Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 2 | The largest group affected is , as we have already noted , that consisting of the associatives discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 3 | Marriage is a loving , caring relationship where each thinks of the other 's good and this is especially important in relation to sex . |
| 4 | The death certificates will not read — ‘ victim of an industrial dispute ’ or ‘ death due to neglect of the National Health Service ’ . |
| 5 | Winch 's contention is that to conceive of the relation of an act to the person who acts in terms of the Kantian maxim ‘ acting for the sake of duty ’ is mistaken since ‘ there is no general kind of behaviour of which we have to say that it is good without qualification ’ . |
| 6 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 7 | One of the major purposes of this book is to show that there is much in psychoanalytic theory and practice which is social , and that to conceive of the theory as being only about individuals is to misunderstand and misinterpret it . |
| 8 | Since it was of relatively minor importance to whom the words for setting up a trust were addressed , it was possible to conceive of the trust as inhering in certain property in the estate , and therefore of the recipient of that property as automatically in the position of trustee for the intended beneficiary . |
| 9 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |
| 10 | Researches into Border ballads were to lead to the composition of Scott 's immensely popular Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 11 | The simplest electronic flip-flop is a form of Set-Rest ( S-R ) bistable consisting of the pair of cross-coupled NOT gates shown in Fig. 2 . |
| 12 | Parents will be interested to know of the sort of records that will be kept on their children . |
| 13 | Some tasted of the parched winds of the Arabian Gulf ; others of the exuberant tribal animism of the South Pacific ; while others again echoed the ancient Hindu courts of Java and India . |
| 14 | As epistemic breaks go , however , it seems to be a slow one : Foucault attributes its hesitancy to a fundamental reluctance to think difference rather than the reassuring form of the identical : it is , he comments , ‘ as if we were afraid to conceive of the Other in the time of our own thought ’ . |
| 15 | This tearing of the curtain symbolised that the God who was hidden is now revealed to all people . |
| 16 | Vols. 1 & 2 consist of the two Janźček Cypresses ( ) and the two Smetana Quartets with some Dvořák miniatures ) . |
| 17 | At a time when the problems of war and , later , unemployment were national priorities , it would be fallacious to talk of the existence of a ‘ poverty lobby ’ , operating on a broad front and according equal status to all disadvantaged groups . |
| 18 | Does this battle of the sexes on the motorways affect country roads , too ? |
| 19 | It was never , as we have seen , the Labour government 's intention that the independence of India should be the prelude to a general nunc dimittis , and this disposes of the plausible notion that once India was gone the pointlessness of holding on to the rest of the dependent empire , supposedly acquired to protect the sea routes to Bombay , was immediately perceived . |
| 20 | Certainly the French farmers were very interested to hear of the Agricultural Training Board and indicated a wish for more local practical training . |
| 21 | Diving animals need some grasp of the difference between solids and fluids , as well as of depth , movement , and distance . |
| 22 | Few know of the hard and unremitting labour of editing he has always been prepared to do , and for which there is so often so little proper recognition . |
| 23 | She was unduly prone to use of the royal ‘ we ’ . |
| 24 | Two people can hear the same news report , yet one ‘ hears ’ that the world is full of conflict and hatred , and another hears of the many global efforts towards love , peace and harmony . |
| 25 | What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ? |
| 26 | Thank you for the recent newsletter from Convocation ; it is always interesting to read of the changes and developments taking place . |
| 27 | In western music , he believes this consists of the piece 's sequence of pitches . |
| 28 | This consists of the Auditing Guideline , Communications between Auditors and Regulators under Sections 109 and 180(1) ( q ) of the Financial Services Act 1986 , which was issued in July 1990 ; and Practice Note 3 , Client Assets — Guidance to Auditors of Investment Businesses , issued in December 1990 and which has been amended to reflect recent changes in the rules relating to client money following the issue of The Financial Services ( Client Money ) Regulations 1991 . |
| 29 | This consists of the font compiler , Fontware , and three outlines ; Dutch , Swiss and Courier . |
| 30 | This consists of the two character LIFESPAN process Id as specified in the configuration file , concatenated with the four digit item number previously entered by the Offline Manager using option 9.3.0 . |