Example sentences of "[noun] of [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the resurgence of nationalism in Europe and in other parts of the world , in diverse forms , has made this once again a major issue for political analysis , and I shall return to various aspects of it in the next chapter . |
| 2 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
| 3 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 4 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
| 5 | In 1980–81 , for example , there were 62,000 students in Wales following non-advanced courses , the majority of them in the 35 colleges , as compared with 14,000 on advanced courses . |
| 6 | Dickens has an horrific description of it in The Old Curiosity , Shop ( 1841 ) , when it had reached the rock bottom of filth and ugliness , and of human degradation . |
| 7 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 8 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 9 | There is a portrait of him in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , vol. lxxix , 1953 . |
| 10 | One of the most illuminating insights into the character of Frederick Barbarossa comes from the descriptions of him in the Fourth Book of Bishop Otto von Freising and from Rahewin , his twelfth-century biographer . |
| 11 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |
| 12 | Claudia sank down on to her bed and tried to shut her ears to the sound of him in the next room . |
| 13 | On the wall of his surprisingly modest flat , a street away from the stadium , is a framed picture of him in the hallowed yellow shirt of Brazil , taken before one of his 25 international appearances . |
| 14 | But it was vigorous criticism of him in the 1922 Committee by Tory back-benchers which convinced Brittan — and Mrs Thatcher — that he no longer enjoyed the confidence of the party in Parliament . |
| 15 | Its garden front just manages to survive , intact on its eastern bays , sensitively refaced on the western , beneath the mound of Italianate jumble that Alfred Waterhouse piled on top of it in the 19th century . |
| 16 | He has enjoyed every minute of it in the certain knowledge that he was never going to be held to account by being elected . |
| 17 | There was no sign of them in the next field , but ahead of him at the top of the hill he saw the young dog , looking black against the morning sky . |
| 18 | There 's little sign of it in the boarded-up , recession-blasted shopfronts and litter-strewn pavements of the north-west London suburb , and in neighbouring Neasden its distant echo was last heard when self-proclaimed ‘ Queen of Soul ’ Mari Wilson reared her bee-hived head . |
| 19 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 20 | The Commission must copy a notification to the relevant authorities in the member states and provided that it is complete , immediately publish brief details of it in the Official Journal . |
| 21 | Phonelink also intends to broaden the possible applications of the product with the launch of Tel-Me in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 22 | Once Maggie caught a glimpse of him in the shaving mirror , trouserless but with his shirt and socks on and in spite of her fear she was tempted to laugh . |
| 23 | It 's not going to be as big as her first marriage , when 47,000 well-wishers crowded the streets around Westminster Abbey to catch a glimpse of her in the magnificent Glass Coach . |
| 24 | Oh , no , never say that he did not like them , after all her hard work and the writing of them in the small hours after her demanding duties as a dogsbody had already tired her ! |
| 25 | They were the first to study magic and remain the greatest masters of it in the known world . |
| 26 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 27 | The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality . |
| 28 | Perhaps it could also be blamed on having flicked past hundreds of dull photos of them in The Scots Magazine over the years , showing old men with their shirt sleeves rolled up , pointing at some rolling , lumpy , big hills with the caption reading , ‘ The mighty Cairngorms are a sight for sore eyes in any rambler 's book ’ . |
| 29 | Oh yes , yes oh yes a lot of it in the thirties , tremendous amount of unemployment . |
| 30 | The public got a very early taste of it in the late 1970s when he was invited to play in the World International single wicket competition at The Oval . |