Example sentences of "[pron] of the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us finish by reminding ourselves of the traditional skills and purposes of historians . |
| 2 | It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story . |
| 3 | Let us therefore remind ourselves of the huge distances , inner and outer , that Joyce has travelled , and take one final look at his total undertaking . |
| 4 | Before looking more closely at our departed medium Doris and other psychics and their phenomena , let us remind ourselves of the main areas . |
| 5 | Once we can rid ourselves of the dual notions that some magic divides jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional questions and that all matters of law have one inexorably correct meaning which must always be supplied by the courts , we are in a position to make a reasoned choice . |
| 6 | 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 , |
| 7 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is aimed at both local authorities and librarians to remind them of the professional responsibilities of librarians . |
| 10 | This helped developers by relieving them of the expensive negotiations they usually have to undertake . |
| 11 | 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 . ) . |
| 12 | The duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The negative reactions have the opposite aim : ‘ that nothing of the forgotten traumas shall be remembered and nothing repeated ’ . |
| 16 | But he knew nothing of the practical techniques of modelling and carving . |
| 17 | He knew nothing of the other facts and , as he continued relentlessly , Jenna was pleased she had not told him . |
| 18 | It is a staggering compliment to their historical reliability that we find almost nothing of the major concerns which engaged the primitive Church written back into the Gospels . |
| 19 | This is to say nothing of the varied forms and objects of laughter that there may be : spontaneous hilarity ; dark chuckles over black humour ; knowing , ironic laughter ; the nervous giggles of imperfect comprehension . |
| 20 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |
| 21 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days . |
| 23 | He reminded me of the tight-lipped heroes in war films — the name and number ploy ; more you will not get even if you carve strips off me . |
| 24 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 25 | As we drank our wine , Pumblechook reminded me of the happy times he and I had spent together during my childhood . |
| 26 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 27 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 28 | Wednesday there was a letter , an imprecation almost , from an investment company warning me of the dire consequences of not having a pension . |
| 29 | She had such colour , such brightness , that sometimes she reminded me of the whirling mosaics , except that she was n't fragmented but unusually complete . |
| 30 | With what a masterly skill is everyone of the varying tints displayed . |