Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been guilty myself of telling electors , sceptical of their power , about how popular resentment brought down ‘ even Walpole ’ and forced a reluctant government into an unwanted war . |
| 2 | They 're three lots of semis |
| 3 | Under the section of Abdominal Conditions it will be noticed that there are three lots of modalities . |
| 4 | Its genesis , location , economics and indeed its timing are all something of a puzzle , to which there are for so recent an event , no easy solutions . |
| 5 | It was a tremendous morale-booster for Michael to do something of the sort again , but I am sure none of the delegates at the conference knew of the pain he was in , nor how much discomfort he concealed behind his ready laugh . |
| 6 | ‘ I work in sales and am sure none of my clients would take me seriously if I did n't turn up in a sharp suit . |
| 7 | I am sure lots of people who were approached by pollsters had similarly sincere intentions : but a funny thing happened to them , too , on the way to the polls . |
| 8 | I mean you , you ask him if he 'd erm arranged for a cement mixer and he said oh no he did n't want to bother , but I thought afterwards that 'll be each one of those holes , he |
| 9 | I 'm afraid nothing of the sort is hidden from him . |
| 10 | But I 'm sure anyone of the United players and the fans that have made the trip up from Oxford this afternoon , would have settled for a one point at half time . |
| 11 | I met my husband at work and I 'm sure lots of other couples meet that way . |
| 12 | It is the concern of the people in Hertfordshire following the woods only about three miles away , they now and many Hertfordshire residents , I 'm sure lots of people in this room use voluntary commission land where their , their on holiday . |
| 13 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |
| 14 | Well , at those prices I 'm sure none of us would have wished to accompany the old snob . |
| 15 | I 'm sure none of us would mind if you just did n't bring any at all . " |
| 16 | Now I could not countenance , and I 'm sure none of the authorities around us could countenance a new settlement that scale in Greater York . |
| 17 | Er I 'm sure none of this , this lot |
| 18 | Or perhaps I should say , ‘ Another of the Black Sumatras has done it ’ — for our three sooty chickens of this exotic breed are indistinguishable from one another , and we can not be sure which of them has excelled itself . |
| 19 | Even then it was difficult to be sure which of the shadowy tumbled shapes was the one in which Marian had dropped the sack . |
| 20 | On the other side of the rim I can see way over the savannah in the direction of the Mountain of God , which is reduced in size so that I ca n't be sure which of the outcrops on the horizon it is . |
| 21 | The judges decided they could not be sure which of Sarbutts ' stories was true and quashed Turner 's conviction , Mr Roberts said . |
| 22 | DAVID MELLOR has gone to the back benches nursing the belief that since he told John Major all about his expenses-paid holiday it made it okay and if life were fair none of us should have considered him out of order . |
| 23 | So your ratios and the things you should be looking at , or the activity stuff is how many calls I 'm making , how many no 's do I get , and how much is each one of those no 's worth . |
| 24 | In politics he is that which of all things least resembles a democrat — an aristocratic republican who thinks ‘ nothing more agreeable to the order of nature or more for the interest of mankind than that the less should yield to the greater , not in numbers but in wisdom and virtue ’ . |
| 25 | Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning . |
| 26 | Oh that 's right plenty of time to get out |
| 27 | While in 1990 it is clear which of these views is currently favoured in Rome , it is far from clear which will finally prevail . |
| 28 | One thing is clear none of this OO stuff is imminent in Oracle as SQL 3 is pencilled in for 1995/6 and an object storage manager will most likely follow that . |
| 29 | ‘ Is this one of your regular haunts ? ’ |
| 30 | Mrs , finally , is this one of your nooks and crannies ? |