Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb -s] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing that that litany reminds us of is that when it came to success , in the immortal words of Mae West ( put into her mouth by scriptwriter Vincent Lawrence ) , goodness had nothing to do with it . |
| 2 | This mourning cleanses us of our false expectations and superficialities , where we try to flatten everything into a manageable world in which we are in charge . |
| 3 | This decision represents something of a final throw . |
| 4 | Just when you 're looking forward to pushing the boat out and having a spending spree , your sensible side reminds you of all the practical and prudent things you should be doing with any extra money you have . |
| 5 | Yeah , well there 's gon na be lots of batteries in the little bedroom because this this machine needs lots of batteries . |
| 6 | Given the assertiveness and self-advertisement of modernization in Italian life across all forms of culture , from literature to political and social theory , during the 1960s and early 1970s , this return assumes something of the force of a revenge or , at any rate , a restitution . |
| 7 | But dietary fibre provides nothing of use in this way . |
| 8 | Discovered in 1953 by Hong Kong herpetologist John Romer , the frog 's exceedingly primitive nature makes it of special interest . |
| 9 | NOTE Make sure that this group has plenty of changes of clothing in their wardrobe . |
| 10 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
| 11 | The dissociation produced by this procedure constitutes something of a theoretical puzzle . |
| 12 | This procedure provides plenty of room for fudging the figures and building in arbitrary assumptions . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman accuses me of doing that , but it is his mechanism . |
| 14 | One daily paper provides plenty of stomach-turning examples : |
| 15 | THE world of public relations has plenty of detractors but Michael Murphy , the founder and chairman of PR Consultants Scotland , has managed both to make himself wealthy and to run what is widely regarded as Scotland 's most professional home-grown consultancy , as well as its largest . |
| 16 | This dress reminds me of my first long dress . |
| 17 | This poem uses lots of words that sound as if they ought to be proper words but are not . |
| 18 | This species likes plenty of water changes . |
| 19 | The complexity , and at times the ambiguity , of the norms , regulations and negotiated agreements gives plenty of scope for legal action . |
| 20 | This thought reminds her of why she is living in Rummidge . |
| 21 | This book shows something of what has emerged out of religious interpretations of death , not as a history of death but as an indication of what lies at the root of the major religious traditions , lending to each its characteristic style . |
| 22 | Indirectly this problem reveals something of the organisation of craft activities in early Anglo-Saxon England , but we must be wary of categorising the period on the basis of the more influential members ' activities alone . |
| 23 | ‘ This house reminds me of the cottage in Hertfordshire I had before I married , ’ she explains . |
| 24 | This fact reminds me of a tale I was told in the States recently whereby President Clinton and his wife Hilary and Major Kay drove into a garage , quite why this was necessary the tale does not relate , as the petrol or gas attendant began to fill up the limousine , Hilary Clinton leaped out of the car and became involved in an animated conversation with the petrol attendant . |
| 25 | That they were also all subject to periods of psychotic breakdown makes them of additional interest and in the next chapter we shall examine precisely what that means and how it might help us to understand their particular form of creativity . |
| 26 | The fixed paternoster has none of these disadvantages and many advantages which are discussed in the chapter on tackle ( page 7 ) . |
| 27 | She says that the outside world has plenty of its own problems . |
| 28 | The mnemonic RAM reminds you of repetition , association and mnemonics , and these three techniques can be used in combination or separately to retain in your memory the facts , ideas or opinions that you encounter in your studies . |
| 29 | Unlike the simple game , which is rather predictable in that DEFECT is the only rational strategy , the iterated version offers plenty of strategic scope . |
| 30 | This simple fact deprives you of most of the information you would normally have about the other person . |