Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun prp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill borrowed a corkscrew and opened some bottles of Beaujolais he had brought . |
| 2 | The all the old photographs of Orkney I 've seen that one . |
| 3 | ‘ In fact , Jason reminds people of Ellery so much that in some parts of Yorkshire they refer to him as Black Pearl II . |
| 4 | This classic Provençal sauce is traditionally served with poached or boiled fish although in some parts of Provence it makes an unusual but excellent accompaniment to roast or grilled lamb . |
| 5 | Travellers , taking the main road from Paris to Madrid , entered Spain through the steep green hills of the Basque Provinces ; returning thither from the burnt highlands of Castile they were ‘ revived by the sight of a rich studied culture , a clean-looking smiling people , good furniture , neat houses , fine woods , good roads and safe bridges ’ . |
| 6 | Although factors such as stature , age , and duodenal ulcer disease affect the absolute values of Vg they can have little or no effect on the changes in someone consequent upon smoking a cigarette : thus despite the small numbers studied the 25% fall is highly significant . |
| 7 | In the early days of July it seemed that the president 's plan could not fail : the leaders of every mainstream party joined the ‘ Yes ’ campaign , leaving opposition in the hands of an unholy alliance between the Fascists and Communists . |
| 8 | Given the strong emphasis on children with special educational needs during the early days of PNP it was not surprising that many collaborations concentrated their attention on these children . |
| 9 | And in Britain between nineteen eighty eight and nineteen ninety one there has been a doubling of racist attacks in large areas of London it is now commonplace for such attacks to take place . |
| 10 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 11 | Consequently , you seem to have experienced a testing period in close personal ties and in joint financial arrangements , and during the first three weeks of April you will come to realise that a day of reckoning or a major upheaval was unavoidable . |
| 12 | The velocity of conduction varies somewhat ; in the giant axons of Periplaneta it occurs at about 7 metres per second , while in the afferent nerves from the paraprocts of Anax nymphs it is about 2 m -I ( see , for example , Chapman and Pankhurst , 1967 ) . |
| 13 | three kings of Orient I , |
| 14 | In large sections of Punjab they extort money ( calling it taxation ) , hold courts , decree what local newspapers should print and even decide what dress schoolchildren should wear . |
| 15 | In all the major states of Europe it was still made not even by the government as a whole but by a small group within it — the chief minister and foreign minister , supplemented according to circumstances and personalities by those for war , colonies or other concerned departments — with the support or at least the acquiescence of the monarch . |
| 16 | When they started their " mission " amongst the poor and destitute of the great cities of Britain they already had six children . |
| 17 | It was disquieting how many aspects of America he found praiseworthy , once he had returned home . |
| 18 | Subsequently , 5 units of Dra I were added and the samples incubated for 10 min at 37°C . |
| 19 | DEEP in the frozen wastes of Canada I felt near to tears as I watched a fluffy baby seal gaze adoringly into its mother 's eyes . |
| 20 | After the Southern Uplands of Scotland he had had to pass near to another industrial city and one quite as grim and dark as the others he had seen . |
| 21 | Since the heady days of Henson it had become a duller and more local object . |
| 22 | Having been wintered out on the heterosexual plains of Ipswich I longed for the company of other dykes . |
| 23 | Irrespective of what the Labour party says about what happened before 1979 , if he visited various parts of Yorkshire he would see massive investment in manufacturing , including £1 million in wool textiles . |
| 24 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 25 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 26 | Before his association with William Smith and other Lollards of Leicester he had acted as a preacher and for a time as a hermit , with varied reception but some support from the Augustinian canons at Leicester Abbey . |
| 27 | By studying the material on trustees in these enrolments for selected districts of Lincolnshire it is hoped to build up a picture of who they were , the ways in which they changed in the period of the study as well as any specific characteristics of the trustees of different denominations . |
| 28 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 29 | In its annual World Labour Report , the United Nations ' agency says the power of trade unions to protect their members is eroding even in developed countries , while in the major new economies of Asia they are under outright attack . |
| 30 | It is no more than a large village with shops , yet to the folk of the remote parts of Sutherland it is a metropolis of great importance . |