Example sentences of "[verb] and of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures are irregularly spaced and of varying heights , like those on the much earlier Argive fragment ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 2 | Of all the men of different nationalities I 've met and of all types , I have found good and bad in each , but my favourite still remains the Frenchman , because he can lie so convincingly . |
| 3 | undertake a range of chronological writing including some at least of diaries , stories , letters , accounts of tasks they have done and of personal experiences , records of observations they have made , eg in a science or design activity , and instructions , eg recipes ; |
| 4 | The permitted limits of £1,000 a year in total for gifts , and the exemptions of as many small gifts of £100 a year as the donor may choose and of all gifts out of surplus income are not unreasonable for ordinary individuals ; and the raising of the exempt gift on marriage to £5,000 per parent will probably exceed the capacity of most parents , particularly that of the bride 's parents saddled with the cost of the reception as well . |
| 5 | You pass through orchards , over farms where the people wave greetings , catch glimpses of castles that were there centuries before the railway was built and of huddled villages , then go higher through woodlands where the trees brush the carriages , and on to views of snow clad peaks shimmering on the horizon . |
| 6 | I had to change the A-level economics syllabus to take account of yet more dotty ideas that poured out of the Department of Economic Affairs , of national plans that were revised because they did not work and of huge methods of distributing money through regional policy , where more than half the country was part of a development area . |
| 7 | There are examples in some countries of such candidates being elected and of pressure-group members of parliament being sufficiently numerous and permanent to share in office and to be regarded as a permanent parliamentary group — in other words , to behave in many ways like a party . |
| 8 | Well , they 'd had a few weeks of mystery , of secrets kept and of wrong conclusions avoided . |
| 9 | The story of this episode in the industrial life of the country , of its police and courts , and of the many side issues involved , is far too complicated and lengthy for fuller treatment in an essay of this kind , but it is a story nevertheless of immense importance to the tradition of the freedom to protest and of other freedoms . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) The experience of cinematic viewing — the dark , the succession of images ( ‘ perceptual memories ’ ) , the wonder , the wish fulfilment — has , as Metz ( 1982 , pp. 106–9 ) observed , a very great deal in common with the experience of dreaming and of unconscious processes . |