Example sentences of "[verb] of [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I I do know of of various different groups who are working in this field as volunteers , there 's no money behind them there , and I mean i i it should be a priority , it should be given that kind of priority where |
| 2 | FOOTBALL is probably not a F subject Darlingtonians F would care to be reminded of at this stage in a trying season . |
| 3 | It was this approach that Spaniards were reminded of on 31 March 1947 , as they listened to Franco 's reedy voice on the radio , telling them that the time had come to " confront the ultimate definition of [ their ] State , inseparably linked to the statute of succession in its highest echelons " . |
| 4 | Initially on arriving at the site a panel consisting of between four and six persons is chosen , after careful screening to eliminate those with poor olfactory perception , to observe the odour . |
| 5 | The watch — consisting of between 10 and 15 men — works two day shifts from 9am to 6pm , followed by two night shifts from 6pm to 9am , followed by four days off . |
| 6 | It takes real determination to pack all the country house thriller cliches you can think of into half an hour , but TVS and Ian Stuart Black managed it in House of Glass ( ITV ) , an Appointment With Fear try-out for a post-franchise series . |
| 7 | Perhaps you can wrap fish and chips in computer output , but that , it seems to me , is the only asset I can think of for ordinary domestic life . |
| 8 | Our laws will give all the guarantees one can think of for any democratic country . ’ |
| 9 | Now because the government has a , plays a much bigger role in the economy the government will be in charge of what you might think of as industrial employment so er a lot of manufacturing , heavy industry er mining so on and so forth will be run as a national as a national industry , right and er wages in that nationalized industry will not be er set at market levels but will be set at , by some institutional mechanism that wo n't reflect demand and supply or reflect the rent seeking and rent server rent preserving behaviour of civil servants and government quangos er so on and so forth but you must bear in mind that the government sector will er the public and semi public sector in developing countries is vast in comparison to er to develop the countries and as a result wages set in er in the government sector er will erm will be the driving force for all industrial employment , so what with wages and industrial employment . |
| 10 | There is also evidence in favour of the view that what we might think of as pragmatic factors influence language comprehension . |
| 11 | experiment are what we might think of as optional inferences . |
| 12 | The easiest and most obvious way to go about this self-assessment is to divide a sheet of paper with a line down the middle , head it ‘ Plus ’ and ‘ Minus ’ and write down everything you can think of under each heading . |
| 13 | That music to me is as important as the famous tenor aria in G flat major — now how many other arias can you think of in that key ? |
| 14 | But it 's cattle you should think of in this country , perfect dairy pasture , rich it is . |
| 15 | No it sounds like one you wo n't have heard of on that , the big old LP 's that me and Nicola , Nicola for a birthday , that erm , school love he used to be er , oh I du n no what was his name ? |
| 16 | I recently read an assessment report which stated , ‘ Her mother seems to have disappeared and has n't been heard of for six months . |
| 17 | Quite apart from his own necessities , Gould was beleaguered by requests from acquaintances to deliver letters to people in Sydney , even to trace a young man who had gone to Australia three years earlier and had not been heard of for more than a year . |
| 18 | But as we talked the matter over , I thought I heard , in the background , a droning unbodied voice explain that the robbers were young , socially deprived victims of the Thatcherite era of greed and exploitation , not to be blamed for acquiring , by unorthodox means , some of the luxury goods they had heard of from capitalist advertisers who had wickedly aroused their consumerist aspirations . |
| 19 | In 1899 , when there was a sharp increase in the number of reported cattle thefts , H. W. Brodhurst , the Government Agent , attributed it to false cases which were instituted because the magistrate was inexperienced : ‘ I therefore attach little importance to this apparent recrudescence of a crime which was once the curse of the Province , but has been little heard of in late years . ’ |
| 20 | Born in 645 or , less probably , in 646 , he is first heard of in 655 , at the time of the battle of the Winwaed between the Mercians and the Northumbrians , when he was a hostage with Queen Cynewise of Mercia . |
| 21 | Yes I think , I think in general , er it , it was , it was occasionally erm heard of in other undertakings where this happened . |
| 22 | Koops himself , optimistic to the last , is last heard of in 1805 soliciting subscriptions for his river maps ; his widow died in 1815 . |
| 23 | There is little sign of experimentation in these spheres : Lysander 's radical solution of an elective kingship got nowhere ( p. 156 ) and the system of harmosts , young Spartan ‘ proconsuls ’ first heard of in 423 ( Thuc. iv . |
| 24 | If such machinations are seldom heard of in this period it is unlikely to be because they were rare . |
| 25 | Mr Graham added : ‘ A further distinction is that gipsy camps , at the extreme , may consist of between 200-300 persons , whereas new age travellers ’ camps can account for up to 25,000 . ’ |
| 26 | Although it is thought that translation of a polymer chain proceeds by means of a series of segmental jumps involving short kinetic units , which may each consist of between 15 and 30 chain atoms , the complete movement of a chain can not remain unaffected by the surrounding chains . |
| 27 | Miller finds that patterns are almost always well defined at an early age , consist of between 20 and 25 distinct preferred activities , and are thereafter extremely difficult to change . |
| 28 | ‘ However , his most remarkable acquirement — I speak of before 1914 — was the then almost unknown one of being as good a harpsichordist as a pianist . |
| 29 | What were houses made of at this time ? |
| 30 | She remembered the lover made up out of books and poems she had dreamed of all summer ; he crumpled like the paper he was made of before this insolent , off-hand , terrifying maleness , filling the room with its reek . |