Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the increasing number of critical surveys of the English novel published during the present century Conrad is the sole writer ever to be included in the safe , accepted procession from Fielding to Henry James and beyond who could , to some degree , be considered to write of adventure in the traditional sense ; and it is always made perfectly clear that Conrad 's moral and philosophical probings constitute his true value , his story-telling expertise being , by implication , no more than a means to an end . |
| 2 | Critical comments , hostility and overinvolvement , generally termed ‘ expressed emotion ’ ( EE ) , on the part of the relative most closely associated with the patient have been shown to be related to risk of relapse ( Brown et al. , 1972 ; Vaughn and Leff , 1976 ) . |
| 3 | As each of the three variables seemed to be related to risk of relapse , it followed that those living in high contact with high EE relatives and failing to maintain prophylactic medication should be at greatest risk of relapse , while those living with low EE relatives and continuing to take their medication should have the lowest risk . |
| 4 | The potential for change is therefore always present in variation , and may appear as a progressively greater or lesser favouring by the speech community of particular linguistic variants from among the variants that are available in the community at some particular time : to that extent change can be said to consist of change in community norms . |
| 5 | Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're silly , ’ said my mother , getting angry because she was n't used to converse of culture . |
| 7 | The material was shown to consist of polystyrene cylinders embedded in a polybutadiene matrix with the cylinder axes directed along the extrusion direction . |
| 8 | Inchbad had moved across to sit beside her and had taken her hand between his finger and thumb and was exclaiming what a pretty little thing she was and it the shame of the world that her brother had had to ride of land leave her all alone . |
| 9 | Now we have the number and today is the twelfth so we 've got to think of number twelve . |
| 10 | The crematorium , which is also used to dispose of BSE infected cattle , caused a storm of protest when it was built . |
| 11 | A 2- to 3-fold increase in the amount of glucose bound to lysine of apoprotein B has been demonstrated in the serum of diabetic subjects . |
| 12 | Although VOR , operating on the VHF band , is relatively free of these errors its reception distance is limited to line of sight . |
| 13 | It would seem from this that the issue of whether the representation has become a term of the contract can not be avoided , especially if the buyer seeks compensation for loss of profits since expectation damages are linked to breach of contract . |
| 14 | The Department of Transport says matrix signals have been updated to warn of fog but overhead lighting on motorways wo n't necessarily help . |
| 15 | Tradition says that , worst of all , he was informed that he would not be allowed to partake of Communion at any service conducted by a Covenanting Minister , a sentence equivalent to excommunication from the Kirk he believed in , |
| 16 | ‘ Worldwide 3–6,000 people are estimated to die of hepatitis B every day ; one to two million every year . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , but I have not tried to think of love , ’ came the answer . |
| 18 | He should be encouraged to think of sport as healthy exercise done for fun , rather than for competition . |
| 19 | The classification and relationship of functions within the discourse can again be represented diagrammatically , and students encouraged to think of discourse in spatial terms , as in the extract from Laird , where paragraph structure is analysed in functional boxes , each box corresponding to a grammatical unit or series of grammatical units . |
| 20 | here the spices seem to relate to later photographs Bhimji has recently tried to take of dust in her home : that which is left after natural or unwanted exfoliation be it of ‘ culture ’ , ‘ home ’ or bodily ‘ innocence ’ . |
| 21 | John Bond , currently Penguin marketing manager , has been promoted to head of marketing for Penguin . |
| 22 | That , after all , at the end of Orwell 's book , is just what Winston Smith has been forced to think when , subjected to torment of mind and body , ‘ he loved Big Brother ’ . |
| 23 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 24 | The WLM had begun to come of age . |
| 25 | Not long ago she had begun to talk of life not being worth living again and she had demanded that Harry should tell her , once and for all , why it was worth living . |
| 26 | It is now the fifth most listened to form of radio — and it is increasing its share of total listening . |
| 27 | It is now the fifth most listened to form of radio — and it is increasing its share of total listening . |
| 28 | The mating instinct allied to fear of loneliness was an irresistible combination , concluded the sergeant , gazing round the pub to conceal his irritation . |
| 29 | Erm , what Mr very carefully very carefully failed to mention of course is that the rates of has in fact gone up by eleven point one percent . |