Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lack of coins deprives us of the evidence to form any assessment of their dynastic histories or tribal boundaries . |
| 2 | A letter was sent to the parish officers of Kempston informing them of the gross impropriety of their conduct respecting the patient and the institution . |
| 3 | At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture . |
| 4 | The portraits of Chatterton have something of the importance to the novel that the living and ageing likeness has in The Picture of Dorian Gray . |
| 5 | They remain different ways , because the institutions of natural science involve the practice of giving causal explanations with the aid of models and statistics , whereas those of religion involve nothing of the sort . |
| 6 | I had completely forgotten Karen until her squeal of laughter reminded me of the answer to Alison 's question . |
| 7 | Another observation was of the isolation which can be experienced by the housewife , despite a close and happy marriage , when a move of residence deprives her of the company of friends . |
| 8 | Somehow , though , and it was a complete mystery to her why , she felt an odd sort of reluctance to do anything of the kind . |
| 9 | SEEING THE ARTICLE on the ‘ 109 in the July issue of FlyPast reminded me of the first time I saw it . |
| 10 | Betty thanked her for the bucket and smiled at her , and Lydia , who , if Betty went on like this , might turn out to be quite human , decided that she would take her her breakfast in bed in the morning : thin crispy toast with a scraping of butter and golden clear jasmine tea , and an egg-cupful of harebells to remind her of the sky . |
| 11 | You must memorise your Personal Number and destroy the slip of paper notifying you of the number . |
| 12 | In contrast , the portrait of Ahmed has none of the disdain which could be observed in the writer 's article about Michael X. Ahmed 's bluffs are called , but they are understood , and carefully related to his earlier life on the island . |
| 13 | His kind of wildness understood nothing of the law , nothing of the limits obscure people like themselves had to submit to , he would lead her family and others into a similar misapprehension of the way things are and always have been : they would n't grasp the impossibility of change , the need to keep still like an animal avoiding a hunter on its tracks . |
| 14 | If there were such ‘ memory peptides ’ and each was present in the brain in the concentration of scotophobin , then to code for the memories of a human lifetime would demand that the brain contained a mass of peptides weighing something of the order of 100 kilograms — or rather more than the weight of an average human . |
| 15 | Her suffering would have overwhelmed anyone with less spirit , as the futile efforts of science to rid her of the growths ravage her body . |
| 16 | The technique by which in the fourth century B.C. the Chronicler rewrote and modernized the Books of Kings reminds us of the technique by which in the late fourth century Ephorus and Theopompus rewrote and modernized Herodotus and Thucydides . |
| 17 | Sharpe did not reveal that the Prince of Orange knew nothing of the orders . |
| 18 | An Anglican priest , Father Bernard Schunemann , told the congregation : ‘ The terrible death of James reminds us of the very real possibility of evil , evil in ourselves , evil in each one of us , evil certainly in young people . ’ |