Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [det] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But trainer Tim Forster 's assistant Henry Daly expected nothing less of the 2-5 favourite . |
| 2 | Written and produced by Paul Simpson , the man behind Serious Intention 's garage classic ‘ You Do n't Know ’ , Peacetime 's recent track perfectly illustrates one half of the Nineties disco equation . |
| 3 | The Arabian peninsula contains one half of the non-Communist world 's oil reserves , Saudi Arabia 's proven oil reserves are fourfold those of USA and UK together . |
| 4 | But this does n't win her enough of the meaty character roles she 'd love to play . |
| 5 | It is available now , but has not had the take up that Windows has enjoyed — one cynical comment has it that of the less than half million copies actually in use , the better part were given away — and yet it is a very capable operating system with some excellent features . |
| 6 | We show them some of the dirty ticks , but it 's pretty elementary because none of those boys are likely to be used in any sort of field work . |
| 7 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 8 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
| 9 | and he was saying , told me some of the different names , you know , other than pine , I suppose their name for whatever these pines were , the timber there was beautiful |
| 10 | I did n't mind this ; I was happy just to be there , hoping that one day she would give me some of the pretty wool to make something for myself but she never did . |
| 11 | You can give me some of the hard ones if you like . |
| 12 | Yeah , but what kind of people , what kind of people give their give me some of the different types of people |
| 13 | I poured myself more of the sweet red vermouth . |
| 14 | Come on then , give us some of the fancy German stuff . |
| 15 | When my brother looked through his new spectacles into the Cinemascope format of the wide mirror I saw that he gently let his lower jaw fall a little so as to give himself more of the thin-faced appearance of Hank R Marvin in Summer Holiday . |
| 16 | er I mean it depends I suppose the extent to which there 's any tutorial element but I mean erm whether they have you there for a week or something and teach you some of the practical |
| 17 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 18 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 19 | The familiar story of the artists ' model ( female ) sitting for hours , days , even weeks on end , for a ( male ) artist , has brought us some of the great ‘ nudes ’ in art history . |
| 20 | It took them all of the pre-lunch session to get the runs as Walsh and Bishop made life difficult , and Gooch fell just before the end ; but with three balls left before lunch |
| 21 | In New York Phoebus Levene ( 1869–1940 ) produced a definite theory of their structure , based on units which contained one each of the four bases adenine and guanine ( purines ) and cytidine and uridine ( pyrimidines ) . |
| 22 | No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist . |
| 23 | The DDI reminded them all of the secret police who had run East Germany with an iron fist . |
| 24 | Two papers are set in each option so the options constitute one half of the final examination papers . |
| 25 | By contrast , the Co-operative Wholesale Agency , proposed in a report to a Co-operative Conference held in June 1851 in Manchester , was to pay one half of the net profits not as a bonus to its employees but as dividends to co-operative retail stores on their purchases from the Agency . |
| 26 | Solicitors in respect of their first three practising certificates are exempt from all contributions to the Fund ( whether or not they have held clients ' money ) , and in respect of their next three renewals are only required to pay one half of the full amount . |
| 27 | Schoendoerffer 's commentary informs us that of the 33 men in the platoon , all but five are draftees whose two years ' military service include one in Vietnam . |
| 28 | In so doing , she reminds us both of the considerable differences between spoken and written language ; and of the complexity of the task children face in learning to read and master the written representation of language . |
| 29 | By contrast ‘ Archiv Galleria ’ gives us some of the classiest presentation in the business . |
| 30 | What facilities are available to me to respond to my assignment in multimedia terms ? a question which should importantly remind us all of the ready way in which many young people today think in visual or audio-visual terms . |