Example sentences of "[vb -s] of [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tina Turner says of ex-husband Ike : ‘ I looked on him as big brother and mentor but , after our marriage , he revealed a terrible temper . |
| 2 | As a pointed representative introduces of Allied Dunbar , their resident representative will look at the mortgage , pension and insurance you 've accumulated over the years and sniff out the costs , sneezes and snivels that could be costly . |
| 3 | Glorious stuff , of course , but one for those whose devotion verges on fanaticism , and are really ready for four studio takes of Ready Teddy and six versions of Good Golly Miss Molly . |
| 4 | For example , a headline announcing ‘ President Bush at Oxford hears of Second Falkland Crisis ’ does not merit retrieval under Oxford but does require to be retrieved under Falkland . |
| 5 | The first one ‘ What is Family Ministry ? ’ , consists of one Saturday 16th January from 10am-4pm ) , and three Wednesday evenings ( 27th January , 3rd and 10 February from 7.30–9.30pm ) . |
| 6 | The set consists of six VLSI devices , two of which are used twice in a system design . |
| 7 | The first group consists of six RMCs : Kingston RMC based on Kingston Polytechnic ; Southern Counties RMC on Portsmouth Polytechnic ; South West RMC on Bristol Polytechnic ; Welsh RMC on the Polytechnic of Wales ; West Midland RMC based on North Staffordshire Polytechnic ; and Yorkshire and Humberside RMC based on Sheffield City Polytechnic . |
| 8 | The second group also consists of six RMCs : Anglian RMC based on North East London Polytechnic and Chelmer Institute of Higher Education ; East Midlands RMC on Leicester and Trent Polytechnics and Derby Lonsdale College of Higher Education ; London RMC on the Polytechnic of Central London in association with City of London Polytechnic , North London Polytechnic , Polytechnic of the South Bank , Thames Polytechnic and South West London College ; Northern RMC on Newcastle , Sunderland and Teesside Polytechnics ; North Western RMC on Liverpool Polytechnic , Manchester Polytechnic , Preston Polytechnic and St Helens College of Technology ; and Thames Valley RMC based on Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education , High Wycombe , Oxford Polytechnic and Slough College of Higher Education . |
| 9 | The high speed ambulance fleet consists of 127 Leyland DAF 400 turbo diesels , with the balance made up primarily of fuel-hungry V6-engined petrol Ford Transit , old Freight Rover 300s , and five petrol VW LT29s . |
| 10 | The more important of these consists of three Schubert songs — Ganymed , Du liebst mich nicht , Lachen und Weinen — from a 1952 BBC broadcast with Britten at the piano . |
| 11 | The Smolensk Power Station at Desnogorsk , 350km south west of Moscow consists of three RBMK light water graphite moderated reactors of 3200 MW(th) . |
| 12 | JAMES THURBER 'S short story , ‘ The Catbird Seat ’ , tells of mild-mannered Mr Martin , who deliberately turns himself into a boor for one evening . |
| 13 | There was plenty of material to work from : Latin was compulsory at Plumford Grammar School ; the English master had drummed into their memories large sections of Macaulay 's Lays of Ancient Rome ; they had read novels with a Roman background , like Rosemary Sutcliff 's Eagle of the Ninth and Robert Graves ' I , Claudius ; and they could plunder Hubert Molland 's classical library for further information as the need arose . |
| 14 | The fellow there said it was named after Macaulay' ( Lewis smiled with distant memories ) ‘ Thomas Babington Macaulay , sir — you know , the one who wrote the Lays of Ancient Rome . |
| 15 | The first comprehensive guidebook to The Roman Remains of Southern France by James Bromwich ( £25 ) is organised in a simple alphabetical format with maps , plans and photographs . |