Example sentences of "[verb] of [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 2 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 3 | If the ‘ qualified driver ’ does not do what can be reasonably expected of him regarding these duties the learner could be said to be not under supervision . |
| 4 | Bad behaviour was expected of you in those times . |
| 5 | On the other hand , we have mental activity which enables us , second-by-second , to conceive of ourselves as mental entities . |
| 6 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 7 | Kardamíli seemed a good base , since the author himself writes of it with such affection . |
| 8 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 9 | Any body can be thought of as consisting of lots of small masses m , and the angular momentum of such a body around a point P is obtained by combining the products mrs according to certain rules which I shall not describe . |
| 10 | Robyn herself would disapprove of it on ideological grounds , and it might be interpreted by other students as creeping . |
| 11 | The use of the split infinitive is now generally acceptable , though some more traditional grammarians would probably still disapprove of it as incorrect English . |
| 12 | The statistics given of one in seven offspring of deaf parents being deaf themselves , as opposed to one in 135 offspring of deaf-hearing parents being influenced Dr. Buxton to argue against the desire of deaf people to intermarry . |
| 13 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 14 | Taczek told me he could think of nothing from those times that would have made Mills any sort of target for a KGB assassin — or any other sort of assassin come to that . ’ |
| 15 | It allows the physical pieces of paper passed around an office to be replaced by electronic images — you can think of them as electronic photographs of the paper pages . |
| 16 | Now unless we think that dreams can unravel very fast in the mind , much faster , and there is some evidence that that 's true actually , that dreams can in fact happen quicker than you could think of them in conscious time . |
| 17 | No one could ever take that away from her , and she would always think of him with special affection . |
| 18 | It is he — another person , she told herself , I must think of him as another person . |
| 19 | Hoomey could n't think of him at four pounds . |
| 20 | You must always think of him in those terms , to get the flavour of Calvinistic humbug that ruled his life , and therefore everyone around him . ’ |
| 21 | You will probably think of plenty of additional points of your own . |
| 22 | It was Grand National time and he could n't think of anything but Top Spin Lob . ’ |
| 23 | I mean I guess I 've got as many inner tensions as most of us , but I do n't think of it in that way . |
| 24 | We do rather think of ourselves in this area as ‘ Medaus out in the sticks ’ , being a long way from the hub , so to speak . |
| 25 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 26 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 27 | DNA is a macromolecule ; that is , a molecule of indefinite size ( it can be very large indeed ) which is compounded of lots of smaller molecules . |
| 28 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 29 | A spokesman for The Magistrates Association said : ‘ I have never heard of anything like this happening before . ’ |
| 30 | Have you ever heard of anyone in this office being asked to make other arrangements ? ’ |