Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] of [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present in the UK , this consists of all men between the ages of sixteen and sixty-five and all women between the ages of sixteen and sixty who are capable of working . |
| 2 | It is now wrong to think of such areas as having many individual sites , because , as with the uplands , what we are seeing and recording are complete landscapes . |
| 3 | , I mean it 's a lot easier to think of these things than it is for the other one , er , you would say , that was actually lazy bastard , but we did n't want to offend anybody , er , useless git , |
| 4 | Still , it is essential to the story that such thoughts be entertained , as indeed Gandalf also says to Pippin : ‘ If you will meddle in the affairs of Wizards , you must be prepared to think of such things ’ ( 11 , 199 ) . |
| 5 | The cheapest to deliver of these bonds is the bond that gives the greatest implied repo rate to the short from a cash-and-carry ( or cost-of-carry ) transaction , i.e. a strategy of buying the bond ( with borrowed funds ) in the cash market and selling it into the futures market . |
| 6 | Single girls of good family were not supposed to know of such things , but Sally-Anne , if not an active suffragette , knew about Miss Annie Besant , and those who said that women should not be tied to endless childbearing and that there were practical ways of avoiding it . |
| 7 | It is hard to think of many instances where Russia has been able to outsmart the West politically as the result of its intelligence operations . |
| 8 | Thus there are two different intensional relations behind the two different versions of the second sentence in ( 21 ) , even though it is hard to think of any circumstances whatever ( other than metalinguistic ones ) in which they could have different truth values : ( 22 ) ( 23 ) ( We use as the symbol for assignment of equation . ) |
| 9 | Answering the first part involves classifying characters into types , so it is useful to think of all types which might be relevant in answering the question — male versus female , old versus young , poor versus rich , and as many more as you can think of . |
| 10 | It is , however , useful to think of these phases as separate in principle . |
| 11 | Although procedures do exist that will explicitly send data directly to , for example , the serial port , it is more logical to think of these devices as " files " and use the standard file I/0 interface . |
| 12 | But there was Dottie and James and Addy and I 'd be sure to think of some others . |
| 13 | So far as the privately rented sector was concerned , the government 's proposals were for the automatic decontrol of all dwellings with a rateable value over £40 in London and over £30 in the rest of England and Wales . |
| 14 | It is better to speak of such things than keep them hidden . ’ |
| 15 | Yet Leapor is able to write of these things with good humour and to maintain a quiet hope . |
| 16 | The response was one of total bemusement , with the director concerned unable to conceive of any circumstances in which linguistic talent might have any bearing on sales prospects or the acquiring of contracts . |
| 17 | She was understandably reluctant to talk of all changes , especially in the programming of exhibitions , ‘ it is against my better judgement to put anything to print at this stage . |
| 18 | I hope you will not mind me having circulated this letter to Wales four MEPs , since I am sure they will be concerned to hear of these difficulties . |
| 19 | Pending discovery and/or the administration of interrogatories the best particulars the plaintiff is able to give of such transactions is that the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in each and every transaction of which the following payments and each of them represent the proceeds of such transactions namely : … |
| 20 | Francis might have more to tell of these towns — of their poor and their beggars — whom he tried to raise from the dull misery of want to accept and bless their lot by enjoying poverty and simplicity as great as theirs . |
| 21 | It would be absurd to approve of such events taking place on grey , sunless days in dark , depressing places . |
| 22 | I would be distressed to hear of any ladies reading it , let alone a girl of your tender years and experience . |
| 23 | After 1850 it is difficult to think of any kings who were great patrons of the arts , except mad ones like Ludwig II of Bavaria ( 1864–86 ) , any noble magnates who were great collectors of art , except eccentrics . |
| 24 | He is right to warn of such dangers , but they are more likely where leading indicators are set in some general , non-rigorous way without carefully developing a model of what is needed , and by when , to improve or maintain each SBU 's competitive strengths . |
| 25 | Ergonomics is sometimes confused by questions such as , who is the ergonomist servicing — the employer or the worker ? or , to whom is he ultimately responsible — the state , the employer , the producer or the consumer ? fortunately it is possible to dispose of these issues without taking up any particular political position . |
| 26 | The remaining third consisted of some jokes from Zach , a few sentences about animals from George and a patriotic essay from Ginnie about how collecting salvage was helping to win the war . |
| 27 | The third consists of those mechanisms which channel pupils into a sexual division of labour : that boys are persuaded to take science and technology subjects and girls to take the arts . |