Example sentences of "[pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 2 | Only do this where you think there may actually be someone of the right calibre available . |
| 3 | He was therefore use to give up the leadership of the BDA at this juncture and to leave it to someone of the new generation to embrace politics in order to achieve a better deal for the deaf . |
| 4 | Second , the court held that marriage as an institution is , by definition , the association of someone of the male sex with someone of the female sex , gender having no relevance . |
| 5 | Second , the court held that marriage as an institution is , by definition , the association of someone of the male sex with someone of the female sex , gender having no relevance . |
| 6 | Locke replied that he could not do it ; it would take someone of the intellectual stature of Newton . |
| 7 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 8 | In the absence of an analysis of heterosexism , heterosexuals can ( and do ) reduce our gayness or lesbianism to just living with someone of the same sex , thus enabling them to remove the possibility of challenge from our relationships with them . |
| 9 | When you decide to get married , fix yourself up with someone of the old school , not one of those feminist flibbertigibbets of the kind Jim and I have landed ourselves with — undomesticated , never there , eyes set on further career mountains to be climbed . |
| 10 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 11 | Then , we remind ourselves of the supreme example of Christ , who placed his trust in his father 's love and ascended the hill of Calvary for our redemption . |
| 12 | We seek to rid ourselves of the awful thought that we might have some responsibility for what has happened . |
| 13 | At this point we can usefully remind ourselves of the central problem with which urban sociology is engaged and the reasons why we are engaging in the problematic areas of theory discussed in this chapter and in Chapter 1 . |
| 14 | First of all , let us remind ourselves of the traditional picture of children drawn for us by some great philosophers of the past . |
| 15 | Let us finish by reminding ourselves of the traditional skills and purposes of historians . |
| 16 | It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story . |
| 17 | It is useful to avail ourselves of the general habit of personifying the law and talking of what it requires , permits , claims , authorizes , etc . |
| 18 | This kind of argument reads well in Callinicos ' hands , but it is worth reminding ourselves of the unattractive reality to which it bears witness . |
| 19 | Let us therefore remind ourselves of the huge distances , inner and outer , that Joyce has travelled , and take one final look at his total undertaking . |
| 20 | Before looking more closely at our departed medium Doris and other psychics and their phenomena , let us remind ourselves of the main areas . |
| 21 | Although we do not need to reconsider all the issues relating to the corporatisation of local government during the 1970s , it is important to remind ourselves of the widespread adoption of policy and resources committees , consisting of the senior elected members ( with sub-committees specialising in land , finance , personnel and performance review ) . |
| 22 | Once we can rid ourselves of the dual notions that some magic divides jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional questions and that all matters of law have one inexorably correct meaning which must always be supplied by the courts , we are in a position to make a reasoned choice . |
| 23 | They were under no obligation to employ any of the prize-winners , who should be ‘ fully satisfied by the payment to them of the liberal premiums awarded to them ’ , and they considered that it would be , |
| 24 | John Parsons , deputy Treasurer to the Queen , has written to staff to warn them of the new tax regulation . |
| 25 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 26 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises . |
| 27 | Of course a well-heeled litigant would still be able to frighten booksellers and newsagents by notifying them of the alleged libel and threatening to join them in the action unless they withdrew the offending publication from sale . |
| 28 | It is aimed at both local authorities and librarians to remind them of the professional responsibilities of librarians . |
| 29 | It urges them t to press for full prosecution disclosure and advises them of the frequent need to obtain their own evaluation of prosecution scientific evidence . |
| 30 | Eventually , Peter rid them of the first , hapless shop in San Francisco and , in 1981 , felt ready to open in New York . |