Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] of the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thief rarely thinks of the consequences for the victim . |
| 2 | Certainly much touching of the penises , penile erection , and display occur between young male geladas and the behaviour is commonly used in greeting behaviour . |
| 3 | The images together speak of the losses within language incurred through the passages of migration — losses accrued through violation , silence and often subtlety . |
| 4 | In the meantime , all his friends have been dispatched by serial killers , his dad , wrongly accused of the crimes , has killed himself and his mum has gone mad . |
| 5 | They originally said they 'd be covering the works of 20 composers over the period 1984–2000 but , so far , I only know of the LPs ‘ George And James ’ ( Gershwin and Brown ) and ‘ Stars And Hank Forever ’ ( Sousa and Hank Williams ) . |
| 6 | He was arraigned for heresy in 1457 , after publishing his The Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy , ‘ A secular doctor of divinity , that had laboured many years to translate Holy Scripture into English , passing the bounds of divinity and of Christian belief . |
| 7 | The Industrial Revolution and especially spread of the railways which enabled large numbers to migrate from country to town , meant that many more people were ‘ going out on pleasure bent ’ . |
| 8 | We now have a system whereby the park authority not only learns of the farmers ' proposals in advance but also invariably ‘ approves ’ the proposals . |
| 9 | This is despite a perception by some respondents in both the OFT and AMERG surveys that the public needs to be better informed of the services and architect can offer . |
| 10 | The media are held to have played a key educational and civilising role — by keeping people better informed of the issues involved in industrial disputes and of the ‘ proper ’ way to conduct them . |
| 11 | John CW Symon ( Points of View , today ) writes : ‘ It would seem obvious that young hooligans do not think of the consequences of their actions … quite likely they do not think of what they are doing as ‘ crime ’ at all … |
| 12 | The children ; one dared not think of the children . |
| 13 | She did n't look old enough not to know of the riggers . |
| 14 | Evidence from the period is confused but it is likely that Newcomen worked independently and did not know of the ideas of Papin and Savery . |
| 15 | Hecataeus did not know of the patriarchs and apparently had never heard of Hebrew kings . |
| 16 | OFI ( UK ) the trade association of course condemns the practice of abandonment of stock , and does not approve of the products sold by ‘ Aquario ’ , and the claims made for them . ’ |
| 17 | A Chinese official questioned by a reporter shrugged his shoulders and merely said China did not approve of the meetings . |
| 18 | In future all department running costs will be cash limited with the intention of giving ‘ individual civil service managers greater flexibility to make best uses of the resources available to them ’ ( Hansard , H.C. , VI , vol. 110 , cols 933–4 , 18 February 1987 ) . |
| 19 | Moreover , as will frequently be the case , where the chosen name does not consist of the surnames of all the partners ( including persons held out as partners ) without any addition other than forenames or initials or a reference to a previous owner of the business , the provisions of the Business Names Act 1985 will apply . |
| 20 | They were not told of the grounds for referral , and the case proceeded without them . |
| 21 | Not only is the official not complaining of the handicaps with which they have been saddled by Howard 's fellow-countrymen — he 's apologizing that they have n't overcome them ! |
| 22 | ‘ I am not speaking of the flowers , Georg . |
| 23 | You can not conceive of the feelings that consumed me when I understood — or rather when I thought I understood — why you had come tonight , when you said you wanted to share your happiness with me , wanted to give me something . |
| 24 | Probably the best known of the quartets in Britain is No. 8 , composed in Dresden in 1960 and dedicated to the victims of Fascism and of the War , and in view of the constant use of the DSCH motif and the quotations from several of his own pieces , there can be little doubt that Shostakovich considered himself among their number . |
| 25 | Karpov is the best known of the contestants . |
| 26 | Smart cards are perhaps the best known of the devices in the fight against school-dodging and they also contribute to security and safety . |
| 27 | Bracken is probably the best known of the ferns . |
| 28 | Linda describes the details of their daily lives , the problems that arose in trying to set up a network of support that was sufficient , stable and yet not undermining of the women 's growing independence , and the different reactions of Elizabeth and Helen to their new life . |
| 29 | Panaetius ' concern , like Polybius ' , was to encourage those whom he considered both the most influential and the best disposed of the Romans not to abuse their power . |
| 30 | A FATAL accident inquiry at Ayr into the deaths of two schoolboy friends who drowned in a flooded quarry yesterday heard that the boys ’ parents had not known of the dangers . |