Example sentences of "[vb -s] [indef pn] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he thinks nothing of the travelling to and from training . |
| 2 | Wisden says he is nearly 82 ; he still looks nothing of the kind , but lately he has started to feel it a little more . |
| 3 | She has plenty of the proper sort . ’ |
| 4 | The test machine contains a 10-kW turbine and a 4-metre rotor , which is turned by both incoming and outgoing tides ; it will be anchored to the sea bed and therefore needs none of the costly and environmentally damaging civil engineering works associated with other tidal power schemes such as barrages . |
| 5 | But Braque 's work contains none of the expressionistic violence of Picasso 's . |
| 6 | In contrast , the portrait of Ahmed has none of the disdain which could be observed in the writer 's article about Michael X. Ahmed 's bluffs are called , but they are understood , and carefully related to his earlier life on the island . |
| 7 | While this contributes to crime prevention , especially with respect to joy-riders who steal and drive cars at speed at might ( which requires neighbourhood men in West Belfast to work might duty ) , it has none of the wider community service functions evident in Easton . |
| 8 | Very much the unsung hero of Mercedes ' 190 range , the six-cylinder 2.6 has none of the cosmetic bravura that distinguishes the 2.5–16 from its lesser stablemates . |
| 9 | On politics , it has none of the Washington Post 's killer instincts . |
| 10 | It has none of the spontaneity of Barrie , nor any of the wistful melancholy that lies submerged beneath the bright surface of the tale . |
| 11 | It has none of the spontaneity of Barrie , nor any of the wistful melancholy that lies submerged beneath the bright surface of the tale . |
| 12 | So many mixed feelings of guilt and anxiety , love and hate can blur the issue that it may be important to adopt the suggestion of one therapist and discuss all the issues with a wise counsellor , perhaps a minister or some other friend of the family , who knows most of the people concerned but has none of the strong emotional involvement of a family member . |
| 13 | Its weakest point is the character of Pat — while the two men are realistically observed , Pat ( who has none of the shrewd toughness of her profession ) , is a fluff-headed mechanical doll who inexplicably switches from initial dislike of Sonny to a lovestruck Shirley Valentine . |
| 14 | He has none of the other worries or tasks that you have to deal with daily . |
| 15 | But Singer omits the ‘ all ’ in the two concluding sentences of the quotation which gives the misleading impression that Prince Charles has none of the rights of a king . |
| 16 | By comparison housework is boring , lonely , unrewarding work , and it has none of the prestige associated with meeting famous people and working in a glamorous establishment like Claridges . |
| 17 | Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns . |
| 18 | The carving of the features on the youth 's head , fig. 70 , is so like that of the girl 's that they may well be the work of one artist ; but this has none of the other 's contradictions . |
| 19 | The banner ‘ Faith Hope Love ’ has none of the cynicism of Megadeth 's ‘ Peace Sells … |
| 20 | This has none of the mysticism about it , but has been hammered in by a pragmatic human being , after careful choice of the most suitable section available . |
| 21 | The banner ‘ Faith Hope Love ’ has none of the cynicism of Megadeth 's ‘ Peace Sells … |
| 22 | The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis . |
| 23 | By the time he meets his benefactor Pip has none of the sympathy of the reader as he is snobby , condescending and harsh towards Magwitch as is shown in this quote from Pip |
| 24 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 25 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 26 | The Emperor has something of the technique of comic and fantastic exaggeration that we associate with Dickens , and something of the manner , too , of Dickens 's reader , Kafka : |
| 27 | It has something of the look of the Aberdeen Angus but is a little rougher and without the tapering poll of its eastern cousin . |
| 28 | ( The teaching of the Catechism has something of the air of a lost cause about it . |
| 29 | Cycling in the north-eastern tip of France and in Belgium , which the Tour enters on Friday 10 July , has something of the character of the area . |
| 30 | Reached most easily from Lothian Road , down King 's Stables Road , the spacious Grassmarket has something of the air of a decayed French place . |