Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is actual evidence that he did do it in his childhood , and th so they 're not erm , they 're kind of building everything on a single sentence like Leo does , you know , amazingly enough , Leo 's book starts with entry of Who 's Who in a single phrase , where she calls herself daughter of , her father . |
| 2 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 3 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 4 | More freedom with the box , but of course none of the joy of transparency . |
| 5 | It is submitted that a number of cases which in the past applied the literal rule would now be decided in the opposite way . |
| 6 | It allows , to give another example , Tom Stabler 's middle juniors to identify with the Bible story of Jezebel which at a surface level was quite outside their experience . |
| 7 | And they 're the kind of books which in a way encapsulated people 's views of what history was , the history of this country was , at that particular point in time . |
| 8 | Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity . |
| 9 | He designed a series of posters including one of Branson himself under the caption ‘ No One is Innocent ’ , an another bearing a swastika made of cannabis leaves , the Virgin logo and what had become a Sex Pistols ' slogan , ‘ Never trust a hippie ’ . |
| 10 | I 'm Jack Gordon , I 'm Director General of aircraft one with the Ministry of Defence . |
| 11 | ‘ Women and Film ’ , to quote the title of E. Ann Kaplan 's ( 1983 ) important book on feminist film theory and criticism , defines a field of study which in the past fifteen to twenty years has been expanding rapidly . |
| 12 | Furthermore a strong case can be made for arguing that religious commitment is the only way to understand the depths of religion which from the outside may remain sheer enigma . |
| 13 | The Minister had planned a speech of thanks himself during a visit to Stoke Mandeville Hospital … but Adis Avdic stole his thunder . |
| 14 | Some art historians detect the hand of Leonardo himself on the canvas , and it 's now generally accepted to be the most perfect version of the Last Supper in existence . |
| 15 | Whether the West 's prerogatives are real , and whether or not they are exercised , the resolution of the territorial controversy has removed the one bone of contention which for a time made the Warsaw Pact a community of shared anxiety . |
| 16 | Of course , it is an idealisation ; an engaging picture of a system of manufacture which at the beginning of the next century was still being described as " highly favourable to the paternal , filial , and fraternal happiness — and to the cultivation of good moral and civil habits — the sources of public tranquillity " . |
| 17 | The first is the large difference between the cost of providing some services and the amount of benefit which under the Bill would be held to be received . |
| 18 | The Bill would have altered the definition of rape which at the time was classified in the Italian Penal Code as a ‘ crime against morals and custom ’ , so that it became a crime of violence against the person . |
| 19 | We have derived the condition for the normal component of D. What about the tangential component ? |
| 20 | Asked to organise a tea party to raise funds for the Royal British Legion women 's section 's national birthday scheme , Liphook branch hit on the idea of turning theirs into a Mad Hatter 's tea party . |
| 21 | He was firing deliberately a bit wide , I thought , to scare rather than to hit me , for at that sort of range anyone with a rifle — unless he were truly an appalling shot — could scarcely miss . |
| 22 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 23 | But he does , for instance , insert a brief aria-like refrain four times in a recitative scene in Act III for Arsete , the counsellor of the enchantress Falsirena : The important point is that Mazzocchi feared the tedium of recitative , and the theory has been advanced that his score originally contained less of this element , the male alto hero 's part being –full of canzonette' which at the singer 's request were replaced with recitatives by another composer , the monodist and late madrigalist Sigismondo d'India . |
| 24 | It is obvious that her cares very deeply about the theatre and acting , from the teaching of drama itself to the condition of theatre countrywide . |
| 25 | Broadly speaking , therefore , these two terms help us to define class boundaries and to see how they are sustained ( or not ) by the action of classes themselves within an economic system . |
| 26 | There are an awful lot of children in the United Kingdom in fact who are living in the sort of poverty and who 's parents are living in the sort of poverty which in a rich country like our own , should not be tolerated . |
| 27 | Gide 's narrative of a development from the desire for self-redemption in the space of the other , through the loss of self at the ecstatic height of this existential quest , to the unresolved sense of desire itself as a kind of loss , is amenable to a similar analysis ; in Gide 's case image and fantasy do indeed figure transgressively on the borders of history and the unconscious . |
| 28 | Ironically , the society is having to fight against the forces of nature itself in the bid to stop the reedbed being swallowed by fast-encroaching willows and scrub which would destroy much of the area 's significance . |
| 29 | MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell . |
| 30 | These losers make up the core of the 74% of Hungarians who in a recent opinion poll said they thought the economic situation had worsened . |