Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But none of them does full justice to the purpose of Scripture as set out by the Bible writers themselves , or to the cumulative experience of Bible users through the centuries . |
| 2 | The largest of them have lion mouths and a lion face on the base of the barrel ; these were cast in 1599 in Munich for Duke Maximilian I. Each of them weighs 7,225 lbs . |
| 3 | The consequence has been to diminish the credibility of both ; for nobody can have any confidence that what either of them says one week will still be government policy the next . |
| 4 | One of them says statutory notifications must now be introduced . |
| 5 | None of them commands much loyalty amongst the other provinces and each effectively rules an independent state . |
| 6 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 7 | Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition . |
| 8 | None of them has any connections here , not really ; they 're all bachelors ; at least , in a way . |
| 9 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 10 | In short , if any of them reaches this standard it should be acceptable Community-wide |
| 11 | Three rivers rise in these uplands , the Nene , Welland and Avon , but none of them carries much water before they drain eastward and westward off the plateau , and the total water supply available for canal development in the area was never adequate . |
| 12 | Everything and something and nothing are all logically interlinked and none of them makes clear sense without the others . |
| 13 | None of them fit together , none of them makes any sense . |
| 14 | However , neither of them makes any reference to her husband , or to the dynamics of her marriage relationship in these comments , though Norma Larkin makes some ( implicit ) observations about marriage in general . |
| 15 | One of them provides income-earning assets to families : sewing machines , for example . |
| 16 | Try to have your progress reviewed regularly with your nurse manager , so that neither of you makes misleading assumptions about your ability to cope or happiness in the job . |
| 17 | But none of you has any choice because you all have reserved seats . |
| 18 | Neither of you has any business bringing an unwanted " out of time " baby into the world . |
| 19 | Getting rid of him achieves two things . |
| 20 | A bachelor friend of mine takes great pride in culinary art which leaves him never short of admiring girlfriends . |
| 21 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 22 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 23 | Much of it requires mental effort to work through , effort which Taylor should have put in before writing off Darwinian explanations as ‘ pathetic ’ or ‘ ludicrous . |
| 24 | I 'm a free man , and all that you hold dear , you rich men — and beggars too — none of it has any power over me . ’ |
| 25 | Behind Hurd 's selection of a specific group of Arab states is the assumption that the Arab world as a whole can be ignored , since only part of it has any role to play in security in future . |
| 26 | This is an absolute necessity and to work in defiance of it means total failure . |
| 27 | Though it travels through some wonderful hill country the Way is n't a tough route — much of it follows level footpaths with plenty of riverside walking . |
| 28 | It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense . |
| 29 | The view that certain types of fiction occupy a mediatory position between the ‘ reality ’ of a cultural heritage and contemporary ‘ true ’ accounts of it elevates these texts to a status which the novel has not held for quite some time . |
| 30 | Part of it includes two bypasses north of Oxford . |