Example sentences of "[vb infin] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did they know of real life ? |
| 2 | However , we should know of certain techniques that are appropriate to the kind of furniture we make . |
| 3 | Of course , the fee charged will probably be greater as a result because the freelance programmer might have envisaged making use of the program elsewhere ; he may know of other businesses which would be interested in what he produces . |
| 4 | You can rid of deodorant stains by making a paste out of bicarbonate or soda and salt and applying this to the stain for 15 , minutes or soak the garment in a biological detergent . |
| 5 | It may smack of undue determinism to suggest that only this system 's replacement will achieve anything and that its renovation will achieve nothing . |
| 6 | Anything less would smack of pie-in-the-sky thinking . |
| 7 | TO SACK Norman Lamont now , eight months after he should have done the honourable thing for failing to keep sterling within Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , would smack of prime-ministerial panic and cheap populism . |
| 8 | I do n't approve of late marriages , especially for women . |
| 9 | I had no idea you did n't approve of go-go dancing or I 'd never have taken you there . ’ |
| 10 | In the first place she had always consistently opposed fashion shows for her company ; she did not approve of professional models wearing ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes since they were not representative of her real customers ; furthermore , she had moral objections to catwalk cavortings as being sexually provocative ; ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes were not designed with sexual provocation in mind . |
| 11 | I do n't exactly approve of teacher-pupil relationships , for reasons that do n't need filling in . |
| 12 | To be sure , the latter did not always approve of royal actions , for even the most pious rulers occasionally transgressed . |
| 13 | ‘ I would have thought , ’ Meredith murmured , that as a life-long vegetarian , you 'd approve of green ideas . ’ |
| 14 | Gravenor Henson , the leader of the Framework Knitters ' Union , they argue , did not even approve of Luddite actions . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought you did n't approve of manual labour , ’ Oliver said . |
| 16 | He did n't approve of Celtic influence on what he called " the pure springs of Anglo-Saxon democracy " , holding that most of what had gone wrong with Britain over the past thousand years or so was the fault of " Celtic individualism " . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most obvious use you can make of non-ELT materials on video is to introduce topics which are relevant to your students . |
| 18 | To say , as Mr Hibbert did , that statisticians can not publicly dispute any misleading use politicians may make of official information is a weaselly argument . |
| 19 | Towards the end of our conversation he asked me what use I would make of documented evidence that the Japs in Burma had a far-reaching plan to destroy the Buddhist system of monasteries and monks . |
| 20 | Perhaps the child or the grandchild will invent a nostalgia , a personal explanation of current unhappiness , which will make of special significance the origin of the parent or grandparent . |
| 21 | What use do you make of written work when it has been marked ? |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't disapprove of go-go dancers . |
| 23 | No doubt you can think of reflex behaviours you have learned in this way . |
| 24 | Moreover , my forays outdoors became adventures into loonyland : for instance , asking directions from a garage attendant : ‘ Lost , are you , Beattie ? 'Ere , boys — what do you think of young Melvyn , letting his mum out on the roads without a minder ? |
| 25 | I am innovative and can think of new ways of using old materials , such as making toys from everyday household items |
| 26 | What is , or is not , consistent with human dignity is obviously a value judgment , which can neither be confirmed nor refuted ; and , of course , one can think of other activities that could be construed as being inconsistent with human dignity , which are not criminalized . |
| 27 | The eminent novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch was asked in an interview in 1982 " What do you think of other forms and media , such as television ? " and I could not agree more with her reply which was " People say that British television is the best in the world but there is so much violence and such a lot of it is so terrible . |
| 28 | The reader can no doubt think of other properties usually ascribed to Z which we have so far failed to mention . |
| 29 | It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth . |
| 30 | And here you might think of other kinds of dreams that are so-called typical dreams , like for instance erm , er , has anybody had this dream where you want to go to the bathroom but ca n't find it ? |