Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way information zoomed round Shellerton , anyone theoretically could have heard of the lost camera and the way to find it . |
| 2 | So you ca n't dissolve a congress , there 's a fixed term , I 'll read you what the constitution says , it says the president shall from time to time give to the congress information on the state of the union you may have heard of the famous state of the union address to congress that the president makes on an annual basis and he shall recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient . |
| 3 | Also they may have heard of the legendary speed at which Pentos pays its bills . |
| 4 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 5 | He would have approved of the extensive use on the site of existing equipment and buildings . |
| 6 | As we can be sure that Howard would have approved of the constructive use of prisoners ' time and energy and training in work habits , so we can probably also assume that he would have been disappointed in and disapproving of the latest trend . |
| 7 | ‘ I could never have dreamed of the European Cup final at Oldham or Easter Road . |
| 8 | Pete gave another look over the Princess , and wondered what Ted would have thought of the berthing arrangements had he been here to see them . |
| 9 | This is something unique ; and it is not surprising that somebody should have thought of the mystical chariot of Ezechiel . |
| 10 | There was no [ overt ] Dionysiac worship among the Greeks at this time ; and though they must have known of the near-Eastern festivals , the savage excesses of those cults were totally alien to them , at least on a conscious level , and were rejected uncompromisingly . |
| 11 | Harvard Securities were paid to make a market in Towerbell Records , but as Tom Wilmot has pointed out , the dealer who sent that letter would not have known of the pending disaster since dealers were forbidden access to the firm 's corporate finance department by the so-called " Chinese walls " However Wilmot has sometimes blamed his dealers for breaching dealing regulations . |
| 12 | It is a possibility that AFHQ could have learned of the huge body of Croat troops approaching Austria on 14 May from some source other than the main signals already referred to . |
| 13 | I ca n't get rid of the lime-scale mark in my toilet . |
| 14 | I could n't get rid of the black Martin , purchased in a moment of island madness instead of a car . |
| 15 | ‘ Why get rid of the only man in the company who knows anything about selling jewellery in the most important time of the year ? |
| 16 | They bring me dogs bones for the dogs and they like talking to my parrot I wish I could get rid of the bleeding thing though . |
| 17 | But there 's still the need to first get rid of the modern slums which replaced the Victorian slums standing when the tower block was just a few lines on an architect 's sketch board . |
| 18 | But we had various versions of M1 , but we did n't ever get rid of the first version , so we could , the one that Suzannah did and then the one that I changed , and then the one that the Committee changed , all exist so that we can back track what we actually did . |
| 19 | The first woman president of the Co-operative Congress , Margaret Llewelyn Davies in the year of her retirement , 1922 , declared : ‘ Our programme transfers the power of capitalism into the hands of the people organised democratically as consumers ; makes capital the servant of labour ; allows for a partnership with the workers ; abolishes profit , socialises rent , and will ultimately get rid of the present wages system . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You stay here and think it over quietly — ’ he put another glass of wine in her hand — ‘ and I 'll go and see if I can get rid of the remaining folks . ’ |
| 21 | At last one day Martin said to Mihal , " Why do n't we get rid of the old man ? |
| 22 | Private companies can get rid of the pre-emptive rights — by altering their articles , again by special resolution — unless and until the articles are altered by deleting the relevant clause . |
| 23 | It would never get rid of the damned things permanently but at least it would give the Ryans a breathing space . |
| 24 | He was also the publisher of the monthly Gentleman 's Magazine , and in its 1st January , 1859 number he published a letter from himself urging Scott to ‘ get rid of the foreign look which pervaded ’ his design for the Foreign Office , and to use English thirteenth-century architecture as his model . |
| 25 | I soon found out that if I swigged a mouthful or two of the laxative cascara sagrada from the medicine cupboard , I could get rid of the obnoxious feeling of weight and fullness which had been forced on me . |
| 26 | It 's alleged he cut his thumb on the broken glass and that Paterson helped him get rid of the bloodstained clothing . |