Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 2 | ANOTHER victim of evil Dr Tom Courtney has come forward to tell of the horrific ordeal he put her through . |
| 3 | When bringing patients out of the hypnotized state I usually count to three . |
| 4 | Leaving aside debates about the adequacy of the overall budget we can also consider how the current budget is distributed . |
| 5 | Thus our activities at Windscale will be an essential part of the overall review we will be carrying out in preparation for the three Divisions . |
| 6 | We also seek to give some indication of the overall role we would expect the business to play in our picture of the future of the company , and ask them to develop plans which fit in with that role . |
| 7 | In terms of the immediate situation he did not know why , but in terms of the ultimate context of his life he knew why he trusted God who knew why . |
| 8 | I had wanted to return to Scapa for some time , to refresh my memories of that extraordinary and beautiful place and of the strange life I had lived there for nearly three years . |
| 9 | ‘ Probably it 's one of the strange things you pick up , ’ he said , quoting her . |
| 10 | Lochinver was a magnet , largely because of the strange mountains I knew to be in its vicinity , and I longed to go there . |
| 11 | Others are less clear without some explanation : an attacker was known as ‘ the Bizarre Beast ’ because of the strange clothing he wore , which included a gas mask and a dress ( Star ) ; however , no explanation was needed why a sex fiend who struck near a university for the second time in four days was known as ‘ The Balaclava Rapist ’ ( Sun ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You would then compare this with the actual price on your island , and depending upon whether your actual price is higher , lower or the same as your expectation of the average price you would supply a quantity of output which is higher , lower or the same as your natural level . |
| 14 | There are suggestions that conciliated settlements are finalized without conciliation officers taking a view on the equity of the monetary settlement they conciliate . |
| 15 | But enough of the self-indulgent whingeing I have for you this month the rest of The Jetsons solution , Murray Mouse : Supercop and Biff maps , among with whatever you kind readers send in . |
| 16 | As the gas leaks out of the coiled chamber it picks up water and forms a mist around the singer 's head . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | At 93 , little remained of the liturgical Hebrew he had studied before the October Revolution , but he was pleased to be leaving his quarrelsome Armenian and Azerbaijani neighbours behind . |
| 21 | THE SOUNDBITE VERSION of the Deee-Lite story you probably know : a Russian émigré ( Super DJ Dmitry ! ) , working as a go-go dancer in New York clubs , is introduced to a bald New York textile designer ( Lady Miss Kier Kirby ! ) by the fountain in Washington Square on a sunny day in 1982 . |
| 22 | With the acquisition of the Southern Collection it became apparent that the accommodation allocated to the Theatre Collection was seriously inadequate . |
| 23 | Scotch if you 've got it — or are you waving the emerald flag for the benefit of certain up-and:coming Irish politicians of the lineage of the closest thing we in the States have to a royal family ? ’ |
| 24 | This was in recognition both of the 40th anniversary of his debut with the company and of the strenuous part he has played in bringing to fruition this ambitious project . |
| 25 | At this point a word of warning should be included : it is little use spending days/weeks describing and analysing one thin section if you are not sure whether this section is representative of the sedimentary sequence you are evaluating . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |