Example sentences of "[adj] of [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She presented many Phosphorus symptoms including the peculiar of desiring cold milk which she remembered craving during her childhood asthma . |
| 2 | Improvements in the quality of the air we breathe have been achieved and are being achieved all the time particularly in respect of those pollutants either proven or suspected of causing physical environmental harm , especially to people . |
| 3 | There is a much stronger tradition in American society than in British of rectifying perceived private wrongs by means of litigation . |
| 4 | Mother said that Aunt Bessie was fond of telling one story about Thomas Isaac , recalling the occasion when he was asked to say grace before breakfast one morning and steadfastly refused although commanded several times by his father . |
| 5 | Critics of legal drafting often complain that lawyers are fond of using legal jargon . |
| 6 | Baxter , who was stationed in Tanganyika Masailand in the early 1930s , was fond of using public school metaphors to describe the activities of the moran . |
| 7 | Commentators , both in Poland and abroad , are fond of repeating that unemployment went ‘ from zero to 1.2m ’ in the past year : up to about 7% of the labour force . |
| 8 | Poets of a certain generation are notoriously fond of writing tearful tributes to one another in memory of their rollicking days in Soho in the Forties , or was it the Fifties ? |
| 9 | Ministers are fond of criticising local government because many local authorities are less than 100 per cent . |
| 10 | Dalton was fond of contrasting these numbers with the half million total troops thought likely to be necessary in peacetime by the war-time Coalition Government . |
| 11 | He has the fast talking sales pitch and easy familiarity common to people of his profession , coupled with a calmer side , fond of quoting wise sayings from his native India and disdainful of marketing favourites like ‘ adding value ’ with fancy packaging or ‘ creating new markets . ’ |
| 12 | He has the fast talking sales pitch , but is also fond of quoting wise Indian sayings |
| 13 | He used to be fond of quoting this rhyme : There is so much bad in the best of us And so much good in the worst of us , That it ill becomes the rest of us , To think evil of any one of us . |
| 14 | Dorothy Heathcote is very fond of employing this structure . |
| 15 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 16 | well Akhenaten took it even further and it was an offence punishable by death to even say the word gods and if you visit Ancient Egypt and walk around the ruins , you will occasionally know they were fond of putting these hieroglyphic erm er inscriptions over everything . |
| 17 | Jeffrey Archer is fond of hurling alarming statistics at you . |
| 18 | She was fond of making vague comments to Charity about everything being just fine , and were n't things progressing well , and everything would turn out exactly right . |
| 19 | It is not the general property or universal of weighing two pounds , whatever it is , that is flattening the napkin . |
| 20 | She was afraid of staying single all her life and everything she had ever been told supported the belief that a woman 's highest ambition was to become a wife and mother . |
| 21 | No one should be afraid of reporting any incident that occurs . |
| 22 | And finally , there is plenty of evidence to indicate that the Big Six and other audit firms are not afraid of assuming new responsibilities . |
| 23 | Artemis was n't afraid of riding tall horses , only anxious in case she might still be too short in the leg to get the best out of them . |
| 24 | I 'm tired all the time and I 'm afraid of getting pregnant again . |
| 25 | I had a flimsy recollection of being afraid of getting drowned ; now I had a flimsy suspicion that I might be buried under snow and never rise again to the surface . |
| 26 | She discovered that she was afraid of getting close , afraid of being betrayed , afraid of finding that a relationship did not solve all her problems , afraid of feeling trapped , afraid of ‘ disappearing ’ as a person , afraid of admitting that men were not all bad , afraid of losing her friends , afraid of having no more goals in life , afraid of giving up her unhappiness , afraid he might die , afraid of feeling dependent , afraid of sexual intimacy , afraid of letting go of the past , afraid that reality would not match up to the glorious fantasy … . |
| 27 | There are people who suffer from this , as do those who , although perfectly healthy , are afraid of getting ill at some time in the future . |
| 28 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 29 | I 'm afraid of losing that but not of simply losing , or getting hurt . |
| 30 | For Betts the explanation was simple , for the British were ‘ afraid to depart from massive but stultifying film values ’ which the Americans had already built up , and the situation was one in which ‘ every film producer in the world is mortally afraid of losing that Hollywood complexion , ourselves most of all ’ . |