Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Registration at an exchange was not to be compulsory for the unemployed ; their large numbers and the mismatch of many of them with the available jobs would have led the scheme into immediate crisis . |
| 2 | After all , the Minister is surrounded by a large number of them on the Conservative Benches . |
| 3 | Nor did he for any of the other hopeful interviewees , most of them from the national papers . |
| 4 | No fewer than 39,000 members of the Merchant Service lost their lives in the Second World War , many of them in the Western Approaches , yet they are invariably overshadowed by their more glamorous allies in the Royal Navy . |
| 5 | Oh , no , never say that he did not like them , after all her hard work and the writing of them in the small hours after her demanding duties as a dogsbody had already tired her ! |
| 6 | They were her Aladdin 's caves and , ever since her inheritance , open to her as often as she chose , though for most of the year she contented herself with a reminder of them in the small parcels . |
| 7 | Yet none of them in the triple realms of Theatre , Television and Film would be anywhere without the Designer . |
| 8 | There are 1,250 officers in the branch in England and Wales , 30 per cent of them in the Metropolitan Police in London . |
| 9 | There are only a few thousand maleos left , most of them in the northern parts of the island . |
| 10 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 11 | This should remind of you of the infinite varieties in any one colour and also set you thinking about texture . |
| 12 | Nothing lay ahead of her except the thickening belts of trees that ringed the head of the valley . |
| 13 | He 'd been conscious of her in the old days of course , although he kept quiet about that . |
| 14 | She went ahead of him up the narrow stairs , which twisted round . |
| 15 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 16 | Though he knew the press would be sending a photographer to take a picture of him for the financial pages of the newspaper , he suspected that their main interest was in Hank . |
| 17 | And life 's too short to miss out on the chance of it for the wrong kinds of reasons . ’ |
| 18 | When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer . |
| 19 | Now yer know what a cowson that Frank is. 'E told 'er ter piss orf out of it in no uncertain terms an' Maudie told 'im she was gon na send 'er ole man round ter sort 'im out . |
| 20 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 21 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 22 | She could see the lights of it from the upper windows but never got any nearer . |
| 23 | The day we went , all four of us with the French students , up through the ilexes to the tower . |
| 24 | Then we split up , half of us for the safe houses round the lakes and the rest of us headed into the mountains . |
| 25 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |
| 26 | The tunnel entrance had grown big , the stone arch of it rearing up ahead of us like the open jaws of some petrified monster . |
| 27 | And then some at Jailside Parkses and in the , during the winter months we used to , we had a spot to meet about half a dozen of us from the various factories , because we were afraid to walk home through and that way er because men used to wait in Lane . |