Example sentences of "[to-vb] of [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 2 | However there was a y'know significant minority who were not media sensitive , who seemed to send out messages pretty well at random erm they 'd use whatever medium they happened to think of at the t off the spur of the moment rather than actually relating the medium to the message if you like . |
| 3 | It 's changed over the years , but it 's still for what I 'd like to think of as the intelligent , discerning young music fan . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm certain that those of us who heard Mike Save The Children 's overseas director on the Today programme or our field director in Angola on the evening television news yesterday , can have hold nothing but pride , what they had to say of Save The Children 's work in that country , a country described as the heart of darkness a country with the world 's worse infant mortality rate . |
| 5 | Nigel did n't get any attention to speak of for the rest of that day . |
| 6 | As we have noted , many countries had no press to speak of at the time of independence , and in those that did the press has undergone a considerable amount of change . |
| 7 | Outside Senegal and the Ivory Coast there was very little press to speak of in the pre-independence period : illiteracy was even higher than in the British territories , and the small , educated élite could not easily sustain newspapers . |
| 8 | There certainly is n't any light to speak of in the windows . |
| 9 | Although there was a sort of medieval corporation , it did n't have a Royal Charter and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted , and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the Borough Commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in eighteen eighty one . |
| 10 | Although there was a sort of mediaeval corporation it did n't have the royal charter , and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the borough commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in 1881 . |
| 11 | This contained some very relevant names and addresses which the Pakistani owner had obviously tried to dispose of during the night , but in the confusion and darkness he had failed to realise it had not gone overboard . " |
| 12 | Gathering up the debris , she stuffed it into her pocket to dispose of in the galley bin below . |
| 13 | Sheffield nail makers purloined wire , while in the Black Country iron , lead and brass were easy to dispose of among the thousands of small forges . |