Example sentences of "of [det] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was as much chance of that as flying to the moon but Wilson was grateful for Pen 's long memory . |
| 2 | Numberless are the ministers who have come to grief at the height of their peroration as a child has let out a deep sigh , articulating the inner feelings of some and distracting into amusement the rest of the congregation who were listening . |
| 3 | There are two aspects of this that have to be considered : the relation between territory size , hunting areas and group sizes in predators ; and how these are related to the diversity of prey taken by different predators . |
| 4 | It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes . |
| 5 | If you prefer one day 's menu to another , make a note of this and return to it in place of one that does n't take your fancy . |
| 6 | Paddick had had enough of this and insisted on moving on . |
| 7 | She felt that the children did not like her because of this and seemed to be taking less and less notice of her . |
| 8 | Several , especially those with relatively hidden disabilities , were uncertain of the wisdom of this and spoke of being in a dilemma over the issue . |
| 9 | When you have understood the gist of this and talked to your inner teacher about what you need as an individual , you will be able to sit down with paper and write your own script . |
| 10 | Jack Foley 's eyes rarely left Nan 's face , but she seemed to be unaware of this and talked as if all three of them were equal partners in the conversation . |
| 11 | In this case the original recording task can take account of this and capitalise on it . |
| 12 | oh , what you going to try some of this or wait for your whisky and lemon ? |
| 13 | I first heard of this when camping at the foot of Bredon Hill in Worcestershire in 1960 . |
| 14 | There was criticism of much that passed for training . |
| 15 | I am impatient and intolerant of much that seems to me to be merely negative , if not actually destructive , legislation . ’ |
| 16 | Children can be involved in the design of these and consulted about the sort of games that they would like to have organised for them in break times . |
| 17 | She felt she 'd lived a zillion eternities , crossed endless lifeless galaxies , bearing her solitude , waiting for US , waiting for the fulfilment of all that lay between them . |
| 18 | He talked of all that remained to be done , of how he would do it all , bit by bit ; said that first of all the attic should be examined , for so much rain soaking in must have affected the beams . |
| 19 | Or ill , depending on your view of all that happened in consequence . |
| 20 | It was as though he could not be convinced ; as though he could hardly accept the fact that his father was no longer there , the final arbiter of all that happened in the business and in their domestic lives . |
| 21 | This size of miniature looks quite lovely when ranged together in small groups of two or three , and I think they look best of all when hanging in a straight vertical line ( see p. 101 ) . |
| 22 | Labour 's 1983 election manifesto pledged the party to ‘ take action to abolish the undemocratic House of Lords as quickly as possible and , as an interim measure , introduce a bill in the first session of Parliament to remove its legislative powers — with the exception of those that relate to the life of a parliament ’ . |
| 23 | They were either bought in by Don Bennett himself , and there were very few of those that got through my fine mesh , or those who were somehow or other forced on us by agencies over which we had no control . |
| 24 | Yet in the outcome the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , with over 300 amendments to the original Bill having been debated for more than sixty hours in the Commons Standing Committee , suffered the fate of those that went before and came after . |
| 25 | Erm ironically I was one of those that went from Essex to Manchester and I did live up there for a couple of years but er decided to come back . |
| 26 | It is not my intention to argue that the strategies identified here are necessarily exhaustive of those that pertain in other units . |
| 27 | 2.7 The difficulty is compounded by the fact that the idea of association can correspond to a wide range of referential or " factual " relationships ( just as can the ascriptive use of an adjective or the qualifying use of a subordinate noun ) ; and , importantly , this is true not only of those relations that can ultimately be reduced to arrangements of objects in the physical world , but also of those that depend on human judgements and evaluations , e.g. relations of loving or resemblance ; all these we shall consider as factual relations by contrast with syntactic relations . |
| 28 | The number of pregnancies that do not produce a viable infant but end in miscarriage , induced abortion or stillbirth or , of those that result in a live born baby with serious health impairment , can not be reliably assessed but it may be put at a much larger figure . |
| 29 | Bobbin-making was originally a coppice industry — one of those that depended on a small plantation of selected trees for commercial use — in this case birch . |
| 30 | Despite bumpy market conditions , most of those that joined in September and October have notched up solid gains . |