Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] of the " in BNC.

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1 Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper .
2 ‘ Slowly , ’ he warned and backed the tiny storm jib , making the sheet fast so that the breeze would hold them clear of the Baglietto 's stern .
3 The wind was already driving them clear of the shore as he raised the sails .
4 The mast quivered and bowed as Trent dived for the main and jib sheets , whipping them clear of the cam cleats .
5 He urged Vincent to clean them up , get them clear of the earth they stood on .
6 The Morellian method had opponents , among them some of the German scholars of whom Morelli made fun by his articles .
7 They have developed a sliding scale charge so that organisations can get together to take advantage of bulk ordering and so save them some of the administration expenses .
8 She wanted to punch and kick them , give them some of the treatment they doled out so carelessly .
9 ‘ But it does teach them some of the harder words wonderfully well , ’ Miss Honey murmured .
10 These front line workers , like the rest of us , have certain taken-for-granted ideas about ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ parenting , and they are also given expert knowledge that tells them some of the factors to which child abuse is positively related .
11 Baldwin showed them some of the curiosities of the house and gave them tea in the Long Gallery , which lie described with more pride than accuracy as ‘ the finest room in England ’ .
12 The crew had one last night with their families , and the opportunity to share with them some of the advance they had been given by Yong .
13 Yeah they 're spellings are a little bit easier than ours cos they change some of them some of the awkward ones .
14 The previous one had never been clean before the next one arrived ; they had had dummies shoved in their mouths to keep them quiet until they were four or five ; and they crawled , ran and fell around the place — filthy , whining and hungry — until Onyx was forced to give them some of the attention they needed .
15 We show them some of the dirty ticks , but it 's pretty elementary because none of those boys are likely to be used in any sort of field work .
16 Several species of Australian amphibian , amongst them some of the most beautiful and interesting in the world , have died out and are now thought to be extinct .
17 right a and get them some of the skills that 're required and hopefully that 'll help out
18 Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew .
19 They would ask me into their classes to watch them teach ; they gave me time for interviews ; they allowed me into staff meetings and departmental meetings and I at various points in my research I erm attempted to feed back to them some of the material that I was coming up with , and we would have meetings to discuss this and I would erm use those meetings then to refine my ideas .
20 Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about .
21 I think that would swing to the , them some of the votes of Liberal Democrats and former S D P people who are also in favour of proportional representation .
22 They asked me into their classes to watch them teach , they gave me time for interviews , they allowed me into staff meetings and departmental meetings and I erm at various points in my research I attempted to feed back to them some of the material I was coming up with , and we would have meetings to discuss this .
23 A hundred feet would see me clear of the danger zone , and this distance I covered foot by foot , walking sideways with my face to the rocks and the rifle to my shoulder ; a strange mode of progress , had there been any to see it .
24 Moodie said afterwards : ‘ I was determined to get a good start which would take me clear of the pack .
25 I would n't stay here if they offered me half of the Palace .
26 The brewers have until November to free up thousands of pubs by selling them or leasing them free of the tie .
27 Tremayne would doubtless have lent me some of the quarter-advance due at the end of the month but my lack was my own choice , and as long as I could survive as I was , I would n't ask .
28 Lord Cholmondeley 's mother once showed me some of the sets of seat-furniture that were in store at Houghton .
29 No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist .
30 While the keen ( but slightly damp ) experimenters went on to test different designs of paddle wheel , Ruth Aplin showed me some of the pupil 's science folders .
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