Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion that Freud has of the sexual instincts is not primarily about reproduction , however , but the generalized capacity of the human organism to find erotic satisfaction from any part of the body being caressed or stimulated , quite apart from the act of reproduction . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's a lot of method here ; it 's not as arbitrary as it seems , ’ David says of the heady mixture of pattern and texture . |
| 3 | His loyal and seemingly very level-headed wife Nesta says of the second sex scandal he has been involved in during their marriage : |
| 4 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |
| 5 | As described on page 104 , not a great deal survives of the great capital city of the eastern half of the later Roman Empire . |
| 6 | Maxwell concluded that ‘ we can scarcely ; avoid the inference that light consists of the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena . ’ |
| 7 | In commenting on the enabling function of the tribunal , the research study speaks of the heavy burden placed on the tribunal of eliciting all the relevant information about the case and applying the law to the facts in an impartial and objective manner . |
| 8 | HURRICANE IIA Z2505 , looks set to return to Scotland once aviation archaeologists at Duxford have examined the remains for parts that may be useful in any future rebuilds of the rare fighter type . |
| 9 | In this fascinating book , Ronald Blakey tells of the 19th-century ministers preoccupation with stocking his library . |
| 10 | It describes the process whereby the prospective auditor/adviser enquires of the incumbent auditor/adviser whether there are any professional reasons which , in the opinion of the incumbent , would affect the successor 's acceptance of the nomination . |
| 11 | Everyone in Scotland knows of the famous Glasgow case involving a female complainer who took out a private prosecution in such a case . |
| 12 | Landry writes of the whole poem : ‘ These verses are hardly sapphic in any technical sense . |
| 13 | Wilson warns of the long-term effects of discriminatory policies . |
| 14 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |
| 15 | The attractiveness of a group consists of the interpersonal attractiveness of members of the group for one another . |
| 16 | The second group consists of the even-toed ungulates such as the hippopotamuses , giraffes , antelopes , and camels , goats and sheep , wild and domestic . |
| 17 | This process consists of the following steps : |
| 18 | The military consists of the armed forces ( land , sea and air ) whose primary function is to defend the state against external enemies or to enforce the will of the state against other states . |
| 19 | The upper millstone consists of the new gas plants , which are protected by their 15-year contracts . |
| 20 | The description continues , but the essential point emerges of the close relationship of man to locality on which the Saxon economy and social order was based . |
| 21 | ( m ) The question of reliance It is not enough that the seller knows of the particular purpose of the goods sold , the buyer must also have relied upon the credit-broker or seller 's skill and judgment at the date of the contract . |
| 22 | Like a stickered exclamation mark , the title warns of the inflammatory material within its letter-box size covers . |
| 23 | Ample evidence exists of the real destroyers of the forests being private contractors who supply the timber demands of industry ( Centre for Science and Environment 1982 ; Gribbin , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | Around 1109 on the death of Fulk le Réchin , a monk , perhaps the abbot Eudes of the great house of Marmoutier , produced the first version of the Gesta , a series of brief biographies of the counts . |
| 25 | These source rocks are the peridotites , and since geophysics tells us that the mantle consists of the same kind of material all over the world , it 's clear that melting part of the mantle beneath Hawaii should produce the same kind of rocks as those produced by melting part of the mantle beneath Iceland . |
| 26 | The sharp peaks are what Hoffman identified as the markers for 1461 and 2615 keV ; the signal that interested Fleischmann and Pons consists of the dotted structure around 2500 keV . |
| 27 | The 29-member unicameral Legislative Assembly consists of the Privy Council , nine hereditary nobles ( elected by their peers ) and nine popularly elected representatives . |
| 28 | For example , would set " length " to 15 since the sting consists of the 12 characters of BBCBASIC(Z80) followed by 3 spaces . |
| 29 | The procedure consists of the following stages : |
| 30 | Water sports on reservoirs are threatened as more evidence emerges of the blue-green algae , which feed on pollution and were first seen in Britain this summer . |