Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the rotaries , as with any noise gate , take a little time to get into using and effective gating comes about through practice , although it can at times appear something of a black art . |
| 2 | He eventually slumps back into his seat , his smarting face and aching eyes reminding him of the misled thought journey that took him back round to before where he started . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that Dement performed experiments after this one in which his subjects showed none of the psychiatric symptoms with REM sleep deprivation , and that he himself made clear how his early observations were probably misleading about the effects of REM sleep deprivation , the idea that dreaming preserved sanity had been strongly reinforced . |
| 4 | If any readers know anything of the current whereabouts of Tin Tin , Milly Molly Mandy , Jennings and/or Derbyshire , Rupert Bear , any of the Famous Five or Secret Seven , Billy Bunter , My Naughty Little Sister ( presumably now in freelance tax-free employment round the back of King 's Cross ? ) or any of the many others , I 'd like to hear about it . |
| 5 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 6 | As a subject people regarded as inferior to Japanese , Koreans possessed none of the democratic rights enjoyed by Japanese . |
| 7 | And , although the meeting of their lips had none of the searching hunger that they had shared before , there was something in the touch that reassured her . |
| 8 | Similarly , andesite flows show none of the obvious surface features of ‘ liquid ’ lavas : pahoehoe flows never occur and all andesite flows have a rough bouldery surface . |
| 9 | Decisions should also be reached as to whether appointment lists should be displayed in the school and parents invited to come in to choose a discussion time or whether staff will decide and write to parents informing them of an allocated time . |
| 10 | Philip Bond gives a wonderful and moving portrayal of jaded professor Frank , who does his tutoring job so well he has to watch the once passionate and sentimental Rita turn into a trendy talker whose empty phrases contain nothing of the real her . |
| 11 | Riders from the Empire sent word to Bretonnia , Kislev , and the southern kingdoms warning them of the inevitable approach of the armada . |
| 12 | The fire had been doused under a great , smoking heap of insects ; the human beings shook themselves like dogs to rid themselves of the sickening creatures , which were showing , for some reason , perhaps because she was wearing a white muslin dress , a particular desire to land on Lucy . |
| 13 | Now these messages remind me of the old Tarzan movies , now you were all old enough now to remember the old Tarzan movies . |
| 14 | His heroes had none of the traditional grandeur appropriate to demigods and he reduced the customary high language of the genre accordingly . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , he was retained and the secretary was instructed to write to the parish officers informing them of the same ; they were told to pay the subscription within a few days otherwise Spies would be discharged from the infirmary . |
| 16 | Quite what that meant is unclear and perhaps was unclear then ( the terms of the 817 Ordinatio would have needed updating anyway since Pippin I had died ) ; but the one thing that was perfectly clear was that Lothar was abrogating the 839 division-plan. |
| 17 | This paragraph seems to indicate that it may be possible for a person who has received information in confidence which he could have obtained through other sources to relieve himself of the 'special disability " under which he is otherwise placed by going to those sources . |
| 18 | It was , as Steve Hammond said , all there , but there was nothing , she realised , in all those pages to tell her of the particular hell this couple must have been through . |
| 19 | Technically , the Act does not oblige the person imposing the conditions to specify which of the alternative grounds he relies upon for his authority to do so , although where the event is to be held in the future , the directions given by the chief of police must be in writing . |
| 20 | A commentator in the Financial Times delivered himself of the following judgment : ‘ Tripe is tripe : if it is not then what we have here is codswallop , tommyrot , drivel . |
| 21 | At this point , we need to test our alternative scientific theories to see which of the above is the ‘ correct process ’ . |
| 22 | Willie pulls himself up the stairs reminding me of an elderly praying mantis . |
| 23 | As noted in Chapter 3 , there is no inherent power for partners to rid themselves of an unwanted colleague short of seeking a dissolution unless their partnership agreement contains express provision . |
| 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 | I can then approach the overseas groups knowing something of the overall picture . |
| 26 | Yet another Messiah on ‘ early ’ instruments , conspiring no doubt to send retailers completely mad in their attempts to decide which of the many available readings they should plump for . |
| 27 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 28 | For instance , in the South-East region ( as defined in the relevant edition of the Times Guide to the House of Commons ) the Liberals won none of the 40 seats , Labour took only three , whilst the Conservatives — for less than half the total constituency votes — bagged all the rest . |
| 29 | C64 board games have something of a chequered history — is this twin pack a ‘ renaissance ’ , the ‘ king ’ of board sims or would you rather ‘ pawn ’ it at the earliest opportunity ? |
| 30 | In summary , the questions in studies of more and less have revolved around three issues : ( a ) whether children have full or only partial lexical knowledge about the pertinent word meanings ; ( b ) the extent to which children rely on non-linguistic strategies in the absence of lexical information ( clearly children know none of the pertinent meanings at first for a domain , and several studies have documented the kinds of non-linguistic strategies they then rely on in responding to instructions — see Clark , 1973b , 1979,1980 ; Donaldson and McGarrigle , 1974 ) ; and ( c ) whether children observe the principle of Contrast . |