Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought she might be on the point of offering him a nip of whisky but she did not go that far . |
| 2 | So the cost of a bottle of whisky that you buy on the plane home from holiday , is made up of both the manufacturer 's price and the airline 's profit . |
| 3 | Non-taxing moment : the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , sips from a glass of whisky as he announces no rise in excise duty for spirits |
| 4 | Their bodies were covered in a mist of moisture as they lay side by side . |
| 5 | In winter the ground becomes cold and the trees are unable to take in the same amount of moisture as they do in summer . |
| 6 | I 'VE been told I retain a lot of moisture when I eat . |
| 7 | He had been delighted to the point of euphoria when she had bought the Victorian clothes . |
| 8 | There was no more talking from the Germans , and no more mortaring , the remaining part of the night passed fairly quickly with no further signs of tiredness as we lay and listened . |
| 9 | The same method of pultrusion as we have described for the GRP rod and tube is applied to carbon . |
| 10 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 11 | The first tends to refer mainly to the military context which , while obviously important , is not what this book is about ; and the second is clearly state-centrist , and does not fully convey the scnse of hegemony where it does not directly involve the state , which I take to be crucial . |
| 12 | The application of microelectronics to regulate the use of energy is , likewise , being depicted by this country 's government as a manifestation of progress since it involves harnessing advanced technology to promote efficient consumption . |
| 13 | It is an attempt to ask you to consider to maintain the sort of progress that we have been making erm in past years , but it 's a problem is not going to go away . |
| 14 | Who watch the ball of progress as it rolls , |
| 15 | ‘ Captain Montgomery has been reporting the state of progress and I thought you might like to hear it . |
| 16 | I when I see him when I see , George does a lot of housekeeping when I see him clearing the bed I say oh goodness look book . |
| 17 | Skilled , semi-skilled , non-skilled workers see the different levels of of livelihood that you see to be measured on sort of thing and er therefore you 've got ta good way of representing this society as a whole have n't you . |
| 18 | Do you feel that you 're giving the parents the kind of support that they require ? |
| 19 | Has there been any kind of surprise of the amount of support that you have got ? |
| 20 | The support from those in the demonstration and those shouting messages of support as they passed was greatly appreciated . |
| 21 | ‘ We went right through the town centre and all the people doing their Saturday shopping stood and clapped and shouted messages of support as we went by . ’ |
| 22 | Its functional modernity struck a discordant note in a room which was otherwise cluttered with eighteenth-century furniture ; two chairs with embroidered seats , a Pembroke table , a bureau , each a fine example of its period , were strategically placed to provide an island of support if she needed to make her painful progress to the door , so that the room looked rather like an antique shop with its treasures ineptly displayed . |
| 23 | It takes a while for them to actually settle in , and they need quite a lot of support because we do work in teams and they 're quite well established teams with definite personalities . |
| 24 | In any long-standing power relationship the person or group losing each conflict must have interests which are suppressed , and either do not appear in the public realm or quickly founder for lack of support when they do materialize . |
| 25 | But I thought Ian might need a bit of support when he gets out . ’ |
| 26 | This is the second principle for the social modelling of change that I discussed in chapter 1 . |
| 27 | It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision . |
| 28 | Mechanistic systems are unsuitable in conditions of change because they tend to deal with change by cumbersome methods . |
| 29 | It is possibly the least effective method of change because it depends on two steps both of which are unnatural . |
| 30 | We were living in a period of change and he wanted to avoid the danger of rejecting courses of action merely because they had been considered and turned down on some earlier occasion during his leadership . |