Example sentences of "[verb] of the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | Yes — he will obviously see and know of the good points , but it is his job to find the faults and problems . |
| 3 | What do you know of the two men 's relationship ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I used to smell of the old cows . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman has just been reminded of the shabby teachers ' pay record of the Labour Government whom he supported some years ago — It was his Government then , although their successors may not be represented on the Front Bench in quite the way that the hon. Gentleman would wish . |
| 9 | Throughout the book , the reader will be continually reminded of the famous words from Casablanca : ‘ round up the usual suspects . ’ |
| 10 | Frederica was irresistibly reminded of the two dolls leaning lifelessly on the doll 's house dresser , staring , in The Tale of Tao Bad Mice . |
| 11 | They may be helped by being reminded of the long-term benefits of such observation . |
| 12 | Nell was reminded of the shrill talk-whistles of dolphins . |
| 13 | Like many others , I am saddened almost to the point of despair at the result of this general election , and am vividly reminded of the moving words once spoken by that truly good man , Michael Foot . |
| 14 | As a last example of the potential role of operations research in GIS and disaster management we are reminded of the logistic problems that faced the Peel Regional Police Force during the Mississauga evacuation mentioned previously ( Scanlon and Padgham 1980 ) . |
| 15 | The notion that Freud has of the sexual instincts is not primarily about reproduction , however , but the generalized capacity of the human organism to find erotic satisfaction from any part of the body being caressed or stimulated , quite apart from the act of reproduction . |
| 16 | Some tasted of the parched winds of the Arabian Gulf ; others of the exuberant tribal animism of the South Pacific ; while others again echoed the ancient Hindu courts of Java and India . |
| 17 | Hoylake 's bid was intended to ‘ unbundle ’ BAT 's tobacco core , disposing of the other divisions of the company and retaining the original tobacco interests . |
| 18 | Disposing of the British agents had been an idea of his own , and killing Goldstein a positive pleasure . |
| 19 | The Scarman Enquiry reported of the physical conditions in the Dollis Hill premises in which the mail order department then moved , that ‘ save for the mischance with the air-conditioning in a hot summer ’ , they were ‘ excellent ’ . |
| 20 | It is a real mountain town , though for all its remoteness one of the oldest and best patronized of the Pyrenean spas , once , as I have said , managed by the monks of Saint-Savin . |
| 21 | The countdown to launch of the Personal Communications Network cellular mobile telephone service in the UK is well under way , and Mercury Communications Ltd 's Mercury One-to-One has released further details of its planned Personal Communications service , which will include cost control features . |
| 22 | I would like readers to know of the excellent efforts you have made to stimulate community action in Wales . |
| 23 | Readers of Annan 's classic essay are equally certain to know of the elaborate interconnections in the Quaker world of philanthropy and reform . |
| 24 | They would certainly not approve of the various purges devised by Jan . |
| 25 | What , then , can one make of the various explanations for the growth of government' ? |
| 26 | Contact with famous name international firms undoubtedly encourages local manufacturers , impressed by the demonstration effect of the success of prestigious foreign firms , to consider seriously the uses they could make of the new technologies . |
| 27 | The Executive Council , consisting of the two premiers , would meet at least once every six months to co-ordinate the implementation of the Supreme Council 's decisions . |
| 28 | A section of printed ephemera with its own special charm is that consisting of the small mementoes which a number of printing houses struck off to amuse and honour visitors . |
| 29 | These atoms , as we have seen , are spewed out from dying stars ; but it would take at least a billion years for a star to use up all its helium energy and explode , hence life could not exist in a universe consisting of the shortest-living stars , since the necessary elements such as carbon would not exist . |
| 30 | In tracing the influence of psychodynamic theory , Payne offers a three part periodic table consisting of the following elements : prior to 1920 when these theories had little influence ( pre-influence ) ; a period of dominance between the 1930s and 1960s ; from the 1960s to the present when they form one of many alternatives . |