Example sentences of "[vb -s] of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere Genet writes of a 19-year-old , washing the clothes of his friend who is shortly to go and fight , declaring that he loves the revolution and all the fedayeen , but his friend especially : ‘ Yes . |
| 2 | Thus Mayhew , who was a journalist and not a sociologist , writes of a coster lad as saying of his life , |
| 3 | Although the affair stinks of a set-up , the government has been able to manipulate the publicity to deflect some of the heat from the Bofors affair . |
| 4 | Unpretentious yet beautiful orange brick and pantiled watermills , trout farms and farmhouses rest peacefully in isolated spots and cosy little hamlets appear unexpectedly as one turns of a bend of a woldland way . |
| 5 | Later in the evening the sound of loud laughter wafted up through the open window , and even snatches of a song . |
| 6 | Dr Robert Shore and Dr H Choudhury both dose with one granule in 110ml water putting one tablespoon in a glass of 110mls of water which represents of a granule per 5ml dose ( 6 days supply ) . |
| 7 | The usually respectable FRAME News , the newsletter of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments , published it in full ( 1988 : 1–2 ) , and Langley in the Dr Hawden Trust 's Alternative News analysed with some alarm ( he signs of a fight back on the part of the American medical establishment after many years of tactical passivity known as the ‘ bunker strategy ’ ( 1988 : 6–7 ) . |
| 8 | The first school thinks of a wall as a means to an end , a support , a mere background . |
| 9 | However , nobody thinks of a tree like that . |
| 10 | The House of Commons has the right to say first what it thinks of a Bill . |
| 11 | They will tell him what middle America thinks of a President who is prepared to face reality . |
| 12 | When one caller transgresses this line of demarcation , asking the presenter Dolores what she thinks of a terrorists ' kidnapping , she replies ‘ That would be a little outside the scope of this programme Charlie , there 'll be experts commenting again in the morning to tell you what to think of it , why do n't you talk to me about yourself … ’ ( 80 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ To me it smacks of a cover up . |
| 14 | And if later someone disposes of a record in some other way no part of the royalty can be recovered . |
| 15 | He examines their foundation , their funding , their social constituency , and their organizational structure in detail , and in the process disposes of a number of myths and conventional wisdoms . |
| 16 | When the agricultural population complains of a loss of community in the English village it is usually to this loss of an enclosed , socially self-sufficient occupational community that they refer . |
| 17 | In the last act of King Lear , Regan complains of a spot of tummy trouble . |
| 18 | A fascinating and hitherto unpublished study exists of a day in the life of two northern Nigerian school age children ( R. Tabatchik 's ‘ Two Children , Two Days ’ ) . |
| 19 | The possibility exists of a friendship developing between a transsexual and someone else , which eventually leads to thoughts of marriage . |
| 20 | what international law requires of a State that has violated international law , that is the obligations of the guilty State ; |
| 21 | Whenever one hears of a child dying , whether from disease or accident , it always seems particularly tragic . |
| 22 | It 's ( more or less ) official : Ken Olsen was pushed into resigning by the board : the Wall Street Journal hears of a meeting with employees at which Olsen discussed how he was unable to make the necessary organisational changes at DEC , in particular failing to get engineering groups to report to marketing , and then said ‘ that 's why I was fired ’ . |
| 23 | Acupuncture conceives of a kind of ‘ bioenergy ’ , which flows along channels in the body and can be manipulated by acting at particular points on those channels ( by needles , heat or pressure ) . |
| 24 | This description is not only more extended and specific than any one would find in Jane Austen 's novels ; it conceives of a house in a totally different way , as the foreground , not the background , of a fiction . |
| 25 | This actually was the game against Birmingham and here he comes out fearlessly spreads himself beautifully and robs of a goal there . |
| 26 | 7 This suit is not severely masculine — it consists of a shirt , tie and pale yellow jacket with fancy , scalloped lapels , and so could be considered merely a fashionable , feminine version of masculine dress . |
| 27 | In British and North American English this often consists of a pre-sequence which signals impending closure , echoed by the other participant , followed by farewells , like this : |
| 28 | Further , assume that the map consists of a sheet of neurones , with particular neurones corresponding to particular places , the pattern being geometrically similar to the environment being mapped . |
| 29 | It consists of a sheet for each day which has numerous analysis columns — the headings of these will depend on the requirements of the hotel . |
| 30 | That is here , at this cinema and er usually consists of a film show and erm er presentation and then of a buffet lunch . |