Example sentences of "of [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheap petrol at present does not reflect the true environmental costs of global warming and the effects on the health of everyone from the atmospheric pollutants discharged by road vehicles . |
| 2 | She stared back at him , a total and willing victim of his dark physical presence , aware of nothing but the low sexual note in his voice and the excitement engendered by the slow stroke of his hands . |
| 3 | Robbie could think of nothing but the deep growing ache around which every sense seemed focused . |
| 4 | The atmosphere consisted of nothing but the noxious fumes of burnt bodies : the recyclers could n't cope . |
| 5 | I walked as in a nightmare , aware of nothing but the few yards of tarmac ahead and stopping every few yards . |
| 6 | I thought of nothing except the great happiness of being with him for ever . |
| 7 | We were always out there looking for something new , trying to find any slight glimmer of someone with the same kind of ideas as us . |
| 8 | Second , the court held that marriage as an institution is , by definition , the association of someone of the male sex with someone of the female sex , gender having no relevance . |
| 9 | Perhaps after all it was nothing more than that the man reminded him of someone from the old days , and it was not unknown for people from the palace compound to slum in the harbour quarter now and then . |
| 10 | More of them were the sons or grandsons of someone in the Christian ministry . |
| 11 | Constance never forgot standing in front of one on the main staircase . |
| 12 | This would never yield anything like a reduction of one to the other , but Carnap supposes that it still allowed us to claim that the concept of a material object could be reduced to ‘ autopsychological concepts ’ , those which concern the nature of one 's own sensory states . |
| 13 | Though in the mid-850s Burgred , king of Mercia , and the West Saxon king , Aethelwulf , joined together in a campaign against the Welsh without any indication of the subordination of one to the other ( see below , p. 195 ) , the evidence as a whole suggests a West Saxon subjection to the Mercians in the mid-eighth century . |
| 14 | But erm , you know , it 's , it 's like erm , if you talk about erm , funding per head or funding for the , for the overall spaces , you know , if it 's Mr , he always wants to be funded by the , the mile of roadblock for the population , because we have rather a lot of one to the other , and I think there may be a similar situation with the police . |
| 15 | Divide the party players into pairs of roughly equal sizes and tie the right leg of one to the left leg of the other . |
| 16 | It was n't easy for him to make new friends , particularly outside of whatever cast list he was currently a part , but occasionally it happened — as during the run of One Over The Eight . |
| 17 | That was clearly illustrated during the run of One Over The Eight . |
| 18 | After a year of One Over The Eight , ( ‘ Kenneth Williams is the best of the genre , ’ wrote Robert Muller in the Daily Mail ) Ken left the cast and his part was taken over by Kenneth Connor . |
| 19 | Although the links and influences of one upon the other are far from clear , it is not irrelevant to an understanding of the accounts to know how the pupils represent the character of their community . |
| 20 | Alternate benches were so made that the back could be swung over so that by a simple movement you had two benches facing each other instead of one behind the other and back-to-back with the adjoining classes , the teacher sitting on a chair between the ends of the benches . |
| 21 | The report noted that " if the 1980s were dominated by the debt crisis in the developing world , the 1990s have started under the shadow of one in the developed " . |
| 22 | The Murcia ruling gave the PSOE 176 seats , a majority of one in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies . |
| 23 | Bucharest 's shops are supplying a population deprived for years of everything but the poorest-quality basics . |
| 24 | Leonora forgot Guy and everything else in her rediscovered world as Penry 's presence transformed the darkness into an exciting , intimate microcosm inhabited by two people oblivious of everything but the sheer physical pleasure of being together . |
| 25 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 26 | The two friends took stock of everything in the immediate vicinity . |
| 27 | The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything … |
| 28 | It is symptomatic of our age that we wish to declare the existence of everything in the loudest possible way . |
| 29 | Cut-ins , in which a close-up detail of something within the main shot is used , are similar to cutaways and serve much the same purpose . |
| 30 | The natural law doctrine of a core of unassailable and self-evident moral truths rapidly gets squashed by the mountain of successive interpretations which devitalise even the simple phrases of something like the Ten Commandments . |