Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early recognition as I say of mental illness in an employee and early treatment is better for both the company and the employee . |
| 2 | The Milwukee Project broke into the national news , when S. P. Strickland implied , in the July 197 I issue of American Education , that the IQs of children in Heber 's study had been raised by 33 points . |
| 3 | I do believe that one of the best ways we 're going to benefit from the new circumstances I hope of economic stability of low inflation and low taxation , will be to ensure that the provision of capital is made by the principle institutions , namely the banks and the investing institutions . |
| 4 | It is not so much the face as the figure and deportment I consider of paramount concern . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a girl I know of called Bella something , ’ said Mary . |
| 6 | I know of numerous lady golfers who would be delighted to do this , indeed who would be happy to pay exactly the same as the full male members , provided , of course , that they had equal rights on all days of the year . |
| 7 | ‘ Well then , I 'll take it , ’ he said , ‘ because it 's all I have to prove that I come of good family . |
| 8 | I am often asked whether I approve of cosmetic surgery — and I do not . |
| 9 | ‘ You reek of cheap whisky . |
| 10 | IF you think of Vermont and music you think of White Christmas . |
| 11 | The higher your HDL level the less chance you have of developing heart disease . |
| 12 | Forget all the images you have of little plastic boxes and bored housewives . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is , perhaps it is not ; our ignorance shows that what we mean when we speak of personal identity is continuity of consciousness , not of substance . |
| 14 | When we speak of strong attachment or attraction between two people we are in the realms of love , the basis on which many people in our culture choose or are drawn towards their marriage partner . |
| 15 | … it is what we imply when we speak of Primitive Culture . |
| 16 | From what we know of modern witchcraft practices , we can speculate that the stone circles were used for dancing and that this was a method of raising power ( similar to the ‘ cone of power ’ that witches use today ) which could then be stored in the stones to be used when required . |
| 17 | The purpose is to compare what we know of spoken language interpreting and its effectiveness with developing awareness of the needs of deaf and hearing people in using BSL . |
| 18 | The story of Godric , and all that we know of medieval commerce and transport , suggests that a merchant needed to enjoy adventure and risk for its own sake . |
| 19 | In virtually equating doubt and unbelief they make doubt the opposite of faith in a way that is true neither to the Bible nor to what we know of human knowledge . |
| 20 | The same principle obtains if a man permits his personal belief to derange dramatically the laws of probability and what we know of human nature . |
| 21 | As for cost , even when we talk of technological development being , in health care , at the service of all who may need it , we realize that , in fact , its supply is limited , and the limitation is expressed usually in terms of cost . |
| 22 | Which is what we mean when we talk of true harmony . |
| 23 | ‘ Personal development is , we believe of key importance to ensure that motivation is always running at a high level . |
| 24 | The Times , however , begged to differ : ‘ Knowing what we do of human nature , and of the licence claimed by young gentlemen in past times , we are inclined to take a somewhat less gloomy view of it . ’ |
| 25 | I think that one of the great problems , and I 've made a number of studies of individual Puritans in the seventeenth century , is that we talk about Puritanism and we think of Victorian Nonconformity . |
| 26 | If we think of linguistic analysis as usually being linked to the sentence as the maximum unit of grammar , then the study of discourse attempts to look at the larger contexts in which sentences occur . |
| 27 | This section , known as " the book of the covenant " , is the oldest record we have of Jewish law . |
| 28 | They smell of dry dampness , not a readily marketable perfume in the salons of Europe , but an affirming odour , not of sanctity , nor of history — more of the earth , of the quarries from which they were hewn , to be shaped by men who could cut stone as other monks cut the cloth for their grey robes . |
| 29 | They talk of significant investment in a company that would start life with over 500 employees . |
| 30 | In this exclusive extract , they talk of sexual obsession and the unconventional use of a photocopier |