Example sentences of "[verb] of [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To illustrate this I propose to write of three other areas I have visited , Australia , Pakistan and USA . |
| 2 | The Minister will know of one trainer , Astra Training Services , because he paid it to take the skill centres away . |
| 3 | She wished she had brought a bottle of gin with her , even a bottle of wine , but now the only place she could find one was a state liquor store , and while the clerk would know of one , sitting with a bottle waiting for the phone to ring was n't her own image of herself . |
| 4 | What he then writes almost gives the impression of avoiding the confusion which I diagnosed above : ‘ This is how self-consciousness arises , the capacity to locate oneself within physical and social space … to know where one is and whom one is dealing with and what is expected of one ’ ( 47 ) . |
| 5 | OD1 has less distortion to it than OD2 but even for that channel the gain preset of 4 is well down , so I kick it right up to 20 ( the upper limit of both gain and volume ) and things begin to sound a little more like it . |
| 6 | Whenever anybody reads a letter on stage , I 'm reminded of one of those Radio 4 features where Martin Jarvis corresponds with Anna Massey , or vice-versa . |
| 7 | Our general synod has been reminded of two thorough reports produced by the Church of Scotland on the subject of baptism in I think nineteen fifty five and nineteen sixty two with their clear emphasis are that the person of Christ and the work of Christ are central to the understanding of baptism . |
| 8 | Taylor 's Level was reckoned to require driving of 60 fathoms at an estimated £6 per fathom plus about 140 for the railway . |
| 9 | The auxiliary use of need has also been found in the following type of sentence not listed by Jacobsson : ( 23 ) By co-vary , we mean that the more a language has of one of the processes , the less it need have of the other . |
| 10 | A member of the commission writes of four main differences from the previous arrangements : |
| 11 | The conciliation process is very effective as a filter disposing of two out of every three applications without the need for adjudication . |
| 12 | The London works , capable of disposing of 400 million gallons of sewage a day and still in use , were finished in 1865 under the direction of Bazalgette ( Daley and Benjamin 1964 ) . |
| 13 | The then Chairman of the Housing Committee was to be a leading member of ‘ Labour against Militant ’ and crucial decisions , including this one , were usually remitted from the full Housing Committee to a smaller Housing Committee Working Group which met privately and was given the task of disposing of 25 sites which had originally been reserved for council house or Housing Association use , but were to be sold , used for Partnership or HELP schemes , or used for equity shares . |
| 14 | A two-thirds majority will be necessary to bring the new set-up into being at the beginning of the 1994-95 season , but last night a Premier Division chairman claimed to know of three others from the top 12 who would , along with his club , vote against the proposal . |
| 15 | Rousseau ( 1762 , p. 147 ) did approve of one book : ‘ This is the first book Émile will read ; for a long time it will form his whole library and it will always retain an honoured place . |
| 16 | There were some er farms say of fifteen or twenty acres which was n't quite big enough to make a living . |
| 17 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 18 | That they should make of one body a site where the variousness of all other bodies is in some way received . |
| 19 | By Southerness , she was back to her considerable best and it goes without saying that it will be interesting to see what this most confirmed of amateurs will make of 1990 . |
| 20 | The Cornmill 's central feature is a giant glazed atrium spanning almost ninety feet and consisting of 258 panes of glass . |
| 21 | There are 29 locks on the canal , the most interesting being here at Banavie , where the so-called Neptune Locks form the largest ‘ staircase ’ in Britain , consisting of 8 locks . |
| 22 | A video , to be accompanied by print material , of approximately 55 minutes ' duration , consisting of 8 programmes of approximately 7 minutes each . |
| 23 | The material consisting of 16739 patients who were given the drug for duodenal ulcer , gastric ulcer , gastritis/duodenitis or coexisting duodenal and gastric ulcer , and had neither a history of gastric surgery , nor a history of cancer , has been described previously . |
| 24 | He said his Labour counterparts had earlier ignored similar advice from officers when they approved a development consisting of hundreds of houses on a green field site . |
| 25 | The Decretum provided the Church with its basic laws , consisting of 101 distinctions and thirty-six " causes " ( each with their questions and canons , or chapters ) . |
| 26 | Yet , when Nicholson crossed the street to the legitimacy of a major studio , 2Oth Century-Fox , to join an all-star cast for The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , to be released in l967 , he had only a minuscule role , which had one speaking line consisting of twelve words , courtesy of Roger Corman who , for once , had landed a big-budget contract with a major studio and wanted Jack to share his momentary joy of being able to spend it . |
| 27 | Eight companies consisting of twelve acts were sent out at ten-week intervals , and the actual length of engagement was twelve weeks . |
| 28 | The UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration , containing 36 Articles , was completed in a mere six years , the Convention on International Factoring , consisting of twelve articles , took fourteen years from start to finish . |
| 29 | A Freedom Fighter fires a bullet to an enemy group consisting of twelve soldiers and three civilians all equally exposed to the bullet . |
| 30 | Another special train was built in 1915 , for the British C in C in France , consisting of 17 coaches , all up-to-date bogie stock , converted into conference rooms , a war room , kitchen cars , dining cars , sleeping cars and lounges , a mobile HQ . |