Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Gunn means by this is , I think , that everyone realises the risks but yet we all feel a tendency to delude ourselves of any possibility that it might happen to us . |
| 2 | But if we are going to accuse them of this then we had better also accuse them of inventing the doctrine of the Trinity , for although the New Testament provides evidence for such a cardinal Christian belief it does not set it out in a clear or distinct fashion . |
| 3 | Obviously a client will not discuss intimate affairs with someone whom he believes to know nothing of such matters , or whom he thinks may condemn or be shocked by his problems . |
| 4 | I just want you to know nothing of that kind will happen again — ever . ’ |
| 5 | But Clare seemed to know nothing of this side of the relationship between her brother and her cousin . |
| 6 | The pharmacist could be informed of the risk and would be well placed to help the prescribers achieve their therapeutic objectives ( for example , by offering compliance aids , visiting the home , or checking usage of the product ) and to inform them of any problems . |
| 7 | How many days it was out of service and this that and the other and erm they used to send us an invoice on the mileage run because at the same time we knew what tyres were on the bus we had to inform them of any tyre changes and they kept records the same as us . |
| 8 | In this example it is difficult to know which of these arguments would find favour with a court . |
| 9 | It 's virtually impossible to know which of these stories is the true one , if either of them is . |
| 10 | These initiatives make it necessary to understand the factors which cause local economies to behave differently from each other , and particularly to know which of these factors are susceptible to action by local business and local government and which are not . |
| 11 | A simple coding system can be used since it is required only to indicate which of several options has been adopted . |
| 12 | You may use the coupon to indicate which of these brochures you are interested in . |
| 13 | The ASWs were asked to indicate which of these each individual suffered and which of these they considered to be severe . |
| 14 | It may well be that the reader is expecting the authors to indicate which of these theories best explains the development of the military-industrial complex and how ( assuming one believes it to be a problem ) it can bee eradicated . |
| 15 | I decided not to inform him of this . |
| 16 | The UK Committee on the Safety of Medicines regularly provides General Practitioners with questionnaires with which to inform it of any irregularities encountered in the use of new , but already licensed , drugs . |
| 17 | The reply to my letter tamely confirmed this , explaining that it was considered wasteful and expensive to train anyone of that age , for their service would be too short . |
| 18 | ‘ We do n't want to provide anything of that sort just yet . |
| 19 | It was agreed that the Secretary of the Party would ask the Party to inform us of any awards , plaques etcetera , that could be presented to recognize his length of membership . |
| 20 | Readers can be expected to spot which of these quotations are forgeries , and they must also have doubted in their time whether this writer was as good as the early tributes made out . |
| 21 | I shall then draw on my own experience to explore which of these two approaches seems to offer the best way forward , and consider what the implications might be for any future evaluation . |
| 22 | I am writing hurriedly to you but I have thought it right to apprize you of this … |
| 23 | The commission considered that ‘ no producer should be entitled to rid himself of all responsibility for the waste simply by handing it over to a contractor for disposal ’ , and it recommended that the duty should be enshrined in legislation . |
| 24 | So , together with his engraving , etching and aquatinting materials and his pigments for colours which he always mixed carefully himself , it was in the summer of 1800 that he decided to go north ( to the Lakes ) to begin once again and to try to rid himself of all he had learnt over the last decade and ‘ to adhere as faithfully as possible to nature . |
| 25 | Possibly Cnut took active steps to rid himself of this dangerous figure for good . |
| 26 | There was no end to such supposings — he shook his head like a dog with a bad ear , trying to rid himself of these crawling thoughts . |
| 27 | To rid himself of some of the frustration , Wright , who I know and like , should look for a solution very close to Highbury in Alan Smith . |
| 28 | The Office for Fine Arts in the Netherlands has decided to rid itself of most of the 230,000 works of art which have been left to deteriorate in a number of large depots around the country . |
| 29 | The positions of Byelorussia and Kazakhstan are less clear , while the Ukraine , with the nightmare of Chernobyl etched on its consciousness , wants to rid itself of those weapons . |
| 30 | She took personal charge of the cellars and , well aware of the problem posed by the obstinate particles of sediment which refused to fall easily , spent night and day trying to rid herself of this nuisance . |