Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taken together , the evidence assembled under the four points of assessment rather suggests that the conventional model of responsible party government is at odds with the facts and so does not provide an adequate explanation for party politics and the making of public policy . |
| 2 | The area of skin actually dies and looks white and initially feels numb . |
| 3 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 4 | To summarise , the observations reported in this study and in that of Brunsson clearly indicate that ENS plays an important role in the fluid secretion seen in intestinal inflammation . |
| 5 | I just mentioned that so that when you , if you do this type of photography always remember that your props , whatever they might be , must be absolutely in pristine condition . |
| 6 | The intensity of the colour achieved is also much greater , as the shades become of necessity slightly diluted when mixed into icing . |
| 7 | The Duke and Duchess of Richmond sought an answer , but the Duke of Wellington merely smiled and blithely proposed that the company should proceed to supper . |
| 8 | After setting the scene this use of description slightly declines unless he is introducing a new character or scene . |
| 9 | The Swindon success story is n't just on the field … off the field they 've been rebuilding too … the overdraft is below a million … but the world of football the town of Swindon still wonders if the County Ground could cope could afford the premier league … |
| 10 | In practice this type of decision only occurs when someone else presents something that needs a decision . |
| 11 | Well ca n't you just talk cos it 's not long , just a couple of minutes just talk before you revise for a little while ? |
| 12 | It seems clear from the overseers ' accounts for the late 18th century that two of the four adult Titford brothers were living as occupants of houses once held as leasehold properties by their better-off ancestors . |
| 13 | The émigrés , ranging from monarchists to anarchists , were of course bitterly divided and carried on a fierce polemical battle over the responsibility for their common defeat . |
| 14 | It can of course also occur that the buyer treats the contract as repudiated by the seller and yet does not reject any goods . |
| 15 | It is of course easier said than done for someone suffering from anorexia simply to follow this recovery plan . |
| 16 | The poems are of course cleverly written but that is only to be expected of a writer of John Bitumen 's calibre . |
| 17 | Socialists had of course always argued that there was something fundamentally wrong with capitalist progress ( and for this reason I shall concentrate on their attitudes ) . |
| 18 | His 12 strikes in the 1st Division in 1989–90 were an important feature of Palace 's creditable showing there , while our fans will of course always remember that it was Mark 's crashing drive at the start of the second half that began our recovery against Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final and , ultimately , helped to take us to Wembley . |
| 19 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 20 | This corporate issuer must review this range of activities carefully to ensure that the risk of underpricing the bonds is minimised . |
| 21 | Her piles of patterns just grew and grew , |
| 22 | The Hungarians attempted to create a marcher zone to protect their frontier against the Turks by supporting Bosnian resistance in the area between Jajce and the Sava , but after the battle of Mohács in 1526 these pockets of resistance soon collapsed and virtually all Bosnia and Hercegovina lay under the rule of the sultans until the late nineteenth century . |
| 23 | The claim for a straightforward oppositional kind of resistance also assumes that subjects can resist from a position outside the operations of power , according to the dominant inside/outside model of conventional politics . |
| 24 | This chapter attempts to answer these questions partly by reference to work in the field and in part through a review and analysis of works of fiction typically used as ‘ whole class readers ’ in the lower years of six secondary comprehensive schools and falls into two parts . |
| 25 | Indeed , health is a complex and multi-faceted entity which often defies the best efforts of researchers either to define or measure . |
| 26 | This produced a spectacular decline in the number of birds successfully reared and eventually in the total population of adult birds . |
| 27 | Fénéon possessed a dry wit , honed to a sharp edge by journalism ; he was a specialist in the sort of notes usually titled as ‘ News in brief ’ , but in France called ‘ faits divers ’ ( Sundry facts ) . |
| 28 | But the fact that the crusaders — and western monarchs in the twelfth century — did not abandon their style of cavalry strongly suggests that the mounted knight was still a very effective weapon , as well as being increasingly the symbol of social status . |
| 29 | Where tin was absent , as in Colombia , it could be used as an alloy for copper to make tumbaga , a kind of gold-bronze easier to cast than tin-bronze and capable of reproducing finer detail . |
| 30 | The grant-aid earned under the new Regulations was adequate but it was not generous and although class programmes were extended to new centres and programmes expanded in existing branches , the costs of provision also increased and the District required overdraft facilities until 1950 when a small surplus was secured . |