Example sentences of "[adj] of [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a word of warning : be careful of relying on a person too far away from yourself . |
| 2 | There was a certain story my father was fond of repeating over the years . |
| 3 | Writers about midlife are fond of referring to the empty nest syndrome , much to the annoyance of feminists , who deplore the notion that women need children to bolster their sense of self-worth . |
| 4 | I would suggest ‘ He was a great realist ’ or perhaps ‘ He was never afraid of looking like a prat ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not that I 'm afraid of living in a strange place , Ruth . |
| 7 | Pacepa says that Ceauşescu was afraid of poisoning after the CIA 's attempt to murder Fidel Castro by impregnating his clothes with potions to make his beard fall out , and so he ordered the Securitate department which provided all his personal needs free of charge to arrange for the manufacture of a new set of clothes for every day of his life . |
| 8 | But it is absurd to be unduly afraid of borrowing by the state . |
| 9 | 'Are you afraid of going into the glory of our Lord Hapexamendios ? ’ |
| 10 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |
| 11 | If you are afraid of talking to a crowd , remember that this is not a crowd of strangers , but a crowd of friends . |
| 12 | Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’ |
| 13 | Let us reconsider the example of the person who is afraid of shopping in the supermarket ( see Figure 4.8 ) . |
| 14 | Wanting to be sick and afraid of choking under the gag . |
| 15 | We seem somehow , to be shy of shouting from the rooftops of our many , many achievements over the years , here in the United Kingdom and overseas . |
| 16 | They found Smyth guilty of breaking into a house at Athelstane Road , also on October 3 last year , and a breach of the Bail Act . |
| 17 | I tend to be guilty of deviating from the subject matter , this being tantamount to stealing the thunder from the individual under scrutiny . |
| 18 | He claimed all countries have been guilty of tampering with the ball and conceded : ‘ We do n't know what we are going to do , and the countries do n't know the answer . |
| 19 | Let's all not get guilty of over-reacting to an awful result . |
| 20 | In Albert v. Lavin it was assumed that the defendant was guilty of assaulting in the execution of his duty an off-duty policeman who was seeking to prevent a breach of the peace . |
| 21 | So , in the example in the panel , the present value cost of leasing is £113 less than that of buying with a loan ( £7,653 — £7,540 ) . |
| 22 | And it is absurd to think that the painters of the Section d'Or and others , scattered through the Salon d'Automne , share any concern other than that of reacting against the sloppiness of Impressionism . |
| 23 | There were genuine reasons for doubting its accuracy — the issues of joint cost allocation were ( and remain ) problematical — hut the senior management response to it ( they insisted it be withdrawn even from internal circulation ) betrayed a greater devotion to the cause of suppressing criticism than it did to that of searching for the truth . |
| 24 | There are few joys in life to compare with that of stepping on the scales and discovering that you weigh measurably less this week than you did last . |
| 25 | Their function is simply that of dealing with the business aspects of terrace life and of negotiating with the outside world . |
| 26 | As it is , some aspects of the field , notably that of dealing with the proceeds of crime , have proved to be technically difficult for the legislator and the courts alike . |
| 27 | An interesting development advocated by the authors is that of moving towards a multidisciplinary approach , whereby other health-care professionals take responsibility for specific problems but all carers have access to the objectives involved . |
| 28 | At the time of King William 's visit in 1861 , Prussian policy had been simply that of holding to the treaties of 1815 with no thought of altering the status quo . |
| 29 | Lawyer C was new to the town and aware of both this problem and that of breaking into an established market . |
| 30 | The ‘ conjuring trick ’ — which , of course , can not come off — is that of investing in a process those features of the use of an expression which constitute its grammar . |