Example sentences of "[vb pp] of the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah Stitt is possessed of the same huge eyes that she likes to paint in her huge-eyed portraits . |
| 2 | Loxford Old Rectory was Georgian , built of the same blond stone as the church , and it sat behind grand double gates whose posts were boastfully crowned with new stone eagles . |
| 3 | And then the drive curved and the house came into view , a huge solid new house , built of the same neat grey blocks as the gatepost , with enormous sash windows staring blankly out and a shallow slate roof with heavily moulded eaves . |
| 4 | It was a pity that Matthew was not made of the same admirable stuff . |
| 5 | Precisely the same can be said of the many divine beings reverenced from within Hindu tradition . |
| 6 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |