Example sentences of "[pron] of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us finish by reminding ourselves of the traditional skills and purposes of historians . |
| 2 | Once we can rid ourselves of the dual notions that some magic divides jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional questions and that all matters of law have one inexorably correct meaning which must always be supplied by the courts , we are in a position to make a reasoned choice . |
| 3 | The duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating . |
| 4 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 5 | He knew nothing of the other facts and , as he continued relentlessly , Jenna was pleased she had not told him . |
| 6 | This is to say nothing of the varied forms and objects of laughter that there may be : spontaneous hilarity ; dark chuckles over black humour ; knowing , ironic laughter ; the nervous giggles of imperfect comprehension . |
| 7 | Find out which of the above programmes and their producers are likely to be most sympathetic to your style of music and remember the following : |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Now have you got plenty of the wee tablets or are you finished ? |
| 10 | This is just as well , since such a decision will deprive you of the legal rights that you would have if you were dismissed . |
| 11 | I need hardly remind you of the many emergencies that Save The Children has responded to in recent years . |
| 12 | But I am going to having said that I will tell you of the few accidents that have occurred over the years , and one of them was mine in the early days when I was learning th the full size removal job . |
| 13 | If , then , this column is going to be devoted to what could be called the ecology ( or Eco-logy ) of popular culture , it 's obliged to recognize that none of the emblematic artifices and artefacts of that culture , be they movies , commercials , headlines , photographs , typefaces , fashions or fads , can any longer be trusted to be ‘ innocent ’ ; that even if the crisp elegance of the typeface in which this article is embedded emits a ‘ meaning ’ as much as does the text itself , that meaning is also just as conscious and deliberate . |
| 14 | The hijackers , who had threatened to blow up the aircraft , surrendered to Thai authorities in the early hours of Oct. 7 ; none of the 79 passengers or four crew was injured . |
| 15 | In any event , say the Pakistanis , none of the Arab countries except for Egypt is prepared to take its awkward citizens back . |
| 16 | There were pubs in London which had a clientèle made up of original skinheads , whose age tended to be above 25 , and at which none of the new boots and braces or plastic skins would be tolerated . |
| 17 | In my A stream class at " the convent " I knew none of the other girls and rarely saw my former classmates . |
| 18 | He has none of the other worries or tasks that you have to deal with daily . |
| 19 | On the west side , Ingleborough is a shadowy giant revealing none of the many wonders that attract its legions of pilgrims ; and to the east , green slopes rise with little incident to dark moors forming a distant skyline . |
| 20 | Again , for reasons stated above , this group was differentiated along gender lines , occurring in none of the female cases and 30 per cent of the male cases . |
| 21 | None of the fatal accidents or occupational diseases mentioned earlier were the result of any corporate officials intending to kill or mutilate hundreds of employees , customers , or civilians . |
| 22 | As yet , though , the best measurements of the microwave background show none of the tell-tale marks that such flaws would leave . |
| 23 | After all , I was more of an outsider there than at home , being out of my milieu and having none of the social graces or advantages of my fellow-pupils . |
| 24 | Over time the interest group universe will be very stable , with none of the free-wheeling alliances and rapid organizational growth and declines expected by pluralists . |
| 25 | There 's none of the dazzling leaps or appalling lapses that gave previous albums a dynamic range . |
| 26 | And he tells how none of the assembled guards and officials could look his father in the eye as he protested his innocence . |
| 27 | Supper at the kitchen table — bread coarsely cut and buttered , with none of the little refinements that were considered necessary for the family , who ate in another room . |
| 28 | There have been none of the head-on clashes that occurred in 1986 , when President Mitterrand had as his prime minister the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac . |
| 29 | Oh , that they knew er something of the Hebrew scriptures because they were expecting the Messiah were n't they ? |
| 30 | er the other one of us will erm take the one of the other cars and put Philip in that and drive him there . |