Example sentences of "[vb -s] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the educated urban elite abandon Mr Collor , following a series of media exposes of his political record , he has relied on continued support from rural voters at rallies of up to 70,000 . |
| 2 | As we mention in the section on Concentration , a good time-table of study can take the place of motivation until such motivation develops of its own accord . |
| 3 | 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home . |
| 4 | The Cardinal 's statement continued : ‘ The question of the ordination of women affects the understanding each Church has of its own identity and of its sacraments and worship . |
| 5 | Beata Bishop in her book A Time to Heal , which describes her experience of cancer and how she ultimately cured it by using alternative healing methods , writes of her first experience of conventional surgery . |
| 6 | Books make the ideal Christmas present , and among those currently in stock are Muriel Spark 's autobiography Curriculum Vitae , in which she writes of her childhood in Edinburgh and the people and places which have influenced her work — including the original Miss Brodie ; and Alisdair Gray 's new novel Poor Things , a Frankenstein-inspired tale which has been described as his best work yet . |
| 7 | But hers is not a detached examination — she writes of her belief that ‘ action makes a difference ’ and outlines some of the possible practical steps that can be taken as a result of her ( and others ' ) analysis . |
| 8 | In his notes Fedin writes of his heroine : ‘ She is somehow reconciled , and of course she would never go off anywhere for good . |
| 9 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 10 | Ali Bacher writes of his ‘ dream come true ’ and President de Klerk registers a goodwill message . |
| 11 | Paris says that he conducted himself here in a typically high-handed manner , whilst the Dunstable annalist writes of his boasting before the king and queen that he had the Welsh in the palm of his hand . |
| 12 | He can honestly claim to have been a righteous servant of God ; in verse 16 he writes of his service being like that of a priest , who bridges the gap between God and man , and who presents a sacrifice to God as part of the priest 's duties and privileges . |
| 13 | Commercial organizations spend a great deal of effort on assessing the needs and wants of their customers , and yet , as we saw in Chapter 31 ( The Marketing Concept ) , there is a variety of possible orientations towards customers . |
| 14 | ‘ What puzzles me , , someone remarks of her new kittens at the close of Under the Net , ‘ is why those two should be pure Siamese and the other ones quite different , instead of their all being half tabby and half Siamese . ’ |
| 15 | sorry just remind us what proportion is is a flat pack represents of your total sales |
| 16 | Individuals are neither slaves to their attitudes , nor are they necessarily masters of their own destiny . |
| 17 | But are we really masters of our fate ? |
| 18 | The metaphysician uses the word ‘ substance ’ of the ‘ thing itself ’ , and thinks of its various properties as attached to it in much the same way that garments become attached to a clothes horse . |
| 19 | In the whole history of a people its holiest moment is when it awakens from its unconsciousness and for the first time thinks of its old holy rights . |
| 20 | What the first lady of rock thinks of her rival superstar |
| 21 | SO CLOSE , YET SO FAR : Kerry cuddles Panos and thinks of her Ben |
| 22 | She thinks of her mother . |
| 23 | She thinks of her father , whom she has never known , of whom she knows nothing , almost nothing , but whose image , it is alleged , is in that locket : an image which also hangs in an identical locket at this moment around her sister 's neck . |
| 24 | And thinks of her daughters |
| 25 | ‘ What can you do with a woman who always thinks of her stomach first ? ’ |
| 26 | The organisation that calls the general election closest is the one that is most attractive to Tesco or Finefare or whomever it might be when they want to discover what the public thinks of their baked beans . |
| 27 | Emotion is the whole of friendship or any other relationship ; if there is no feeling when a man thinks of his friend then that is no friend but only an acquaintance . |
| 28 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |
| 29 | But Mr Toubon says he neither thinks of his work ‘ in terms of competition nor revenge ’ . |
| 30 | He thinks of his show — 6am until 9am — like a relationship ‘ in that it 's constantly changing and looking for a balance . |