Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Opéra revived Gluck 's Armide on 31 December 1799 , the composer C.H. Plantade ‘ read and reread ’ the score in preparation one thinks of the young Berlioz . |
| 2 | One thinks of the religious maniac who gripped one 's hand too firmly , hours earlier , on the Metropolitan Line and asked one , sincerely , to ‘ repent , ’ of the strange fellow who took umbrage at the book one was reading-The Boss ; J. Edgar Hoover And The Great American Inquisition-and accused one , for some unaccountable reason , of being no better than Norman Tebbit . |
| 3 | With stupefaction one thinks of the wholesale slaughter of ducks and chickens , of pheasant and quail , the shiploads of Dover sole and the immense cargoes of foie gras from France , of caviare from Russia , the crates of champagne and the tons of truffles , which went to make up a single day 's entertainment in the great hotels of Europe . |
| 4 | One thinks of the familiar nostalgia for ‘ roots ’ which makes the children of assimilated , secularised and anglicised Jews rediscover comfort in the ancestral rituals , and sentimentalise the memories of the shtetl , which they have never known . |
| 5 | Though one thinks of The Bartered Bride ( among other things ) as a cataract of marvellous vocal melody , it is rarely well performed in Britain , mainly because of our lack of really deep-chested lyric tenors of the type that can making singing Czechs such enthralling neighbours . |
| 6 | One thinks of the feminist cartoon of the three wise men arriving at Bethlehem , one saying to the others , with down-turned mouth : ‘ Its a girl ! ’ |
| 7 | I lived in the book , as — in your others : I liked particularly Isabella and Evalie , and their gay early middle age — how comforting , too , to be with people who find ‘ the Change ’ such fun , when one thinks of the depressing nonsense that most people make out of it … . |
| 8 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 9 | Whatever view one takes of the electoral fortunes of the Liberal and Labour Parties before 1914 , the Conservative party was clearly losing — three general election defeats in a row and no significant signs of an electoral revival . |
| 10 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 11 | When one speaks of the biblical God , one automatically says ‘ He ’ : that God is profoundly male . |
| 12 | Nothing remains of the original chapel erected by Zarco . |
| 13 | Nothing remains of the original fort , built in 1655 by General Monk to repel Jacobite invaders , but relics of these troubled times can be seen in the public museum . |
| 14 | Although most people are aware of the tremendous selection of fabrics on the market , not everyone knows of the vast range of papers that are currently available . |