Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had .
2 As a consequence , the direct relationship between the cost calculation and the fixing of taxes that we have set up here is inapplicable .
3 Packet of crunchies if they 've got any .
4 Confidence is particularly important during the development of inventions before they are granted patents because a patent will be refused if details of the invention have been made available to the public , as we shall see .
5 The law of confidence is concerned with the protection of secrets whether they be trade secrets , secrets of a personal nature or concerning the government of the country .
6 This is called the Hall of Secrets but it is the wrong place to whisper them .
7 I wondered as I thought of secrets if I might find some release in telling Lili the thing that festered in my soul , and I asked her if she would listen .
8 It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do .
9 As its great historian pointed out , " French became the language of states because it had become the language of courts and aristocracies " .
10 Instead , our desires reflect the collection of values that we attach to our humanity .
11 Spending time there and in Biella , I have a good balance of values that I like personally . ’
12 The Marxist value system arose in this vacuum of values and it arose from the multiplying effect that machinery had on man 's labour .
13 ‘ But I was glad for a lot of reasons that you did n't aim true in the dyeyard . ’
14 And sh there are a number of reasons that she believes that .
15 All this may be done for the best of reasons but it only ensures that children bottle up their feelings as well as their tears , which , as we have seen in previous chapters , can have far-reaching effects .
16 Well the tom tiddlers of British political life I suppose write their memoirs for a couple of reasons because they ca n't ever admit to themselves they are tom tiddlers .
17 What those industries fear more than anything else is interference by the Government and the European Commission , interference in the choice of products that they can make , interference in the work patterns that they can enjoy and interference in their wage rates .
18 The examples of approaches to the measurement of products that we will outline are :
19 the range of products that we do .
20 While I 'm having a look at this just a quick glance through erm there 's the er range of products that we print design publish , we do n't sell them , for our clients .
21 It is in the interests of this class that the workers can afford to buy the types of products that it can realistically expect to sell them .
22 and have a decent life to get a first or either a two one in economics you have got to read a very great deal , you 've got to be a reader , a student a taker of notes , a writer of essays and we said that is not you so within two
23 I can still hear the clatter of coins as they rained on the stage in a steady downpour of acclaim , a habit derived from the days of the gold rush .
24 The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son .
25 The similarity is that your risks are spread over a much wider range of investments than you could achieve on your own .
26 And er then there was er oak and then there was different kinds of woods that you used to could you know s er imitate , make them look like maybe er er walnut .
27 on investment jobs a a at a handful of projects that we might need to start competitively
28 We are set up to be competitive for the size and shape of projects that we are shooting for and the industries we are targeting .
29 Well this is part of a one million er £ er campaign to try and raise money for a lot of projects that we run in eight countries in southern Africa , from Angola to Mozambique , where our , the problems are absolutely horrendous er civil war in Mozambique for example , in Malawi , one in ten of the population are refugees , principally from Mozambiquan civil war , arriving at refugee camps in Bark and absolutely nothing er at all in terms of possessions .
30 Pope John , it is said , ‘ had not envisaged the possibility of rejection and expected a rapid and painless vote in favour of projects that he had read through and welcomed with full approval ’ ( Ratzinger Report , 1985 , p. 41 ) .
  Next page