Example sentences of "[verb] of [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As figures be the instruments of ornament in euery language , so be they also in a sorte abuses or rather trespasses in speach , because they passe the ordinary limits of common vtterance , and be occupied of purpose to deceiue the eare and also the minde , drawing it from plainnesse and simplicitie to a certaine doublenesse whereby our talke is the more guilefull & abusing . |
| 2 | The petition can be signed by the parliamentary agent himself , and this is of value because last-minute instructions are frequently received , and I have known cases where the client has not even seen the petition until after it was deposited , although he has of course cleared the content by telephone . |
| 3 | In industry , scientific research effort is often directed at increasing profit rather than improving the quality of life ( although science has of course improved the quality of people 's lives in many ways ) . |
| 4 | Now fear of Labour makes the ‘ feel bad ’ factor almost as strong a force for Major as the ‘ feel good ’ factor was for Thatcher . |
| 5 | John Roberts ’ collection and the two ‘ CARLISLE ’ signs of course formed the centrepiece , but all sorts of other items came to light . |
| 6 | The Wigwell Aqueduct was built of stone to carry the canal over the River Derwent . |
| 7 | While the latter belongs to a separate organizational dimension , it seemed of interest to test the feasibility of addressing the issues that the ‘ community ’ approach might raise . |
| 8 | To many 19th century chemists the fact that diamonds were made of carbon had the appearance of a blank cheque . |
| 9 | Collins does not make poetic claims , nor does her use of language demonstrate the clever turns and plays of Herbert . |
| 10 | Mike and Lindy are full of suggestions as to where the prettiest spots are and which stretches of canal have the best pubs . |
| 11 | The gold watch presented at coming of age marks the assumption of an adult role . |
| 12 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 13 | ( Asking if the ‘ government ’ should pay of course begs the question , where does the government get the cash from if not from the consumer ? |
| 14 | This is what Barthes means when he speaks of literature representing the sovereignty of language . |
| 15 | To do so meant of course to abandon the simplicities of pastoral living . |
| 16 | For costaining of acid phosphatase the sections were thereafter incubated for one hour at 37°C in the following substrate solution : 2 ml Naphthol AS-MX Phosphate acid ( Sigma 388-B ) , 2 ml 2.5 M acetate buffer ( pH 5.2 ) , 46 ml distilled water , and Fast Garnet GBC , 15 mg per 50 ml ( Sigma F-6504 ) . |
| 17 | The media , freed of censorship following the February 1990 changes , vilified several of the candidates , while warning of attempts to incite violence and disruption . |
| 18 | If you think of self-employment beware the fantasy element , too . |
| 19 | His wife Evelyn , 59 , denies wilful neglect and their son Ian , 34 , accused of helping administer the beatings denies common assault . |
| 20 | Approaching this cosmology , it is natural for an outsider to suppose that the Chinese can think only concretely , after the analogies of breathing or the veins in jade ( a supposition encouraged by misunderstandings of Chinese script as a kind of picture-writing ) , while he thinks abstractly ; that the Chinese are wrong and he is right ( for is not the universe in fact composed of matter obeying the laws of nature ? ) ; that the Chinese are trapped within an unchanging conceptual scheme while he is free to go wherever reason bids . |
| 21 | She had of course questioned the decision that had left her heiress to Tara , while Fergus , so indisputably a leader , so plainly possessing the natural authority Grainne believed she lacked , was relegated to the command of the Fiana . |
| 22 | Two detectives accused of altering a suspect 's statement to conceal the fact that he 'd been unlawfully arrested have been cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice . |
| 23 | In this case the judge was not so invited and counsel may not complain of failure to exercise the discretionary power in the proviso because the learned judge was entitled to rest his judgment on the assumption referred to above . |
| 24 | He does of course commit the triple sin of being ‘ foreign ’ , rich and clever : unpardonable . |
| 25 | That narrows the field and HP does of course have the Hummingbird PA-RISC variant up its sleeve ( UX No 414 ) , but it 's been burned in its dealing with Microsoft before so it 's approaching NT rather gingerly . |
| 26 | I have of course had the advantage of considering this matter er previously , and I have had the chance also to look at the various objections that have been made . |
| 27 | But it would be misleading to speak of separation given the religious foundations of his natural philosophy . |