Example sentences of "[pron] of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She brought as a present a portrait of Mother Mary as she appeared to the children at Fatima , executed by someone of sentimental disposition , and a statue of the Virgin Mary , the mould fashioned by someone of a melancholy and austere frame of mind . |
| 2 | He therefore considered them of a tradition quite different from that form of conservatism — so admirably defined by Russell Kirk in his study Eliot and his Age ( 1971 , 1984 ) — which , as Eliot said to me more than once , was the best and perhaps the only defence against the extremes of Communism and Fascism . |
| 3 | After the Mirror accused them of a cover-up , they revealed that the deadly brew trickled down the outside of a hot evaporator for FIVE HOURS before alarms were triggered . |
| 4 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 5 | An enterprising firm of accountants , having taken expert legal advice , wrote around to B.C.C.I. depositors telling them of a scheme the accountants had prepared . |
| 6 | That assures them of a bedrock of support . |
| 7 | In consequence , there are many single wavenumber patterns , some of them of a complexity that makes them not instantly recognizable as such ; for example , one of them is a hexagonal pattern rather like Fig. 4.9 . |
| 8 | Reporters and photographers recorded the images presented to them of a couple who smiled and carried out their duties professionally , but barely exchanged a word , a touch or a glance . |
| 9 | I tell them of a babysitting job I had when I was 12 . |
| 10 | He tells them of a tale he has heard , of how a monster called Grendel has killed many of Earl Hrothgar 's people . |
| 11 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 12 | Some retailers also distribute simple handbills to passing shoppers , notifying them of a shop opening , special offers or sales . |
| 13 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 14 | If it was a sad end for England , they at least had the knowledge that only the weather deprived them of a draw . |
| 15 | Attitudes are changing , but the view persists that only children are spoiled , lonely or over-protected and that their parents are selfish for ‘ depriving ’ them of a brother or sister . |
| 16 | She longed for a shower and a rest , to say nothing of a change of clothes . |
| 17 | Tom Emmett 's story is laced with thick Yorkshire dialect ; Ted Barratt , another left-arm bowler , prolific but unlucky , is rescued from the deepest obscurity of them all ; the colourful George Ulyett is seen as ‘ a sort of Victorian Ian Botham ’ , and was involved in the scandal over match-rigging on the 1881–82 tour of Australia ( to say nothing of a gatecrashing at 10 Downing Street ) ; the weird William Scotton lurks here too ; and the elegant but equally tragic Willie Bates ; and the outrageous Bobby Peel , the longest-lived of them all , by a long way , and the fourth Yorkie in the collection . |
| 18 | The biographer says nothing of a king 's other chief relaxation , the evening carouse . |
| 19 | Our survey programmes have been extensive and we have found nothing of a type similar to that which has been found in Derbyshire . |
| 20 | ‘ He wants nothing of a God but eternity and a Heaven to throne in , ’ he shouted at Gail Russell , frightening the girl off the street . |
| 21 | The New Testament knows nothing of a separation of the individual from the Church ; to be a Christian is to belong to the body ; to be baptized into Christ is to be incorporated into his people . |
| 22 | Fanny ate a whole fowl for breakfast , to say nothing of a tower of hot cakes . |
| 23 | Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ . |
| 24 | because it 's nothing of a job . |
| 25 | There is nothing much to be proud of , to be sure , in all this ; and the self-sufficient hero , who knows it , is nothing of a boaster . |
| 26 | She then told me of a child she had had who had been still-born . |
| 27 | THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues . |
| 28 | THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues . |
| 29 | WHILE the economy has performed its own high-wire act , news reaches me of a circus whose partners have been forced into personal bankruptcy . |
| 30 | A friend once told me of a Northen Ireland tour back in the 1970s , by a group of bogus Wombles . |