Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them such as the American Express Gold Card and the NatWest Mastercard are charge cards , not credit cards . |
| 2 | about five of them all with the same name ? |
| 3 | More generally , he was certainly the most effective in making his mark abroad ; he was the most sought-after of them all in the European marriage market , which was both highly profitable and rewarding to morale when this Scottish king succeeded where an English one failed and Mary of Guise became James 's second wife , rather than Henry VIII 's fourth . |
| 4 | and if people could get a copy of them all before the next meeting |
| 5 | Three other qualities , less obvious , emerge when we look deeper ; all of them relevant to the principal theme of this book . |
| 6 | The fist techniques of taekwondo involve lunge punches , reverse punches , back fists and hammer fists — all of them similar to the basic karate punches described in the previous chapter . |
| 7 | Hold them at the same height above the ground and let go of them both at the same moment . |
| 8 | Yeah they 're spellings are a little bit easier than ours cos they change some of them some of the awkward ones . |
| 9 | The Bond collection contains 350 paintings , most of them Australian of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist vintage , Mr Cross said . |
| 10 | Managers were bombarded with 47 DHSS " priorities " , many of them contradictory but all of them subservient to the overriding need to cut costs . |
| 11 | They exchanged what he describes , with lowered eyes , as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ , which I imagine to be a sordid discussion about the cost of one swift and surely emotionally unsatisfying and physically degrading copulation , and proceeded on their way up the now rapidly dusking street — one of them bright with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and the other already stepping into the heavy gloom of unavoidable and deserved shame or guilt . |
| 12 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 13 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 14 | By that time , the French had already built an extensive network in North Africa , the Uganda Railway was under construction , the Germans had begun their railways in both Tanganyika and South West Africa , and the British had driven their railway through the Sudan as part of their reconquest of the upper Nile . |
| 15 | Standing on the edge of the lake , they threw some small memento of their dead into the rippling water — a final request that their souls should rest in peace . |
| 16 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 17 | Similarly a grant is paid to staff who move from a rented unfurnished house or flat to a similar property at the new base or who buy a house of their own at the new location . |
| 18 | But many Special Hospital patients could move straight into independent living in hostels or flats of their own with the right professional support from local services . |
| 19 | The magnificence of crinoline and the billowing hoop-skirt were certainly exciting an interest of their own in the mid-1850s , as something symptomatic of the extravagant optimism of the period . |
| 20 | The horses , of which four of the original six appeared at the 1816 exhibition , were described as ‘ stout Normans , dark brown in colour and … very fleet and hardy . ’ |
| 21 | The world at that instant splits up into many worlds , in each of which one of the possible results of the measurement is the one that actually occurs . |
| 22 | Ramsay was essentially unhappy with the baroque idiom , of which one of the basic tenets is inherent movement , which he found difficult to express . |
| 23 | The sharpness of the turn led to a bitter faction fight , at the end of which most of the recent recruits had either left or been ejected on the toe of Healy 's boot . |
| 24 | They claim that the Council 's agreement to establish a working group to review the whole situation , of which three of the six members would be representatives of the players , represented ‘ the first step towards recognition of the players ’ right to have an equal voice in the management of the game . ’ |
| 25 | The proximal tentacle pores are large armed with long rounded scales of which those on the lateral plate are the larger ; they number as follows : . |
| 26 | Everywhere the most important element was a department or more usually a series of departments divided along geographical lines , which handled correspondence with missions abroad , of which those in the major European capitals were by far the most significant . |
| 27 | However , one will do well to reflect on the following remark of Bentham ( of which some of the second part of this work might be seen as an endorsement ) . |
| 28 | In addition to the national objectives such as Health of the Nation , Patient 's Charter and Caring for People , NEHA has identified specific targets of its own for the coming year . |
| 29 | Questions are frequently divided into two or more parts , and this division raises difficulties of its own for the inexpert candidate . |
| 30 | In December , when a meeting between Mr Baker and Mr Hussein still looked possible , the European Community decided against starting talks of its own with the Iraqi leadership . |