Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [verb] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It provides an opportunity for the child to get plenty of attention for being good . |
| 2 | Evidence is all around us , and the first step in any research is for the scientist to decide which of the many facts are of concern to him . |
| 3 | Wales , meaning the suffering Welsh public , desperately needed the comfort of Saturday 's epic encounter before a Stradey Park gathering fit for the occasion to remind themselves of the level of attainment of which their game is still capable . |
| 4 | It is worth the effort to convey something of how this is done but do not worry if you find the remaining paragraphs of this section rather abstract and demanding . |
| 5 | I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons . |
| 6 | The salted scent of the sea told her of fishing far off on La Blanquilla . |
| 7 | ( The teaching of the Catechism has something of the air of a lost cause about it . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe I fully intended to tell you , but you 'd made me furious by lunching with my secretary — jealousy again of course , ’ he inserted ‘ and then spent some of the mealtime telling me of it . |
| 9 | This provided the opportunity for the members of the committee to see something of the rural development problems and programmes in Lewis and Harris , and discuss them with some of those working on them . |
| 10 | The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis . |
| 11 | For example for ‘ ha ? ’ , if had , hag , ham , has , hat , haw and hay were found to be candidates , it would be left to further stages of analysis of the system to determine which of these is more likely to be the intended word , although they can be suggested in order of their frequency of use calculated from a corpus of English text . |
| 12 | The design of the dress robbed me of breasts but revealed white angular shoulders which added an extra foot to my thin white arms . |
| 13 | The future exhibitions programme of the ICA supplies something of a guide to the sorts of significances that a critically-minded culture of a post-modernist kind will be pursuing in the next year or two . |
| 14 | The tranquillity and gentleness of the scene reminded her of Japanese paintings . |
| 15 | One of the parents accused him of ‘ smiling when it was completely inappropriate to do so ’ . |
| 16 | The above bare statement of the facts tells nothing of the mental agonies suffered by persons wrongly accused of murder and by the members of their families . |
| 17 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 18 | Obviously a paper like the News of the World has lots of assistants , more than deputy . |
| 19 | And here is the central paradox : the system that no mainstream party now challenges continues to tear open the fabric of the planet to gut it of resources ; a process that sets in movement streams of developmental refugees , waves of environmentally displaced persons , those economic migrants for whom the west repudiates all responsibility . |
| 20 | The avoidance of the need to teach anything of programming or electronic engineering to students whose interests , aptitudes and qualifications were almost entirely based in art and language . |
| 21 | The third element of European policy that the Leader of the Opposition accused us of ignoring was regional policy . |
| 22 | Musgrave suggested the scenery along this stretch of the Seine reminded him of Norfolk : ‘ more like English scenery than any district I had seen in Europe . ’ |
| 23 | The pilot of the Stuka had plenty of courage and pulled up his nose to have a crack at me with his forward firing guns . |
| 24 | For no reason he could think of the rooms reminded him of a deserted stage set when the play has ended its run and the actors have gone . |
| 25 | the order of the objectives reveals something of the process of historical writing . |
| 26 | The smell of the place reminded me of a kipper factory . |
| 27 | It was cold , silent in the room , the scent of the candles reminding him of the tomb beneath the earth at Tongjiang . |
| 28 | But she was still meditating for hours and waiting for the voice of the flat to inform her of its favoured colour scheme . |
| 29 | He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall . |
| 30 | It , really and truthfully , like the Headway do plenty of functions and the rest of it but you can do a better job than Headway . |