Example sentences of "[adj] of [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not afraid of calling myself a trader despite the fact it is now rather fashionable to describe the field you work in as a profession , ’ he says . |
| 2 | There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own . |
| 3 | Fearful of waking him a second time I waited . |
| 4 | But there was nothing she could do about it , short of giving him an explanation for the presence of Richard 's car outside her flat . |
| 5 | In the absence of marketing and production systems capable of producing what the consumer wants , both have had to engage in a ‘ hard sell ’ of that range of rather standardized services actually on offer . |
| 6 | The study of the purely material aspects of the longue durée , while fascinating in itself , and in some ways theoretically undemanding , is therefore only capable of telling us a little of what we want to know . |
| 7 | ‘ On top of that , Portsmouth have players like Clarke and Whittingham , who are always capable of getting you a goal . |
| 8 | What this means is that B should have raised the substance of his Convention claim under any domestic procedure which was capable of giving him a remedy , including any avenues of appeal , unless , according to Commission practice , there were some reason for excusing him from doing so . |
| 9 | ‘ We will make sure they go to families who are capable of giving them a good home , ’ said Mrs Henderson . |
| 10 | She gulped , barely capable of denying herself the inevitable . |
| 11 | Much as the regimes of Eastern Europe might welcome the support of their neighbours against Moscow — and hence a strengthening of such multilateral forums — they also view their neighbours as rival claimants to Moscow 's favour and are wary of giving them a greater voice in their own affairs . |