Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is for me the epitome of the Italian style at its best — he is Spanish , of course , but he has the true Italian style . |
| 2 | Clearly the whereabouts of those bottles , and the number of them , had been one of the P'daytabird 's little secrets , for Warnie writes , ‘ Nothing brought home to me the finality of the old life as did the carrying out of those bottles and putting them into [ the ] car — to see the mysteries of that jealously guarded secret room emerge as plain matter of fact bottles , and the cellar stand revealed as an ordinary empty cupboard was an unpleasant feeling . ’ |
| 3 | But give me the benefit of the biochemical doubt , for that is perhaps not , except amongst professional biochemists , the most important question . |
| 4 | The Minister of State , my right hon. Friend the Member for Oxford , West and Abingdon ( Mr. Patten ) , was on the Front Bench yesterday and has reported to me the content of the ten-minute Bill and the vote . |
| 5 | We have ten volumes of those adventures to give away in our latest competition and they will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me the surname of the puppet-master producer behind the so-called ‘ Supermarionation ’ series . |
| 6 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Will you tell me the nature of the missing papers ? ’ |
| 7 | These syllables are for me the quintessence of the Beautiful , the Worthy , they are an inspiration , a political confession of faith and a moral and spiritual claim ’ . |
| 8 | Long experience has , however , shown to me the danger of the good being lost through the devotion of some to what they think to be the best . |
| 9 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 10 | ‘ You wo n't be able to tell me the height of the Sistine Chapel ? ’ |
| 11 | The English liberals studied their seventeenth-century predecessors with great attention — Wordsworth frequently refers with enthusiasm to Milton and Algernon Sidney — but for them the land of the free was on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 12 | Why , it is in the power of Jesus to whom all authority in heaven and earth is entrusted ; this Jesus is with them always in their mission , to the end of the age ; and naturally , therefore , they baptise men not only into the possession , the ‘ name ’ , of God the Father and the Lord Jesus , but into the sphere of that Holy Spirit who makes real to them the presence of the risen Christ , and empowers them for their work of making him known ( Matt. 28:18–20 ) . |
| 13 | There is no point in library staff researching rose varieties for an enquirer , for example , when we can give them the address of the National Rose Society , which we know to be helpful . |
| 14 | It was perhaps not accidental that the deputy political manager for the Earl of Ilay , Lord Milton , was the Lord Justice Clerk , for between them the head of the Justiciary Court and the crown law officers controlled the criminal justice system . |
| 15 | I gave them the meat of the dead animal , and they gave us more food and water . |
| 16 | However , he does not as Tarrow seems to argue , ignore class contradictions within the territorially based proletarian community ; in fact he pays particular attention to the complex class structure of the depressed areas , identifying as crucial within them the role of the rural intelligentsia , the commercial intermediaries and the local clergy . |
| 17 | The idea of marching them the length of the British Isles , to Plymouth , as a propaganda exercise , was not pursued . |
| 18 | For them the extent of the new prosperity may be doubted , although their relationships with their masters had come to be based on the basis of cash rather than service . |
| 19 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 20 | And while we 're about it I 'll give you the name of the best dentist in America . |
| 21 | Well I 'd be happy to give you the name of the particular one but I do n't know whether it applies to the young . |
| 22 | Here I lie , about to tell you the legend of the Other Side . |
| 23 | Mr Rodriguez , are you the husband of the late Inday Rodriguez ? |
| 24 | This is of more use than you might think , since it tells you the limit of the dynamic variable allocation . |
| 25 | To him the outline of the Swiss Wilds always looked the same . |
| 26 | His quaint commentaries made him the voice of the modern game , providing stark contrast to the loud-mouthed antics of some superbrat players . |
| 27 | Maybe he just did n't think when they showed him it , that it was n't the right one cos I suppose if you 've seen them every day you do n't , it does n't register it 's just the fact that of course your dad only gave him the price of the blue and white |
| 28 | Forced to depart from Suxavat by its apocalyptic destruction , Urim 's final journey to the Andes reveals to him the mirror-image of the Hindu Kush of his origins . |
| 29 | Through him the notion of the responsible use of power by a divinely ordained ruling class was introduced directly into the educational system , and boys were exposed systematically and en masse to an idea which only a few of them could have been counted on to pick up informally at home . |
| 30 | I nearly called him the chairman of the Tory party — I apologise . |