Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of things " in BNC.

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1 Prophet of the shape of things to come
2 If , on the other hand , I approached this child — ( he smiles at Geraldine [ disguised as a boy ] ) — my action could result only in a gross violation of the order of things .
3 By the end of The Order of Things , however , he revises this somewhat conventional thesis to suggest that what was involved was not so much a move from a static to a historical view of things as the break-up of a common , unified historical time-scheme in which every phenomenon had had its place in the same space and chronology .
4 One aspect of the organization underground has not been touched on directly ; that is the pressure on individuals either by the management or the owners to comply with their interpretation of the order of things .
5 At the very end of The Order of Things Foucault makes the seemingly baffling observation that " man is an invention of recent date and one perhaps nearing Its end " .
6 A sense of the incongruity of things is not so unimportant as some people think .
7 The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’
8 Yeah it 's for some er it 's for somebody to get a general idea of the kind of things that happen in lectures .
9 For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't
10 Somebody has to have a sense of the history of things . ’
11 Right erm well I hope I 've covered most of the range of things that come .
12 I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again .
13 … the theme is the exploration of answers , actual and possible , to the question " how has man conceived of the beginning of things ? "
14 Now the fact that position is not a quality is certainly relevant to one 's awareness of the position of things ; it means that to be aware of a thing 's position it is logically necessary that one should be aware of how it stands in relation to something else .
15 Erm and because of the way of things , you do n't always get the components the same way every day .
16 Good and bad , and even the higher good that mysticism finds everywhere , are the reflections of our own emotions on other things , not part of the substance of things as they are in themselves . ’
17 Her ravishment too had been part of the scheme of things .
18 Praying that the links would n't catch on my clothes … in my knitted sweater … should have stripped … head under , metal lying on my face , push the links up with hands , full strength , take care , do n't rush , do n't snag clothes , get free of the jumble of things on the mud around me , hold onto the wire outside , do n't let go , the current in the river was appreciable , tugging , keep straight , hang on , shoulders through , raise the links , back through , bottom through , legs … links … short of breath … lungs hurting … careful , careful … unknown things round my ankles , hampering … had to breathe soon … feet catching … feet … through .
19 What better time to take an over-view of the sort of things I am asked most often , and a look at how the commonest problems can be avoided ?
20 There are some elegant instances of the sort of things which can happen .
21 Okay Well and you 've seen the video so you 'll be aware of the sort of things that we do here .
22 Th there is erm a study going on to do with something called the British National Corpus which I do n't quite know what that 's about but they they want er samples of the sort of things that lecturers do in lecture theatres .
23 Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool .
24 It 's a problem that started with Plato and his idea of the essence of things : that there should be an essence of tree .
25 Dealers take account of the areas sown with each kind of grain , of the forwardness and weight of the crops , of the supply of things which can be used as substitutes for grain , and of the things for which grain can be used as a substitute .
26 Have you got any idea of the number of things I have to keep track of every day ?
27 We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion .
28 Administrative tasks would lose their exploitative character and consist of the administration of things , not the repression of people .
29 So , for example , the laws of kashrut , whilst serving an obvious pragmatic purpose of separating and distinguishing the Jews from their neighbours , and guarding against assimilation , also served to affirm the selected symbolic system , the abomination and avoidance of crawling things being the negative side of the pattern of things approved and a function of the ordering of society .
30 So , even though he continually contrasts the value of everyday experience with the emptiness of Aristotelian procedures , he in fact goes on to argue that everyday experience also is powerless to give us knowledge of the nature of things .
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