Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though he said all these things , he is not to be heard of during the final battle . |
| 2 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |
| 3 | Wittgenstein , widely thought of as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century , published very little in his lifetime , and is unlikely to have got tenure in a modern British university . |
| 4 | Permanent income can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the existing stock of both ‘ human ’ and ‘ non-human ’ wealth over a long period of time . |
| 5 | Recall from Chapter 19 that this is a long-run measure of income which can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the stock of human and non-human wealth over a long period of time . |
| 6 | is generally thought of as the all-purpose cheese , for cooking and eating . |
| 7 | Even in Northern Ireland , the districts are best thought of as the lower tier in a system that simply lacks a democratically elected higher level of local government . |
| 8 | As already mentioned , spreadsheets are often thought of as the key number crunching application and therefore benefit most from a numeric coprocessor . |
| 9 | The movies tackled society on the broadest front and refused to be confined to any one social zone but for all that one senses from the trade papers and social surveys that the industry had become preoccupied with its fashionable down-town audiences and that the super-cinemas were thought of as the social cutting edge of the trade . |
| 10 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 11 | They are essentially threatening or assaulting practices and , like silent or heavy-breathing telephone calls , may be thought of as the sexually-poor man 's rape ! |
| 12 | Buckminsterfullerene has often been thought of as the 3-D equivalent of benzene and so should be ‘ aromatic ’ , which means performing some of the chemical reactions for which benzene is noted . |
| 13 | Every ‘ Toshie ’ watcher , and there are many devotees of the great Charles Rennie Mackintosh from Hill Street to Hiroshima , knows that Glasgow was once thought of as the very acme of a Tokyo for tea-rooms . |
| 14 | In towns and cities across Scotland , people have lately grown increasingly conscious of the homeless : often young , often pitiful , often begging for money in a style once thought of as the very antithesis of the British way . |
| 15 | The system has proved to be flexible thus enabling enhancements to be made — enhancements which quite often could not have been thought of at the initial design stage , since the concept of an integrated payroll and personnel function was very much new ground . |
| 16 | Lyric poetry is not subjective in the ordinary sense ; and in its freedom from subjectivity it should be thought of in the same terms as music . |
| 17 | Most of Yonder was new , housing estates , schools , shops , small businesses and offices , and not entirely approved of by the original residents of the village . |
| 18 | In addition , Chamberlain was not willing to join the Government without Birkenhead , and Birkenhead was strongly disapproved of by the Conservative rank and file , both in the House and in the country , and particularly by those somewhat prim and self-righteous parts of it in which lay Baldwin 's greatest strength . |
| 19 | Further , the cases in question will be compared with a wide sample of cases disposed of under the 1964 Act . |
| 20 | He gave detailed instructions for the procedure to be followed if no suitable dissertations were submitted , concluding : ‘ But if no such dissertations , worthy , in the opinion of the said Examiners , of any such reward as aforesaid should be offered for seven years , then a Medal , to be purchased with the said accumulations , shall be offered for the best dissertation on any Veterinary subject thought worthy by the said Examiners of such reward , but at all times the Foot of the Horse is to be the subject preferred , and next to that the nature , causes and treatment of Glanders , and the diseases of the Eye in horses : And if there should be no successful dissertation at the end of seven years , then the amount of the said accumulations shall be disposed of by the said Governors in such manner as they in their discretion may think proper , so as they are applied for the promotion of Veterinary Science ’ . |
| 21 | If the point is finally disposed of by the European Court and if the judgment goes against the United Kingdom , then the question will arise about the appropriate response to bring the legal system into line with the State 's international obligations . |
| 22 | The dog mess is ultimately disposed of in the correct manner as prescribed by the authorities . |
| 23 | The SCDC Arts in Schools Project , although spoken of by the one LEA in the sample which was a participant in terms of gratitude for the support the Project 's staff had given , was criticized by staff in the other LEAs for the limited help it had given to them . |
| 24 | Is the kingdom of God spoken of in the New Testament simply ‘ the moral organisation of the human race ’ , or does that conception owe more than the Liberals themselves realised to their own enlightened and optimistic view of the development of Protestant culture in their own day ? |
| 25 | Its name is derived from a remarkable Chase , the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem , which monuments do now exist as I have there described them . |
| 26 | Her concerns were here , in front of her , concerns that were domestic and intimate and not to be spoken of in the same breath as supposedly greater events . |
| 27 | The New Testament , despite its talk of God condemning the wicked to an eternity of weeping and gnashing of teeth in the fires of hell ( a level of violence , as one commentator has put it , surpassing anything spoken of in the Old Testament ) , has yet more challenges to offer , and not just in the Passion narratives . |
| 28 | With seamers John Maguire and Craig Wilkinson following Simpson out of Grace Road , Alan Mullally is the only Australian left on the staff , and Mr Turner revealed : ‘ there is now a strong hope that his fitness problems can be spoken of in the past tense . |
| 29 | When state-supported secondary education was introduced in 1878 , a denominational system was officially set up , though at this time the system was only availed of by the few families who could afford to lose the labour of young teenagers . |
| 30 | Though total equality might be hard to achieve because of the biological differences between the sexes , the legislation has perhaps been rounded of by the Equal Pay Act 1970 and the Sex Discrimination Acts 1975 and 1986 . |