Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often this is because they fail to understand what is expected of them under the broad , general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act . |
| 2 | Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties . |
| 3 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 4 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 5 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 6 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 7 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 8 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 9 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 10 | Aha and that gets rid of it from the front page . |
| 11 | She had forgotten that her papa was supposed to be dead , and had spoken of him in the present tense , a fact not wasted on Dr Neil , who made no comment , but asked politely , ‘ And does all this stockmarket bargaining mean that you are going to make me a cup of tea , or not ? |
| 12 | The production of Mark 3 vehicles , at first for the High Speed Trains , began in 1975 , but the proportion of even top-grade express trains composed of them in the early 1980s was stili small . |
| 13 | In keeping with the reassessment of Hungarian history under way since the beginning of 1989 , a resolution was passed on May 15 , 1990 , restoring citizenship ( in some cases posthumously ) to people deprived of it during the political repression between the late 1940s and the early 1960s . |
| 14 | I had the impression of a cautious , reflective man , who would take his work seriously and perform what was required of him to the best of his ability . |
| 15 | Each stance is capable of performing what is required of it in the right context . |