Example sentences of "[pers pn] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An official media campaign criticized the leaders of the DU ( formed in May 1988 — see p. 36038 ) , accusing them of personal ambition , corruption and links with anti-Soviet emigré organizations , and of seeking the overthrow of the social system . |
| 2 | The Fund would review the Soviet economy in the same way as it did the economies of members , would provide the Soviet Union with technical assistance on agreed projects , would invite a Soviet representative to appropriate IMF executive board and other meetings and would " give favourable consideration " to requests from union republics for the extension to them of similar undertakings . |
| 3 | He hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree . |
| 4 | The only way to prevent the poor from plundering resources was to make them ‘ free ’ by depriving them of financial support . |
| 5 | She was in search of a closer knowledge of her great-uncle , and here were informed friends of his , one of them of long standing , who could surely tell her a great part of what she wanted to know . |
| 6 | They were surrounded by Iraqi trrops Allied intelligence did n't know about ; they had no radar protection from enemy planes ; and weather reports had failed to warn them of freezing conditions . |
| 7 | The railway stations of Asia , Australasia , and Africa reveal to the full the range of styles , many of them of great elegance , which could be encompassed in station architecture world-wide . |
| 8 | A plethora of books of topographical views at home and abroad used steel engravings , many of them of poor quality . |
| 9 | The volatility of the Cusqueños coupled with the increasing pressure among them of poor campesinos who had come down from the Andes to seek a better life stood in ironic contrast to the rigid panoply of the state ; a situation brought home to me on Easter Sunday . |
| 10 | At the same time , of course , it assures them of comprehensible input . |
| 11 | Crime — Evidence — Discretion to exclude — Trick by undercover police resulting in camera and sound records of sale to them of stolen jewellery — Judge considering unfairness at common law and under statute — Whether Codes of Practice applicable — Judge 's discretion to admit evidence — Whether properly exercised — Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( c. 60 ) , s. 78(1) — Codes of Practice , C10.1 |
| 12 | Asked on News at Ten about attacks on him by Mr Baker and other Tories , Mr Kinnock accused them of negative campaigning . |
| 13 | Periodic meetings are held with the co-ordinators to inform them of current activities and this important group of staff have been very responsive and supportive in disseminating information to their departments . |
| 14 | The unique militancy of Russia 's working class , then , can not be adequately explained by reference to the deprivation among workers , to the prominence among them of rural migrants , or to the leadership provided by the Bolshevik party . |
| 15 | A legal problem has arisen here in respect of defendants who ‘ could not care less ’ whether the woman was not consenting : we have seen that such men can be convicted of rape in cases where they achieve penetration , but there is a problem in convicting them of attempted rape where they fail to achieve penetration but clearly intended to do so . |
| 16 | That they were also all subject to periods of psychotic breakdown makes them of additional interest and in the next chapter we shall examine precisely what that means and how it might help us to understand their particular form of creativity . |
| 17 | While they were still in the minority one could , on the basis of Rooney 's attitude , accuse them of moral censorship when they opposed those who argued that abortion was unethical because it harms the foetus . |
| 18 | Their middle-class employers are suspicious and often accuse them of petty theft and idleness . |
| 19 | Consequently it is with this , rather than with the aggregation and synthesis of disparate items of previous work and the distillation from them of new insights , that the volume is largely concerned . |
| 20 | Most of these mountains can be seen on a walk to the watershed of Glen Nevis , but foreshortening robs them of distinctive summits . |
| 21 | The potential for disaster lurks very close behind the bright shiny facade waiting to pounce on the unwary and relieve them of substantial sums of money . |
| 22 | But a number of able scholars , most of them of liberal sympathies , were drawn into western academic life and played a leading role in guiding western research . |
| 23 | Edouard de Chavigny was a Frenchman ; he understood that women , when abandoned , liked some small remembrance to soften the blow and to remind them of tender memories . |
| 24 | But such broad definitions render the terms vacuous and thus deprive them of analytical value . |
| 25 | Since all goods are donated , most of them of high quality coming from the more affluent within and outwith the parish , charges for them can be minimal so providing a social service as well as a subsidy towards the hall expenses . |
| 26 | It is , however , due to the large number of copies which the Romans had made of Greek masterpieces , some of them of high quality , that we owe our wide knowledge of such work today . |
| 27 | More than seven thousand have gone on to become officers , some of them of high rank . |
| 28 | Readers will remember my telling them of British Coal 's current advertising campaign aimed at convincing the power generators to place any future contracts with it . |
| 29 | The offline manager must specify for each media item whether it is to be used for primary or secondary purposes , although there is no absolute requirement to make them of different media types . |
| 30 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |