Example sentences of "[indef pn] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr. Fitzgerald … submitted that the lack of care which could form the basis of the verdict could be a legitimate method used by the jury of expressing a view that there was a culpable breach by someone of a legal or moral duty to take care of the deceased which would be distinct from the general duty of care on which the modern law of negligence is based . |
| 2 | It is dangerous to simplify law , but our understanding is that to convict someone of a serious crime like theft , we normally have to prove not only that they committed the alleged act , but also that they knew it was wrong . |
| 3 | By watching and sailing with someone of a higher standard , you can pick up small points about better positioning and the way they approach a manoeuvre . |
| 4 | Michael came to mountaineering through its literature and found someone of a like mind who was also keen to start . |
| 5 | When he come across someone of a different religion , namely Shylock , he abuses and generally mistreats them just because of their religion . |
| 6 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 7 | Only do this where you think there may actually be someone of the right calibre available . |
| 8 | He was therefore use to give up the leadership of the BDA at this juncture and to leave it to someone of the new generation to embrace politics in order to achieve a better deal for the deaf . |
| 9 | Second , the court held that marriage as an institution is , by definition , the association of someone of the male sex with someone of the female sex , gender having no relevance . |
| 10 | Second , the court held that marriage as an institution is , by definition , the association of someone of the male sex with someone of the female sex , gender having no relevance . |
| 11 | Locke replied that he could not do it ; it would take someone of the intellectual stature of Newton . |
| 12 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 13 | In the absence of an analysis of heterosexism , heterosexuals can ( and do ) reduce our gayness or lesbianism to just living with someone of the same sex , thus enabling them to remove the possibility of challenge from our relationships with them . |
| 14 | When you decide to get married , fix yourself up with someone of the old school , not one of those feminist flibbertigibbets of the kind Jim and I have landed ourselves with — undomesticated , never there , eyes set on further career mountains to be climbed . |
| 15 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 16 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |
| 17 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 18 | But he is nothing of a nostalgic . |
| 19 | There is literally nothing of an official nature which can serve as a guide to possible fluctuations in the intervening years . |
| 20 | Where there is no love to start with , there is nothing of an abstract nature to withhold . |
| 21 | She knew nothing of the real woman behind it . |
| 22 | Philip Bond gives a wonderful and moving portrayal of jaded professor Frank , who does his tutoring job so well he has to watch the once passionate and sentimental Rita turn into a trendy talker whose empty phrases contain nothing of the real her . |
| 23 | It is said that on one occasion Prince Napoleon accused the Emperor of having inherited ‘ nothing of the Great Emperor ’ , to which Napoleon III replied ‘ Yes , the family ’ . |
| 24 | But from the tall , hawk-faced man beside her came nothing of the subtle serenity she hoped for , only a sense of controlled power that dispersed when he said prosaically , ‘ I 'm sorry , did I kick your ankle ? |
| 25 | Morley , Weelkes , and Wilbye were the outstanding figures of the English madrigal school , but some fine things were also written by Bateson , Benet , Michael East , Kirbye , Francis Pilkington , Ward , and others — to say nothing of the Catholic exile , Peter Philips , who set Italian verse . |
| 26 | Everyone will be free to enjoy themselves as they wish , but we shall be arranging a programme of optional sightseeing excursions and activities on a daily basis , which will ensure you miss nothing of the best the region has to offer . |
| 27 | Third , the author has generally seen little or nothing of the actual restoration work , yet , once it is finished , presumes to assess it with unshakeable authority . |
| 28 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 29 | The above bare statement of the facts tells nothing of the mental agonies suffered by persons wrongly accused of murder and by the members of their families . |
| 30 | He said nothing of the Soviet plan . |