Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [vb base] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 2 | Both of them take the present sexual division of labour as given and understand that this has important implications for women in their search for an income . |
| 3 | All of them take the working actors ' problems into account and attempt to create classes which can make free hours both disciplined and profitable . |
| 4 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 5 | Where the firm is taking over another practice , accepting its outstanding liabilities and receiving payments for work in progress at the date of the takeover , these matters should be spelled out , particularly where the partners of the acquired practice or some of them join the new firm . |
| 6 | A number of tentative poems took shape , and five of them form the first section of The Prodigal Son . |
| 7 | And there 's only one sure way to do that : recruit and train them individually or in pairs but never let any one of them see the whole list . ’ |
| 8 | Some of them offer the beguiling idea that skill can influence the odds in our favour , but acquiring that skill usually means spending more time and money . |
| 9 | All the same , three of them provide the best available narrative and chronology , and their reliability must be examined in some detail . |
| 10 | By comparison the scientist is burdened with his instruments and only a few of the greatest of them feel the infinite but the mystic is drowned in it . |
| 11 | The fact that virtually all of them cross the Roman road , which was created in the first century AD , suggests that at least some of these features were there in the landscape before the road was built ; here , as elsewhere , it looks as if the road was put in arbitrarily across the landscape with little heed to existing features , much as when new roads and motorways are built today . |
| 12 | While no working poor families are now subjected to 100 per cent marginal tax rates , large numbers of them face the combined effect of tax and loss of means-tested benefits , which withdraws over three-quarters of any increased income they earn . |
| 13 | Only six of them have the necessary external lockboard battens applied to the cheek and spine . |
| 14 | On the western side , the impressive remains of the much later temple of Zeus Thanatos stand on foundation courses of large blocks of stone which look like Minoan masonry : certainly many of them have the distinctive Minoan ‘ mason 's marks ’ , the branch , the star and the trident , which supports this view . |
| 15 | The proof that the planets were actually formed in this way arises from the fact that all of them have the same built-in mode of spin . |
| 16 | What 's funny about it is , they actually do like each other ; they just do n't realise that both of them have the same views in everything . |
| 17 | These things can happen in the best of families , and among the many pictures of the Rassendylls at home , you can see that five or six of them have the same blue eyes , the same nose , and the same red hair . |
| 18 | And some of them have the same name . |
| 19 | One may hear echoes of this kind of project in I.A. Richards or the New Critics , but they none of them have the same degree of theoretical rigour and consistency , and they do not take the emphasis on the distinctively literary to the same degree . |
| 20 | Er seco and once that sort of I suppose the biggest hurdle 's out of the way once that the other two become fairly simple . |
| 21 | get a question on water , which is very common , you get sort of you get the full marks to it . |
| 22 | Erm well as many of you know the first one of the first things that you see , if you 're c approaching the town from from the A six one two , from er . |
| 23 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 24 | ‘ Do any of you know the true identity of the victims , or does the phrase or family motto ‘ Noli me tangere ’ mean anything to you ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Can any of you read the whole sentence ? ’ |
| 26 | Now I do n't know whether any of you see the little hand machines you can now buy ? |
| 27 | For example then all of you do the inimitable NMTs and would 've lost a mark , the real thing is when you 've got a time clause stop , think and really focus on this meaning of the verb in the time clause , right ? |
| 28 | A lot of We get the complicated carbon compounds in erm all the natural processes . |
| 29 | , on a scale of they represent the expected density of military traffic in each of these half-degree rectangles . |
| 30 | She listened in such a way as to make every remark of mine appear the last word in wit . |