Example sentences of "[vb -s] of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This idea is echoed in a poem of Rabindranath Tagore ; while Jalaluddin Rumi goes beyond negation and writes of a rare beauty to be found in poverty . |
| 2 | Aurobindo writes of a supreme vision that the human being can aspire to reach . |
| 3 | John Holt ( one of the few authors whose books still seem able to appeal to students despite their inoculation ) writes of a common experience that mirrors mine with the Scottish educational psychologists . |
| 4 | Erm , some film producer sitting in London , thinks of a rural county , he 'll probably think of Shropshire , and I think this is typical example of how we can dribble away our scarce resources on a couple of thousand here , a couple of thousand there to other bodies , erm , I am , I 'm , I 'm against this proposal , we 'll keep our money for essential items . |
| 5 | This final show in the present series left viewers in no doubt about what he thinks of a certain film or its cast . |
| 6 | Then the gaffer thinks of a tactical plan for Elland Road and I 'm in from the start . |
| 7 | Just about everyone flicks through the racing pages and either studies the form , thinks of a lucky number or name , or just plunges in the pin . |
| 8 | George V was a dedicated Hawaiian music nut , and the rumour persists of a mint Style 4 lying somewhere in the bowels of Windsor Castle ! |
| 9 | Anything which smacks of an incarnational theology , he eschews . |
| 10 | This smacks of an orchestrated campaign by those who are opposed to his policies and would like to do him dirt . ’ |
| 11 | This is certainly not the language that one uses of a resident sage or recognized ‘ master ’ ; and it seems that in Paris at that time there was in fact no one who esteemed Pound in either of those ways . |
| 12 | The controller requires very little setting.up , as information the motor 's torque/speed characteristic can be acquired automatically he results of a single run to high speed using a known large inertial load . |
| 13 | And when she clutches at her side and complains of a slight ache you lean forward solicitously and ask , ‘ Are you all right , my darling ? ’ |
| 14 | By the time ‘ 85/'86 came around , Swans were untouchable and starting to show sings of a belated accessibility . |
| 15 | She disapproves of a great deal of Charles 's life , these days ; she thinks his ambitions misplaced , his goals suspect , his methods dangerous , his new political alignments deplorable : but she is loyal to Charles , to Charles himself , to the man that these manifestations in her view misrepresent . |
| 16 | Comrie observes of a Slavonic form marking high animacy that historically it ‘ was used only for male , adult , freeborn , healthy humans , i.e. not for women , children , slaves and cripples ’ . |
| 17 | Digital Equipment Corp watcher Terry Shannon hears of a microkernel-based implementation of OpenVMS . |
| 18 | If one takes the not inconsiderable trouble of following his analysis right the way through , it is hard not to be impressed by the picture he draws of an intricate network of equivalences and contrasts , corresponding to the different possible metrical divisions in the poem , and layered one upon the other in a kind of elaborate verbal counterpoint . |
| 19 | In September , the first report appears of a Junior competition . |
| 20 | The watering hole must also have been the only one in the area for all sides produced finds , and finds of a reasonable age . |
| 21 | Also in the constellation is M16 , the Eagle Nebula , which consists of a galactic cluster together with an emission nebula ; the guide star is Gamma Scuti ( 4.7 ) , and the Eagle Nebula is only just over the Scutum boundary into Serpens . |
| 22 | The new bar consists of a triple layer of chocolate ice cream inside a real milk chocolate coating . |
| 23 | The first , as its name implies , consists of a concrete strip under the load-bearing walls , whereas the raft foundation consists of a reinforced concrete slab under the entire structure . |
| 24 | The type of coherent eddy structure illustrated by Fig. 21.10 consists of a jet-like flow outwards from near the centre of the wake , producing a bulge on the interface between the turbulent and non-turbulent fluid . |
| 25 | It is a report and valuation for mortgage and insurance assessment which is usually done in half an hour and consists of a general look at the property to see that it actually exists as described , and is not in a state of collapse or major disrepair . |
| 26 | A surface pump consists of a cast body incorporating the motor , a suction tube with a strainer attached , and one or more delivery tubes according to the number of outlets being serviced . |
| 27 | The apparatus consists of a thermostatted chamber , saturated with solvent vapour at the temperature of measurement , and containing two differential matched thermistors which are capable of detecting temperature differences as low as 10 -4 K. Two syringes , one for solvent and one for solution , are used to apply a drop of solution to one thermistor , and a drop of solvent to the other . |
| 28 | Waterways , a watering system designed for them , consists of a perforated funnel inserted when making up the basket so that its mouth is just above the compost level . |
| 29 | The apparatus consists of a curved silicon crystal , which disperses the X-rays from one of the beams and deflects them through the sample in an environmental cell . |
| 30 | Stock consists of a Percula Clown and a Regal Tang . |