Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most solicitors are finding that a number of receipts issued by superiors or their agents are not completed by being signed in terms of Form 2 of Schedule I prescribed by the Act for redemption receipts . |
| 2 | With the slightest of limps I walked to reception to find Kenneth waiting , and after saying goodbye to Candy , we joined José , waiting behind the wheel of the hotel limo . |
| 3 | ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice . |
| 4 | ‘ If he 's the reason you 're afraid of sex I 'd like to hear about it . ’ |
| 5 | With the greatest of respect I do n't see that two defeats changes that . |
| 6 | The thread I have chosen to follow is that of houses I consider to be perfect period pieces or exceptional architectural masterpieces , and hence they are not always conventionally representative of their particular period . |
| 7 | But she 's sure to have some ideas about my future , and — and , well , she 's been so marvellous all this time , running the house and looking after poor Daddy , that of course I must consider her now . |
| 8 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was saying , ’ Shannon strove to sound as dignified as it was possible to sound for someone who was blushing like a schoolgirl , ‘ that of course I admit the man 's gorgeous . |
| 10 | Except , that , except that of course I was doing everything for everybody . |
| 11 | that of course I 'd do What Do You Want . |
| 12 | It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia . |
| 13 | From the hundreds of letters I have received from adult survivors the message is quite clear : they wish that someone in their childhood had stopped it . ’ |
| 14 | But sometimes , because he does n't have hundreds of depots I think he 's not regional , but that 's my own fault . |
| 15 | I can honestly say that of the many hundreds of queries I have answered where fish were dead/unwell , probably less than 1% were suffering from disease caused by a pathogen ( causative organism ) , and about 5% from probable organic failure ( tumour , heart failure , and the like ) . |
| 16 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've lost count of the hundreds of miles I 've covered and it has been pretty hectic . |
| 18 | Out of the hundreds of people I interviewed , only once did I genuinely fear for my job . |
| 19 | I can tell you this the general public have sent me literally hundreds of cards I have had well wishing cards , I 've also had some letters from the opposition , some of them , to be quite honest , have been disgraceful . |
| 20 | I reckon they should do tea here , I 'm getting really bored of coffee I tell you I heard Georgina scratched Ben across the arm |
| 21 | Talking audio visual that 's an event that is taking place with S S K in Glasgow on the second of February I 'm disappointed by the number of people who have said that they want to go largely because we 've gone out of our way to do something in Glasgow |
| 22 | Second of March I go to hospital . |
| 23 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 24 | I think there is sympathy erm for the people who are sick of course I can . |
| 25 | If my gut instincts advise me correctly , Ms Penumbra is by now mightily sick of hearing I am not available . ’ |
| 26 | And in another poem , entitled Local Hero , Dominic wrote : Devoid of charts I drift on a raft of dreams , So please think kindly if ever you consider me , For is not compassion the finest of the arts ? |
| 27 | I was tired of people I did n't know knowing me . |
| 28 | Despite a certain aversion from yet another stirring of recollection I am bound to say that the material of the film is handled with command . |
| 29 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 30 | A couple of days later I was telling my sister over the phone how short of money I was . |