Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It was pigs of majors like you . ’ |
2 | My first choice of defenders from what we 've got are O'Leary and Fairclough . |
3 | First we consider the different kinds of taxes through which the government can raise revenue . |
4 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
5 | Last Sunday you may remember I held up something at the start of the service , and it was my mail from the previous day and we homed in on one buff letter which had H M inspector of taxes in it . |
6 | On private land , the State made the pomeshchik responsible for the collection of taxes from his serfs and then left him to his own devices . |
7 | Its success must be partly due to the extraordinary number of sittings to which his admiring and clear-sighted sitter submitted . |
8 | Nor did they lack ethical principles — contrary to much biased misunderstanding on the part of Russians with their Christian European prejudices , especially in the field of sexual mores . |
9 | In any case , by the beginning of the eighteenth century the native peoples were competing with a rapidly growing contingent of Russians in their midst : about 100,000 in 1701 , increasing to some 700,000 in 1720 . |
10 | Why hide behind The Wall when you can share A Saucer full Of Secrets with me ! |
11 | Additionally , confidence can be useful for certain types of secrets for which other rights are inappropriate such as the recipe for Coca-Cola or a secret research technique or industrial process . |
12 | But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’ |
13 | The number of states into which a term splits in a particular field is determined by group theory , but that is only the start of the problem ; determining the relative energies is difficult . |
14 | In order to do this , LIFESPAN defines a series of states through which an SPR progresses : |
15 | In order to do this , LIFESPAN defines a series of states through which an SPR progresses : |
16 | A DC goes through a variety of states from its creation to final approval as indicated by the list below . |
17 | A DC goes through a variety of states from its creation to final approval as indicated by the list below . |
18 | Despite such precautions , early on May 22 All-India Radio started broadcasting reports of outbreaks of violence in a number of states in which up to 11 people died . |
19 | This defines the class , type and subtype of the object for which it applies , a series of states in which the object may exist and a series of actions . |
20 | Moreover , in our period the case of states in which the bourgeoisie had won formal political control , or did not have to share it with older political elites , was still quite exceptional . |
21 | ‘ Realism maintains that universal moral principles can not be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation . ’ |
22 | I think the important thing is that we do establish with the other professionals within the school a real understanding about what we are trying to achieve , an agreement and , as far as possible , a sharing of values between us as to what we are trying to achieve with these youngsters . |
23 | But language and interpretation assume a structure of values of which they form a part . |
24 | Hourani describes a sense of secondariness in contemporary Arab identity : ‘ It is no longer to have a standard of values of one 's own , not to be able to create but only to imitate ; and so not even to imitate correctly , since that also needs a certain originality . ’ |
25 | In recent years this has become more widely recognized , with various authors identifying the fundamentally different sets of values upon which different studies have been based . |
26 | men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values . |
27 | Its vision for society is that of a reconstituted pre-industrial kind of community in which everyone knows who they are , what is expected of them and the kind of values by which they are to live . |
28 | WACC 's Forum programme questions and intends to influence the mass media in order to influence public ethos , that is , the code of values by which a society lives . |
29 | The scriptible/lisible distinction represents a scale of values by which individual texts may be evaluated . |
30 | This conflict of values in which neither side has an absolute monopoly of truth has rumbled on , becoming louder and louder in the English countryside . |