Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
| 2 | I do not yet understand it , but although I was once a keen and proud European , there are things in it that would now make me one of the most sceptical . |
| 3 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 4 | But trainer Tim Forster 's assistant Henry Daly expected nothing less of the 2-5 favourite . |
| 5 | With one doctor , one nurse made me one of the doctors told me to get up . |
| 6 | The international action made me aware of the necessity for international co-operation in the fight for the fundamental rights of man and reassured me that human compassion is still alive in this world . |
| 7 | Certainly , their scraping teen reveries and gleefully shambolic trashings of the likes of ‘ Fight For Your Right ’ and Barry Manilow 's ‘ Mandy ’ make them one of the most entertaining and , occasionally , promising prospects around , regardless of insularity . |
| 8 | We make them aware of the pitfalls . |
| 9 | A different direction is taken by projects such as DASI ( Developing Anti-Sexist Initiatives ) where the aim is ‘ to give girls a positive self-image , and make them aware of the way society controls them rather than to direct them into ‘ male ’ areas of study or work' ( Whyld 1983 , p. 303 ) . |
| 10 | The mast quivered and bowed as Trent dived for the main and jib sheets , whipping them clear of the cam cleats . |
| 11 | I mean I one of the things that I 've always sort of had in mind is that we put it down in the reception area . |
| 12 | Variations Tweed and Highland were each updated with two new colours , keeping them abreast of the latest trends in colour and furnishing styles . |
| 13 | The wind was already driving them clear of the shore as he raised the sails . |
| 14 | As the vans move right over to pass them one of the men gives the team the finger . |
| 15 | He looked round and found himself three-quarters of the way down the bath . |
| 16 | Her friends say its typical of the kind of girl she was . |
| 17 | She was sent for psychiatric treatment in March after a court martial found her guilty of the manslaughter of riding instructress Marika Sparfeld at the military base in August last year . |
| 18 | It is to discover something more of the pain of God , the hurt to which he is so constantly exposed , even now , after Sinai , and after Golgotha . |
| 19 | At most I would only buy one each of the values up to 15 volts . |
| 20 | Written and produced by Paul Simpson , the man behind Serious Intention 's garage classic ‘ You Do n't Know ’ , Peacetime 's recent track perfectly illustrates one half of the Nineties disco equation . |
| 21 | Libyan forces capture one half of the country on behalf of one side in the civil war . |
| 22 | The Arabian peninsula contains one half of the non-Communist world 's oil reserves , Saudi Arabia 's proven oil reserves are fourfold those of USA and UK together . |
| 23 | And besides , she found herself glad of the breathing-space . |
| 24 | But this does n't win her enough of the meaty character roles she 'd love to play . |
| 25 | She had an exhaustive knowledge of Sunday Schools and it was depressing to find him full of the same bogus affability that she detected on every Sabbath of the year . |
| 26 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 27 | Cos the the reason they , they er done away with the steam tugs and had a diesel , because a diesel you could start up and er when the dredging finished they tipped the tug at Ipswich and er if they want they one of the big ships up the river , cos then they could start the diesel up quite , right away , whereby a steam tug you a fire there all the time . |
| 28 | And finally , Oxfordshire waterskier Shelley Nutt 's sparkling talent to twist and turn has earned her one of the sport 's top honours . |
| 29 | It is available now , but has not had the take up that Windows has enjoyed — one cynical comment has it that of the less than half million copies actually in use , the better part were given away — and yet it is a very capable operating system with some excellent features . |
| 30 | Oh yes , yes , if er they do n't like the referee they 'll let him know it some of the decisions |