Example sentences of "of the [det] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | At one stage in her career , it had seemed you could n't open up a rock paper or one of the tabloids without seeing her tumbling golden mane and her lazy catlike smile captured by one of the many photographers who seemed to dog her every step . |
2 | Here are set out for the benefit of a person intending to become a candidate a few of the many matters which must be complied with in order that the candidature shall be declared valid by the returning officer . |
3 | One of the many things which I love about New Scientist is the way you print the odd spoof article or two in the issue nearest 1 April . |
4 | One of the many things which has changed out of all recognition during my lifetime is our ability to teach languages to mature students . |
5 | One of the many things which made them successful was the particular dramatic frame they used . |
6 | One of the many things my parents taught me was how to entertain properly . |
7 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
8 | In his first letter from there he makes a significant little admission to Theo , and encloses a sketch : ‘ I should like to begin making hasty sketches of some of the many things I meet … but as it would probably keep me from my real work it is better not to start . ’ |
9 | ‘ One of the many things I do n't understand is why Riddle was so generally disliked , even hated . |
10 | ‘ It 's one of the many things I acquired a taste for at school . |
11 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
12 | The resulting degree of demographic and socio-economic polarization at regional , sub-regional and local scales is the central feature of the many changes which have affected the geography of the UK in the second half of the twentieth century . |
13 | Ines Oppenheimer comments : ‘ I actually think I have had a more interesting career as a result of the many changes I have made . |
14 | Expecting it to be someone high up in one of the many companies she had dealings with — though it was unusual for Jimmy not to supply her with a name — she announced efficiently , ‘ Leith Everett . ’ |
15 | Tomorrow , he will be paired with a past Masters champion , one of the many traditions which run a rich seam throughout the event . |
16 | Of the many exercises we took part in during the course , this was in fact one which members of the group remembered most clearly . |
17 | Just how consistent it is with the prevailing relationship of disabled people to our able-bodied society comes clear when you look at some of the many questions which can be raised . |
18 | If you watch the jamboree of the many species which gathers at a lion kill , you observe that each animal changes its normal behaviour . |
19 | In the writing of inspection reports it will be essential to express findings in a positive manner and in a language and style that address the concerns of the many non-specialists who make up the audience for the reports . |
20 | For Paul , that offering is made up of the lives of the many Gentiles who have turned to faith in God . |
21 | According to leading dermatologist Professor Malcolm Greaves , one of the many doctors who has tried to treat Graham , there are thousands of conditions which can affect the human skin . |
22 | This was a rather simplistic interpretation of the many disagreements which affected political life , but it contained some truth and helped to explain why France was unable to create a British or American-style two-party system : the question of authoritarianism and democracy in the constitution , which had divided Frenchmen since the Revolution , had again served to divide the country in the constitutional debates of 1946 ; the role of the Roman Catholic Church in national life divided the Christian Democrats from the other leading parties ; and questions of class conflict were particularly apparent in early 1947 in differences over wage levels . |
23 | A comprehensive review written in America in 1932 concluded that , of the many substances which had been tried , more or less empirically , against tuberculosis , none was effective . |
24 | It is possible to dial a number and , within seconds , to he speaking to a business acquaintance or friend in Saudi Arabia , the USA or Australia , to name just three of the many countries it is possible to dial direct . |
25 | Not the least of the many surprises I got on returning home was to find that all that had changed . |
26 | Benzodiazepines are just one example of the many drugs which have proved over the years to cause rather than cure illness . |
27 | Picton-Howell 's main mission in life was to record faithfully the minutes of the many meetings she attended . |
28 | However , the question arises whether the undertaker was aware of the significance of the many trappings he insisted on providing . |
29 | The greater the number of lectures you must attend , the tighter and more automatic must be your techniques , or else you will find after a week or two that you have only a mass of undigested scribbles as the poor product of the many lectures you have attended . |
30 | These are some of the many exchanges we have had this year with lawyers from overseas . |