Example sentences of "[det] of [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And today we have a contribution to make in terms of our history of free trade , our outward-looking attitude to the world , and the weight of our tradition of parliamentary and democratic government stretching back over the centuries — something unmatched by any of our partners , for some of whom the very concept of democracy is of recent origin . |
| 2 | The experienced practitioner carries in his head the names of the best works on the subjects with which he usually deals , and the sooner the student gets to know some of them the better . |
| 3 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 4 | Eastern religions — some of them the oldest known to man — have taught people for millennia to find their gods within themselves . |
| 5 | In some of them the retinotopic organization is quite loose but in others it is very precise . |
| 6 | An African nationalist commented to some of us the other day , ‘ When we take over , we may get rid of a lot of white people — but we want Don and Penny to stay . ’ |
| 7 | He also owned a large number of works of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature , of quite a few of which the unique surviving copy is his own . |
| 8 | She had seen little of him the first two days . |
| 9 | Indeed , all the millions of cells that make up each one of us have been formed by a process of successive cell divisions , during each of which the 46 chromosomes were first faithfully duplicated , and then separated to form two new daughter cells . |
| 10 | Made up of four 30-minute scenes , in each of which the same people say and do the same things in the same setting , Roll On Friday , it is no surprise to learn , has been developed into a five-year television series in New Zealand and Australia . |
| 11 | I can still see in each of them the special qualities which made me select them . |
| 12 | We wended our way home , glowing with triumph ( and blood pressure ! ) , each of us the proud possessor of a plastic , imitation silver , trophy . |
| 13 | Much of what the latter says about information theory , feedback and signal detection is old hat , but he generously leaves us one or two bones to pick . |
| 14 | However , much of what the new Scottish Festival Singers did was disappointing . |
| 15 | I agreed with much of what the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) said at the beginning of his speech , but I did not go along with his closing remarks . |
| 16 | I do not dissent from much of what the hon. Member for Wakefield said about members of the Prison Officers Association . |
| 17 | We on this side of the House agree with much of what the hon. Member for Oxford , East ( Mr. Smith ) said . |
| 18 | It is true that contractual accountability may be viewed as an alternative to political accountability , but much of what the voluntary sector does is not capable of precise measurement for inclusion in a contract . |
| 19 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
| 20 | I will give three examples , all of which the right hon. Gentleman has rejected in the past . |
| 21 | The whole operation had taken a few seconds only , a little huddle of activity in all of which the discreet entry of Liz Spalding to the house had had a good chance of going unnoticed by any distant , watching eyes . |
| 22 | By 1875 seventeen examinations were available to schoolboys covering not only the Civil Service , but also the Armed Forces , the professions , and the universities , in nearly all of which the English subjects were set . |
| 23 | Brown & Levinson point out the importance for social relationships of establishing common ground and agreeing on points of view , and illustrate the lengths to which speakers in different cultures will go to maintain an appearance of agreement , and they remark ‘ agreement may also be stressed by repeating part or all of what the preceding speaker has said ’ ( 1978:117 ) |
| 24 | It eats into their profits and for many of them the only good rabbit is a dead one . |
| 25 | To many of them the active life seems more deserving because of the amount of good works and preaching it performs . |
| 26 | ‘ For many of us the natural beauty of much of Dyfed 's countryside remains undisputed , though few people nowadays accept that this will always be so , regardless of economic or other pressures , ’ said Mr Bown . |
| 27 | It will be a choice of ends , for example , even if forgotten a moment later , when he chokes back an erupting laugh at a slip by an important man , the choice being between a momentary and a long-term goal , the latter of which the other man could jeopardize . |
| 28 | Her ambitious trek to the distant city had been curtailed by protests from her overworked nervous system , crying for more of whatever the pink cans contained . |
| 29 | anyway he went to the toilet , went a wee and I put him back in bed and he was laid there and anyway and , and he eventually dropped off , anyway I was telling my mum about it yesterday , and I did n't sort of think no more of it the next day , right , and mum I said well if ever he gets that again she said you should from the doctor she said , because , one of our boys had it she said and it was a blockage |
| 30 | The place has a minimum of things , nearly nothing new , but enough of what the 200 women and about 400 children , who pass through the refuge every year , might need . |