Example sentences of "[verb] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the day for her departure arrived nobody could be heard for the weeping and wailing of the girls . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ There was Marius Durance , naturally , and Sabine , of course and … but you would n't know of the others . |
| 3 | They may not even know of the bogs . ’ |
| 4 | What did he know of the pains and penalties of being a female ? |
| 5 | Evidence from the period is confused but it is likely that Newcomen worked independently and did not know of the ideas of Papin and Savery . |
| 6 | Hecataeus did not know of the patriarchs and apparently had never heard of Hebrew kings . |
| 7 | The capital cost of the repairs which the tenant must pay before he can even have the lease is £10,000 . |
| 8 | The capital cost of the SNS and its associated instruments will be about £20 million . |
| 9 | For librarians the title smacked of the days when running a library " was undertaken by a lecturer " in his spare time " ( compare the teacher-librarian in most British secondary schools ) and they resented the possible implications that running a library was not a full-time job . |
| 10 | Accordingly , he has drawn up a document outlining his position on negotiations which he means to make public , so the people are fully apprised of the proposals that would be on the table . |
| 11 | Probably few of the most stout defenders of direct state welfare provision , once they were apprised of the costs and failings of the asylums in question , would have argued against strategies for their rationalization . |
| 12 | However , as members of the Cambridge Board Committee , both the District Chairman and Secretary were fully apprised of the details of the new arrangements and , presumably , acquiesced in the explicit transfer of providing powers under Chapter III for One-Year and Terminal courses in rural areas so that the complete scheme in Bedfordshire could be maintained as it had developed from 1927 . |
| 13 | This was because of past history when it was expected of the womenfolk , and the close family structure where others could be called on to assist if necessary . |
| 14 | The first step is to translate aims into objectives , that is to state exactly what is expected of the students . |
| 15 | circulating employees with information about the work experience scheme and its purposes , ie what is expected of the employees towards the student ; |
| 16 | Prophecy is expected of the laibons . |
| 17 | Eliot , who was tolerant of eccentrics as long as he was not expected to join their ranks , sometimes deplored the degree of ascetic zeal that was expected of the supporters . |
| 18 | The crucial question under s3(2) ( b ) is what was the performance reasonably expected of the proferens ? |
| 19 | When he visited the Russian sculptor Archipenko and his wife , who were living in a villa in Nice , Modi grumbled of the women who bossed him around . |
| 20 | It 's been revealed that a prostitute who was found murdered was responsible for an eight year old boy dying of a drugs overdose . |
| 21 | Implicit in the new narrative 's challenging of the assumptions of realism and in its privileging of subjective reality and of figurative forms of expression , is a questioning of the rationalist , cultural tradition of the West . |
| 22 | ‘ While on the face of it seems a very simple matter to decide on , I am reminded of the complexities not so very long ago surrounding the understanding of so-called ‘ brain-death ’ . |
| 23 | And he does not like to be reminded of the gaffes he made as deputy chairman — branding the young unemployed as workshy , or musing on Radio Ulster whether Ian Paisley might like to be prime minister of a united Ireland . |
| 24 | The closure of the Talbot works in Linwood in Scotland , announced in February 1981 , with its resulting localised mass unemployment , is a pointed reminded of the limitations of cheap loans or grants as a means of maintaining the allegiance of capitalist enterprises to given investment projects . |
| 25 | However , the reader is reminded of the difficulties of interpreting errors in imitation tasks described in Chapter 6 . |
| 26 | Charles was reminded of the wars of the Spanish Succession when the mellow red brick of Flemish farm houses exactly like this one , housed the dandified officers , all feathers and lace , of the Spanish Imperial Army . |
| 27 | Motoring journalists were reminded of the values that GT used to stand for when reviewing the 164.0 Cloverleaf . |
| 28 | When you went to the pictures you did n't want to be reminded of the problems that dogged you outside the cinema : jobs , children , money and so forth . |
| 29 | Wrecked cars were outside West Mercia Police headquarters today as a stark reminded of the dangers on the roads . |
| 30 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |