Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 2 | ‘ Despondent souls , ’ it was said , ‘ and there are not a few of these , seem to have been struck only by one part of the Führer 's speech : where he spoke of the preparations for the winter campaign in 1942–43 . |
| 3 | It was this — you have now , or should have , at least a sovereign left out of your monthly pay & what survived of the 15/ from the Bank ; so is it not best to send it all to me at once ? |
| 4 | I gather that nothing remains of the site today . |
| 5 | Sir — It was with deep sadness that I heard of the death of Fred Daly , to date the only Irish winner of The Open . |
| 6 | Not that I approve of the way some of the young people were dressed today . |
| 7 | so we could have reduced that , and I think that is the criticism that I make of the Conservatives , not that the Conservatives in this council have done that , but that they should be apologizing for it . |
| 8 | It was with much regret that I learned of the sad passing of Jack Golder ( Shergold guitars ) on 9th April ‘ 92 , via the obituary published in your June issue . |
| 9 | It was from the late Sir Harry Luke , author of that delightful and civilized book The Tenth Muse ( Putnam , 1954 , and revised edition 1962 ) that I learned of the beauty of mulberry ices . |
| 10 | It was to be many years later that I learned of the strictures Tata had accepted once he had proposed marriage to my mother , a Roman Catholic . |
| 11 | Er well I think the experience that I gained of the the kind of erm living situation erm because I you know we underwent the same kind of difficulties . |
| 12 | I said that I couple of the |
| 13 | It was , therefore , with sadness that I read of the British Olympic Association 's petty , bigoted decision to withhold recognition of the Paralympics team . |
| 14 | That , she knew full well , she could do nothing about , although she disapproved of the whole set-up . |
| 15 | She told one foreign reporter that she knew of the rumours and laughed them off , saying , ‘ If my relationship with the General Staff makes me a secret agent , maybe I am ! ’ |
| 16 | Who better than she knew of the transience of power ? |
| 17 | I , I would like to see erm , I do n't know whether this is done , but erm , when the official photographs are taken , they 're done by erm , newspaper area , so that you get of the Lord Lieutenant , the Chief Officer , and the , the man from that area , and that is sent to the local paper , whether , ah |
| 18 | Drafts that you made of the report and later improved or discarded should also be retained . |
| 19 | well not exact , obviously , I 'm not saying you remembered if it was a Tuesday morning or a Wednesday afternoon , but he gave you instructions according to Mr in February nineteen eighty seven , would it be about that time that you learnt of the instructions ? |
| 20 | In his footnote to Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind , J. S. Mill says that it is not ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions ’ that an object produces in us that we predicate of the object . |
| 21 | Is the Secretary of State aware that it is almost three years to the day that we heard of the Clapham rail tragedy , which was caused by faulty signalling and negligence ? |
| 22 | IT WAS with great sadness that we heard of the death of , at the age of 67 , on April 24 . |
| 23 | The highest requires that we think of the international system as a set of norms or purposes which shape the process of history . |
| 24 | It is on this account that we talk of the baby 's right to life , much as we would of a normal adult . |
| 25 | For all those who sit on European committees , the CAP is the main criticism that we have of the Community 's work . |
| 26 | The texts that we have of the whole Canterbury Tales are made up of a number of fragments or groups , which vary in contents from single isolated tales to sequences of several tales connected by link passages . |
| 27 | And the , the incredible er spectacle that we have of the endless three , four , five hundred page biography is based on no evidence at all , because we know very very little about this man , except that he was a shareholder in the theatre , a very very minor actor , the sort yes , who would have minded the costumes . |
| 28 | It was only as the day wore on that we wearied of the journey and began to be afraid . |
| 29 | It was with great sadness that we learned of the death , at 94 , of Ralph Gerstenberg , on 27 September 1993 . |
| 30 | The review that we undertook of the calls shows that the peak demands in are between eight A M and twelve midnight , so the four officers will work a sixteen hour duty scheme er of eight till four , four til midnight , and then the cover between midnight and A M will come fr eight A M will come from as it does at present . |