Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [is] [adj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It generally happens the other way round : it 's the mother who 's possessive of the son . |
| 2 | ‘ Who 's afraid of an old ghost ? ’ |
| 3 | In a mock salute to the CRBC and Ottawa we played ‘ Who 's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ’ from the currently popular Walt Disney cartoon . |
| 4 | I was gon na be happy to move the recommendation sir and anyone who 's aware of the traffic problem in London Road Brandon will , will support that and also sir the figures that in the questionnaire that was sent out support route A , emphatically because you 'll notice that double the people er double the number who returned the questionnaire supported route A as opposed to any of the other alternatives , so , so I think the , the recommendation that we were to accept this morning 's various adequately worded and , and accepted . |
| 5 | Sociological study does not aim to discover who is innocent of the charges against them and who is guilty . |
| 6 | Therefore , in the unlikely event that a ceremony of marriage is performed between an unoperated transsexual and someone who is unaware of the partner 's condition , the remedy of a petition for nullity must suffice , grounded on the fact that the marriage is voidable because of the fraud of the other and the consequent lack of valid consent of the innocent party . |
| 7 | For example , O supplies a car to P on hire purchase terms and P , before he has finished paying off his instalments , sells the car to a bona fide private purchaser , Q , who is unaware of the hire purchase agreement . |
| 8 | The Rev George Knowd , who is curate-in-charge of the Muckno , Ballybay and Clontibret parishes near the south Armagh border , has just completed an £80,000 restoration project at St Maeldoid 's Parish Church in Castleblayney . |
| 9 | Barthes 's caveats against recuperation have been most convincingly demonstrated by Stephen Heath ( 1972 ) who is critical of the tendency towards naturalization : the radical experience of the nouveau roman is undermined when the novels are subjected to reductive readings of the psychologizing variety enacted by Morrissette , however much these may be encouraged by the novelists themselves . |
| 10 | Leaving aside the issue of his sincerity at the time , his statement has lived on to become a condemnation of his fellow Republican Ronald Reagan , who is guilty of the most alarming lapse of self-restraint in the history of American environmental management . |
| 11 | Maggie , who is dubious of the Prince of Wales connection , leaves in pursuit of something better . |
| 12 | Incidentally , in this area , it is Darwin who is derivative of the moral philosophers and not as is commonly supposed , largely I think because of the work of Spencer , the other way around . |
| 13 | It may be that the best solution is to find an individual or local entrepreneur who is enamoured of the building and willing and keen to make a first-class job of it . |
| 14 | Thus , if a patient who is aware of the nature of his condition and competent to make a decision refuses further treatment from his doctor , then continued treatment is unlawful , as constituting a battery or a criminal assault . |
| 15 | A person who is aware of the results of his ( or her ) actions towards another individual will not deliberately inflict pain . |
| 16 | If this is the aim it will , by the agreement of transfer , be necessary to specify that the transferor will not further use or disclose the information himself , otherwise the transferee will simply be one further person who is aware of the information . |
| 17 | The Duke , who is Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Irish Regiment , visited bases at Omagh and Dungannon , Co Tyrone , and Magherafelt , Co Londonderry . |
| 18 | As an exception to this rule , secured or unsecured loans or credits may be granted to a customer by the firm to fund a margin requirement provided that a credit assessment is made of the customer by an employee of the firm who is independent of the trading or marketing functions of the firm ( eg the compliance officer ) , and the maximum amount of the loan or credit to be granted has been notified to the customer and , in respect of a private customer , has been set out in writing and agreed by the customer in accordance with Rule 5 – 27 ( customer borrowing ) . |
| 19 | For true spelling errors ( rather than typographical mistakes ) , a corrector which knows something about pronunciation will do better than one without , because a writer who is unsure of a spelling will probably attempt to spell a word as it sounds ( Mitton , 1987 ) . |
| 20 | He 's a retired accountant who is glad of the extra income . |
| 21 | The unlucky ones find themselves pig-in-the-middle between college and school tutors , each of whom is convinced of the rightness of their own particular way of teaching and the wrongness ( hopelessly impractical , hopelessly out-of-date ) of the other . |