Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently when they pulled me out of the river and bashed the water out of my belly the first thing I said as I came round was , ‘ Riddled with diseases , I 'm sure ’ and the crew broke up in this hysterical laughter . |
| 2 | Plus I learned that you know from from our group reading of my play the other week , I learned what the function of a director was because you know obviously I should n't have given you all your parts to read for a week to sort of work out what the inflection should have been . |
| 3 | ‘ I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race . ’ |
| 4 | " Having given you the best years of my life , I now appeal to your justice and well-known liberality for a retiring pension , humbly requesting that in the event of my death the same may be continued to my child for his education till he attains 15 years of age , he being now in his 7th year . " |
| 5 | I moved out of my office the same afternoon . |
| 6 | In the course of their work the professional-managerial class develop techniques to control the working class . |
| 7 | Groups of GPs will negotiate and buy from the hospitals of their choice the ordinary range of services their patients need . |
| 8 | Members must fulfil to the best of their ability the contractual obligations owed to their employer . |
| 9 | Members must fulfil to the best of their ability the contractual obligations owed to their employer . |
| 10 | While sectoral organizations have a critique of the society relating to the experiences and fields of interest of their membership the popular movement unifies around political , social and economic issues which are key to the crisis facing Philippine society . |
| 11 | The double consignment of heroin had been secured , despite a surprise attack , albeit by one demented man , and Tiger Control in Chicago had taken delivery of their merchandise the previous day . |
| 12 | One of the boys in 2B with a good memory had suddenly quoted ‘ Alas , regardless of their doom the little victims play . ’ |
| 13 | Tammuz leaned over Zambia and removed a T-shirt which had hooked itself over the wall-clock in the frenzy of its removal the previous night . |
| 14 | The minute book of the Britons speaks of average attendance at meetings of between thirty and fifty members , and Special Branch officers discovered that the circulation of its newspaper The Hidden Hand was only 150 per month . |
| 15 | Some people , however , claimed that at the end of its run the mysterious tram disappeared on to a private spur line leading into the grounds of the presidential palace . |
| 16 | For most of its history the Conservative party has managed to avoid the factionalism of the Labour party . |
| 17 | As the price of its support the Soviet Union , in the interests of its own foreign policy , required the dismantling of revolutionary changes , conventional rather than guerrilla or ‘ revolutionary ’ war , the restoration of Republican authority and a massive enhancement of Communist power . |
| 18 | In spite of its name the exhaustive ballot is not a single ballot but a series of ballots . |
| 19 | In the first century of its existence the Royal Veterinary College was inadequately provided with staff and with funds , and was mostly concerned with diseases of the horse . |
| 20 | Throughout the period of its existence the Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory , like the Physical Chemistry Laboratory , has received a constant stream of distinguished foreign scientists on sabbatical leave . |
| 21 | Because of its convenience the horizontal view ( 90° view angle ) has been used in all serious trials in the present project . |
| 22 | Within a few months of its establishment the National Curriculum Council had produced reports on the in-service training of maths and science teachers in the operation of the national curriculum and on attainment targets and study programmes in maths and science . |
| 23 | We have to look at the range of ideals which are somehow clustered together to guide us , arrayed as they are in some sort of a rough priority system , and take out of its slot the unquestioned ideal ‘ be a man ’ . |
| 24 | How she longed to be indoors , snuggled up in bed , driving out of her system the damp cold , and the misery of parting from Len , with a hot-water bottle and impossible dreams of their future life together . |
| 25 | In this period of her life the fifty-year-old duchess has been transformed from a tough old battleaxe into " the presiding genius in a society of knights and troubadours " . |
| 26 | She had not travelled for pleasure since she had come home from her long sojourn and she had wiped out of her memory the simple delights of hot sun and cheap wine . |
| 27 | " We do n't go in for flowers , " said Clelia , displaying with a sweep of her arm the lower level , curiously cluttered with urns , a bench , a dislocated piece of mosaic resting on its end , and a functionless fountain . |
| 28 | In the excerpts from those reviews that Stieglitz reprinted in the catalogue of her show the following year , he had removed any references they contained to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's essays — obviously in response to a request from O'Keeffe to do so . |
| 29 | Artist Richard Stone has captured in her eyes and the set of her face the steely determination of a woman who knows that the very survival of the monarchy lies in her hands alone . |
| 30 | I prised out of her bag the two swatches and she agreed the measurement of the rows of the two swatches was very different ! ! |