Example sentences of "[be] [pron] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 2 | I do believe they wore top hats , but there are none of the usual wedding photographs to confirm that . |
| 3 | Generally , there are none of the inane pizzaman delivery scenarios you find in commercial porn — something consumers cherish about the amateurs . |
| 4 | If I am unfortunate enough to experience the untimely death of several people I am attached to so that it forms something of a pattern , then I am likely to experience considerable difficulty with my bereavements : there has been none of the unconscious preparation for the death of someone close that goes on in our awareness of incidents that are likely to occur . |
| 5 | There have been none of the special postage stamps or government statements which usually mark bicentenaries of famous writers . |
| 6 | Only do this where you think there may actually be someone of the right calibre available . |
| 7 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 8 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 9 | A glowing profile by a local journalist of the time said : ‘ There 's nothing of the ruthless businessman in him . |
| 10 | The Back Bowls have only two main lifts so there is none of the mechanical clanking that blights so many resorts . |
| 11 | There is none of the discrete lumpiness we saw in our first experiment when a bullet at a time hit the screen , now here , now there . |
| 12 | There is none of the restless westwardness of the US . |
| 13 | And perhaps the most difficult one to remember is the easiest of the lot , the acid plus the metal cos there 's none of the usual stuff , no salt no water just the hydrogen coming off . |
| 14 | There 's none of the daily rancour which develops when people live bovinely together . |
| 15 | There 's none of the rigorous logic and choreographed confusion of real farce , and director Jude Kelly labours under the mistaken impression that if the characters rush around and shout a lot , then they are bound to be funny . |
| 16 | What we do learn , however , from the article and the use of it by Hildyard and Olson is something of the ideological nature of recent claims for the consequences of literacy . |
| 17 | There 's something of the same blankness of effect , too , in Ismail Saray 's white sheet hung against red , the white perforated with large burnt holes . |
| 18 | When you or , when you order five hundred reams of paper , do you get five hundred reams and is it of the right quality from the sheets . |
| 19 | But there was nothing of the old maid about her . |
| 20 | There was none of the coy evasion of most women in her , he was thinking ; and went on as if she had not spoken . |
| 21 | They were becoming very tired , and when they came back from their missions there was none of the former exuberance if everyone returned safely , and just fatalistic shoulder-shrugging if someone was lost . |
| 22 | On landing there was none of the Spanish bureaucracy we 'd been expecting — you just need your passport number for the fuel bill . |
| 23 | When Mala switched off , there was none of the intimate cosiness of her last talk with Chertro . |
| 24 | There was none of the constant supervision that you got in Holloway , just one officer on the house for twenty-two women , and no screw on at night , which absolutely amazed me . |
| 25 | But there was none of the bad feeling that marred last year 's contest at the end of the race and each crew cheering the other . |
| 26 | There was none of the careful preparation and gradual introduction which usually precedes the adoption of a child beyond infancy . |
| 27 | There was none of the customary tearfulness , no hint of hand-wringing despair . |
| 28 | There was none of the green lushness of mainland Italy here . |
| 29 | There was none of the so-called obscenity — real sex shops and real sex films or honest free-trading prostitutes of either sex , or any allied pleasurable activities : the scourge of the righteous . |
| 30 | So certain was he of the Huge Reward that he was feeling unusually generous . |