Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel liked to accompany his asides about Jewish meanness with an exaggerated shrugging of shoulders and palms open to the heavens . |
| 2 | By diverting attention towards the 1143 deaths due to overdose of drugs other than paracetamol Spooner disregards the fact that paracetamol is consistently one of the most common drugs used in suicide and far exceeds any other over the counter medication as a method of death by poisoning . |
| 3 | It is now to be hoped that your editorial policy will quickly realise that to in any way publicise this loathsome ‘ sport ’ is counter to your normal upholding of standards of common decency . |
| 4 | It is perfectly possible to conceive of groups or individuals who have power without actually ruling in the official , visible sense . |
| 5 | A system which allowed electronic unlocking of cells so that they could use shared toilet facilities seemed preferable to most . |
| 6 | It will be interesting to read of companies ' and auditors ' reactions to this proposal . |
| 7 | Yes it 's funny to think of hens having feelings but I suppose being cooped up like that it did affect them . |
| 8 | She was free to dream of paintings and detective stories . |
| 9 | Only revolutionary thinkers like Marx found it easy to conceive of situations in which , as it were , 2 + 2 no longer equalled 4 but might equal something else instead or also . |
| 10 | But if we look at what we now know to be the case — which is that Saddam Hussein has an enormous war machine , that he was a tremendous threat in the region — how , without going to war , and through the mere sustaining of sanctions , do you reduce that threat ? |
| 11 | But on actual safeguarding of assets , erm do you for instance with separate custodians , do you have any views about the custody of your schemes assets ? |
| 12 | It is disturbingly easy to think of sportsmen with cardiac problems : Coventry manager and former England coach Don Howe , now 56 , had a bypass operation less than four years ago . |
| 13 | In areas where there are vast scatters of finds lying on the surface , it is not practical to collect the finds , but instead the position of the finds are accurately plotted . |
| 14 | The actual arranging of transactions with a counterparty in the UK is also not covered ; however , the better view is that arrangements are only made in the UK if the overseas person physically comes into the UK and , if he does not , the overseas person exemption is , therefore , not needed . |
| 15 | In most cases of explanatory surveys it is perhaps less appropriate to speak of samples at all in the strict sense . |
| 16 | Indeed it is now uncontroversial to talk of texts as a ‘ polysemic potential of meaning ’ rather than as carriers of a single message . |
| 17 | And yet it is not unusual to hear of problems . |
| 18 | I was thrilled to hear of cuts on TV on at least two occasions but NatWest must have missed this . |
| 19 | We had eaten a good dinner — among other things a golden bolster of an omelette bursting its seams with truffles — and drunk some excellent red wine of Cahors and afterwards a glass of that remarkable eau-de-vie of plums called Vieille Prune which is one of the great Dordogne products — another is the odd and delicious walnut oil with which , if you are lucky , you may get your salad dressed . |
| 20 | We are accustomed to think of boundaries from an administrative and legal point of view . |
| 21 | In fact , it is not hard to think of explanations for senescence in terms of individual advantage . |
| 22 | They need a constant stream of parts … supplied by companies like Unipart . |
| 23 | Indeed Bourdieu is wont to speak of functions or their functional equivalent . |
| 24 | There is thus a duality between waves and particles in quantum mechanics : for some purposes it is helpful to think of particles as waves and for other purposes it is better to think of waves as particles . |
| 25 | Now you rea fo w with a story like this you really need a erm a , a decent does of antibiotics and given the of the unpleasant taste and the pus you can see , ordinary penicillin probably wo n't do the trick , so we need to use something with a bit more oomph |
| 26 | In England , until the sixteenth century , it was unremarkable to speak of visitations from incubi and succubi — evil spirits ( male and female , respectively ) which were thought to descend on sleepers , seducing them and perverting them to the ways of the devil . |
| 27 | However , Iran came to regard the need for closer identification with the Third World as the counterpart to a progressive de-emphasising of ties with both superpowers . |
| 28 | It requires teachers to look critically at their own present practice as well as being able to conceive of alternatives . |
| 29 | ‘ It was very disturbing to hear of patients being referred to as ‘ nigger ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Sally , has been superb throughout thirteen rapid costume changes and the seamless and unobtrusive handing of props and costumes . |