Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In another experiment , subjects were woken either five or fifteen minutes after REM sleep had started , and asked to estimate which of the two intervals had been used .
2 And my son has received none of the two hundred and eight
3 Suppose a man knows nothing of trusts and trustees , but has heard something of the separate use , leaves property — say £1,000 — to his married daughter ‘ for her separate use ’ .
4 We might have expected to see something of the great movies , Gold Rush , Modern Times , Limelight …
5 Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more .
6 ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days .
7 Subsequently , they carried out the investigation ‘ Maxbox ’ , which involved deciding which of the open boxes that can be made from a 12 cm x 12 cm square of paper by cutting squares from the corners and folding into a lidless cuboid ‘ held the most ’ .
8 When he is shown a pair of faces and has to decide which of the two is a celebrity , he performs at chance level , even though he performs almost as well as normal subjects on this task when the faces are replaced by their names .
9 Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury .
10 It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization .
11 Though she may be old now , Lady Amory has lost none of the original excitement and enthusiasm which she shared with Sir John , and , like a true gardener , she is constantly looking forward : ‘ I do n't think a garden is the thing to keep ; it 's not like furniture in a room or a house .
12 The Brazilians want to remind themselves of the British style before they meet Scotland in Italy .
13 I am writing to inform you of the new Government legislation concerning liability cover for medical staff working in the National Health Service .
14 We seek to rid ourselves of the awful thought that we might have some responsibility for what has happened .
15 On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence .
16 Enver Hoxha 's widow Nexhmije Hoxha , who had headed the Communist-dominated Democratic Front until December 1990 , but who had subsequently been expelled from the party as it sought to rid itself of the hardline old guard , was arrested on Dec. 4 to stand trial for corruption , as was Rita Marko , a politburo member for 34 years until July 1990 .
17 In the high grade group , a Cox 's multivariate analysis was performed to identify which of the following variables such as age , extension to adjacent organs or serosal invasion , stage and mode of treatment ( surgery , chemotherapy , or the combination of both ) might be of independent significance in predicting mortality .
18 I would like to notify you of the following amendments to the planning permission for the above development .
19 However , a pilot study has shown that if the available data is collected and sorted by computer , enough survives to enable something of the overall pattern to emerge , especially through comparison with the much more plentiful English data .
20 The reader is also invited to ponder which of the two proofs gives him the greater personal satisfaction .
21 His refusal to grant extra funding on the grounds of ‘ basic need ’ at the two schools in his own constituency created a political storm which threatened to deprive him of the Roman Catholic vote in the general election .
22 The point behind many of these affirmations is to keep reminding oneself of the obvious fact that in a situation where it is clearly impossible to be perfect , to be less than perfect is the best one can be .
23 Drouot salerooms may have seen none of the spectacular sales which are so good for promotion .
24 — I believe I am anything but candid : in fact — I am naturally suspicious — & exceedingly reserved , the first good quality arises from my having seen plenty of the evil part of the world from my youth up — the second from being but very little used to company or society — for — excepting Mr. Yarrell — ( whom Mrs. Hewitson & Atkinson know , ) — to whom I go to study bones & muscles — I do n't know a single person in all London to visit intimately . ’
25 You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming .
26 It will have to judge which of the received suggestions are most suitable as well as possibly adding items which have not been suggested .
27 and in the end the jury will have to say which of the two versions of the meaning they except
28 He may have reassured himself of the contnuing power of his charisma during recent tours of the south , where he was given a rapturous welcome .
29 For example , it could well have been that families of cave dwellers came to realise that it was possible that they could agree to respect the privacy and boundaries of their respective homes , and by so doing relieve themselves of the eternal vigilance likely to be necessary in the absence of such agreement .
30 She thought for a moment , then decided to tell him of the little house in Washington where she and Mama had lived before Mama married Papa — She wondered briefly what Dr Neil would have made of that story .
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