Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In short , he begins to display precisely the comportment his contemporaries would have expected of their rightful king . |
2 | In conclusion , tutors are again reminded of their great responsibilities for achieving the high aims set out in the first paragraph . |
3 | He ought to have been reminded of their joint suffering before he committed his fault . |
4 | Nor to be reminded of their smouldering resentments against this girl of their of age who was so ‘ lady-like ’ and ‘ nose-in-the-air ’ so that they might feel that she needed to be brought down a peg or two . |
5 | And if so , it is devoutly to be wished that both his SNP and Liberal Democrat opponents in North Aberdeen at the next election will together ensure that his constituents are reminded of their sitting member 's fundamental disagreement with his own party 's long-established policy on this key constitutional question . |
6 | Reminded of my defunct parent , I said , ‘ Father believed in the Resurrection . ’ |
7 | Mr Stott 's workshop was actually on the Roman Wall and every time I cast , or see my rod bend in anger , I am reminded of my beautiful Northumberland home . |
8 | Another ambition has been financial reward , and it is a lucky man who escapes a conversation with Jackie without being reminded of his various positions , his bankers , his lawyers , his accountants and his courtiers . |
9 | So far this is normal and to be expected , but if Claire is told often enough how good she is when she feels herself to be bad , or if Henry is constantly reminded of his vicious streak when he is aware of other , ignored qualities in himself , then both Claire and Henry are likely to become confused as to their own self-images . |
10 | As an example he cites a review that the health authority and the mental health trust have just completed of their mental health strategy , using the planning team as an important part of the consultation mechanism . |
11 | But in the next few years , these areas were practically drained of their promising material . |
12 | It seems to me that this explosion of energy has been drained of its radical potential , diverted into areas of service provision which should be the State 's concern . |
13 | This view has been powerfully opposed under the title of ‘ socialist realism ’ , principally espoused by Jock Young , now fully divested of whatever idealist tendencies he may have had in his Taylor , Walton and Young days ( Lea and Young , 1984 ; Matthews and Young , 1986 ) . |
14 | In the late Forties , just as her career was sinking to its lowest ebb , and an English critic commented of her notorious egomania that ‘ only bad films are good enough for her ’ , she returned in triumph with one of her most brilliant performances , as the ageing but feisty actress Margo Channing who , to her emotional and professional cost , learns All About Eve ( directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz , 1950 ) . |
15 | At this time , fears of a timber famine were being expounded as earlier laws had failed to redress the impact of lumber companies and agricultural development and it was becoming increasingly apparent that public lands were being sacked of their natural timber resources . |
16 | An analysis was therefore undertaken of whose chosen outcome was adopted by the lawyers studied . |
17 | A Cornish miner later recalled of his late-eighteenth-century childhood : When I was eight years old my parents sent me to a raiding school kept by a poor owld man called Stephen Martin . |
18 | In his heart he was frightened of Michael , frightened of his phenomenal temper . |
19 | ‘ Whoever heard of anything interesting happening in October ? ’ |
20 | When I went to Bible college at the age of eighteen , hardly anybody had ever heard of my religious home . |
21 | " It 's just as well , dear Sister Anne , from what I 've heard of my new mistress . " |
22 | Indeed , if it could be shown that any content is possible consistent with the general requirements of justice , then ‘ justice ’ or ‘ natural law ’ would be stripped of their critical function whereby that which does not exhibit conformity of content with ‘ justice ’ or with ‘ natural law ’ is disqualified as law or , at least , is in some way a law less compelling upon conscience . |
23 | Many streams have been stripped of their ancient boundary trees , and the knock-on effect of the drainage schemes has been to encourage farmers to turn their farms into prairies . |
24 | The reels of copper wire will have to be stripped of their insulating casing . |
25 | From January 1990 famous exiles were no longer stripped of their Soviet citizenship : the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich , the opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya ( who was married to Rostropovich ) and the theatre director Yury Lyubimov were among the first to return as citizens . |
26 | Our results are consistent with previous studies in T-cell-deficient nude mice suggesting that class II + epithelial cells play a crucial role in T-cell development and with an earlier report showing that fetal day-12 thymic anlage stripped of their mesenchymal capsule fail to support lymphocyte development . |
27 | But how quickly would the emperor 's old clothes fall from fashion when stripped of their conceptual trimmings ? |
28 | Third World communities who remain free of our degenerative diseases have been found to live on diets which contain a much higher percentage of carbohydrate than ours — carbohydrate obtained from cereals which have not been stripped of their dietary fibre , fibre-rich vegetables ( potatoes and other root vegetables ) , legumes and fruits . |
29 | The jury not only upheld the newspaper 's defence of justification , but added a rider suggesting that the " Moonies " should be stripped of their charitable status . |
30 | On Coricancha , the Inca sun temple , the Spaniards imposed the church of Santo Domingo : yet Coricancha , though long stripped of its golden sheathing , was still Samson — blinded , chained , but with all his dignity intact . |