Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that Dement performed experiments after this one in which his subjects showed none of the psychiatric symptoms with REM sleep deprivation , and that he himself made clear how his early observations were probably misleading about the effects of REM sleep deprivation , the idea that dreaming preserved sanity had been strongly reinforced . |
| 2 | This force possessed none of the gentle , coaxing qualities associated with telepathic races . |
| 3 | The whole interview reminded him of the English card game in which you not only had to guess what cards your opponent held , but decide what he thought yours were , and so on . |
| 4 | As a subject people regarded as inferior to Japanese , Koreans possessed none of the democratic rights enjoyed by Japanese . |
| 5 | And , although the meeting of their lips had none of the searching hunger that they had shared before , there was something in the touch that reassured her . |
| 6 | According to the Legend — the propaganda of a papacy that by this time was endeavouring to assert its independence of the emperor — on the eighth day after his conversion , the Emperor Constantine divested himself of the imperial symbols , prostrated himself before Pope Sylvester and laid down his crown . |
| 7 | The boy repeated none of the simple errors he had made first time round . |
| 8 | Moloch reminded her of the Vartaq Veil . |
| 9 | Bought clothing in the south had none of the hard-wearing qualities of northern home-spun . |
| 10 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |
| 11 | Just on half-time , a long ball from Milne put him through within excellent shooting distance of Thomson , but McCart 's late intervention robbed him of the golden chance to break the deadlock . |
| 12 | That night , as she waited for the band to strike up her opening music , Rory felt none of the usual tingle of anticipation which made the whole business of singing so pleasurable . |
| 13 | SEEING THE ARTICLE on the ‘ 109 in the July issue of FlyPast reminded me of the first time I saw it . |
| 14 | He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall . |
| 15 | His heroes had none of the traditional grandeur appropriate to demigods and he reduced the customary high language of the genre accordingly . |
| 16 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 17 | As we drank our wine , Pumblechook reminded me of the happy times he and I had spent together during my childhood . |
| 18 | South Africa had no-one of the athletic calibre of John Eales , Ian Jones or Michael Jones . |
| 19 | A commentator in the Financial Times delivered himself of the following judgment : ‘ Tripe is tripe : if it is not then what we have here is codswallop , tommyrot , drivel . |
| 20 | In September 1980 when Gallup asked which of the three main candidates would best deal with ‘ improving the economy ’ 44 per cent said Reagan , 30 per cent Carter and 12 per cent Anderson ; on ‘ reducing inflation ’ the figures were 44 per cent for Reagan , Carter 29 per cent and Anderson 13 per cent . |
| 21 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 22 | Recording this news reminded me of the valuable role played by Area Presidents in guiding their Area and representing the Areas at a variety of events and functions . |
| 23 | As your daughter met none of the published criteria the panel , in balancing the stipulation of the above-stated section of the Act against your parental preferences felt unable to uphold your appeal . |
| 24 | As your daughter met none of the published criteria the panel felt unable to override the stipulation of the Act . |
| 25 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 26 | Eventually , Peter rid them of the first , hapless shop in San Francisco and , in 1981 , felt ready to open in New York . |
| 27 | Yet despite the vibrant colours Modigliani captured something of the wistful yearning of his nature . |
| 28 | For instance , in the South-East region ( as defined in the relevant edition of the Times Guide to the House of Commons ) the Liberals won none of the 40 seats , Labour took only three , whilst the Conservatives — for less than half the total constituency votes — bagged all the rest . |
| 29 | I had a mental picture of the conductor on the red London bus talking to Hammouda the village postman , of the English boy 's friends playing with Khadija 's grandson , especially Margaret , whose hair reminded me of the coloured feather duster Khadija 's grandson had pleaded for everytime he saw it in the market , thinking that it was a toy or a bird . |
| 30 | In a couple of cases ‘ stock ’ -looking P–51 Mustangs reminded everyone of the lasting tribute of the marriage between a British engine and an American airframe . |