Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [pron] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the rotaries , as with any noise gate , take a little time to get into using and effective gating comes about through practice , although it can at times appear something of a black art . |
| 2 | ‘ A visit to the Moon and a space walk-to say nothing of the Big Dipper and the Whiplash — all in one day ? |
| 3 | At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture . |
| 4 | If any readers know anything of the current whereabouts of Tin Tin , Milly Molly Mandy , Jennings and/or Derbyshire , Rupert Bear , any of the Famous Five or Secret Seven , Billy Bunter , My Naughty Little Sister ( presumably now in freelance tax-free employment round the back of King 's Cross ? ) or any of the many others , I 'd like to hear about it . |
| 5 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 6 | Similarly , andesite flows show none of the obvious surface features of ‘ liquid ’ lavas : pahoehoe flows never occur and all andesite flows have a rough bouldery surface . |
| 7 | Philip Bond gives a wonderful and moving portrayal of jaded professor Frank , who does his tutoring job so well he has to watch the once passionate and sentimental Rita turn into a trendy talker whose empty phrases contain nothing of the real her . |
| 8 | Now these messages remind me of the old Tarzan movies , now you were all old enough now to remember the old Tarzan movies . |
| 9 | All the old historians when mentioning Hailing tell us of the old Manor of Langridge or Bavents , each one describes the antiquity of the Manor from Adam de Bavent to the various owners of their period until we reach William Baker . |
| 10 | These facts , however , in their turn pose something of a theoretical paradox . |
| 11 | C64 board games have something of a chequered history — is this twin pack a ‘ renaissance ’ , the ‘ king ’ of board sims or would you rather ‘ pawn ’ it at the earliest opportunity ? |
| 12 | As yet , though , the best measurements of the microwave background show none of the tell-tale marks that such flaws would leave . |
| 13 | In summary , the questions in studies of more and less have revolved around three issues : ( a ) whether children have full or only partial lexical knowledge about the pertinent word meanings ; ( b ) the extent to which children rely on non-linguistic strategies in the absence of lexical information ( clearly children know none of the pertinent meanings at first for a domain , and several studies have documented the kinds of non-linguistic strategies they then rely on in responding to instructions — see Clark , 1973b , 1979,1980 ; Donaldson and McGarrigle , 1974 ) ; and ( c ) whether children observe the principle of Contrast . |
| 14 | How do human beings distinguish which of the many elements of the context are relevant ? |
| 15 | The image , of course , centres around the fact that faith and doubt have something of the same curious relationship as health and sickness . |
| 16 | McDonald 's work practices have something of a uniform character too . |