Example sentences of "[pers pn] of the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Preface he described the superstitions of the Irish peasantry and the rigid hold on them of the Roman Catholic priests , who used all means to confine them to the Irish language , lest if they learnt English they might converse with members of the Church of Ireland or attend its services . |
| 2 | We appeal to your readers to write to your government , informing them of the catastrophic environmental effects of the war and urging economic and political sanctions against the Serbian aggressors . |
| 3 | He reminds me of the average royal personage , who is one person in company and another when alone … |
| 4 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
| 5 | Mmi Well I 'm happy , but I 'm never happy about playing Poland because it always brings back memories to me of the early seventies . |
| 6 | Some years later I was at dinner with Brian Huggett and he got up and said , ‘ I should n't be talking to this man because he robbed me of the British Open . |
| 7 | But the path of true love never did run smooth and who could blame Orsino for overlooking this waif-life creature with the short , dark , cropped hair for the Countess Olivia , she of the long flowing hair and dresses . |
| 8 | As one born a ‘ Cockney ’ I can tell you of the great Catholic priests who lived among the poor of the East End of London — and loved them into the Kingdom of God . |
| 9 | Kiro Gligorov of the Macedonian LC was elected President of the republic only at the second attempt on Jan. 27 after VMRO-DPMNE deputies had failed to back him ( he was sole candidate ) in a first ballot on Jan. 19 , thereby depriving him of the necessary two-thirds majority . |
| 10 | His refusal to grant extra funding on the grounds of ‘ basic need ’ at the two schools in his own constituency created a political storm which threatened to deprive him of the Roman Catholic vote in the general election . |
| 11 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 12 | An influence strong enough to rob her of the natural exuberant self-confidence that had always been a central , unthinking part of her personality . |
| 13 | The client will usually require the engineer to inform him or her of the likely final cost of construction at regular intervals . |
| 14 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 15 | In her view the film had been ‘ quite careful ’ to show that it was an allegory and it reminded her of the British classic film Black Narcissus . |
| 16 | In Ireland she heartened the embryonic movement for the higher education of women by personally securing the involvement in it of the Roman Catholic convent-school nuns . |
| 17 | Successive French governments maintained the alliance with Russia which had taken shape by 1894 , in spite of the hostility to it of the powerful socialist and radical parties and the great body of French opinion they represented . |
| 18 | It is the decisions , the policies , the judgement , motives , principles and ambitions , the skill and lack of it of the leading political actors which are decisive . |
| 19 | But England 's latest problem was new boy Rashid Latif , he of the frantic cap-throwing episode at Headingley , who now , having kept wicket with a dexterity to which Moin , whom he now replaced , could never aspire , began to bat with the attractive aplomb of a Dujon . |
| 20 | Well , it is summertime and if you have trouble getting time on the courts here in town and tripping to the Hamptons presents a problem why not simply go to Terry Dintenfass where the witty William King he of the loopy lanky aluminoids has set up a gallery-wide installation called ‘ Tennis : The Monument ’ ? |
| 21 | Known , but somehow often overlooked , is the fact that Ellsworth Kelly he of the precise abstract geometries and the monochromatic fields has always kept a pencil within easy reach , taking it up regularly over the years to make line drawings , uninflected by modelling , chiefly of plants and flowers . |
| 22 | Yet only he of the British Medical Journal actually explained what Petrofsky was trying to do — stimulating muscles electrically in their natural walking sequence . |
| 23 | Surely those were good questions which need answering , and to abandon the community interpretation deprives us of the only possible answer . |
| 24 | So the mysteries of migration routes , which prompted this brief foray into the biological and geological past , is only one of a myriad miraculous facets of nature , of the greater Mind , that tells us of the great planetary drama in which life has existed , maintained within such finely balanced parameters , for hundreds of millions , if not billions of years . |
| 25 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 26 | This , and the quoted safe level for serum bismuth ( 10–50 µg/l ) reassures us of the low toxic potential for this enema . |
| 27 | He warned us of the considerable social upset that these advances might cause . |