Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [adv] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Lou seldom approved of the people who lived above her , but it worked after a fashion . |
| 2 | Has n't Mr Brittlebrain ever heard of the subjunctive ? |
| 3 | Graham Greene sarcastically remarked of the latter that ‘ Both the director and the star seem to labour under the impression that they are producing something important ’ , and the film 's success was enough to assure Wilcox that Hungarian naughtiness should give way to solemn patriotism . |
| 4 | Graham Greene fairly remarked of the amorphous string of sequences that made up Rembrandt that ‘ no amount of money spent on expensive sets , on careful photography , will atone for the lack of a storyline , the continuity and drive of a well-constructed plot . ’ |
| 5 | HTV CHAIRMAN Louis Sherwood yesterday warned of the dire consequences of changes to ITV ownership rules which could put the company under the threat of a take-over . |
| 6 | When the issue of international monetary reform had been seriously debated in 1972 the United States started from the position that ‘ the system should neither bar nor encourage official holdings of foreign exchange ’ , suggesting that ‘ the United States still thought of the SDR as providing a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar ’ ( Williamson , 1977 , p. 176 ) . |
| 7 | What Federico Cesi once wrote of the members of his Lincean Academy applied to Galileo with a vengeance : ‘ All we claim in common is freedom to philosophize in physical matters . ’ |
| 8 | Molla Fenari and Seyh Bedreddin shared a devotion to the thought of Ibn al-Arabi , and it may well be that even if Molla Fenari thoroughly disapproved of the rebels ' activities he was compromised in the eyes of many by those shared beliefs . |
| 9 | NORTH Yorkshire landowner Lady Bell yesterday spoke of the accident which left her son with serious head injuries . |