Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor will need little reminding of the importance the industry attaches to negotiating satisfactory arrangements for excise duty ‘ harmonisation ’ . |
| 2 | Present-opening sessions are generally unpredictable affairs , the pictures being shot with mobile camera on a catch-as-catch-can basis with the sound mostly consisting of the rustling of wrapping paper being undone and the excited squeaks of the recipients . |
| 3 | The thief rarely thinks of the consequences for the victim . |
| 4 | There he was forcibly reminded of the humiliation of his situation . |
| 5 | After the Leeds Congress Maginn was plainly a disappointed man and probably did not altogether approve of the BDDA 's leadership . |
| 6 | ‘ You have all heard of the tragedy that has struck my house . ’ |
| 7 | We have all heard of the addiction caused by long-term taking of tranquillisers but did you realise that the effect of sleeping pills can last well into the following day and many antihistamines ( commonly taken to relieve colds or allergies ) can make you so drowsy that you should not drive for some hours after taking them ? |
| 8 | We have all heard of the party game where a message is whispered form one person to the next : ‘ Send up reinforcements , we are going to advance ’ . |
| 9 | Now , we 've all heard of the tyre company that boasts that it 's fitters are fastest . |
| 10 | But for one or two better clad of the group , the place might truthfully be designated a shopful of rags . |
| 11 | He could only think of the confessional 's stock-in-trade : ‘ Did you find pleasure in it , Luke ? ’ |
| 12 | Certainly much touching of the penises , penile erection , and display occur between young male geladas and the behaviour is commonly used in greeting behaviour . |
| 13 | Children start off as self-centred little beings and they do not naturally think of the other person . |
| 14 | The site was only advertised locally and my company only heard of the proposed sale via the foreman of a site in the same vicinity . |
| 15 | One lady even came armed with a floral chamber pot — she had obviously heard of the 14/20 Hussars Mess Dinners where a similar receptacle , but of silver is used for drinking . |
| 16 | However , the incident is highly revealing of the concern felt in Cuba about the difficulties of persuading Moscow to make a substantial commitment . |
| 17 | We 're only disposing of the vehicle his spirit used for its journey on earth . ’ |
| 18 | Most Labour Zionists were of German or at any rate European origin , and tended to be the better educated of the Jewish population in Palestine . |
| 19 | He was among the better educated of the early Methodist preachers and more sober than some in his attitude to supernatural phenomena . |
| 20 | They are sandwich-boards for Oedipal tendencies , eagerly disposing of the father — they reject authority , law , the land — and reverting with fervour to the embrace of the all-mothering sea . |
| 21 | We are constantly reminded of the appalling condition of our houses . |
| 22 | Israel is constantly reminded of the ‘ otherness ’ of Yahweh . |
| 23 | As the sacrifices were performed day after day , year after year , as the Day of Atonement came and went , Israel was constantly reminded of the sin which cut them off from God 's presence . |
| 24 | Wandering through the vibrant streets of Rome , one is constantly reminded of the widely differing historical periods . |
| 25 | Apart from the general fitness between what most would see as a hostile and acerbic tale and a bitter and unlovely character , one is constantly reminded of the Reeve 's provincial origins by his own dialect speech — in particular the occasional use of the Scandinavian-derived first person pronoun ik , " I " , against Chaucer 's standard ich — and by the northern speech of his two clerks , Alayn and John of Strother ( perhaps modelled on two northern characters known to the English court ) , which was yet further removed from the London standard of Chaucer 's day . |
| 26 | The reader is constantly reminded of the two main assumptions which Petrey takes to be central to the theory : that language depends on social conventions rather than on any individual 's intentions , and that language is used to do things rather than to represent things . |
| 27 | ‘ The present players are constantly reminded of the Busby Babes and great names of the past . |
| 28 | If we turn our attention briefly to tobacco , much is made ( and quite rightly ) of the health risks of smoking and we are constantly reminded of the cost to the National Health Service for treating patients with smoking-related diseases . |
| 29 | Erich Honecker , the country 's 77-year-old leader , continued only to talk of the need for ‘ the further development of socialism ’ , in his speech in the Palace of the Republic . |
| 30 | Some manoeuvring , much flapping of the backward |