Example sentences of "[to-vb] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The death certificates will not read — ‘ victim of an industrial dispute ’ or ‘ death due to neglect of the National Health Service ’ . |
| 2 | However , he would have been shocked to know of the pagan pleasure in nature and pretty womanhood experienced by Angel . |
| 3 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 4 | Goals from Jimmy Quinn and Philip Gray — his first for the international team — were enough to see of the Baltic challenge although Denmark 's victory over Albania earlier in the day put paid to our last fading hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals in America . |
| 5 | ‘ The petition read , ‘ It is incumbent upon the council to prevent the crown falling to issue of the pretended wedlock between his late Majesty and the lady Elizabeth Woodville , made without the consent of the lords of the land , and by the sorcery of the said Elizabeth and her mother Jacquetta — as the voice is throughout the land — privily and secretly in a chamber , without proclamation by banns according to the laudable custom of the English church ; the said King Edward being married and troth-plight a long time before to one , Eleanor Butler , daughter to the old Earl of Shrewsbury ’ . ’ |
| 6 | He decided to kill of the beloved character while still at the height of his popularity . |
| 7 | The closer the Gnostics stood to orthodoxy , the more likely they were to wish to infiltrate the catholic community ; this was especially the case among the Manichees , but they could be detected by their refusal to drink of the eucharistic cup ( since they regarded wine as an invention of the devil ) and to make the sign of the cross ( since to them the suffering of Jesus was no actual event but a symbol for the universal condition of the human race ) . |
| 8 | It was not necessary , however , to travel to one of these fashionable watering places to partake of the health-giving beverage , and ‘ taking the waters ’ at a local spring or spa ( spaw to many Northeners ) became very popular during the last century . |
| 9 | The colonists in North America were encouraged to partake of the new refreshment but were taxed on tea and other imports from 1765 onwards , which led to a trade in tea smuggling from Holland to avoid the taxes . |
| 10 | The Emperor 's Tarot was supposed to partake of the very spirit of the Master of Mankind , forever on overwatch throughout the warp . |
| 11 | These precedents encouraged lawyers to talk of the immemorial law of the Salian Franks under which women were excluded from the succession . |
| 12 | He is wont to talk of the new vision that Lorca 's poetry gave to him ; ‘ here is my landscape , ’ he exclaimed repeatedly . |
| 13 | How does this understanding of God 's transcendence clarify what it means to talk of the divine immanence or presence ? |
| 14 | In these circumstances to talk of the inner city may be to accept a vocabulary which we might prefer not to endorse but it might also use the only language in which we can be heard . |
| 15 | We need to talk of the relative autonomy of cultural practices , and it is helpful to introduce Gramsci 's insight that the relationship between actual culture , consciousness , ideas , experience , on the one hand , and economically determined factors such as class position , on the other , is always problematical , incomplete and the object of ideological work and struggle . |
| 16 | Now that it is fashionable to talk of the imminent collapse of civilization , their day has come on Wall Street ’ ( 16 February 1974 ) . |
| 17 | ( Readers will be saddened to hear of the recent death of Lord Dulverton . ) |
| 18 | Certainly the French farmers were very interested to hear of the Agricultural Training Board and indicated a wish for more local practical training . |
| 19 | The men said they were shocked to hear of the cold-blooded murder of workmen in the quiet Co Derry village . |
| 20 | COLLEAGUES of were shocked to hear of the senior executive 's sudden death on February 17 at the age of 53 . |
| 21 | Relapse can be seen in changes of mood before it leads back to use of the addictive substance or behaviour . |
| 22 | With great difficulty , particularly in the " Dry Drunk " phase before return to use of the addictive substance or behaviour . |
| 23 | There would also be economic implications to reform of the mental-health system . |
| 24 | Although the above description of experimental findings would suggest that exposure of collagen and lipid peroxides due to rupture of the atheromatous plaque could be of importance in thrombogenesis , together with enhanced platelet thromboxane A 2 formation and diminished vessel wall prostacyclin formation , Born has questioned this series of events ( Born , 1983 ) . |
| 25 | I was distressed to read of the imminent closing of Punch . |
| 26 | After speaking in Strasbourg as president of the Council of Europe , Mr Hurd addressed the council in a national capacity , and said : ‘ I remain concerned at the continuing failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate the incitement to murder of the British subject , Mr Salman Rushdie , and the bounty offered in that respect by all Iranian organisations . |
| 27 | There are also seven major research projects , four on aspects of rural land use , from private woodlands and the rural landscape in general to control of the perceived over-production of arable crops , two on the evaluation of energy supply and conservation options and one on the management of hazardous , non-nuclear , chemical wastes . |
| 28 | The Council appoints an Executive Director to control of the day-to-day running of the Society . |
| 29 | A spokeswoman for Marks & Spencer said : ‘ We are concerned to learn of the poor perception people have of us but we are carrying out a number of ongoing initiatives to improve the situation . ’ |
| 30 | A spokeswoman for Marks & Spencer said : ‘ We are concerned to learn of the poor perception people have of us but we are carrying out a number of ongoing initiatives to improve the situation . ’ |