Example sentences of "[adj] of [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Dorothy Heathcote is very fond of employing this structure . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No one should be afraid of reporting any incident that occurs . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid of losing that but not of simply losing , or getting hurt . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | She was so afraid of losing this heaven-sent opportunity , yet she did n't know how to ask the question she so desperately needed to ask . |
| 11 | Pressing , as her distresses are , if I did not think her heart was rightly turned , I should be afraid of proposing such a measure , lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind , and , by exciting her vanity , indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we can not mend her fortune without impairing her virtue . |
| 12 | Do n't be afraid of doing this . |
| 13 | You 're afraid of doing this and afraid of going into this and afraid of going into that thinking it 's not yours . |
| 14 | 6–8–1880 Archibald Currie etc appeared and " mutually acknowledged that they had been guilty of quarrelling some time ago in a way scandalous to religion in the community where they reside . |
| 15 | All news reports would henceforth have first to be " co-ordinated " with the Interior Ministry , while publishing houses could face fines of up to 100,000,000 Turkish lira ( about US$40,000 ) and immediate closure if found guilty of printing any material deemed to " pose a threat to the rule of law " . |
| 16 | In fact , timber felling grew to such proportions that a law was passed restricting it ; anyone found guilty of contravening this law more than three times , could be hung . |
| 17 | As fashion dictates what a lot of the manufacturers make and then try and sell to Joe Public , I suppose we 're all guilty of fuelling this aspect of guitar/amp and gadget marketing . |
| 18 | They add little to the cultural identity of Darlington and are guilty of attracting some unsavoury characters and behaviour to the centre of the town . |
| 19 | In the past , I have been guilty of reinforcing this icon ; now I am committed either to destroying it or affecting major reconstructions . |
| 20 | I I do n't know , probably we as newspapers are fairly guilty of preserving that image , but I also believe that those of you who are in local government service in whatever field , and that includes both officers and politicians have something to do yourselves there to try to restore that image . |
| 21 | Yet they are unaware of doing this . |
| 22 | The very poorest , who depend on state benefits , will be relieved of paying much of the charge , but those with just enough income to be denied this relief will suffer severely . |
| 23 | Although party polemicists ( especially the Tories ) frequently referred to the existence of a fundamental conflict between a Whig monied and a Tory landed interest , recent research has warned us to be cautious of accepting such remarks as an accurate description of social and political realities . |
| 24 | Everywhere he found the same thing : elderly employees , attempting to run things as they thought the old baron would have wanted , out of touch with new ideas , fearful of taking any decision on their own , and consequently stalling , allowing problems to build up . |
| 25 | Fearful of upsetting those of a squeamish nature , I decided that an abrupt change of subject was in order and asked Jennifer about the guitars she was bringing with her to Europe : is she still an Ibanez 540S fan ? |
| 26 | The visitor left , forgetting to take her sewing machine , and I left with her , knowing full well that I would never see Aisha again and that news of my forcing the lock on her cupboard would reach my family and the whole village well amplified , so that I 'd end up accused of stealing all of Aisha 's possessions . |
| 27 | Indeed , there were only nine men aged under 30 and these included a group of four aircraftsmen appearing on a court martial accused of assaulting some young cadets at a summer camp . |
| 28 | Well it so happens that I did intend you to do a paramount of talking this afternoon , so it 's quite convenient in a way that we are being recorded . |
| 29 | In the West writers and publishers were nervous of publishing any material about Islam except the most anodyne , and in the East and across the Muslim world progressive voices were under attack , he said . |
| 30 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |