Example sentences of "[adj] of [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She presented many Phosphorus symptoms including the peculiar of desiring cold milk which she remembered craving during her childhood asthma . |
| 2 | Mother said that Aunt Bessie was fond of telling one story about Thomas Isaac , recalling the occasion when he was asked to say grace before breakfast one morning and steadfastly refused although commanded several times by his father . |
| 3 | Critics of legal drafting often complain that lawyers are fond of using legal jargon . |
| 4 | Baxter , who was stationed in Tanganyika Masailand in the early 1930s , was fond of using public school metaphors to describe the activities of the moran . |
| 5 | Commentators , both in Poland and abroad , are fond of repeating that unemployment went ‘ from zero to 1.2m ’ in the past year : up to about 7% of the labour force . |
| 6 | Poets of a certain generation are notoriously fond of writing tearful tributes to one another in memory of their rollicking days in Soho in the Forties , or was it the Fifties ? |
| 7 | Ministers are fond of criticising local government because many local authorities are less than 100 per cent . |
| 8 | Dalton was fond of contrasting these numbers with the half million total troops thought likely to be necessary in peacetime by the war-time Coalition Government . |
| 9 | He has the fast talking sales pitch and easy familiarity common to people of his profession , coupled with a calmer side , fond of quoting wise sayings from his native India and disdainful of marketing favourites like ‘ adding value ’ with fancy packaging or ‘ creating new markets . ’ |
| 10 | He used to be fond of quoting this rhyme : There is so much bad in the best of us And so much good in the worst of us , That it ill becomes the rest of us , To think evil of any one of us . |
| 11 | Dorothy Heathcote is very fond of employing this structure . |
| 12 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 13 | Jeffrey Archer is fond of hurling alarming statistics at you . |
| 14 | She was fond of making vague comments to Charity about everything being just fine , and were n't things progressing well , and everything would turn out exactly right . |
| 15 | This accusation prompted the resignation on Aug. 30 of acting Interior Minister Stoyan Stoyanov , who had been appointed following the resignation on July 27 of Atanas Semerdzhiev [ see p. 37619 ] . |
| 16 | The vote ended the practice by the military regime of 1973-1990 of appointing local officials centrally and opened the way to the holding of direct elections for municipal councils and mayors by the end of June 1992 . |
| 17 | It is not the general property or universal of weighing two pounds , whatever it is , that is flattening the napkin . |
| 18 | No one should be afraid of reporting any incident that occurs . |
| 19 | And finally , there is plenty of evidence to indicate that the Big Six and other audit firms are not afraid of assuming new responsibilities . |
| 20 | Artemis was n't afraid of riding tall horses , only anxious in case she might still be too short in the leg to get the best out of them . |
| 21 | For Betts the explanation was simple , for the British were ‘ afraid to depart from massive but stultifying film values ’ which the Americans had already built up , and the situation was one in which ‘ every film producer in the world is mortally afraid of losing that Hollywood complexion , ourselves most of all ’ . |
| 22 | He had a keen regard for the classical elements of production — Land , Labour and Capital — and was never afraid of adopting new techniques or of changing his farming policy to achieve the most efficient and profitable blend of these elements . |
| 23 | who was at Cambuslang at that time , commented " He seems hurt at being asked to preach as a candidate and I sympathize with him in this , as I think candidating and preaching contests are the most objectional things conceivable , and also the least satisfactory way possible of getting good ministers as a rule good men who have done their work well will not preach as candidates for myself I never in my life either preached as a candidate , offered for a parish or got a certificate . " |
| 24 | The basic procedure is to provide the individual with as much information , and as many methods , as possible of handling stressful situations and reactions to them . |
| 25 | Despite its reputation for fine engineering , Rolls-Royce has never been shy of using outside technology and components , inevitable now for a company of its small size . |
| 26 | 133 animals were taken away , and both farmers , Margaret Hughes and Alvery George , face 14 charges each of causing unnecessary suffering . |
| 27 | After a two-week trial at Winchester Crown Court , 44-year-old Gary Richman from Swindon was found guilty of smuggling 246 kilogrammes of cannabis resin into Britain . |
| 28 | A Basel court on March 17 , 1989 , found a computer specialist guilty of passing economic information to the Soviet Union and sentenced him to 45 days in prison . |
| 29 | In addition to the conviction of Hiss , 1950 brought the trial in Britain of the former Los Alamos scientist , Klaus Fuchs , found guilty of passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | 6–8–1880 Archibald Currie etc appeared and " mutually acknowledged that they had been guilty of quarrelling some time ago in a way scandalous to religion in the community where they reside . |