Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know even less of Diana Travers . |
| 2 | I know as little of love as I do of painting , he thought . |
| 3 | I do n't have any pretensions , and I get really sick of artists who 're so flippin' trendy that they do n't have fun . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I feel so proud of Keith for what he has done , because it is not easy . |
| 5 | There are times these days when I feel so starved of warmth that the instructions on a painkiller packet or vitamin tub ( " At the first sign of a cold developing be sure to … " ) can make me go all husky and brave . |
| 6 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 7 | I grew increasingly fond of Dorothy Watson , the headmistress , and her assistant Agnes Fogerty . |
| 8 | I wonder how many of Expotel 's customers are aware that Expotel 's recommendations are based not on hotel quality but on the self-interested payment up-front of this ‘ sweetener ’ , plus exclusive corporate rates ? |
| 9 | I have as much of mother as father in me ! ’ she said . |
| 10 | The aristocracies which ruled so much of Europe could still see themselves even in 1914 as in some sense parts of a social order which transcended national boundaries . |
| 11 | The Erdenet copper mine , which produces about half of Mongolia 's exports , shuts down for hours each day . |
| 12 | An epidemic which wiped out hundreds of dolphins in the Mediterranean last year seems to have reappeared . |
| 13 | The accident provoked protests from Japan 's vocal anti-nuclear community , which called for the reactor to be shut down , together with other old pressurized water reactors , which make up 17 of Japan 's total of 40 nuclear plants . |
| 14 | These firms aggregate demand and buy from a handful of gas producers , which supply nearly half of Europe 's gas from beyond mainland Europe , and will supply much more soon . |
| 15 | After lunch ( not included ) visit the Medieval town of Gouda , famous for its cheese but with a lot more to discover such as St. Jans Kerk which contains over half of Holland 's antique stained-glass windows , the Gothic City Hall dating back to 1430 and a collection of fascinating museums . |
| 16 | LGCM urged support for an amendment moved by Malcolm Johnson ( the rector of St Botolph 's ) , which deleted almost all of Higton 's wording and instead affirmed ‘ the essential of the biblical message that human love is a reflection of divine love and should be characterised by the permanency and commitment of relationships . ’ |
| 17 | But since then , public opinion has become aware of other dangers , through such events as the Iranian revolution and the threat to oil supplies , staggering increases in fuel prices , or , in another connection , the power failure of 19 December 1978 , which affected almost all of France . |
| 18 | It was uncertain whether the methods developed to survey fossiliferous sediments could be applied to the deformed crystalline rocks which underlie so much of Scotland . |
| 19 | He rightly emphasises the overseas Chinese , who do indeed get everywhere , be it Jakarta or Lima , and the Confucianism which underlies so much of East Asia 's economic success . |
| 20 | The principal cause of New Zealand 's economic problems was its failure to respond quickly enough to the post-war decline in prices for agricultural commodities , which constituted almost two-thirds of exports . |
| 21 | But in 1987 a huge earthquake smashed the trans-Andean oil pipeline which furnishes about half of Ecuador 's exports . |
| 22 | This is merely a variant of our friend the stress concentration which governs so much of engineering and materials science . |
| 23 | I watch as they disappear down the road , then turn and walk through the hamlet which seems completely free of people . |
| 24 | The Cabinet adopted an emergency US$1,200 million plan for immigration absorption in early August which fell far short of Sharon 's demands , but nevertheless infuriated Moda'i . |
| 25 | The Low Country , which contained about half of Sinhala Sri Lanka 's population , corresponded roughly to the area which was subject to direct Dutch and Portuguese political influence . |
| 26 | The Graduate would be financed and released by Embassy Pictures , the company Joseph E. Levine had formed in the late fifties to exploit cheap European spectacles such as the Hercules films with muscle-man Steve Reeves , which brought in millions of dollars . |
| 27 | Although all but a small part of the encircling wall has gone , the older part of the city , with its narrow winding streets which witnessed so much of Scotland 's history , is still clearly separate from the New Town , the two being surrounded by the Victorian and Edwardian developments . |
| 28 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
| 29 | A Finn represented the fusion of Scandinavia and Hungary ( to which country they were first cousins ) so no doubt she expected too much of Erkki . |
| 30 | He says : ‘ If you expect too much of people , you are going to be disappointed . |