Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She intended to slap Elisabeth on the back , but she was too late ; Elisabeth had made a dash for fresh air and Mitzi 's arm met that of Elisabeth 's chair . |
| 2 | At its greatest extent in the late eleventh century the Croatian kingdom reached down to the Neretva , where its frontier met that of medieval Serbia . |
| 3 | The description fits that of Fräulein Müller 's maid , the woman called Rachel . ’ |
| 4 | A fundamental difficulty will always remain that of substantiating the complaint . |
| 5 | ‘ When you 've lived through 16 general elections and fought eight of them , you develop an instinct , ’ says the modest Deedes , opening a bottle of champagne . |
| 6 | Now the other side of that was a plea which came from our switchboard supervisor , which I 'll come onto in a moment , where she said people will often think that of her telephonist , but in actual fact , it 's because they have n't got the right information from people at this end , so there is another side to that story . |
| 7 | For if I can do that — if I can get people to begin to comprehend the universality and the depth of our perversion — I would have achieved something rare and precious for the starving and dispossessed two-thirds of mankind ( sic ) from whose ranks I come , and for whose cause I must now fight . ’ |
| 8 | Party host guilty of killing friend . |
| 9 | A leading Western authority on the reincorporation of the nationalities into the Soviet Union opined that of all the minorities the Belorussians had the weakest urge to set themselves apart . |
| 10 | Scott had heard little of the Judge 's summing up or , indeed , of his comments after the life sentence had been passed . |
| 11 | Michael Heseltine is accusing Labour of highjacking Tory policies in a bid to get elected . |
| 12 | He laid much of the blame on the growth of incomes outstripping that of consumer goods production , and attributed this primarily to mistakes in granting autonomy to state enterprises and in regulating the co-operative sector . |
| 13 | Finally , a dense catalogue section itemises each of the sculptures , complete with technical and bibliographical data , and includes the texts of crucial documents relating to the discovery and reproduction of the wax originals . |
| 14 | What arguments can be used to support each of these viewpoints ? |
| 15 | As early as 1950 Norbert Weiner had predicted that automation would result , within twenty-five years , in a depression that would make that of the 1930s seem like a pleasant joke , and in 1965 an Oxford University professor was quoted as saying at one of the OECD conferences : |
| 16 | What is there about the river terrace site in the drawing which met each of Chief Onlaf 's requirements ? |
| 17 | Sweeney 's encounter with ‘ the epileptic on the bed ’ parallels that of Nausicaa not with Odysseus but , more shockingly , with ‘ Polypheme ’ . |
| 18 | It is funded by a poll tax called the licence fee , although a ) the consumer is thus charged for services he/she does not require ; b ) the output often parallels that of TV and radio stations supported by advertising , and c ) its audience share is dropping . |
| 19 | Not so Muhammad Ali , who was without doubt the most socially important sporting figure after Johnson , and his career parallels that of his predecessor in many ways . |
| 20 | By some measures incomes are more equally distributed in Japan than in the West , and in ‘ employment income = = Japan 's degree of equality parallels that of some of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe ’ ( Boltho 1975 p.163 ) . |
| 21 | The employment profile of this group parallels that of the known sector but emphasises the fact that most had never worked or had only had a ‘ work experience ’ employment rather than lost their job because of heroin use . |
| 22 | The study of the visible marks used in writing from the point of view of their shape and size rather than their use in a particular system , which is covered by graphology ; this distinction parallels that of phonetics and phonology . |
| 23 | Martin leaned forward , his face touching that of the angel 's , as he raised his arm to strike . |
| 24 | Mr Reeves thinks little of such an idea and would rather see conventional pools built . |
| 25 | Pay constitutes two-thirds of all current expenditure . |
| 26 | Its reputation as a seat of learning precedes that of Altdorf , although it has been overshadowed by the new capital over the last few centuries . |
| 27 | A few men at a time could have manipulated each of these stones into position , yet the collective force of the place feels not reduced accordingly . |
| 28 | I bring each of you on a guided tour of my past and you each remain tight-lipped . |
| 29 | The latter , in addition to recording the histories of Anglo-Saxon kings and churchmen , chronicled that of Glastonbury Abbey at the request of its monks , and several other monasteries , including Abingdon , Ely , Evesham , Peterborough and Ramsey , also had histories written at about this time . |
| 30 | ‘ While some institutions have made public share investments in hotel companies , the property departments remain shy of hotels , ’ she said . |