 's appointment survives , but his title of protector was in use by 8 May , confirming Mancini 's claim that the duke took immediate steps to have his position formalized . |
| 19 | The general consensus of opinion was in favour of keeping it . |
| 20 | The only means of transport was by truck . |
| 21 | Lorry drivers in a transport cafe enjoying their breakfast were marooned for a time and really the best form of transport was by canoe . |
| 22 | This renewed emphasis on quickening the pace of reform was in accordance with China 's recent economic development which had seen a move away from self-imposed austerity measures towards the pursuit of increased levels of foreign investment and exports and more rapid industrial growth . |
| 23 | The highest ratio of car owners per head of population was in Gordon where only 16 per cent of households did not have a car . |
| 24 | They were on the brow of a little hill and Sara walked farther on to look down on the county spread in front of her , idly trying to recognise familiar landmarks — It was a travel-ad view — neat lush fields , trim hedgerows , a farmhouse nestling in amongst its windbreak of trees , a sheet of yellow on the far hills where a field of mustard was in bloom , and for the rest , a thousand different shades of the greens of high summer , a piece of England basking in the sun and as beautiful as any foreign strand . |
| 25 | Here , lack of confidence was at fault more than anything else . |
| 26 | Thus the Paracelsians , who boasted that their account of creation as a process of chemical separation was the only legitimate interpretation of Genesis , incurred Bacon 's displeasure not only for their hijacking of the Bible , but also for the implication that knowledge of nature was in need of biblical support . |
| 27 | Saturday night and a more mellow sort of relaxation was in order . |
| 28 | The main duty of the foresters of fee was of course the safe keeping of vert and venison : the Forest rolls show them searching for , arresting and attaching offenders , and indicting them at the Forest Eyre . |
| 29 | A different sort of jealousy was at work in the Baran household : |
| 30 | The feminist take-up of hygienics was in part a skilful form of campaigning , involving an imaginative reworking of dominant knowledges . |