Example sentences of "[is] [pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glowing profile by a local journalist of the time said : ‘ There 's nothing of the ruthless businessman in him . |
| 2 | With what a masterly skill is everyone of the varying tints displayed . |
| 3 | Though his kin , servants , and three former benefices were remembered dutifully enough , there is nothing of the wider , political world where he had made his fortune , scarcely more of his own diocese or even of the cathedral itself , before whose pulpit he sought burial . |
| 4 | What might otherwise be a dry debate on science policy has raised a hue and cry among the American public , for the issue is which of the 70000 chemicals on the market may cause cancer . |
| 5 | A key question is which of the existing ITV companies will win back their contracts — and what happens to their programmes if they do n't ? |
| 6 | The answer is none of the above ; in a time of magic and mystery they wield mighty spells ( well it works for Sooty ) . |
| 7 | The Back Bowls have only two main lifts so there is none of the mechanical clanking that blights so many resorts . |
| 8 | When the driver pushes the throttle button or puts his foot on the pedal , there is none of the usual mechanical linkage there to swing into action . |
| 9 | There is none of the discrete lumpiness we saw in our first experiment when a bullet at a time hit the screen , now here , now there . |
| 10 | There is none of the restless westwardness of the US . |
| 11 | And perhaps the most difficult one to remember is the easiest of the lot , the acid plus the metal cos there 's none of the usual stuff , no salt no water just the hydrogen coming off . |
| 12 | There 's none of the dazzling leaps or appalling lapses that gave previous albums a dynamic range . |
| 13 | There 's none of the daily rancour which develops when people live bovinely together . |
| 14 | There 's none of the rigorous logic and choreographed confusion of real farce , and director Jude Kelly labours under the mistaken impression that if the characters rush around and shout a lot , then they are bound to be funny . |
| 15 | Its guest-list read like a who 's who of the great and the good . |
| 16 | In terms of individual connections , with the exception of Mosley and some of his personal lieutenants , the membership of the NL included a galaxy of anti-semitic and pro-nazi notables , a veritable who 's who of the fascist political fringe . |
| 17 | What we do learn , however , from the article and the use of it by Hildyard and Olson is something of the ideological nature of recent claims for the consequences of literacy . |
| 18 | There 's something of the same blankness of effect , too , in Ismail Saray 's white sheet hung against red , the white perforated with large burnt holes . |
| 19 | When you or , when you order five hundred reams of paper , do you get five hundred reams and is it of the right quality from the sheets . |