Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is somewhat of a simplification but this definition seems to describe ‘ what is left of society after we get rid of consideration of production and the state ’ . |
| 2 | We get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper . |
| 3 | SCOTVEC publishes a number of guides which are designed to help teachers , lecturers and other staff keep informed of developments in the National Certificate and to provide details of procedures for candidate enrolment and module registration . |
| 4 | You 've heard of love on the rebound , and falling for Fen could prove to be even more disastrous . |
| 5 | I c I , I tell this story cos I think it illustrates it very much , I expect most of you have er if you have n't been you 've heard of Dale in Derbyshire , and it 's this river with a , a lovely walk either side of the river , you walk along the side and then you come to the point where there 's a bend in the river and there 's these gorgeous great enormous stepping stones . |
| 6 | The other aspect I was gon na suggest is I mean , I 've said of stuff of the environment , Terry 's not if we take topics and we say right there 's a I mean , I 've got these boxes I will donate you know , like letter , you know lo lo boxes which can be labelled and all the information on environment goes in there so that perhaps , we made up , you know plastic , hard plastic . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've complained of pain in your side ? ’ |
| 8 | " You have heard of course of the famous monasteries of St Antony 's and St Paul 's in the eastern desert , " the priest said . |
| 9 | I have written of hypnotism with fear and trepidation . |
| 10 | In the present Chapter I have written of movements in theory in the present tense , whereas what is ideally required is something grammatically subtler — perhaps there are languages where it exists — like a special tense in which the present extends back to include actions or events that are already in the recent past . |
| 11 | Whatever can a person like Mary Ann , born in the early years of Victoria 's reign , have thought of England in the 1930s ? |
| 12 | The shipment was greeted with delight by the local community where people have died of starvation during the harsh highland winter . |
| 13 | Even more people have died of overdoses of aspirin than any other drug in the world . |
| 14 | Many 's have died of fright through his following on . |
| 15 | I have got of piles of papers between er still . |
| 16 | In this book we have spoken of life as a series of dialogues : between carbon and water ; between proteins and nucleic acids ; between competition and co-operation . |
| 17 | If the masks have remained of importance to you , you must certainly fashion it again . ’ |
| 18 | More than 20 schools have complained of interference in school life and criticism of long established customs . |
| 19 | Industrialists have complained of delays in getting applications for cash through the governments bureaucracy ( New Scientist , 7 April , p 22 ) . |
| 20 | Some Residents have complained of condensation in their windows . |
| 21 | In recent weeks stories ( strenuously denied ) have circulated of disagreements between the Fed 's chairman , Alan Greenspan , and the members of the committee that decides the Fed 's interest-rate policy : Mr Greenspan , it is said , is in more of a hurry to push rates down than are his colleagues . |