Example sentences of "[pron] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , she 'd heard of this legendary Tech-Green , and was disappointed someone of such intelligence and vision had allowed maudlin dross to get in the way of his career . |
| 2 | It makes one wonder about that when one hears of someone of such frailty being pursued and put in prison for failing to pay a tax that everyone recognises was nonsensical from the moment that it was introduced . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew someone of that name a long time ago . |
| 4 | When young people form a strong attachment to someone of another race or religion , parents and elders may well express surprise . |
| 5 | A woman is the ‘ opposite ’ to Christ in a way in which someone of another race is not . |
| 6 | However , although the age of consent is fifteen , it is illegal to prescribe the oral contraceptive for someone of this age . |
| 7 | For someone of this persuasion , who does not want to attribute everything to the workings of power , the problem obviously arises of why the sexes should have distinctive linguistic subcultures at all . |
| 8 | In The Cloud of Unknowing he did not present the whole complexity of the Greek mystic 's vision , but dwelt upon his central belief that God is ultimately and essentially incomprehensible to the human mind and that if we want to ‘ know ’ God in this life , we must divest ourselves of all our ideas about the reality that we call ‘ God ’ . |
| 9 | I will now entertain suggestions as to how we can rid ourselves of this horrible dog menace . ’ |
| 10 | What Gunn means by this is , I think , that everyone realises the risks but yet we all feel a tendency to delude ourselves of any possibility that it might happen to us . |
| 11 | We may assert that people are essentially good and born in a ‘ state of grace ’ because we need to convince ourselves of these facts . |
| 12 | Having looked at some of the reasons why God is thought of in personal terms , it is as well to remind ourselves of some of the dangers of doing so . |
| 13 | A good starting point for any assertiveness training is to remind ourselves of some of these basic rights ( see Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 14 | Well we 'd have to divest ourselves of some of our assets . |
| 15 | The observation that a CR may be less likely when the CS is presented in a context other than that used for training is open to a number of explanations , some of them of little theoretical interest . |
| 16 | Even more extraordinary is the paucity of such information in the captions to the colour figures , which renders them of little use to the hobbyist . |
| 17 | Many of the characteristic properties of metals arise from the existence in them of such ‘ electron gases ’ , and therefore the term ‘ metallic hydrogen ’ is appropriate . |
| 18 | The professionals who rate at their true value the impact and influence of the media productions they create will take particular care to make them of such high moral quality that their effect upon the formation of culture will invariably be a positive one . |
| 19 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 20 | The bitter herbs remind them of all their suffering in Egypt . |
| 21 | The girl 's face was set into rigid lines from the garden , robbing them of all expression . |
| 22 | He reminded them of all the things that he 'd said and done and he prepared them for their mission in the world . |
| 23 | By depriving these children of the chance to learn languages or humanities we are depriving them of all those resources that the ruling elites of the country find so important . |
| 24 | The five-member tribunal sentenced each of them to life imprisonment with hard labour , and also stripped them of all property , civil rights and military rank . |
| 25 | And now ’ — he made a gesture that cleared the air around them of all such trivia — ‘ I want to show you a machine that 's going to put some spirit into my work this summer . |
| 26 | He robbed them of all dignity . ’ |
| 27 | Thousands of homes and businesses were cut off by two fires at exchanges in Liverpool and Sheffield last month depriving them of all telephone services , including emergency 999 calls . |
| 28 | Do they want to become MPs for the money ( some , it seems hard to credit , apparently are dim enough to think so ) , for the glamour ( one glance at the crumpled dandruff-laden figure putting the question should disabuse them of that idea ) , for the influence ? |
| 29 | They would say that by existing things reflect the presence in them of that which transcends them . |
| 30 | The bottle of bourbon would convince them of that . |