Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the time , they were not disposed to look at Peter as a human being , but only as a rector , a creature of whom standards of motive and conduct were expected that they did not expect of themselves . |
| 2 | When I think of me days of pain and sufferin' here , and how I 've kept cheerful and 'elpful so as not to be a burden , as well as givin' you the benefit of me company so that you could 'ave someone to talk to , well , it 's a shock to me to find you lazin' about with a gypsy woman on your lap . |
| 3 | Amis 's Lucky Jim is something other ; so is William Cooper 's Struggles of Albert Woods ( 1952 ) , written in slapstick vein by a follower of Snow 's ; so is Angus Wilson 's Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( 1956 ) and a fistful of novels soon after by David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury , both of them professors of English in civic universities . |
| 4 | ‘ That was not at all what I had in mind for you , ’ he said , pouring the three of them glasses of champagne . |
| 5 | In the cave itself , bas-reliefs sculpted close together on a stalagmite cone , hard to make out for the most part , except for an obvious and memorable reindeer some three feet long , in the museum , animals graphically carved or engraved on bone , many of them heads of horses , but fish too , and pieces of bone , antler and ivory carved quite elaborately into abstract patterns of diamond shapes , chevrons or spirals . |
| 6 | For the next decade , she lived in a series of modest Montparnasse residences , several of them subjects of paintings . |
| 7 | His apprentices stood in a respectful half-circle to watch , and a crowd of small boys — most of them children of members of the household — loitered in a shy cluster in a nearby doorway . |
| 8 | To the extent that I let myself be moved spontaneously in and out of perceptual and emotional awareness , it is likely to be my own ends , and those of persons whom I love or hate , which determine most of my choices of ends . |
| 9 | Finally , the drawing is ongoing and never finished , which one could say reflects one of my philosophies of life . |
| 10 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 11 | Let me phrase these in terms of my criteria of necessity , sufficiency and specificity . |
| 12 | My own interest in Marxism grew , I explained to Ladislav , in part at least , out of my readings of Hegel at university . |
| 13 | It is possible , for example , to place nine of my readings of SF texts at the nine nodes , according to my judgement as a single reader . |
| 14 | One of my colonies of mushroom polyps , reddish brown specimens which I think are a Ricordea species , killed a bushy sea whip ( Plexaurelia ) which happened to be so close as to come into contact , when it deflated . |
| 15 | If I had to select one of my pairs of binoculars for observations of nebulæ I think I would choose the × 7 instrument , though I agree that the more powerful binoculars can bring out more details in the fainter nebulæ . |
| 16 | It was agreed that the GPs would be notified of the scheme and sent a copy of my parameters of practice , enabling me to see their patients . |
| 17 | They often have a broad product range , operating in more than one industrial sector , and sometimes show a high degree of vertical integration , having control of their sources of supply at one end and the chain of distribution at the other . |
| 18 | Would-be lawyers will find this game not at all a bad test of their powers of advocacy . |
| 19 | A useful collection of extracts and texts , including a helpful introduction , is provided by John Hick in The Existence of God , published by the Macmillan Company in 1964 as part of their Problems of Philosophy Series . |
| 20 | Most goldfish keepers would agree that most , if not all of their problems of fish losses and loss of condition can be attributed to poor water quality . |
| 21 | In the Treasury , Keynesian critics such as Sir Douglas Wass were winkled out of their positions of influence , and new monetarist advisers such as John Hoskyns , Alan Walters , and Brian Griffiths emerged elsewhere , with the Policy Unit under first Ferdinand Mount and then , in 1985 , John Redwood , assuming greater prominence . |
| 22 | All the C&P businesses are now using Cost of Quality as one of their criteria of success . |
| 23 | Even today , the expense and shortage of houses means that many couples will start married life living with one or other of their sets of parents . |
| 24 | This is assumed provisionally to be true both of finished goods and of their factors of production , of the hire of labour and of the borrowing of capital . |
| 25 | Being aware of their limitations of ability and attention will prevent the parents ' feeling irritated . |
| 26 | A possible ( relatively ) benign explanation might be presented for GPs ' failure to pursue a non compulsory route : that women , whose conventional role involves running the home and family , would be less willing to go into hospital precisely because of their feelings of responsibility for others in the home . |
| 27 | Most elderly parents who are living alone will be widows or widowers , and the understanding of their feelings of loss , and ways of helping them to cope with bereavement , were discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 28 | The ladies could make little sense of them in terms of their norms of dress . |
| 29 | Then , as now , the norm was that young married couples should live in a residence separate from those of their families of origin , and the three-generational household was as rare then as it is now . |
| 30 | The reason why people sometimes think they ca n't shed weight on a strict calorie ration of 1,000 daily is that they are guessing at the weight — and thus the calorie content — of their portions of food , or forgetting to add in the calories provided by little items like the butter spread on that bread , or the milk in all those cups of tea ; or they fail to realize that innocent-looking things like that canned soft drink or glass of orange juice , or the mayonnaise coleslaw served in the office canteen ( 'Ca n't contain many calories — it 's salad , is n't it ! ' ) can add a sizeable number of calories to the daily total . |