Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | The road wound gradually upwards towards the Downs — only the English could call uplands downs — until I was clear of the motorways which cut through Kent like the prongs of a carving fork stabbing at France . |
2 | Perhaps they reasoned that even if he managed to slip clear of the ropes he would have so far to fall it would n't matter . |
3 | She disliked the intimacy he showed towards some of them , was resentful of the memories they shared of which she was not a part , and felt excluded . |
4 | When the women were made redundant in 1981 , their weekly take-home pay averaged £55 and for half of the women it was the only wage in the household . |
5 | One survey , conducted in 1986 , found that nearly half of the doctors who had graduated in 1981 regretted their choice of career . |
6 | In one study , necropsy was undertaken in about half of the patients who died , and showed graft occlusion only in patients given aprotinin . |
7 | The fact that at least half of the children who waited in long-term care were in children 's homes became the more powerful message . |
8 | Would n't have wormed through any Factory Safety Act passed in Britain in the last fifty years , open and unshielded parts , and half of the men who used them wore the scars on their hands to prove the danger . |
9 | Today , half of the dwellings you see around you were built after the Second World War and two out of three are owner-occupied . |
10 | It is the most transparent of the fictions it espouses , and is as unrealistic as it is unfair . |
11 | Of the covenants by the tenant running with the land that " to pay rent or taxes " and " not to assign or underlet , " and by the landlord running with the reversion , " to renew the lease " are the most apposite of the instances which he quotes from decided cases . |
12 | He had never before met a woman so entirely free of the constraints which he had come to associate with being female . |
13 | You once let out the fact that you wished you were free of the burdens your family placed on you . |
14 | ‘ Most people are possessive of the things they see as being their competitive advantage , but Philip would share it with anybody . ’ |
15 | He eyed her searchingly , then stood still , holding her by the shoulders , oblivious of the crowds which parted to avoid them . |
16 | Mind , you would n't believe some of the prices they charge up West , talk about daylight robbery . |
17 | I was just looking at some of the prices they want for the property . |
18 | It is also a politically neutral location which is vital with respect to some of the datasets it contains . |
19 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
20 | Electors in various parts of the country had cleared out some of the cranks who were prostitutes in the Labour movement in order to get into the House of Commons . |
21 | In addition to the theoretical nexus between this and knightly status , the sumptuary act of 1533 bracketed men in general worth that much with some of the knights who took precedence as esquires . |
22 | Lastly it was possible to have the first-hand testimony of some of the compositors themselves and their relatives . |
23 | And if I can identify some of the thoughts which occurred to me and they are relatively minor points about the wording of I five in relation to the first two criteria . |
24 | One need is the ability of the photocopier to collate automatically , since some of the documents which are photocopied are quite lengthy . |
25 | This article presents some of the documents I have discovered at the Minutier Central , Archives Nationales de France . |
26 | But er it , it , it er it appears to have been overlooked that , erm some of the directors who were in the bracket in nineteen eighty eight of two hundred and thirty thousand to two ninety five thousand have been increased from three hundred and fifty five thousand this year to a top of four hundred thousand . |
27 | With these four properties of symbol in mind , let us reflect on some of the objects we have used in our SPRED sessions — a loaf of bread , a picture , a key , an invitation , sounds of birds . |
28 | The position of Drouot is clear its President told The Art Newspaper that without such a licence for at least some of the objects there will be no auction sale at all . |
29 | For a real account of the BCR we must wait for Martin Davies 's definitive history , but although I have only included some of the anecdotes which crop up again and again , and a few photographs , many BCRS member have given invaluable assistance , and the presence of the Railway taken for granted throughout the time covered by ‘ BISHOP 'S CASTLE WELL-REMEMBERED ’ . |
30 | 1992 has been a truly historic year for Napier and we are delighted to share with you , our former students , some of the moments which have seen us metamorphosing into a university . |