Example sentences of "[verb] of [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which I do n't approve of in the slightest . |
| 2 | Richie was the only person he could think of with the necessary clout . |
| 3 | From the physical point of view , the human child is at its most vulnerable during and just after birth , and it remains ‘ at risk ’ , in the actuarial sense , throughout early childhood , particularly during what our society thinks of as the pre-school years . |
| 4 | Even though he said all these things , he is not to be heard of during the final battle . |
| 5 | Food in the supermarkets , for example — we 're now quite used to all sorts of delicacies that most British people had never heard of in the '70s . |
| 6 | Africa joined up with Asia via Arabia and became part of the huge continent that we now speak of as the Old World . |
| 7 | Though the refusal of one of the parties to a dispute to make an oath was admissible as evidence in British courts , these other ways of trying cases were generally ignored or disapproved of by the colonial authorities . |
| 8 | Not much was said of over the next four hours , and the identities of Sixsmith 's supplicants emerged only partially and piecemeal . |
| 9 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |
| 10 | Wittgenstein , widely thought of as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century , published very little in his lifetime , and is unlikely to have got tenure in a modern British university . |
| 11 | Permanent income can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the existing stock of both ‘ human ’ and ‘ non-human ’ wealth over a long period of time . |
| 12 | Recall from Chapter 19 that this is a long-run measure of income which can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the stock of human and non-human wealth over a long period of time . |
| 13 | is generally thought of as the all-purpose cheese , for cooking and eating . |
| 14 | Even in Northern Ireland , the districts are best thought of as the lower tier in a system that simply lacks a democratically elected higher level of local government . |
| 15 | As already mentioned , spreadsheets are often thought of as the key number crunching application and therefore benefit most from a numeric coprocessor . |
| 16 | The movies tackled society on the broadest front and refused to be confined to any one social zone but for all that one senses from the trade papers and social surveys that the industry had become preoccupied with its fashionable down-town audiences and that the super-cinemas were thought of as the social cutting edge of the trade . |
| 17 | Adele Venetz , the sister that Wayne always thought of as the quiet one , had been sitting at the big rolling-out table as he 'd entered the restaurant kitchen . |
| 18 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 19 | They are essentially threatening or assaulting practices and , like silent or heavy-breathing telephone calls , may be thought of as the sexually-poor man 's rape ! |
| 20 | Buckminsterfullerene has often been thought of as the 3-D equivalent of benzene and so should be ‘ aromatic ’ , which means performing some of the chemical reactions for which benzene is noted . |
| 21 | Every ‘ Toshie ’ watcher , and there are many devotees of the great Charles Rennie Mackintosh from Hill Street to Hiroshima , knows that Glasgow was once thought of as the very acme of a Tokyo for tea-rooms . |
| 22 | In towns and cities across Scotland , people have lately grown increasingly conscious of the homeless : often young , often pitiful , often begging for money in a style once thought of as the very antithesis of the British way . |
| 23 | The system has proved to be flexible thus enabling enhancements to be made — enhancements which quite often could not have been thought of at the initial design stage , since the concept of an integrated payroll and personnel function was very much new ground . |
| 24 | Lyric poetry is not subjective in the ordinary sense ; and in its freedom from subjectivity it should be thought of in the same terms as music . |
| 25 | Just two years ago , the MP for Henley was being talked of as the next Prime Minister . |
| 26 | And erm there has been some research done , they produced a plan of what they actually consisted of in the 17th century . |
| 27 | Most of Yonder was new , housing estates , schools , shops , small businesses and offices , and not entirely approved of by the original residents of the village . |
| 28 | Although I have to say that the implication in two eight three that Labour is flirting with workfare is misplaced , we 've said some harsh things about the Party this week , but there is no possibility that I know of of the Labour Party supporting any form of workfare whatsoever . |
| 29 | In addition , Chamberlain was not willing to join the Government without Birkenhead , and Birkenhead was strongly disapproved of by the Conservative rank and file , both in the House and in the country , and particularly by those somewhat prim and self-righteous parts of it in which lay Baldwin 's greatest strength . |
| 30 | It was a process of automatic writing such as she had heard tell of in the sillier drawing-rooms of the county where idle men and women amused and , she suspected , sometimes alarmed themselves by tinkering in realms they did not understand ; except that this was very different , for the entirety of her intellect was engaged . |