Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [indef pn] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my son has received none of the two hundred and eight |
| 2 | Suppose a man knows nothing of trusts and trustees , but has heard something of the separate use , leaves property — say £1,000 — to his married daughter ‘ for her separate use ’ . |
| 3 | We might have expected to see something of the great movies , Gold Rush , Modern Times , Limelight … |
| 4 | Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more . |
| 5 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 6 | Though she may be old now , Lady Amory has lost none of the original excitement and enthusiasm which she shared with Sir John , and , like a true gardener , she is constantly looking forward : ‘ I do n't think a garden is the thing to keep ; it 's not like furniture in a room or a house . |
| 7 | However , a pilot study has shown that if the available data is collected and sorted by computer , enough survives to enable something of the overall pattern to emerge , especially through comparison with the much more plentiful English data . |
| 8 | Drouot salerooms may have seen none of the spectacular sales which are so good for promotion . |
| 9 | — I believe I am anything but candid : in fact — I am naturally suspicious — & exceedingly reserved , the first good quality arises from my having seen plenty of the evil part of the world from my youth up — the second from being but very little used to company or society — for — excepting Mr. Yarrell — ( whom Mrs. Hewitson & Atkinson know , ) — to whom I go to study bones & muscles — I do n't know a single person in all London to visit intimately . ’ |
| 10 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |
| 11 | In her primping performance as Amy Johnson in They Flew Alone ( 1942 ) , Anna Neagle is allowed to express none of the deeper motivations for her character 's decision to defy convention and take up flying , and the film never tries to make anything of its contrast between Johnson 's individualism and its concluding images of girls marching , clearly anything but individuals . |
| 12 | To which I might say that , rationalist or not , I had spent too many years in my capacity as church architect investigating the fossils of a dead faith not to have imbibed something of the old superstitions . |
| 13 | Although administered by a council , which met three times a year to review policy , it had undergone none of the post-war modernization and investment that had rescued the rest of the farming industry from the crippling effects of war . |
| 14 | They were more articulate , had seen something of the wider world , retained a thirst for knowledge , and were sceptical towards the Church . |
| 15 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 16 | Perkin had made none of the classic mistakes . |
| 17 | His smile was relentless and Miss D'Arcy who , until then , had felt none of the virulent force m. the man , was pushed into embarrassment . |
| 18 | The Turks had used none of the sophisticated machinery that the Nazis were to employ against another minority community less than 30 years later . |
| 19 | Daisy Chainsaw , for the most part , manages to do none of the above . |
| 20 | So far we have been concerned with trying to understand something of the general reaction people have to various forms of loss , concentrating on the reactions people will discover in themselves when they or someone close to them is dying or has died . |
| 21 | We have seen something of the various situations in which non-fatal physical harm might occur . |
| 22 | In our annual reports in Dumbarton Oaks Papers we have shown something of the extraordinary nature of the church and its decoration and shed much new light on the period immediately before Justinian . |