Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some district council 's elect all their councillors once every four years — others elect a third of them each year with a year off while the county council elections are held . |
| 2 | Many of them expressed appreciation of local cathedral organists and parish musicians who provide a lead and incentive to others . |
| 3 | You suddenly come across something , and , whether it is er , medicine , mostly , or technique think , first of them one stage after another was invented , more or less by accident . |
| 4 | Syria , or rather Antiochus , pollutes the Temple of Jerusalem on the eve of a final war which will give him victory over Egypt , but which will soon be followed by the deliverance of the Jews and by the Last Judgement : " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence " ( 12.2 ) . |
| 5 | The end was in sight for a number of them that day in Chorzow : Alan Ball , sent off , unable to contain his frustration ; Ramsey , the most successful of England 's managers , sacked within a year . |
| 6 | People came from far and near to see the wonders they wrought , and eventually , like the Myrcans , some of them accepted service with the lords of Minginish . |
| 7 | The quarrel would n't do either of them any good with the Establishment Department , but he thought he knew which one it would harm most . |
| 8 | The majority of them negotiated entry into the Roman Empire under the leadership of Fritigern . |
| 9 | I wish him and all of you good luck in all your hopes and endeavours . ’ |
| 10 | Obviously we 're unable to ensure that none of you omitted cheat by not closing your eyes properly , but we know that if you do sneak a cheeky peek as the pen descends you 'll never be able to watch Bullseye again without suffering heart-rending pangs of guilt . |
| 11 | He may not be as stinking , filthy rich as you , but he 's worth ten of you any day of the week ! |
| 12 | I 'm trying to get hold of you this afternoon for the following reasons ( listed in case we do n't manage to talk ) : |
| 13 | She had to search and destroy , scorch and defoliate , and she made the most of her one point of advantage , namely that I was a kept man . |
| 14 | She found it most distasteful to think of him owing money to the bingo-playing woman in the basement . |
| 15 | Perhaps she would think of him one day with less ill-will than now , but not for very long at a time ; not obsessively , not like this . |
| 16 | You can claim back 80% of it each month from your NI contributions or tax payments . |
| 17 | And this maxim seems especially appropriate for the seed trade , in spite of it insatiable appetite for novelty . |
| 18 | Mr. Karsten submits that on the face of it that passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. should be considered as obiter , but in any event he submits that it does not bear the meaning contended for by Mr. Wall . |
| 19 | Philip and she spent sixty pounds of it that afternoon on a secondhand gas boiler . |
| 20 | Without calling for one 's whole attention , it so persistently demands a small part of it that concentration on anything else is ruled out . |
| 21 | I found it hard to picture what kind of landscape those statistics might have shaped , until I opened the Ordnance Survey map to find half of it coloured green with a great blue stain in the centre . |
| 22 | It could be useful to remind Stuart Baxter of it some time in the future . |
| 23 | rest of it biggest part of it and some of , part if it 's in to grass and the other part I think is gradually gon na go to grass I think |
| 24 | Semantics is the study of meaning , and as such derives much of it theoretical inspiration from disciplines such as philosophy , psychology and linguistics . |
| 25 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 26 | After all , learning suggests to most of us some degree of understanding , some conscious comprehension of the problem to be solved . |