Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a lot of them young kids of twelve year old , twelve to thirteen |
| 2 | And one of them best lads of the yard used to go up there and meet the year meet them . |
| 3 | Controversy surrounding summit Prior to the summit , governments and NGOs of varying persuasions traded accusations , many of them familiar rehearsals of long-standing differences . |
| 4 | In ‘ package transactions ’ , trust banks each buy , say , 100,000 shares of the same 20 stocks — all of them key components of the Nikkei share average . |
| 5 | Many of them expressed appreciation of local cathedral organists and parish musicians who provide a lead and incentive to others . |
| 6 | Students and staff at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education , many of them fellow members of the college rugby team , wept during a performance of Elton John 's Yellow Brick Road , the favourite tune of student , Murray Pugh , stabbed to death in Cheltenham just over a month ago . |
| 7 | " When the war came he had a fleet of eleven ships , most of them modern carriers of eight hundred to one thousand tons . |
| 8 | Indeed , many of them experienced agonies of self-doubt ; all too aware of their inadequacies as Christians , they threw themselves headlong into acts of piety and charity in order to prove to themselves that they really were God 's elect . |
| 9 | It is true that some members of the party were inclined to take a ‘ soft ’ line towards Germany : prominent among them were Philip Noel-Baker and Richard Stokes , both of them middle-class members of the party . |
| 10 | His clothes , some of them old things of Theo 's which had been altered for him , were shabby , and were getting spattered with paint . |
| 11 | Good as its word , Advanced Micro Devices Inc yesterday announced that it has begun shipments of the first members of its Am486 microprocessor family with 33MHz , 40MHz and clock-doubled 50MHz versions , all of them full clones of the Intel Corp 80486 with maths co-processor on board . |
| 12 | — We put our picnic on one of them big bits of concrete . |
| 13 | It emerged at the trial that 89 of the victims , most of them suspected members of Sendero Luminoso , had been shot in the head . |
| 14 | We 're dealing with fear , we 're dealing with a sense of vulnerability and impotence and how do you teach grown ups to deal with those issues , because a lot of them erm the for a lot of them these kinds of questions go to the very centre of who they are , their self image . |
| 15 | Here is the second half of my exclusive A-Z of football , played the Athletico way . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , I fell on the gravel , severely grazing my knee and , what was worse , ruining one of my two pairs of stockings — nasty rayon objects which sagged at the knees and cost precious clothing coupons . |
| 17 | A synthesis of my two strands of research is attempted for an illustrative ‘ typical ’ case in figure 10.6 . |
| 18 | One of my preferred methods of listening to CDs is to put them on and then lie back with closed eyes to concentrate on the music . |
| 19 | In his 1965 article , ‘ Aesthetic of Hunger ’ , enormously influential on Third World cinema and art , Glauber felt he had given ‘ the measure of my rational understanding of poverty ’ . |
| 20 | I told them all the positive things , of the love I had seen , of Nancy , of Tom , Dick and Harry and of my various forms of visualization . |
| 21 | This time I did see because he had uncannily identified one of my private sources of shame and voiced my own concomitant mantra . |
| 22 | Because reading her writings startled me out of my narrow conception of her talent . |
| 23 | " But one of my lasting memories of this match will be the spirit in which it was held . |
| 24 | This is the distortion of perception referred to by Bruch , but I must add that in my case I see it less as a longstanding perceptual difficulty than as a consequence of my general state of confusion as to my self-image . |
| 25 | Most of my occasional tests of 500 GP bikes end before I would like them to , simply because my arms can no longer resist the braking g-forces and I 'm likely to get flipped off . |
| 26 | That comes within the responsibility of my fellow Under-Secretary of State , my hon. Friend the Member for Eastwood ( Mr. Stewart ) , who will have heard what the hon. Gentleman said about further applications . |
| 27 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 28 | ‘ You , the last remaining of my First Hierarchy of Hell . |
| 29 | When I talk with children I used to coach , who are now working their way up the ladder of older and older age groups , I often think of my first experiences of cross-country running . |
| 30 | One of my first recollections of the fair was spotting on the Monday evening a toy tool set priced at one shilling on a stall near the Council House ( now called The Guildhall ) . |