Example sentences of "[adv] of [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their career opportunities consist of moving from second bassoon to first bassoon and perhaps of moving from a second-rank orchestra to a better , more prestigious one . |
| 2 | Over the first years or so of paying into an endowment fund , most of your money will be paid straight to the lender or broker who arranged the policy . |
| 3 | But after an hour or so of trudging into the stiff wind , a slight feeling of despair crept over me . |
| 4 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 5 | He had an endearing habit at 10 o'clock of calling on each facet of his customers , starting with the lowest rank of airman , to " piss off " ; and worked through the ranks until he got to Kings ( and on this occasion it happened to be King Peter of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 6 | He had also paid a substantial price for the pleasure , not merely of looking at the corpse of the idea of a centre party , but of stamping upon it several times over . |
| 7 | Slowly I aided upwards , thinking only of getting to the sling ; the rest would be a later worry . |
| 8 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 9 | He 'd looked around that shabby dwelling and smelled the poverty which he had vowed to help alleviate in his dedicated youth , and to his shame he had thought only of escaping from the fleas he might have picked up from that terrible straw mattress . |
| 10 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 11 | Massive structural changes were necessary to facilitate a move onto the land ; legs were needed — or at least became handy — to relieve the pressure of the amphibious bodies hitherto capable only of slithering along the ground . |
| 12 | Nowadays , too , the suggestion that a woman 's role consists entirely of slaving over the cooker , the kitchen sink and the washing is certain to irritate a significant number of people , though it is still a real enough situation for the majority of women . |
| 13 | They have pushed south to within 100 miles of Baghdad , and talk optimistically of marching on the capital . |
| 14 | My sympathies , however , were very much with the wretched fellow who had the courage to own up that he could not face the prospect any longer of flying against a lethal enemy . |
| 15 | Such usage also reinforces the common but mistaken idea that authors are normally men rather than women ( an idea which is probably only true of the canon of writers selected for study — generally by male critics — not of writing as a whole ) . |
| 16 | Now I would say to you , without fear or favour , that the only people recruited in that period of my appointment that I would not of had in the Pathfinder Force were people that came in through some rather dubious trap-door . |
| 17 | it 's completely anonymous number you know it 's only to be on that , said I 'll wipe it off then , you bloody well wo n't , I think he wants to tell people before he can say very wrong , could say something personal , if it was personal , no longer it , no you were n't personal to you , but I 'm quite happy to arrange it if you wish , no , no , no , no , no , , I should n't have to tell you not to take my points in full , there we go it 's driving me doing that in the factory having without people 's permission , I want to know , I ask permission if I 'd er wanted to as a without being asked to do it , I would of gone and seen personnel and asked , I would not of dreamed of doing it in a work 's situation unless I was asked , say anything personal I 'd turned it off not that it , apart from me and Stuart |
| 18 | In this section we look at some ways of doing this , and more generally of getting from the planning stage to the writing stage . |
| 19 | We know from the housing benefit system that there is a backlog of cases , I think hundred and a , quite a considerable number of people of where people are having problems producing wage receipts and evidence of income now and one dreads to think of the burden that will be putting on the letting section by erm inventing yet another system o of this kind erm I think people we know that people are wary already of applying for benefits because of means testing and I think that there 's that it would simply discourage people who really are in need from coming forward . |
| 20 | He had slipped into a rather alarming habit lately of looking at every girl or woman he encountered to see how big her bust was . |
| 21 | Wayne Larkins ( 123 in the first practice game ) retired again , this time on 55 , which left Graham Gooch ( 90 off 95 balls and unbothered by anyone resembling an Alderman ) to enjoy the rare experience just lately of batting with more than one partner . |
| 22 | Have you ever of heard of the Stamp Bug Club ? |
| 23 | Isabel suspected her still of watching behind the curtains for Blattern . |
| 24 | but it would still of had to risen |
| 25 | THE Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , was accused yesterday of acting like Pontius Pilate in washing his hands of the controversy over a hospital trust which wants to sack staff and reduce wages . |
| 26 | Thirty-two year old David Casey and his 30 year old wife Jacqueline were accused at the Magistrates Court yesterday of conspiring with other people to cause an explosion likely to endanger life . |
| 27 | He thought longingly of returning for a cup of cocoa and a slice of toast to the TARDIS . |
| 28 | Put simply , it is ( to recover the Platonic imagery for a moment ) a matter not just of seeing the light , but also of living in the light . |
| 29 | The colony 's German settler inhabitants had been accused of sexually abusing children , of torturing inmates and using them as slave labour , and also of acting as a torture centre for the DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup [ see also pp. 36346 ; 36932 ; 37490 ] . |
| 30 | This is not a matter of sticking doggedly to a particular diet , but also of looking at your eating habits . |