Example sentences of "remind [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 One sees the need to be reminded of the richness of direct experience , especially today when so much is learnt and experienced indirectly from print , printouts , and television .
32 We may be reminded of the ‘ hummadruz ’ , or mysterious humming with no apparent cause , which occurs from time to time , particularly at ancient sites .
33 Here again I am reminded of the words uttered by a sage : ‘ The wise man seeks Perfection — only the fool would expect to find it . ’
34 As you wind along the corniche roads , passing vineyards and olive groves , you are sure to be reminded of the Côte d'Azur .
35 Nell was reminded of the shrill talk-whistles of dolphins .
36 We gathered in the Holy Name of Mary Church , Middlesbrough , with our luggage , for the celebration of Mass led by Father Ronald Prince SSS , in which we were reminded of the purpose of our pilgrimage .
37 I was reminded of the techniques of early home-construction by a piece in Radio Bygones , a magazine devoted to the radio art of the past .
38 Dear Guitarist Catching Nirvana 's ‘ performance ’ on the recent MTV Video Music Awards I was reminded of the time when , as a youngster , the guitar-smashing exploits of my heroes — the likes of Townshend and Hendrix — left a bad taste in my mouth .
39 The ‘ one-last-pushers ’ of the Labour movement need to be reminded of the electoral mountain that remains to be climbed ( a mountain which , thanks to the Boundary Commission , will be some 20 or so Tory seats higher by the time of the next election ) .
40 One is reminded of the early expert , but possibly apocryphal , prediction that the maximum number of computers which could be envisaged as being necessary in the UK might be as much as two .
41 As this consciousness is immediately intertwined with the murmuring of the River Derwent , we are reminded of the poem about The Brook ( p. 34 ) and the ‘ poem upon the Wye ’ , as Tintern Abbey was sometimes called .
42 He was reminded of the Brabant , only this was wilder : it was immense .
43 Israel is constantly reminded of the ‘ otherness ’ of Yahweh .
44 One is reminded of the story of French women calmly knitting at the guillotine , while heads rolled .
45 When choosing books teachers may like to be reminded of the various published book guides , for example those published by the Federation of Children 's Book Groups , the Signal Book Guides , the Penguin Book Guides and Exploring Poetry 5 to 8 ( NATE ) .
46 He will be reminded of the saying of Jesus , ‘ ’ He who has seen me has seen the Father . ’
47 Boyd was reminded of the howling noise of that fearful storm by his wife 's tantrum .
48 There he was forcibly reminded of the humiliation of his situation .
49 We were reminded of the artful political ruse of a band of women who , flouting the Republic 's law on contraception , returned from Northern Ireland by train having procured hundreds of contraceptives .
50 Mr Dale said that the disaster scenario was statistically true and members of the full council meeting were reminded of the Amsterdam plane crash .
51 Motoring journalists were reminded of the values that GT used to stand for when reviewing the 164.0 Cloverleaf .
52 Many students had strayed from the socialist path and needed to be reminded of the superiority of the socialist system .
53 However , the reader is reminded of the difficulties of interpreting errors in imitation tasks described in Chapter 6 .
54 While on the subject of identification , I am reminded of the old lady who , many years ago , before the importation of tortoises was quite rightly banned , purchased one from our pet department .
55 Dalgliesh could never see him without being reminded of the portrait of his ancestor , Sir Hugo Berowne , in the National Portrait Gallery .
56 In order to be able to understand the situation of the visually handicapped child in an ordinary class it is relevant to be reminded of the function of the eye and the visual system , since without such basic information the demands which such a child faces are unlikely to be understood .
57 Open one of the new novels of the 1950s and read a page at random , and one is reminded of the inter-war comic fictions of P. G. Wodehouse or the early social novels of George Orwell .
58 ‘ While on the face of it seems a very simple matter to decide on , I am reminded of the complexities not so very long ago surrounding the understanding of so-called ‘ brain-death ’ .
59 The nature of the movies was determined at an early stage and to study film history is to be reminded of the extent to which American and British cultural patterns in the modern era were determined within the context of the late nineteenth-century city .
60 Do we need to be reminded of the current legislation ?
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