Example sentences of "[pers pn] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The North have never been whitewashed in the Championship , but they now look vulnerable as injuries , defections and selection switches have deprived them of a consistent team . |
| 2 | Kenny Milne is far and away the Scots ' best hooker and his injury robbed them of a great deal in both tests . |
| 3 | I 've had so many conversations with people trying to convince them of a particular point , and although I find words central to my life … ‘ |
| 4 | Their habits have probably always been similar , and if survival is to be taken as a measure of success , their conservative way of life has ensured them of a leading place in the evolutionary marathon . |
| 5 | A resolution proposed at the 1912 National Union Conference tells the whole story ; originally the resolution approved , " the candidature of Unionist working men and earnestly recommends the allocation to one of them of a safe and suitable seat at some by-election in the near future , as evidence of the reality of the movement " . |
| 6 | The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's . |
| 7 | Decisions should also be reached as to whether appointment lists should be displayed in the school and parents invited to come in to choose a discussion time or whether staff will decide and write to parents informing them of an allocated time . |
| 8 | It can also in effect make it impossible for them to participate in the community and thus deprives them of an important aspect of citizenship . |
| 9 | 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 , |
| 10 | John Parsons , deputy Treasurer to the Queen , has written to staff to warn them of the new tax regulation . |
| 11 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is aimed at both local authorities and librarians to remind them of the professional responsibilities of librarians . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Eventually , Peter rid them of the first , hapless shop in San Francisco and , in 1981 , felt ready to open in New York . |
| 17 | ‘ We do n't tell them of the major side effects for fear of losing them ’ Field worker , Kenya |
| 18 | He reminds them of the confidential nature of the case : nobody is to discuss it outside the room . |
| 19 | In the Preface he described the superstitions of the Irish peasantry and the rigid hold on them of the Roman Catholic priests , who used all means to confine them to the Irish language , lest if they learnt English they might converse with members of the Church of Ireland or attend its services . |
| 20 | The result was a schism by the Thompson-Chesson group and the formation by them of the short-lived North of England Anti-Slavery and India Reform League . |
| 21 | This helped developers by relieving them of the expensive negotiations they usually have to undertake . |
| 22 | There are many possible ways in which one may incur tortious liability through the instrumentality of an animal under one 's control , but the fact that the agent happens to be animate rather than inanimate is immaterial , for while the common law , like other legal systems , developed special or additional rules of liability for animals , it did not deny the applicability to them of the general law . |
| 23 | Loyalist protesters have shouted ‘ SS-RUC ’ and ‘ Dublin 's lap dogs ’ , whilst some elected MPs have exhorted RUC men to resign or mutiny and warned them of the possible consequences of their ‘ disloyalty ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 24 | If both cooperate ( with each other , not with the authorities ) by refusing to speak , there is not enough evidence to convict either of them of the main crime , and they receive a small sentence for a lesser offence , the Reward for mutual cooperation . |
| 25 | She hardly dared to draw the curtains to show herself to the other girls , though she had warned them of the horrid sight in store for them . |
| 26 | Workers in nuclear and radiographic installations would then not need radiation badges , or monitoring instruments to warn them of the unseen danger all around . |
| 27 | In founding Lampsacus they killed off all the natives , but they did it in self-defence ; the daughter of the local king had warned them of the impending attack . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , he was retained and the secretary was instructed to write to the parish officers informing them of the same ; they were told to pay the subscription within a few days otherwise Spies would be discharged from the infirmary . |
| 29 | Organic molecules , some of them of the same general types as are normally only found in living things , have spontaneously assembled themselves in these flasks . |
| 30 | They were welcomed by Guinness Brewing Worldwide Managing Director , who is chairman of the Guinness Group 's Pension Trust , and who told them of the latest developments at their former workplace . |