Example sentences of "[verb] of [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you think of the miners ' strike ? was my first ever searching enquiry . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Maria Morgan , editor of the Guinness Book 's literary section , says of the publishers ' advertisement : ‘ The trouble is that as yet we do n't have a category for most widely read author . |
| 4 | Molla Fenari and Seyh Bedreddin shared a devotion to the thought of Ibn al-Arabi , and it may well be that even if Molla Fenari thoroughly disapproved of the rebels ' activities he was compromised in the eyes of many by those shared beliefs . |
| 5 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 6 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Shipman 's Tale tells of a lovers ' triangle , involving a merchant who lives at St Denis ( France ) , his wife , and a Parisian monk who was regarded as their friend : indeed the monk and the merchant call each other cousin , as both are from the same village . |
| 9 | Everything here speaks of the owners ' attentive care and good taste . |
| 10 | Crabbe asks rhetorically why no-one raised a hand to help Grimes 's workhouse slaves , but comments that all they ever said on hearing of the children 's misery was — Grimes is at his exercise " . |
| 11 | Tongues solicitously tutted over the black band still stitched to Melanie 's sleeve for they all ( as they would have in the village ) knew of the children 's arrival and how they had been orphaned . |
| 12 | By 1974 , however , he despaired of the Tories ' ability to stick — like his Jocks — to their guns , and lamented the failure to market their new faith in unstuffy enterprise . |
| 13 | As soon as he learned of the rebels ' withdrawal from Derby , he sent orders to Field Marshal Wade to intercept them from the west while his own army set off in pursuit from the south . |
| 14 | Duncan Paterson , Scotland 's manager , spoke of the players ' appreciation of such backing . |
| 15 | I asked children to think of a witches ' stew and this is what they suggested to put on a sign on the wall : |
| 16 | The first Phoenix King had time to think of the daemons ' taunts . |
| 17 | Moreover , the Council itself was widely regarded as dangerously left-wing , dominated not just by teachers , but by teachers acceptable to the furthest left of the teachers ' unions , the NUT ( itself then containing large proportion of primary school teachers , without university connections ) . |
| 18 | In a no account is taken of the animals ' life styles . |
| 19 | The Children Act 1989 is likely to require much more account to be taken of the children 's views and those of their parents and other interested parties , but it is a process which is still seen as difficult , and is less frequently carried out than is desirable . |
| 20 | In a recent editorial The Australian Financial Review , the national daily newspaper , said of the pilots ' dispute : ‘ Relentless rhetoric , cynical misinformation and myopic stubbornness have coalesced to provide such a poisonous setting to the dispute that any compromise will be presented as defeat . |
| 21 | In 1912 , Key wrote of the women 's movement as ideally winning back ‘ the wife to the husband , the mother to the children , and thereby the home to all ’ . |
| 22 | Lawrence Weaver , whose work as an author had contributed much to Lutyens 's recognition as an architect , wrote of the Dolls ' House in 1924 that ‘ The planning of a strictly symmetrical house like this is one of the shrewdest tasks that can be set an architect . ’ |
| 23 | In addition to independence , both teachers and public , and teachers in particular , will want to be assured of the inspectors ' ability so that they can trust the judgements made . |
| 24 | We now have a system whereby the park authority not only learns of the farmers ' proposals in advance but also invariably ‘ approves ’ the proposals . |
| 25 | The next example is an account of a teacher 's observation of children at play whereby she learns of the children 's own discoveries as they experiment for themselves . |
| 26 | In the history of the nation , the temple — and its associated ritualism — rose and fell , as oppression and persecution ( not to speak of the Israelites ' hot-and-cold religious attitudes ) promoted or denied its expression . |
| 27 | This backlash has meant many dog owners having to confine their pets to their own gardens for exercise and toilet use which , of course , leads to the problem of how to dispose of the dogs ' faeces . |
| 28 | A useful first step is to dispose of the workers ' own mother with her propensity to produce competing brood . |
| 29 | Employers also usually give a disturbance allowance , pay for bridging loans or use the services of a specialist relocation company to dispose of the employees ' old homes . |
| 30 | Efforts were made to keep the communities informed of the studies ' purposes , and of any new developments , through meetings open to all community members , and by announcements at market places . |