Example sentences of "[vb -s] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Alliance and its supporters busied themselves in rates and exposes of socialist malpractice . |
| 2 | As a young man he made friends effortlessly , but after his conversion he withheld proffers of easy affection , as if afraid of rebuff . |
| 3 | Once a current is developed and the head of water is lowered a hydraulic gradient is developed along the beach and a circulation pattern develops of longshore currents feeding seaward rip currents ( Fig. 8.3 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's the best thing I 've done , ’ he says of 010 , as he has of other books . |
| 5 | That famous dish of cheese stewed with white wine and flavoured very expensively , but very necessarily , with kirsch , has of late years received so much publicity that you can find a recipe for it in almost any cookery book or magazine you pick up . |
| 6 | The creature is often seen on the Idwal Slabs in North Wales and Stanage and Laddow Rocks in the South Pennines but has of recent years migrated on to the Craven limestone . |
| 7 | That said , one of the best chances an unknown has of national music press exposure is in the live review section . |
| 8 | What impresses me in Messner is the combination he has of immense boldness and analytical power . |
| 9 | However Skinner ( 1957 ) writes of verbal behaviour as being ‘ under the control of extremely subtle properties ’ of a stimulus , but never clarifies what this might mean . |
| 10 | Our concern , however , is not with the difficulties of aesthetics , but only with what a critic writes of aesthetic experience , and how useful such an account may be . |
| 11 | In a fascinating study , St John Brooks ( 1983 ) writes of English departments in two secondary schools ; one in particular , she notes , is located in the Leavisite tradition of English studies . |
| 12 | The run-off from the pig factories is so high in nutrients and so voluminous that in warm summers the entire Adriatic stinks of rotting algae and dead fish . |
| 13 | Erm , the second point really was that erm as far as Highways is concerned and I mean we , as you 've explained earlier on , as Councillor explained , it 's gon na be very very tight I think , erm in years to come in terms of major highways and starts of major highways . |
| 14 | Strip index — This is a frame into which strips of stiff card can be inserted . |
| 15 | He slowed down to pick his way among the ! patches of white water quite close inshore , at one point even vanishing between a towering sea-stack and the main cliff , then , once past the headland , he throttled right back and motored tamely into Otters ' Bay , making for the jetty there . |
| 16 | ‘ Cold wind getting up , ’ commented the landlord , as he placed he mugs of amber liquid on the bar . |
| 17 | While it would be churlish to pass over the considerable tree planting effort already wrought in the central belt by the trust , the results of a three-year research project undertaken at the University of Edinburgh reveal little evidence that the needs and wants of local people have provided the vehicle for environmental change . |
| 18 | There was a generator blowing bubble holos all around the room , snatches of old movies , adverts , random faces , alien landscapes . |
| 19 | Lambda vectors EMBL3 and EMBL4 ( Stratagene ) were used for the cloning of partial Sau 3AI and Eco RI digests of extranuclear DNA , enriched by CsCl centrifugation . |
| 20 | Digests of YAC DNA , probed with KOX2 , show that yA4C5 contains the 4.0 kb EcoRI fragment from the ZNF11A locus , while yA136E7 contains the 1.75 kb EcoRI fragment corresponding to ZNF11B ( Figure 1b ) . |
| 21 | ONE of Harold Gale 's attributes is that he perpetually thinks of new ideas . |
| 22 | And when one thinks of individual subjects , why is mathematics typically in the science faculty when it is not a science ? |
| 23 | She thinks of other people . |
| 24 | The attitudinist calls statements which express attitudes rather than beliefs value statements and be thinks of ethical statements as a more or less vaguely delimited subclass of these . |
| 25 | He thinks of previous reviews , of the drums beating , of the waving standards , of his generals covered with gold lace and saluting him with their swords , and of his guard shouting , ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ |
| 26 | It just tastes of Indian rubber ! |
| 27 | This is an important programme which smacks of major investment and very careful planning . |
| 28 | Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning , probably because it smacks of divine intervention . |
| 29 | Their outrage at our use of land therefore smacks of double standards . |
| 30 | The order is normally deposited very near to the last day , the reason being that this allows of last-minute alterations . |