Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , we 're not er we ai n't af we ai n't afraid of a few bum workers cos we have got er good engineers like , you know ? |
| 2 | Wondering whether the prim Miss Goody-Goody of a few months ago had really metamorphosed into this forlorn and wanton creature , Miranda said , ‘ I 'll send a car for you . |
| 3 | There are several splendid houses near Long Melford that would make for a gentle afternoon 's potter through the rooms and possessions of the rich of a few centuries ago . |
| 4 | He was guilty of no more than his usual exaggeration when , at the age of twenty-four , he announced to a friend that he had read ‘ almost every thing ’ . |
| 5 | Lukic was guilty of no more than a challenge for a 50–50 ball with the speeding Rob Jones around the 18-yard line . |
| 6 | Am I not guilty of the same essentialist fallacy if I tear down Ormrod J. 's thesis simply to erect my own property-based ‘ essence ’ which conveniently allows me , then , to advance my argument concerning homosexual unions ? |
| 7 | In other words , the recollection that the Friend had once been guilty of the same fault is a consolation to the Poet , for he now knows how the other must have ‘ bowed ’ under his own , ‘ transgression ’ : They are equal , then — but more , they are united : ‘ Oh , that our night of woe might have remember'd/My deepest sense how hard true sorrow hits . ’ |
| 8 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 9 | On the contrary , the child imagines that only unworthy female persons have thus sacrificed their genital organ , such persons as have probably been guilty of the same forbidden impulses as he himself . |
| 10 | You accuse these agencies of improper motives — such as using children as bait for donors — when you are guilty of the same shortcoming on your cover . |
| 11 | A second defendent , Anthony Gallagher found NOT guilty of the same charge and was fined three hundred pounds for driving without due care and attention . |
| 12 | Tolstoy 's Levin in Anna Karenina is a perfect e ample of the former : |
| 13 | Most visitors to Dentdale gravitate to Dent Town and halt there without exploring further and remain unaware of the many other delights to be found in the ten miles of this lovely valley , some man-made and others the work of a bountiful nature . |
| 14 | Pringle and Laverty are apparently unaware of the many family health services authorities that have set up approval procedures for employing counsellors in primary care . |
| 15 | As though unaware of the many doubts in the minds of each of his listeners , Christian went on to explain the reasons behind his momentous decision . |
| 16 | They were typical of the many Europeans we met who were tired of conventional holidays . |
| 17 | This lady was typical of the many I came across at these events . |
| 18 | Pollution control work , then , is typical of the many areas of social control characterized by goals of regulation rather than repression . |
| 19 | Llanthony Yard has been created at the museum as an example of a canal repair yard and has a layout typical of the many found around the canal system . |
| 20 | ‘ Rose Arey ’ is typical of the many lovely larger hybrid waterlilies suitable for bigger pools with deeper water . |
| 21 | This behaviour is typical of the several meals we have investigated using scintigraphic techniques , and shows that it represents a physiological relevant test meal . |
| 22 | It is possible that such errors however , are merely indicative of the same craftsman 's readjustments . |
| 23 | The silliest and the most sinful of the many heresies of pseudo-democracy is to pretend that all studies and all learning are ‘ created equal ’ . |
| 24 | The barman brought over their hot toddies and Roy was glad of the few seconds ' reprieve . |
| 25 | ‘ I get sick of the same old routine day after day . ’ |
| 26 | Where the younger brother was moderate and willing to compromise , aware of the rights and claims of his subjects and of the impossibility of ruling despotically , the elder was conscious of no such limitation and , with the highest intentions , was deeply intolerant of all opposition . |
| 27 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
| 28 | As Fidel Castro 's revolution entered its 33rd year this month , shortages of food and consumer goods were the most obvious of the many challenges to Cuba 's Caribbean version of socialism . |
| 29 | It becomes clear , too — especially when studying youth subcultures since rock 'n' roll — that the spheres of work and leisure are not always so closely intertwined as Adorno suggests , the latter simply duplicating the reified forms of consciousness which may be characteristic of the former . |
| 30 | They had made sure of the few proprietors between there and Dunkeld ; the Duke of Atholl 's authority was weaker here ; tomorrow would be the hard day when they made a drive up to Moulin and Faskally : perhaps they should go and terrify them now while darkness made them lonely ? |