Example sentences of "of [noun] [coord] [pron] " 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 | John produced the remains of a bottle of whisky and they all had a dram to celebrate . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've bought a bottle of whisky and I 'm planning to drink my way right through it . ’ |
| 4 | I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The king , troubled by the prince 's displays of temperament and his unwillingness to follow the advice of those who had charge of him , mindful also of his own unrobust health , considered it would be unwise for himself and his brother to receive visitors at the present time . |
| 7 | Indeed at first Kersal enjoyed the run of play and their half-time lead should have been more than 6 points , fly half Neil Pearson out of sorts , he missed 4 penalties . |
| 8 | It has been far more difficult however , despite the film technology , to assess the extent to which the gestures are used naturally yet significantly in the more taxing contexts of play and what some researchers call ‘ free living ’ . |
| 9 | Andy Cole is getting lots of play and lots of support at Newcastle — and he is top scorer right now ( bot cup&league ) in the premiership . |
| 10 | He left Darlington Hockey Club for Norton a few seasons ago to improve his standard of play and his new club is currently lying fourth in the prestigious northern premier league . |
| 11 | There are what I have called political uses of assessment and there are educational uses . |
| 12 | This is called the Hall of Secrets but it is the wrong place to whisper them . |
| 13 | Like we might buy , my sister is , she loves chocolate , my mother would buy her packet of of Secrets or something , she buy a |
| 14 | Mhm yeah and erm that kind of thing comes into it so that I was wondering if there 's any way of er kind of y'know and what y'know where 's that something about changing changing changing changing rooms somewhere ? |
| 15 | All injections of capsaicin and its vehicle were given under ether anaesthesia . |
| 16 | The walls and ceiling were papered with a print of forget-me-nots and there were original water-colours of the fens on the walls and a large portrait of Christ . |
| 17 | I note the minister did n't give er the numbers of apprenticeships and there 's possibly a reason for that . |
| 18 | According to the leading proponent of this view , John Herz , the nation state was being undermined by four factors : its susceptibility to economic warfare ; the rise of international communications and the consequent permeability of national frontiers ; the development of air warfare , which could take war directly to a nation 's population ; and nuclear weapons , which threatened the very survival of states and their populations . |
| 19 | More specifically , on the issue of cultural hierarchies and class relations the Situationists tried to distance themselves from bourgeois notions of progress and their equivalence in the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period . |
| 20 | Sustainable use is the key idea behind any kind of progress and we must do everything we can to support this , both in terms of financial aid and consumer ethics . |
| 21 | ‘ Captain Montgomery has been reporting the state of progress and I thought you might like to hear it . |
| 22 | The Marxist value system arose in this vacuum of values and it arose from the multiplying effect that machinery had on man 's labour . |
| 23 | Individuals may freely endorse an organisational culture or set of values and who is to say that they have been indoctrinated ? |
| 24 | We had two other rooms on the ground floor , a sort of kitchen and what most people would have called a large cupboard , but which Grace liked to describe as the parlour . |
| 25 | Lucky Draw winner David Owen of Waterloo and his partner will be rubbing shoulders with the stars and sharing anecdotes no doubt with the big names and personalities at the awards lunch taking place at the Blundellsands Hotel . |
| 26 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 27 | You may need a lot of confidence a lot of support and you might even need some help looking after your children if they 're quite young . |
| 28 | If my right hon. Friend succeeds in gaining enough support for his efforts , the European Community will set up a framework of support and it will be up to individual countries to decide , within that framework , how they wish to use the funds . |
| 29 | We may argue about the timescale of change or its effects on our lives , but what is beyond doubt is that change , massive and fundamental , is taking place in the way we acquire , use and are influenced by information . |
| 30 | This temporary retreat may bring the immediate refreshment of change or it may widen our horizons either by romantic hyperbole or by an unexpected psychological authenticity close to the reality of life as we know it . |