Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alfred was suddenly extremely grateful that none of his colleagues knew of Beatrice Throgmorton 's place in his life . |
| 2 | Yes but the trouble about it is that the English are so insular that lots of them do n't , do n't realize it or wo n't believe it . |
| 3 | Are the foundations of faith so shaky that nothing of any weight can be built on them ? |
| 4 | Each also had a wood stove , and a bathroom so small that someone of Arnold Schwarzenegger proportions would have been afraid to enter it , for fear of never getting back out . |
| 5 | But television was so arrogant that none of them even knew that I had a previous reputation . |
| 6 | The pace is slow , so slow that lots of things are unfinished . |
| 7 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 8 | It is perhaps significant that none of the last four Lord Chief Justices — Lords Goddard , Parker , Widgery and Lane — had been law officers . |
| 9 | WITH ALL THIS BRAVADO it 's rather ironic that none of the performers would tell me their real names . |
| 10 | Well in a way it 's not surprising that none of this got done , if you reflect how common it is that poetic plans do n't get fulfilled . |
| 11 | The experience made me deeply grateful that nothing of the same kind , at least with current technology , can be deduced from prose . |
| 12 | To continue with this practise shoot , move outdoors — if you are not there already — where there will be more light and plenty of room to work in . |
| 13 | But I know it 's totally untrue because none of my sisters or my mother would ever call me Harry again . |
| 14 | But on the contrary , this world of ‘ it was rumoured ’ and ‘ that may well have been so ’ followed at once by ‘ it is more likely that nothing of the sort happened ’ — again in the opening paragraphs — is as exhilarating as the challenge of life 's opacities to a healthy curiosity . |
| 15 | The editor , a nervous man always conscious that none of his immediate predecessors had lasted more than two years in the job , held his readers ' adoration of royalty as an article of faith . |
| 16 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
| 17 | They talked freely together about everything , about her sad life , her worries , her bad health , about how foul the world was , and it was more illuminating than plenty of conversations he had had with educated folk . |
| 18 | Shore sport in the Avon area still poor but plenty of small codling and occasional dab from Portishead and Clevedon . |
| 19 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 20 | In view of the points above , it is hardly surprising that none of these was rated as more than moderately effective , and only the advisory staff were rated as significantly better than ineffective . |
| 21 | Some opponents said later that since none of the houses managed a two-thirds majority , prospects for success in 1991 were thin . |
| 22 | Reflecting that the librarian 's opinion of academics was about as low as hers of journalists , Loretta asked politely for the current Who 's Who . |
| 23 | Well his name was , a very brilliant man , well w he 'd be nearly as old as me of course . |
| 24 | said the encyclical Immortale Dei ( 1885 ) , ‘ in as much as none of them contains anything contrary to Catholic doctrine , and all of them are capable , if wisely and justly managed , of ensuring the welfare of the State . ’ |
| 25 | And as much as none of us would like that , I feel it may be , you know , it may , it will be something that will be over very quickly , er the only worry of course is that so many people will get hurt , but if that 's the way to end it all then perhaps that 's what should be done . |
| 26 | MI5 agreed to give what help was necessary so it is fairly obvious that none of the security services took Eden 's directive seriously . |
| 27 | Indeed , there is now little or none of the traditional progression or interweaving of rock climbing and other mountain activities . |
| 28 | He 's going to make you hard and tough just like him — but never as good as him of course , because he 's in charge . |
| 29 | But they were as aware as anyone of the variables of timing and electoral fortune which could dictate the succession or lead Tory MPs to ‘ skip a generation ’ and look to such figures as John Major and Chris Patten . |
| 30 | I am as aware as anyone of the changes going on in the world . |