Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my son has received none of the two hundred and eight |
| 2 | That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’ |
| 3 | Suppose a man knows nothing of trusts and trustees , but has heard something of the separate use , leaves property — say £1,000 — to his married daughter ‘ for her separate use ’ . |
| 4 | Agnes nodded and smiled at her ; then , as Nan came behind the counter , she whispered to her , ‘ His lordship has reminded me of the time . |
| 5 | Michael Mills ’ production , always avoiding the self-consciously funny , has caught something of the style — and I choose the comparison with due care — of Laurel and Hardy . ’ |
| 6 | Labelling theory has revealed something of the genesis of individual theories of the self in society , but we know little about the mechanisms and occasions of large-scale learning of such things . |
| 7 | As often as not , He has done nothing of the kind . |
| 8 | Lewis added : ‘ Bowe 's stripping has robbed me of the chance of beating him in the ring . |
| 9 | Deeper study has convinced me of the opposite . |
| 10 | Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more . |
| 11 | Master Peachey has told me of the succession and how important it is to unite nations through contracts of marriage . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days . |
| 13 | ‘ I expect he has told you of the tragedy ? ’ |
| 14 | In later years , say 1964 , 1974 , 1984 , the first vision of Nozières took on its perfection and primacy , as it is only after the mind has cleared itself of the flow of daily preoccupation , planning , expectation , that the moment of a death can be known for what it is , and one 's life mapped , prospectively and retrospectively , to that threshold . |
| 15 | When a placement does run into problems , Catherine Macaskill ( 1985b ) has warned us of the dangers of thinking that adoption will solve the problems : |
| 16 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 17 | Though she may be old now , Lady Amory has lost none of the original excitement and enthusiasm which she shared with Sir John , and , like a true gardener , she is constantly looking forward : ‘ I do n't think a garden is the thing to keep ; it 's not like furniture in a room or a house . |
| 18 | has achieved none of the learning outcomes |
| 19 | Over the years the first edition ( 1954 ) of this work has acquired something of the aura of a ‘ classic ’ text , and one or other of the editions is never likely to stray far from the student petrographer 's microscope . |
| 20 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |