Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like readers to know of the excellent efforts you have made to stimulate community action in Wales . |
| 2 | It is not unusual for Arabic paragraphs to consist of one sentence . |
| 3 | Even if we have few possessions or little wealth to give away , may we seek out opportunities to give of our time , our skills and our concern to those who need us . |
| 4 | Very simply it presents , through its visual image of the Crucifixion and its present-tense appeal to passers-by to think of the uniqueness of the love it manifests , a sense of the issues of the Passion as a continual process : The final two lines complete the physical image but metaphorically signify that reality at the heart of Christianity , that through the experience of suffering the strength of love is made known . |
| 5 | How does a national party system arise from pre-existing allegiances to place of birth and social group ? |
| 6 | Does he agree that extending the experience of opera and opportunities to learn of opera to those who would not normally even think of it , or think of taking advantage of such concessions , would be a good thing ? |
| 7 | ‘ That would be perfect , ’ said Elizabeth and shut her eyes to dream of that far-off day . |
| 8 | Not in all cases , but in ‘ appropriate cases ’ , an occupier may discharge his or her duty by taking reasonable steps to warn of the danger , or taking steps to discourage people from incurring the risk ( see s. 1(5) OLA 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Monaco also had several demands to make of Otto and was present at his coronation on 12 July 1198 , possibly to seek that the Lombard cities should be free from imperial encroachments . |
| 10 | Sophisticated systems incorporate audible and visual signals to warn of product exhaustion , or malfunction , and interlock to prevent the wrong product being fitted . |
| 11 | These studies have led their authors to speak of a sort of " binding hierarchy " ( Givon 1980 ) characterizing the various types of complement constructions . |
| 12 | They do n't think it 's what they call ‘ right ’ for women to do jobs like castrations , and it seems to embarrass the poor dears to talk of putting heifers to the bull and dealing with calving cases , or to discuss the sexual behaviour of their animals . ’ |
| 13 | In these circumstances to talk of the inner city may be to accept a vocabulary which we might prefer not to endorse but it might also use the only language in which we can be heard . |
| 14 | A second firebomb was found in a follow-up search , and the RUC warned shopkeepers to beware of further devices . |
| 15 | He could be relied upon in all circumstances to give of his best for us , even though , in all honesty , we were seldom more than a pretty poor bunch throughout the period he was with us . |
| 16 | Further , once women get themselves into the position of dependent housewives , they have a vested interest in the maintenance of the status quo since it is too late in their lives to think of independent careers , and sexual freedom merely means the freedom for their husbands to seek younger women . |
| 17 | His supple skin had no lines to speak of ; he preserved it with various expensive creams and face masks . |
| 18 | It then becomes the responsibility of these countries to dispose of the excess . |
| 19 | We will create a common structure of Local Management of Hospitals and community units , ending the ability of NHS Trusts to dispose of their capital assets , to set their own terms and conditions of service for staff , and to withdraw from local planning of health services . |
| 20 | Gus , who in real life had black finger-ends cross-hatched like a file and no nails to speak of , smiled benignly out from the rain storm , his hair carefully combed , hands hidden under the counter . |
| 21 | It is normal for their early attempts to consist of strings of letters , with words represented by the initial letter or by clusters of consonants . |
| 22 | By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country . |
| 23 | It therefore seemed logical to press a little of every suitable plant in her garden and later to create a design from it that would remind her for many years to come of her treasured garden . |
| 24 | It was not necessary , however , to travel to one of these fashionable watering places to partake of the health-giving beverage , and ‘ taking the waters ’ at a local spring or spa ( spaw to many Northeners ) became very popular during the last century . |
| 25 | You have enough confidence in your abilities to talk of your own interior design business . |
| 26 | Tyson , meanwhile , has four years to serve of his sentence , but with his good prison behaviour , could be out of jail in a year and back in the ring within 18 months . |
| 27 | In the first of these Leapor warns beaux to beware of Cloe 's eyes which wound , and she goes on to describe her friend 's musical skill : |
| 28 | A complimentary membership card which entitles guests to use of piano bar , billiard room , shuttle service to the beach , day time tennis courts , table tennis , windsurfing , pedaloes canoes and catamaran , sophisticated 10% discount off all excursions . |
| 29 | There would also be economic implications to reform of the mental-health system . |
| 30 | But she was dead … as was her killer , who had taken weeks to die of Carrefour 's poison . |