Example sentences of "[verb] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To judge from Egypt , the traditional bell-wether of the Arab flock , they are failing to do so . |
| 2 | By March 1944 Hickson , as Secretary to the Cambridge Board which was then reviewing its future organisation for the post-war period , was sufficiently assured to write of the Rural Areas Committee : |
| 3 | Even ITN has had to turn to CNN for some footage of the Gulf , but that does n't cause Phillis any problems : ‘ I 'm a great admirer — Turner 's done a marvellous job , ’ adding that while the US network has received plaudits for its Gulf coverage , it is merely returning the coverage that ITN provided of the Conservative leadership contest . |
| 4 | ‘ Did they know of the deep place in the pond ? |
| 5 | Yes — he will obviously see and know of the good points , but it is his job to find the faults and problems . |
| 6 | What do you know of the two men 's relationship ? |
| 7 | He did not know of the English habit of using such affectionate epithets rather haphazardly , and he was impressed that she should consider him her dear . |
| 8 | The zeks did not know of the bitter trial of the breakdown . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend will know of the considerable worry in the Radcliffe part of my constituency about the prospect of an opencast coal mine being developed there . |
| 10 | If the vendor does not know of the proposed management buy-out , or is aware but has not given approval , then the members of the management team almost certainly risk action against them for breach of their service agreements . |
| 11 | Anyone dealing with such figures will know of the enormous variation in coding practice in different areas . |
| 12 | Everyone associated with the game will know of the numerous titles won by Fred Daly , but possibly many will be interested to know of his achievements in The Open . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend will know of the widespread success of his unleaded petrol campaign , which has persuaded motorists to use a more environmentally acceptable fuel . |
| 14 | Next month I will finally fall of the back page , to be replaced by columns of Classified Ads inserted by 60-year-old male Vl Diff leaders seeking 24-year-old female partners for climbing and what have you . |
| 15 | The base cost of the qualifying investment can not be reduced to less than zero by the rolled-over chargeable gain . |
| 16 | In particular , they would oppose anything which smacked of the corporatist state . |
| 17 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 18 | A justification for talk of abstract ideas is that it provides an explanation of how our thought and knowledge can be general ; ‘ how we can know any proposition to be true of all particular triangles , except we have first seen it demonstrated of the abstract idea of a triangle . ’ |
| 19 | The handbook , however , that is recommended for potential writers , You Can Write a Romance and Get it Published , breezily enjoins its readers to ‘ Remember that these are formula books tried and proved to be successful ’ and proceeds to outline the characterizations and plotting that are expected of the successful romance . |
| 20 | That his choice is contrary to what is to be expected of the vast majority of adults is only relevant if there are other reasons for doubting his capacity to decide . |
| 21 | The Junior boys and Cadet girls are defending champions but much is expected of the Junior girls side , with the U-12 girls having an outside chance of upsetting Leinster . |
| 22 | They symbolized all the money that was around , the flamboyance expected of the richest nation on earth . |
| 23 | In these awards there are elements of Buggins 's Turn and resurrection , but what else could be expected of the merry band of superannuated politicians commanded to commend the necessary artists ? |
| 24 | If you study the UKCC 's Code of Professional Conduct ( Appendix 1 ) you will see that the criteria for desired outcomes relates directly to what is expected of the registered nurse and health visitor . |
| 25 | It also pointed to an important development that can and should be expected of the classical perspective : the assertion of the relativity and selectivity of criminal definitions and their application . |
| 26 | By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country . |
| 27 | The apparent lack of much volcanic activity over much of Mercurian history probably results from cooling of the outer mantle , because a planet with a large surface area to mass ratio should cool rather rapidly to fairly low temperatures . |
| 28 | I remember when some tapes were located of the last performance that Dinu Lipatti gave at Lucerne . |
| 29 | They are the spearhead of the Imperial army , capable of shattering almost any enemy line under the right circumstances . |
| 30 | Muslim nationalists were encouraged to see themselves as the spearhead of the anti-colonial movement , and Lenin himself addressed their congress ( in November 1919 ) . |