Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the outstanding men who first made their name in the amateur game , turned professional — Tilden , Perry , Budge , Gonzales ‘ Sedgman , Trabert , and then Rosewall , Hoad , and finally Rod Laver . |
| 2 | ‘ Probably it 's one of the strange things you pick up , ’ he said , quoting her . |
| 3 | Lochinver was a magnet , largely because of the strange mountains I knew to be in its vicinity , and I longed to go there . |
| 4 | We will not include the value of any message or information , but we will give sympathetic consideration to your request for a refund of the reasonable costs you have had in making enquiries about a lost or damaged postal packet . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the application of the anti-inflation policies which were associated with this particular interpretation of the NAIRU hypothesis was to expose many unforeseen drawbacks . |
| 6 | Around 100 boats will be taking part in the three-day Bank Holiday event — May 29 , 30 and 31 — hosted by the Lough Erne Yacht Club , a number well in excess of the 80-plus boats which participated in the Mirror nationals ten years ago . |
| 7 | Mr Stone seems fond of the bizarre dynastic arrangements he studies , tending to deplore the rise of the Arab families who are transforming politics in Honduras ( and , for that matter , in Ecuador and Argentina and Brazil ) . |
| 8 | Of the Arab countries which had mobilized forces for Saudi Arabia , Egypt announced substantial further commitments ( an increase to 10,000 troops announced on Sept. 7 , the day before President Mubarak met Baker in Alexandria ; an increase to 20,000 announced on Sept. 16 , with forces departing immediately ; and a government statement on Sept. 25 of readiness to increase the numbers further , to 35,000 ) , as did Syria ( an additional 11,000 to Saudi Arabia , with 300 Soviet-made T-72 tanks , announced on Sept. 15 , on top of 3,200 Syrians already in Saudi Arabia and 1,000 in the United Arab Emirates ) . |
| 9 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 10 | By the time you read this there will certainly be 200 or more routes , and although many of these will be big numbers , there is certainly the potential for more instant classics in the middle grades on one of the friendliest crags I 've ever visited . |
| 11 | However , it is some of the non-examinable subjects which would appear to fare worst in the primary school at the moment . |
| 12 | One of the wisest criteria we can apply to any of the claims made for the Holy Spirit and any of the teaching about the Spirit which is being advanced from all sides today is this : does it glorify Christ ? |
| 13 | This , as we have seen , explains the impossibility of the infinitive in * To snow would be pleasant as against its possible use in I want it to snow : if the generalized person of the infinitive of weather verbs is not specified as referring to the only support with which the notion denoted by these verbs is conceivable , namely it , then one feels a possible reference to any of the ordinal persons which can be referred to by the infinitive 's generalized person ( " you " , " me " , etc. ) , and so the sentence does not make sense . |
| 14 | Mineralisation shows a spatial association with underlying granites in the Lake District and the Isle of Man , and with volcanics in North Wales , but in Central Wales and most of the Southern Uplands there is no indication of magmatic involvement . |
| 15 | Some of the loudest voices there are not in the best tradition . |
| 16 | Of the eleven families who had more than one member holding land in 1575 no less than nine were still in the village in the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 18 | Indeed , four of the eleven cases which got sustained coverage resulted in an acquittal . |
| 19 | Recent feminist historians have insisted that the repeal struggle needs to be seen not just as one of the single-issue campaigns which characterized the reform politics of radical liberalism , but as a landmark in the history of the nineteenth-century women 's movement and in the development of a feminist politics of sexuality . |
| 20 | And now it was coming true , because he was smiling … and she decided there and then that it was one of the nicest smiles she had ever seen . |
| 21 | It is one of the nicest shows anyone could do because of the response you get from the viewers . ’ |
| 22 | One of the nicest mums there is . |
| 23 | Joseph Gill , John Pinney 's hard-drinking cousin , lived as near by as caretaker ; Peggy Marsh , described by Dorothy as ‘ one of the nicest girls I ever saw ’ , arrived after a month to help in running the enormous house ; and from the beginning Wordsworth and Dorothy were preoccupied with caring for a child not yet three years old called Basil Montagu . |
| 24 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 25 | If you are using a thicker yarn , particularly a fancy one , then some of the nicest fabrics I 've seen were ones where you 'd hardly suspect the presence of a punchcard . |
| 26 | In contrast Ralph Shergold who took Standard Four was not only a splendid teacher but also one of the nicest men I have ever known . |
| 27 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 28 | But Guy Sterne is one of the nicest men I know . |
| 29 | He 's one of the nicest men I 've ever met in my life . |
| 30 | Sir John Betjeman , on the other hand , described it as one of the industrial towns which are ‘ the hope and life of England ’ . |