Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he was forcibly reminded of the humiliation of his situation . |
| 2 | Now , we 've all heard of the tyre company that boasts that it 's fitters are fastest . |
| 3 | We have all heard of the party game where a message is whispered form one person to the next : ‘ Send up reinforcements , we are going to advance ’ . |
| 4 | We have all heard of the addiction caused by long-term taking of tranquillisers but did you realise that the effect of sleeping pills can last well into the following day and many antihistamines ( commonly taken to relieve colds or allergies ) can make you so drowsy that you should not drive for some hours after taking them ? |
| 5 | ‘ You have all heard of the tragedy that has struck my house . ’ |
| 6 | But for one or two better clad of the group , the place might truthfully be designated a shopful of rags . |
| 7 | If we turn our attention briefly to tobacco , much is made ( and quite rightly ) of the health risks of smoking and we are constantly reminded of the cost to the National Health Service for treating patients with smoking-related diseases . |
| 8 | Apart from the general fitness between what most would see as a hostile and acerbic tale and a bitter and unlovely character , one is constantly reminded of the Reeve 's provincial origins by his own dialect speech — in particular the occasional use of the Scandinavian-derived first person pronoun ik , " I " , against Chaucer 's standard ich — and by the northern speech of his two clerks , Alayn and John of Strother ( perhaps modelled on two northern characters known to the English court ) , which was yet further removed from the London standard of Chaucer 's day . |
| 9 | As the sacrifices were performed day after day , year after year , as the Day of Atonement came and went , Israel was constantly reminded of the sin which cut them off from God 's presence . |
| 10 | ‘ The present players are constantly reminded of the Busby Babes and great names of the past . |
| 11 | If you have the misfortune to be wrongly suspected of an offence , the grim reality is that employment law contains fewer safeguards for the incorrectly accused than does criminal law . |
| 12 | Thru reveals that many structuralist theories of narrative are simulacra of the story we have all internalized of the constitution of subjectivity through the reification of women . |
| 13 | We are not all made of the stuff of John Weller , nor should it be necessary for us to be so . |
| 14 | The newspapers , the radio , the people in the streets , all talked of the drift to war . |
| 15 | people had hitherto talked of the aftermath of nuclear bombing as ‘ catastrophic ’ ; he introduced the concept of ‘ acceptable damage ’ . |
| 16 | In the meantime , all his friends have been dispatched by serial killers , his dad , wrongly accused of the crimes , has killed himself and his mum has gone mad . |
| 17 | It is less persuaded of a trend to earlier retirement but has assumed an average fall in the retirement age of two years by 2010 . |
| 18 | He was only told of the burglary last night as he visited his sister , Anne Marie , in Hoddesdon , Herts . |
| 19 | Mrs Kemp and her solicitor were refused access to that meeting , and were only told of the outcome some time later . |
| 20 | The better preserved of the pair had apparently been dismantled , the pottery in the overlying silt horizon suggesting a later first-century date . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly , this reorganization of the Northumbrian Church pleased Theodore , who secured the establishment o additional bishoprics north of the Humber , and Ecgfrith , who was not only rid of a bishop whom he did not want but able also to secure the appointment of men whom he personally favoured , men generally prepared to deal sensitively with the legacy of the Scottish mission in a post-Whitby era . |
| 22 | Before pursuing this theme , attention should be directed at the other issue arising from Brockway 's declaration , the abolitionist stance , which eschews efforts to improve life within prisons in favour of seeking to be entirely rid of the prison system . |
| 23 | Are we only born of the flesh or are we born of the spirit ? |
| 24 | Fishermen have long known of the association , and have traditionally used the presence of dolphins as a cue to finding schools of tuna . |
| 25 | Yet in Parliament in 1593 he had apparently spoken of the need to maximize yields from royal assets in order to finance the strong army which he thought so important . |
| 26 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 27 | The windows of the van were wide open and they had the radio on , not playing rock , which they both hated , but Mozart , one of the better known of the piano concertos . |
| 28 | Funnily enough , De Gaulle was one of the better behaved of the gang in all other respects . |
| 29 | Then he arose and took leave of the people , weeping plenteously , and returned to the Alcazar , and betook himself to his bed , and never rose from it again ; and every day he waxed weaker and weaker , till seven days only remained of the time appointed . |
| 30 | The Industrial Revolution and especially spread of the railways which enabled large numbers to migrate from country to town , meant that many more people were ‘ going out on pleasure bent ’ . |