Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But we would expect potential partners to be sympathetic , because surely healthy and sustainable stocks are to the advantage of everyone with a long-term interest in Namibia 's fisheries . ’
2 ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’
3 ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man .
4 I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person .
5 The road became narrower and ran ahead of me like a twisting silver elver .
6 Men have been known to write and ask for a picture of me in a bathing costume .
7 ‘ Male fans ask for pictures of me in a bathing costure
8 One can easily produce evidence at the present day of great local abundance ( e.g. of starfish or pilchards ) , but I know of nothing on a modern sea-floor to compare with the abundance plus wide distribution of the examples just mentioned .
9 If she had entrusted one of them with her secret thoughts , made one of them into a particular friend , it would have created immediate parochial difficulties , rifts and divisions and jealousies .
10 When they reached the base of the steep drop into the valley , they spotted Bob Lamb striding out ahead of them at a brisk pace .
11 Instead he received all of the 3,813 papers , but each of them at a reduced value .
12 The effect will be the same as in the distribution of a primary surplus : in the simpler system the transfer of a proportion of the available votes , the transfer of all of them at a reduced value if the senatorial rules are used .
13 Thus an association of features leads to the attribution of all of them to a common agency , rather like the association of subglacial channels with eskers in a different context .
14 Plenty of steps , most of them with a rich reward for the climber , such as those that lead to the Lindenhof .
15 Keith Ramsey supplied three of them with a long-range shot 15 seconds from time , but Gerald Lee marshalled his team through .
16 The Wapping area involved four or five local authorities and the plan was to leave each of them with a high degree of autonomy but with some rather unconsidered federal situation over the whole area .
17 Nathan nodded his thanks as the waiter presented each of them with a leather-bound menu .
18 Evelyn watched the two of them with a little smile on her face .
19 The actual question appeared each time on the screen in front of them with a seven point scale with labels at the end points — 7=VERY WELL and 1=NOT VERY WELL .
20 ‘ I 've ended up most of them with a full confession , once we 'd worked it out .
21 In that aim it is abetted both by nature conservation bodies — duped by the MoD 's tendentious Defence and the Environment prospectus of three years ago , into believing that the area 's interests are best served by the public being kept out — and by factions within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority , most of them with a military background , who also tug their forelocks to that aim .
22 yeah , the , that 's the awful part I tried one of them with a big bit here and I tried it on and it looked like a tit on a pimple , I said god what am I gon na do ?
23 You could admire them from a safe distance , but you would n't want to run into one of them on a dark night at the crossroads .
24 There were more double doors at the end and in front of them on a tubular chair sat a uniformed constable reading the Sunday Express .
25 In the United Kingdom in 1988 , there were 1298 publicly maintained nursery schools catering for some 98,000 children , 82% of them on a part-time basis .
26 Of importance here is the fact that 14 interviewees ( 23 per cent ) were regular users of another opioid , principally Diconal , eight of them on a daily basis .
27 Another reason for our inability to give accurate figures is due to the prevalence of several other types of population movement , some of them on a huge scale , although extended over a longer period .
28 The lead fisherman wore shades ( ever see fish wearing glasses ? ) for the bluesy number and got rid of them for a rappy tune ( thank God ! ) .
29 There was sand everywhere between the knee-high crags , so I climbed on one of them for a better view .
30 Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify .
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