Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [pron] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems a shame to waste the opportunity to see something of the country . ’ |
| 2 | When the goods have been dispatched , the manufacturer sends an advice note to the retailer informing him of the date and time of dispatch . |
| 3 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |
| 4 | The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis . |
| 5 | It was not until the 1960s that the courts rid themselves of the most debilitating restraints of formalism and assumed a more active supervisory role . |
| 6 | Schellenberg said cautiously , ‘ So the Führer knows nothing of the affair ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Now then , ’ the magistrate continued smoothly , ‘ I understand that in the course of a telephone call yesterday afternoon the kidnappers informed you of the whereabouts of a letter from them , and that this letter was subsequently recovered . |
| 8 | The building reminded me of a con-servatory , the walls being made from small panes of glass . |
| 9 | The story reminded me of a report I once received from an Advisor about a youngster who was out of school . |
| 10 | But it had a particularly important clause in section 1 , which laid a duty upon the authorities to inform themselves of the numbers of disabled persons in their areas and to make arrangements to meet their needs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | An appeal against a committal order based upon a failure to serve the committal order on the contemnor presents somewhat of a paradox . |
| 14 | My man in the sombrero tells me of an incident at Goldsmith 's Mexican estate two weeks ago which has severed relations for the foreseeable future . |
| 15 | If you wish the Department to notify you of the result of the Inquiry please state this in your letter . |
| 16 | He is a double winner of the rally but that was some time ago and since then McKinstry has made the place very much is own , his sequence of victories punctuated only by the years in which he did not have a competitive car or the opposition included someone of the calibre of Mikael Sundstrom . |
| 17 | But the stroke made none of the impact she was expecting . |
| 18 | The boy in the daylight reminded me of a bird , a bold curious bird . |
| 19 | In many of these sonnets the poet accuses himself of a gross failure in judgement in having formed a relationship with this woman . |
| 20 | Even at this stage conciliation is encouraged and the EAT is enabled to take such steps as it thinks fit to enable the parties to avail themselves of the opportunity for conciliation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The editor knew nothing of the story of Boyd 's promotion , about to be featured in the financial section , and she said firmly that it was Henry she wanted . |
| 23 | The prompt indicates which of the syllables of the sentence is to be the tonic syllable ( ie carrying the main stress ) . |
| 24 | Bought clothing in the south had none of the hard-wearing qualities of northern home-spun . |
| 25 | The boy repeated none of the simple errors he had made first time round . |
| 26 | Designed with the shell of the old smiddy and adjoining cottages , the inn retains something of the original atmosphere . |
| 27 | In a way the sound reminds me of a small-bodied Gibson from the '30s or '40s , but with more volume and a clearer bass end . |
| 28 | The sound reminds me of the bass sound on all those expensively-produced American AOR albums — smooth , almost too clean , but live there 's an enormous amount of wallop available . ’ |
| 29 | The African told him of the anger in the hearts of his generation . |
| 30 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |