Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She stared back at him , a total and willing victim of his dark physical presence , aware of nothing but the low sexual note in his voice and the excitement engendered by the slow stroke of his hands . |
2 | Robbie could think of nothing but the deep growing ache around which every sense seemed focused . |
3 | Full assimilation of them into the old upper class would seem unlikely . |
4 | Organic molecules , some of them of the same general types as are normally only found in living things , have spontaneously assembled themselves in these flasks . |
5 | So , for instance , if you wanted access to a management information system on your Unix computer , to an accounts system running on a mainframe , and to a spreadsheet running locally on the PC , it would be possible to reach all of them via the same windowing front-end . |
6 | Richards and King put on 139 for the fifth wicket in just seventy-seven minutes , King annihilating the bowlers to the tune of three sixes and ten fours in his 86 , most of them from the three part-time bowlers who conceded , by coincidence , 86 between them . |
7 | It will now be a limited handicap which should mean avoiding the farce of last year when only three went to the post , two of them from the same stable . |
8 | The article gives the possibility of legal action against individual sellers or suppliers , or groups of them from the same economic sector , or against their trade associations . |
9 | Since 1947 a total of about 570 has been recorded , about a third of them in the two severe winters of early 1956 ( c. 44 birds ) , and 1962/63 ( c. 154 birds ) . |
10 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
11 | Leonora forgot Guy and everything else in her rediscovered world as Penry 's presence transformed the darkness into an exciting , intimate microcosm inhabited by two people oblivious of everything but the sheer physical pleasure of being together . |
12 | It is symptomatic of our age that we wish to declare the existence of everything in the loudest possible way . |
13 | But she was not taken out of herself by the sweeping cosmic changes of light and colour . |
14 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |
15 | The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality . |
16 | The origin of ITV can be explained in many ways : as a classic case ( perhaps the first , post-war ) of high pressure political lobbying ; as Churchill 's revenge on the BBC for its disdainful treatment of him during the 1926 General Strike and in his wilderness years in the 1930s , when he was largely kept off the air ; or as part of the Conservative move to ‘ set the people free ’ from the bureaucracy and greyness allegedly intrinsic to Labour planning and the construction of the welfare state ( sweets , be it remembered , did not finally come off ration until 1953 ) . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | On the wall of his surprisingly modest flat , a street away from the stadium , is a framed picture of him in the hallowed yellow shirt of Brazil , taken before one of his 25 international appearances . |
19 | It is the decisions , the policies , the judgement , motives , principles and ambitions , the skill and lack of it of the leading political actors which are decisive . |
20 | Hendrique , using two paper napkins to protect his hands , removed the strip light from its socket on the ceiling of the carriage directly above the table then unravelled a length of flex and secured the two crocodile clips at the end of it to the respective overhead power points . |
21 | If nothing else you feel for a man blighted by an absurdly exalted image — and one who can make a joke out of it in the wonderful tongue-in-cheek prophecy of The End of the World that closes the album ( ‘ Nostradamus and Jesus and Buddha and me/ We said it was coming/ Now just wait and see ’ ) . |
22 | Yes , if one separates the controlling element , i.e. the timing , the sort of electro-mechanical aspect of it from the controlled interfaced circuits , i.e. the motors and the drive electronics that go with that , i.e. one compares the reliability of the let's assume the single chip microcomputer replacing the electro-mechanical conventional timer , then the reliability is n times better . |
23 | The Columbus cast is half old-timers and half new blood , much of it from the so-called alternative comedy set . |
24 | You both lose awareness of self-consciousness , of anything but the current overwhelming physical and emotional sensations . |
25 | At times , as I have researched this book , it has occurred to me that the second-hand book world is the only place left in England where knowledge of anything but the latest semi-literate fads still exists . |
26 | All of us in the European socialist movement in the European trades union movement insists that employees are not just units of production , but are entitled to rights at work across the European community . |
27 | The only constant is change , and this is particularly true for those of us in the new emerging divisions . |
28 | Many of us from the so-called developed countries are engaged in advising developing countries on their rural and other development problems . |