Example sentences of "of [adj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the summer of 1925 his growing disillusionment manifested itself in ceaseless role-playing , posing , self-interrogation . |
| 2 | In the words of an SR worker , ‘ The ‘ self-made ’ agitator spoke of that which each worker had in his head but , being less developed , was unable to verbalize . |
| 3 | But for the past year she 's faced the very real possibility of losing the Inn that 's been her life because Whitbreads decided to sell it off along with other pubs to meet the demands of the Monopolies Commission , which had demanded it must get rid of half its tied houses . |
| 4 | They were certainly not affixed to the merchandise as labels in the same way that some furniture makers and picture framers did , as a recent examination of some one thousand coffins in the vaults at Christchurch , Spitalfields , has proved . |
| 5 | Wordsworth spoke of children " trailing clouds of glory " , and their intuitive appreciation of Mystery may be one aspect of this which many adults have lost to their own deprivation and that of others . |
| 6 | Swiftly , she wrote to Ellen , exclaiming at — the cruelty of this my poor sister when you have had so much to bear . |
| 7 | ‘ My lord , I shall endeavour to take heart from your assurances in regard to Lord Hastings — I derive much comfort from your undertaking in respect of this my younger son . ’ |
| 8 | For one brief moment he paused to reflect on the finality of this his last visit which closed a thirty year chapter of his life ; then with a wry smile he descended the impressive stairway . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that the two old ladies did a little plotting to marry their favourite grandchildren off to on another ; but without the events of 1979 their dearest hopes might never have come to be . |
| 10 | The Crown has claimed that by the time he was arrested in the summer of 1991 his alleged computer forays had breached security surrounding a number of systems including one at EC headquarters , another at a world famous centre for cancer research and treatment and others at various universities . |
| 11 | There was considerable confusion as to whether the relief of widows was to be considered independently of either their late husbands ' failure to provide for them , or of the needs of their children . |
| 12 | The company said both Heineken and Bavaria had found and blocked distribution of all their affected bottles . |
| 13 | Though this is good news for American and Japanese firms , who share a paltry 11% slice of the luxury market , it is disastrous for European companies which account for the remaining 89% of sales ( see chart on next page ) , but which sell nearly half of all their fancy products in America or Japan . |
| 14 | While officials in New York refused to confirm that the USTA could forget any idea of financial aid , there is no doubt that , in the current world recession , New York has been hit harder than most and that Mayor David Dinkins , although an avid tennis fan , would have difficulty in getting approval for the money to be spent improving access roads etc to a new tennis facility , in view of all their other problems |
| 15 | When asked which of all their various roles gave them the greatest satisfaction , 47% opted for being a mother , 22% simply being themselves , 15% being a partner/lover and just 10% being a working woman . |
| 16 | In spite of all their adaptive abilities in regard to diet , armoured defence , body size , chewing and digestive mechanisms , it seems that the ‘ thermal niche ’ was the factor that ultimately became seriously disturbed . |
| 17 | And just as blackbirds perform a public service by letting off a loud ‘ chaka-chaka-chaka-chaka-chaka ’ whenever they spot a pussy on the prowl ( resulting in the mass flight of all their avian friends into the taller trees ) , so too do squirrel fish , and most probably some other fish , sound off a penetrating and quite identifiable infrasonic burst upon the approach of a predator . |
| 18 | Some local authorities publish a list of all their new planning applications in the local paper . |
| 19 | Unlike the agricultural workers in an occupational community , the newcomers do not make the village the focus of all their social activities . |
| 20 | Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings . |
| 21 | It required all federal agencies to take into account the environmental impact of all their proposed actions by preparing environmental impact statements which had to be approved before the construction of ‘ major ’ projects . |
| 22 | ‘ He will wake up once his body is drained of all their noxious potions , ’ one of them said , with a grin . |
| 23 | Maybe it requires the elimination of galleries , museums and magazines , or at least of all their underlying premises . |
| 24 | You then have to call an agency in order to obtain emergency relief , and they not only provide you with a temporary chef , but promise to send you details of all their head chefs currently seeking employment . |
| 25 | In the summer , strawberry sellers usually took up position around the Crimean Cannon at the side of the Council House and they had to dispose of all their perishable wares before returning home . |
| 26 | Black & Decker have revealed that in 1989 , about 20 per cent of all their portable power drills sold in Britain were cordless . |
| 27 | According to H. C. Robbins Landon , it was the Tristan und Isolde shortly before that , a production of swarming darkness and rare musical sensibility , that had been for many people one of the greatest of all their musical experiences . |
| 28 | The crystalline regions are held together sideways by hydroxyls which have got rid of all their attached water molecules and once the system has locked solid into a regular crystal , the interstices of the crystal become inaccessible to water . |
| 29 | A third of all their enrolled students are now ‘ mature ’ . |
| 30 | of all their bright foliage , |