Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking through his secretary , the Right Reverend Peter Ball says he would like everyone to know of his immense gratitude for their overwhelming support . |
| 2 | They had no land of their own , they had nothing to harvest of their own , they could only go and harvest , and glean what the harvesters left behind . |
| 3 | Get more friction on that , clever of somebody to think of that , did n't they ? |
| 4 | Samuel Bamford , the Lancashire weaver , has plenty to say of both serious romance and of dalliance in his youth at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | None to speak of , anyway . |
| 6 | It was a practice that the leading horseman exercised the horses daily in a specially designed trap or gig , and it was the habit of a particular one to partake of a social glass of beer en route . |
| 7 | Erm which is the easiest one to do of this lot . |
| 8 | Never one to rest of the chic laurels he had begun to gather , in the mid-Seventies Lagerfeld became the first ready-to-wear designer to have his own fragrance . |
| 9 | They saw it , rather , as something to boast of . |
| 10 | Any of these things will require some adjustment on your part , because you will have someone or something to think of , apart from yourself . |
| 11 | Greeks have never been good at the plodding job , even in their classical prime ; Demosthenes was not the only one to complain of that . |
| 12 | She had no wish to intrude on Helen 's friendship with her neighbour and , unless Edward had something to tell of interest to veterinary work , she resolved to leave as soon as possible . |
| 13 | What , then , is one to make of the startling price of the slim biography ? |
| 14 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 15 | What is one to make of this nonsense ? |
| 16 | What , for example , is one to make of New Zealand 's pavilion , fronted with a giant rockery , complete with plastic seagulls and mechanical penguins ? |
| 17 | If picture-books are for young children , then what is one to make of , for example , Charles Keeping 's edition of Alfred Noyes The highwayman or Raymond Briggs ' Fungus the bogeyman ? |
| 18 | But what is one to make of this ? |
| 19 | What is one to make of Party-military relations in this period , and what do they imply for the present ? |
| 20 | If Pilate intended the title to be derisive , what is one to make of the question of the magi ? |
| 21 | But what is one to make of a solemn pronouncement in a Companies Act that ‘ an insurance company which contravenes a restriction to which it is subject by virtue of subsections ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years ’ ? |
| 22 | so what happened to all this Yeltsin thing right , has has it been so much build up , speculation of the West , you say thirty years of build up on our part is being wasted , we 've really got nothing to fear of the Russians ? |
| 23 | I want everybody to think of a word please . |
| 24 | So I have nothing to boast of . |
| 25 | Smith was as surprised as anyone to learn of the marriage problems . |
| 26 | Lola 's IndyCar designer Bruce Ashmore , pictured right with the new car , said : ‘ It is completely wrong for anyone to think of IndyCars as death traps . |
| 27 | I do n't allow anyone to speak of it . |
| 28 | This autobiography has nothing to say of courtship , but that , as Dr Vincent has suggested , could well be because working-class autobiographers did not judge it a subject their readers wanted to know about , and many of them in any case lacked the command of an emotional language to describe their feelings . |
| 29 | That morning , as usual , he found nothing to complain of , so instead he wheeled on me to demand whether the boat 's electronic instruments were functioning properly . |
| 30 | Nothing to speak of , and the mess can be cleaned up . |