Example sentences of "[conj] of [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reynolds said , ‘ You say that of all the people who worked on the project , none of them are still here ? ’ |
| 2 | He sat by his mother 's bed , biting the skin at the side of his nails , and thought that of all the grudges you bear , the grudges you bear against your parents are the ones you live with always — you can not fight them any more than you can fight heat or cold or some virulent infection in the blood . |
| 3 | At first I thought I was out shopping with Marie , cos of all the people and cars and that , but then I remember I 'm lost . |
| 4 | That 's cos of all the trouble round this area . |
| 5 | and saying , what do you think cos of all the qualified ones at least she cos she worked on the elderly side . |
| 6 | Meg Ryan plays Morrison 's common-law wife , Pamela Courson , and of all the people involved in Stone 's $40 million movie , she seems the one most affected by the story 's dark undertones . |
| 7 | I thought of Angela Brickell and of all the afternoons Perkin had spent alone in the house . |
| 8 | But we Scots were a bloodthirsty race then , and of all the black deeds that blacken Scottish history , I believe that the hunting of the Rannoch Macgregors was probably one of the most horrendous . |
| 9 | And of all the people I met , I have only kept in touch with one or two from Binbrook . |
| 10 | It will take time , self-awareness and unselfish giving on the part of the couple themselves , and of all the other parties concerned , if the new relationships are to succeed . |
| 11 | And of all the lands of the world , this is a place armies covet . ’ |
| 12 | Palma , the capital of Majorca and of all the Balearic islands is a bustling and cosmopolitan city . |
| 13 | NALGO in particular has adopted very good policies , which makes my own employment more secure , and of all the organisations listed I would suggest that NALGO 's contribution has probably been the greatest . |
| 14 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 15 | When I asked him once whether his FI career had really mattered to him that much , he answered characteristically that of course it had , but that he enjoyed racing in any form , and of all the forms of racing he enjoyed winning best : ‘ I win more over here , ’ he said , adding with a characteristic grin , ‘ and it 's easier . ’ |
| 16 | Gazing straight ahead , only half-aware of a world outside the claustrophobic comfort of the car , of Massingham 's hands stroking the wheel , the almost soundless changing of the gears , the pattern of traffic lights , he deliberately let his mind slip free of the present and of all the conjecture about what lay ahead , and remembered , by an exercise of mental recall , as if something important depended on his getting it right , every moment of that last meeting with the dead man . |
| 17 | And of all the single ticks that have come in , there 's bound to have been a decent one among them . |
| 18 | ‘ Our resident poet could sing of Stalinvast 's lethal festering jungles which I never saw ; and of viscous scabs blasted in those jungles by a host of weapons ; and of all the reef-cities which I never saw either , infested with their slaving grimy weapons-makers . |
| 19 | phrases such as ‘ Korea is a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan ’ were commonly used to denote Korea 's strategic significance , and of all the varying motivations governing Japanese policy in Asia it was the issue of national defence which was most crucial at this time . |
| 20 | With all his elaborate political machinery — his control of all the tradesmen in the town and of all the town 's six advowsons , his ownership of some two hundred houses each carrying a vote , his absolute control of the Mayor , the corporation and all the corporation offices — the Marquess of Exeter could not be absolutely certain that the remaining voters would not one day oust his candidates . |
| 21 | Variety within a variety ca n't be bad , and of all the Koi currently available , the prize for acceptable variation must go to the Goshiki ( pronounced ‘ Gosh-key ’ ) . |
| 22 | ‘ … and of all the jewels — the Diamond Waterfall — it must be seen to be believed … ’ |
| 23 | Counsel should notify opposing counsel of the main propositions and of all the authorities on which they rely . |
| 24 | It sickens me every time I think of all the money Caliban has won ; and of all the other people like him who win money . |
| 25 | And of all the Wolfkings and Queens who have made Ireland great ? ’ |
| 26 | You can be really proud of yourself , and of all the others … and of Dusty . ’ |
| 27 | When I go to bed at night I think of you , and of all the marvellous fun we had while you were still here . |
| 28 | Figures 7.4 and 7.5 show the women and men on each scale as percentages of all the women and of all the men in the teaching profession . |
| 29 | This expression is linear in the displacement and takes account of all the components of path ( ρ ) , of all the initial components ( σ ) of the vector , and of all the components showing change ( µ ) . |
| 30 | He made transcripts of the fiction , and of all the other major documents . |