Example sentences of "[to-vb] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By March 1944 Hickson , as Secretary to the Cambridge Board which was then reviewing its future organisation for the post-war period , was sufficiently assured to write of the Rural Areas Committee : |
| 2 | By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country . |
| 3 | I used to smell of the old cows . |
| 4 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 5 | The death certificates will not read — ‘ victim of an industrial dispute ’ or ‘ death due to neglect of the National Health Service ’ . |
| 6 | The countdown to launch of the Personal Communications Network cellular mobile telephone service in the UK is well under way , and Mercury Communications Ltd 's Mercury One-to-One has released further details of its planned Personal Communications service , which will include cost control features . |
| 7 | Almond Nofomela had been among the most trusted of Coetzee 's askaris in his years with Section C. Nofomela had been involved in killings up to despatch of the unfortunate Lesotho diamond dealer . |
| 8 | However , he would have been shocked to know of the pagan pleasure in nature and pretty womanhood experienced by Angel . |
| 9 | I would like readers to know of the excellent efforts you have made to stimulate community action in Wales . |
| 10 | Readers of Annan 's classic essay are equally certain to know of the elaborate interconnections in the Quaker world of philanthropy and reform . |
| 11 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 12 | Goals from Jimmy Quinn and Philip Gray — his first for the international team — were enough to see of the Baltic challenge although Denmark 's victory over Albania earlier in the day put paid to our last fading hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals in America . |
| 13 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |
| 14 | ‘ The petition read , ‘ It is incumbent upon the council to prevent the crown falling to issue of the pretended wedlock between his late Majesty and the lady Elizabeth Woodville , made without the consent of the lords of the land , and by the sorcery of the said Elizabeth and her mother Jacquetta — as the voice is throughout the land — privily and secretly in a chamber , without proclamation by banns according to the laudable custom of the English church ; the said King Edward being married and troth-plight a long time before to one , Eleanor Butler , daughter to the old Earl of Shrewsbury ’ . ’ |
| 15 | He decided to kill of the beloved character while still at the height of his popularity . |
| 16 | It is commonly assumed that the strategy of ‘ area bombing ’ — indiscriminate attacks on largely civilian target ‘ areas ’ , usually in city centres — failed in its express aim of undermining and destroying the morale and will to resist of the German people and instead merely stimulated such an intense hatred of the enemy that the bonds between regime and people were strengthened , not weakened . |
| 17 | The closer the Gnostics stood to orthodoxy , the more likely they were to wish to infiltrate the catholic community ; this was especially the case among the Manichees , but they could be detected by their refusal to drink of the eucharistic cup ( since they regarded wine as an invention of the devil ) and to make the sign of the cross ( since to them the suffering of Jesus was no actual event but a symbol for the universal condition of the human race ) . |
| 18 | It was not necessary , however , to travel to one of these fashionable watering places to partake of the health-giving beverage , and ‘ taking the waters ’ at a local spring or spa ( spaw to many Northeners ) became very popular during the last century . |
| 19 | The colonists in North America were encouraged to partake of the new refreshment but were taxed on tea and other imports from 1765 onwards , which led to a trade in tea smuggling from Holland to avoid the taxes . |
| 20 | The Emperor 's Tarot was supposed to partake of the very spirit of the Master of Mankind , forever on overwatch throughout the warp . |
| 21 | Butcher comments that ‘ The Monks , Friers , and Nuns of those superstitious Times like so many Rats or Mice , which make choice to feed of the daintiest cheese ) made choice of this Place to build here several Receptacles … ’ |
| 22 | It is a commonplace to talk of the young being alienated . |
| 23 | Whether from shame or fear of the all-pervasive Mukhabarat security police , people are reluctant to talk of the four civilians in Maan who were killed - they do not use the word ‘ martyred ’ as would Palestinians on the West Bank of the river — during the ‘ sorrowful events ’ as they are known in official parlance . |
| 24 | These precedents encouraged lawyers to talk of the immemorial law of the Salian Franks under which women were excluded from the succession . |
| 25 | He is wont to talk of the new vision that Lorca 's poetry gave to him ; ‘ here is my landscape , ’ he exclaimed repeatedly . |
| 26 | How does this understanding of God 's transcendence clarify what it means to talk of the divine immanence or presence ? |
| 27 | In these circumstances to talk of the inner city may be to accept a vocabulary which we might prefer not to endorse but it might also use the only language in which we can be heard . |
| 28 | Disraeli was later to talk of the Two Nations , the Rich and the Poor , who could exist side by side in the same country with no knowledge of each other 's way of life . |
| 29 | Long conversations tired her but she loved to talk of the old days and her life as a nanny to a wealthy family . |
| 30 | But this is to talk of the nominal or official method of appointment . |