Example sentences of "[vb -s] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He forgot for a moment that it was pot and thought of nicotine , and then of cancer , cells in delirium , the inroads that living would make one day even on this varnished little icon of the exempt : the flab of tiredness , children , overwork , sitting up too late at night listening to people , indulging buoyant childish appetites as a device to sustain good nature against foreshadows of the senile self . |
| 2 | The notion that Freud has of the sexual instincts is not primarily about reproduction , however , but the generalized capacity of the human organism to find erotic satisfaction from any part of the body being caressed or stimulated , quite apart from the act of reproduction . |
| 3 | The author warms to his subject when he writes of the Peninsular War . |
| 4 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 5 | Landry writes of the whole poem : ‘ These verses are hardly sapphic in any technical sense . |
| 6 | Educated at Luddesdown before taking his degree at Oxford in 1738 , he was well acquainted with this area for he writes of the old Chapel at Upper Hailing . |
| 7 | Luke writes of the natural hesitancy of the Jewish believers over the unprecedented inclusion of Gentiles in the early church . |
| 8 | As Vernon ( 1984 : 8 ) writes of the French case , ‘ in actual practice , managers have found themselves dealing with half-a-dozen ministers or more , each with some capacity to reward or punish ’ . |
| 9 | Again , the Anglican V. A. Demant , arguing against the ordination of women , writes of the Christian religion : ‘ It is a Logos religion . |
| 10 | Then inversion of the expressions so obtained for the transforms of the dependent variables gives the viscoelastic solution for these variables . |
| 11 | Though one thinks of The Bartered Bride ( among other things ) as a cataract of marvellous vocal melody , it is rarely well performed in Britain , mainly because of our lack of really deep-chested lyric tenors of the type that can making singing Czechs such enthralling neighbours . |
| 12 | Qaddafi 's offers of union with Tunisia , Egypt , Syria and Morocco seem to indicate that he thinks of the Arab nation . |
| 13 | Everyone today thinks of the great stillwater monsters but the slightly smaller fish of very many rivers fight well , look splendid and can grow more than respectable in size . |
| 14 | Asked what he thinks of the pro-Labour stance , Blakenham adds cagily : ‘ I would n't like my own views to be taken out of context . ’ |
| 15 | With stupefaction one thinks of the wholesale slaughter of ducks and chickens , of pheasant and quail , the shiploads of Dover sole and the immense cargoes of foie gras from France , of caviare from Russia , the crates of champagne and the tons of truffles , which went to make up a single day 's entertainment in the great hotels of Europe . |
| 16 | When the Opéra revived Gluck 's Armide on 31 December 1799 , the composer C.H. Plantade ‘ read and reread ’ the score in preparation one thinks of the young Berlioz . |
| 17 | Whatever he thinks of the political make-up of this council , he owes a duty to the city and to his council . |
| 18 | One thinks of the familiar nostalgia for ‘ roots ’ which makes the children of assimilated , secularised and anglicised Jews rediscover comfort in the ancestral rituals , and sentimentalise the memories of the shtetl , which they have never known . |
| 19 | One thinks of the religious maniac who gripped one 's hand too firmly , hours earlier , on the Metropolitan Line and asked one , sincerely , to ‘ repent , ’ of the strange fellow who took umbrage at the book one was reading-The Boss ; J. Edgar Hoover And The Great American Inquisition-and accused one , for some unaccountable reason , of being no better than Norman Tebbit . |
| 20 | I lived in the book , as — in your others : I liked particularly Isabella and Evalie , and their gay early middle age — how comforting , too , to be with people who find ‘ the Change ’ such fun , when one thinks of the depressing nonsense that most people make out of it … . |
| 21 | As scientists and non-scientists alike you have a duty to find out what your elected representative thinks of the British attitude to the present Soviet proposals . |
| 22 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 23 | One thinks of the feminist cartoon of the three wise men arriving at Bethlehem , one saying to the others , with down-turned mouth : ‘ Its a girl ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Repatriation is evil , it smacks of the final solution . |
| 25 | ‘ Repatriation is evil , it smacks of the final solution . |
| 26 | It smacks of the Dickensian Society making pilgrimages to Rochester and Dover and Yarmouth ; or of ‘ poetry-lovers ’ haunting Grasmere and Coniston Water . |
| 27 | Erm , features er a female university lecturer who 's who says of the Victorian novel that it comes out right by marriage , er either marriage , legacy , or I ca n't remember what the other one was , there were three categories . |
| 28 | Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) . |
| 29 | ( Gabriella 's family would retain close links with Iran ; her brother Vittrio Emanuele represented Bell helicopters and other companies in the says of the great boom ) . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's a lot of method here ; it 's not as arbitrary as it seems , ’ David says of the heady mixture of pattern and texture . |