Example sentences of "[be] reminded of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunched over or not , it was impossible not to be reminded of the sheer impact of his physical presence — the very same that had once reduced two drunken gentlemen to sobriety in the back of a car . |
| 2 | On the dawn of another new season ( England A play county champions Essex in a four-day match beginning at Lord 's on Monday , both sides apparently being restricted to eleven players ) it was uplifting yesterday to be reminded of the Grand Match . |
| 3 | The ‘ one-last-pushers ’ of the Labour movement need to be reminded of the electoral mountain that remains to be climbed ( a mountain which , thanks to the Boundary Commission , will be some 20 or so Tory seats higher by the time of the next election ) . |
| 4 | To be reminded of the distant object of her affections . |
| 5 | The pious Jew , when observing an ordinary bush , should then be reminded of the burning bush and should attempt to see the imperceptible workings of the Divine Presence within the ordinary bush . |
| 6 | Do we need to be reminded of the current legislation ? |
| 7 | Reading this group of sonnets is to be reminded of the noble conclusion to the first book of Bacon 's Advancement of Learning : In describing his Friend as my love or He the Poet could be seen as using the third-person form in order to place him apart , perhaps to place him outside the sphere of time 's influence . |