Example sentences of "[pers pn] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anglian Water refused to attend last night 's meeting and Mr Cox accused them of a ‘ stone wall of silence . ’ |
| 2 | I 've had so many conversations with people trying to convince them of a particular point , and although I find words central to my life … ‘ |
| 3 | If it was a sad end for England , they at least had the knowledge that only the weather deprived them of a draw . |
| 4 | That assures them of a bedrock of support . |
| 5 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
| 6 | He tells them of a tale he has heard , of how a monster called Grendel has killed many of Earl Hrothgar 's people . |
| 7 | Their habits have probably always been similar , and if survival is to be taken as a measure of success , their conservative way of life has ensured them of a leading place in the evolutionary marathon . |
| 8 | Some retailers also distribute simple handbills to passing shoppers , notifying them of a shop opening , special offers or sales . |
| 9 | Kenny Milne is far and away the Scots ' best hooker and his injury robbed them of a great deal in both tests . |
| 10 | The North have never been whitewashed in the Championship , but they now look vulnerable as injuries , defections and selection switches have deprived them of a consistent team . |
| 11 | I tell them of a babysitting job I had when I was 12 . |
| 12 | After the Mirror accused them of a cover-up , they revealed that the deadly brew trickled down the outside of a hot evaporator for FIVE HOURS before alarms were triggered . |
| 13 | A resolution proposed at the 1912 National Union Conference tells the whole story ; originally the resolution approved , " the candidature of Unionist working men and earnestly recommends the allocation to one of them of a safe and suitable seat at some by-election in the near future , as evidence of the reality of the movement " . |
| 14 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 15 | An enterprising firm of accountants , having taken expert legal advice , wrote around to B.C.C.I. depositors telling them of a scheme the accountants had prepared . |
| 16 | But he wanted to assure them of a more overpowering reason : he needed to re-establish himself on his home ground as firmly and quickly as possible in order to launch himself on Mary . |
| 17 | Attitudes are changing , but the view persists that only children are spoiled , lonely or over-protected and that their parents are selfish for ‘ depriving ’ them of a brother or sister . |
| 18 | The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's . |
| 19 | He therefore considered them of a tradition quite different from that form of conservatism — so admirably defined by Russell Kirk in his study Eliot and his Age ( 1971 , 1984 ) — which , as Eliot said to me more than once , was the best and perhaps the only defence against the extremes of Communism and Fascism . |
| 20 | In consequence , there are many single wavenumber patterns , some of them of a complexity that makes them not instantly recognizable as such ; for example , one of them is a hexagonal pattern rather like Fig. 4.9 . |
| 21 | The public interest is better served by encouraging newspapers to publish unorthodox points of view in letters columns — an objective which is not helped by depriving them of a " fair comment " defence when they publish letters with which they do not agree . |
| 22 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 23 | Reporters and photographers recorded the images presented to them of a couple who smiled and carried out their duties professionally , but barely exchanged a word , a touch or a glance . |
| 24 | Decisions should also be reached as to whether appointment lists should be displayed in the school and parents invited to come in to choose a discussion time or whether staff will decide and write to parents informing them of an allocated time . |
| 25 | It can also in effect make it impossible for them to participate in the community and thus deprives them of an important aspect of citizenship . |
| 26 | She recalled to herself that the circumstances of their visit had deprived them of an opportunity to examine the ancient willow tree sprung from a plank of Noah 's Ark . |
| 27 | Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps . |
| 28 | Yet I think that at the subconscious and half-conscious levels he was a heavy weight upon me of a perhaps oppressive or repressive kind . |
| 29 | Tara , a fourteen-year-old , told me of a sequence of events which , her friends agreed , was hardly an exception : |
| 30 | Before my mother died she told me of a letter to me , held in the bank , which I was to receive on her death . |