Example sentences of "[verb] of [adj] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By disposing of Petromed 's investment portfolio , we have reduced the cost of the acquisition by about $300 million . |
| 2 | Many groups around the world are working in these areas and the rate of data exchange using ‘ traditional ’ tapes or CD-ROM meant it could be two months before one group heard of another 's ideas . |
| 3 | He only learnt of Chalky 's disappearance in February 1989 five days after a meeting at his house between James , Gardiner , himself and a fourth man . |
| 4 | It shows that it is no use simply announcing that you can conceive of another 's pain on the grounds that you can suppose that what he has is the same as what you have . |
| 5 | Is n't that terrible ? ’ as though speaking of another 's transgression . |