Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were welcomed by Guinness Brewing Worldwide Managing Director , who is chairman of the Guinness Group 's Pension Trust , and who told them of the latest developments at their former workplace . |
| 32 | What would he say if she told him of the background that had left her with a deep and enduring mistrust of men ? |
| 33 | Even if you decide none of the resorts , hotels or cities featured here is quite what you have in mind , we can still help . |
| 34 | Crime is nearly unknown among our people , and we have none of the means or experience to pursue it . |
| 35 | If we strip it of the insulation apparently provided by its appeal to the technology of literacy , we will expose the same ethnocentric claims and uncritical faith in the observer 's own ways of thinking . |
| 36 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
| 37 | But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness . |
| 38 | In most respects it was human in shape , but gigantic in stature , and there seemed nothing of the human being in the way it suddenly paced forward from the trees . |
| 39 | Thrombolytic therapy is started provided there arc none of the exclusion criteria that I mentioned , along with atropine . |
| 40 | Many couples stick with this covenant and the hope invested in it , and they make something of the struggle it entails . |
| 41 | I looked into his eyes and they reminded me of the saying ‘ The lights were on but there was nobody home . |
| 42 | He may have shown indifference with his remark that Christians need not be ashamed if they knew nothing of the number and properties of the elements . |
| 43 | And he thinks nothing of the travelling to and from training . |
| 44 | He said he was a reporter and he told me of the death of the King , the news had just come through . |
| 45 | In Green 's Tourist 's New Guide 1819 , p.4. he says ‘ The writer was encouraged to the pursuit of painting by Mr. West , but why he knows not , his few sketches were humble , his mind untutored , and he knew none of the requisite theories , but geometry , perspective and architecture ’ . |
| 46 | He could not fault the appearance of the almost-finished uniform , and he understood nothing of the tailor 's craft . |
| 47 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |
| 48 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 49 | And it carried none of the consequences that followed my previous enforced sortie into print … at the time of the Black Rock Rescue ! |
| 50 | The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . |
| 51 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 52 | In her view the film had been ‘ quite careful ’ to show that it was an allegory and it reminded her of the British classic film Black Narcissus . |
| 53 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 54 | By comparison housework is boring , lonely , unrewarding work , and it has none of the prestige associated with meeting famous people and working in a glamorous establishment like Claridges . |
| 55 | Isaac proceeds as if he knows nothing of the events surrounding the pot of soup . |
| 56 | Mr Gergen will best serve his new boss if he reminds him of the strengths of one of his old ones . |
| 57 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
| 58 | An Irish relative had told her that Ireland was now to be known as Eire but she knew nothing of the reasons for this , or of what was happening in Germany . |
| 59 | But she felt none of the joy she had anticipated . |
| 60 | Women are responsible for family finances but they have none of the power that goes with possession . |