Example sentences of "[vb pp] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was reminded of the Javanese guru we had recently interviewed who claimed to teach his students how to walk through rain without getting wet ! |
| 32 | As one reads , for example , on the memorial at Beaconsfield , the names of the three Dales , the four Rolfes , the three Westons , and the six Childs , one is forcefully reminded of the overwhelming sense of personal loss in communities that were devastated by the death of so many sons in the First World War . |
| 33 | One is reminded of the early expert , but possibly apocryphal , prediction that the maximum number of computers which could be envisaged as being necessary in the UK might be as much as two . |
| 34 | The ‘ one-last-pushers ’ of the Labour movement need to be reminded of the electoral mountain that remains to be climbed ( a mountain which , thanks to the Boundary Commission , will be some 20 or so Tory seats higher by the time of the next election ) . |
| 35 | Staff are reminded of the following welfare services available to them : |
| 36 | Nell was reminded of the shrill talk-whistles of dolphins . |
| 37 | Do we need to be reminded of the current legislation ? |
| 38 | As North 's tawdry tale unfolded one was reminded of the 1962 novel Seven Days in May — which tells how a group of disaffected American generals plan to overthrow what they see as a weak and ineffective president by a military coup . |
| 39 | Yes , beaming , grinning like a shark ; Melanie was reminded of the barren , professional , show-biz smiles on the faces of the toy acrobats . |
| 40 | Like many others , I am saddened almost to the point of despair at the result of this general election , and am vividly reminded of the moving words once spoken by that truly good man , Michael Foot . |
| 41 | Boyd was reminded of the howling noise of that fearful storm by his wife 's tantrum . |
| 42 | that a major consultation has been going on in one is reminded of the earlier discussion about er St Albans , twelve thousand questionnaires have been sent out and there |
| 43 | While on the subject of identification , I am reminded of the old lady who , many years ago , before the importation of tortoises was quite rightly banned , purchased one from our pet department . |
| 44 | On first loading Millenium Warriors , I was strongly reminded of the old Palace classic Barbarian . |
| 45 | At the time of recruitment the patients were reminded of the British Diabetic Association 's dietary recommendations ( 55% carbohydrate , 30% fat , and 15% protein ) . |
| 46 | Open one of the new novels of the 1950s and read a page at random , and one is reminded of the inter-war comic fictions of P. G. Wodehouse or the early social novels of George Orwell . |
| 47 | We were reminded of the artful political ruse of a band of women who , flouting the Republic 's law on contraception , returned from Northern Ireland by train having procured hundreds of contraceptives . |
| 48 | Reading this group of sonnets is to be reminded of the noble conclusion to the first book of Bacon 's Advancement of Learning : In describing his Friend as my love or He the Poet could be seen as using the third-person form in order to place him apart , perhaps to place him outside the sphere of time 's influence . |
| 49 | As a last example of the potential role of operations research in GIS and disaster management we are reminded of the logistic problems that faced the Peel Regional Police Force during the Mississauga evacuation mentioned previously ( Scanlon and Padgham 1980 ) . |
| 50 | It is considered of the first importance that young persons should receive correct and permanent impressions on this subject and to assist in securing that object it is intended to exhibit a model of a SLAVE SHIP which was recently captured upon the coast of Africa . |
| 51 | The Scarman Enquiry reported of the physical conditions in the Dollis Hill premises in which the mail order department then moved , that ‘ save for the mischance with the air-conditioning in a hot summer ’ , they were ‘ excellent ’ . |
| 52 | He was among the better educated of the early Methodist preachers and more sober than some in his attitude to supernatural phenomena . |
| 53 | Most Labour Zionists were of German or at any rate European origin , and tended to be the better educated of the Jewish population in Palestine . |
| 54 | It is a real mountain town , though for all its remoteness one of the oldest and best patronized of the Pyrenean spas , once , as I have said , managed by the monks of Saint-Savin . |
| 55 | The rise in the quality of French tennis over the last 20 years , culminating in the emergence of players such as Yannick Noah , Henri Leconte and now Guy Forget , coupled with the transformation of the French Open at Roland Garros into what the majority of players regard as the best organised of the four Grand Slams ( even though Wimbledon remains favourite as to the one they most want to win ) are due very largely to the leadership he has shown . |
| 56 | Miller considered that the cultivation of madder in England would employ labourers , usually idle from the end of harvest until spring , and thus parishes would be eased of the Poor 's Rate , ‘ a consideration worthy of public attention ’ . |
| 57 | An analysis should be given of the total amount of non-equity interests in shareholders ' funds relating to each class of non-equity shares and series of warrants for non-equity shares . |
| 58 | Brief summaries are then given of the relevant programme of study to be followed by pupils in the age groups 5 to 7 , 7 to 11 , 11 to 14 and 14 to 16 . |
| 59 | In response to a question in Parliament in 1984 , figures based on a 10 per cent sample were given of the comparative success rates of different types of representation . |
| 60 | As I have already remarked , no details are given of the other party or parties to the transactions entered into by these investors . |