Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will spare them the necessity of checking to find out why you did n't acknowledge the call . |
| 2 | The models he works with may be shot by all the big name photographers , but it is the pictures that they do with Steven Meisel that will make them the icons of our times . |
| 3 | But does this make them the future of rock ‘ n ’ roll ? |
| 4 | Should you want to escape reality for a while , £12 would buy you the skills of a trained , uniformed chauffeur for an hour . |
| 5 | Erm s so you 've now got the situation in modern times where people probably go out to work all day , come home at the end and do n't even know who the names of the people living next door to them . |
| 6 | They had no idea that his old world manners and charm would win him the love of the most eligible divorcee in the land , the Princess Royal , Princess Anne . |
| 7 | You could buy him the Crown of Command as one of his magic items , which at 50 points still makes him marginally cheaper than an Orc or Black Orc Warlord . |
| 8 | The researcher can then produce a brief for the creative team which should include what the status of the product is seen to be , who their consumers are , what the advertising is supposed to be doing and a whole host of other basic data . |
| 9 | Regular sums of hard currency were put at his disposal so that he or his aides could buy whatever the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii wished . |
| 10 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 11 | I do n't quite know what the idea of the visit was , but the French Canadians had a similar one — anyway , everyone sold gold bricks to one another like mad . |
| 12 | The judge said that he did n't know what the odds of such an event were , but it was bad luck for the man and good luck for justice . |
| 13 | The very freedom from mass accountability which allows it to do so also makes it difficult for leaders to know what society is thinking : without mechanisms for making needs known and understood , Polish and Soviet leaders simply can not know what the consequences of a rise in food prices or of other policy shifts will be . |
| 14 | I do n't know what the parents of some of my students are going to think when I 'm showing them how to do G C S E maths on the computer instead of the rather . |
| 15 | I , I do n't know what the opposite of enoxious is |
| 16 | And they do n't really know what the effects of what they 've drunk is going to be . |
| 17 | The first one on our list tonight , ah , one seven nine , is for the young ladies that we 've just seen , with a production of their book , A Dog Called Mock , and I think that we er , talked about this , and asked them to come in , because we wanted to know the substance , and whether this thing was actually taking place , and what was , I , I , I do n't know what the rest of you feel , I think they made a fine presentation , and it 's obviously something which is going ahead , and I hope that some of you feel , we should reward initiative . |
| 18 | I do n't know what the rest of you feel . |
| 19 | Well the problem as I see it is that you do n't know what the variety of this peach is , if it was bought out of greenhouse variety and is reasonably tender then I do n't think whatever you do with it in Preston it 's going to make any difference . |
| 20 | Do you know what the equivalent of is today ? |
| 21 | Street , I do n't know what the name of the road is . |
| 22 | That shop , I do n't know what the name of that shop is , but I 've seen them in the window lately |
| 23 | I do not know what the Secretary of State is doing now to an article . |
| 24 | All the more important that you should choose wisely and know what the cost of any anticipated repairs will be . |
| 25 | We do n't know what the Department of Transport have done because they refuse to tell us . |
| 26 | Now do you know what the sound of an axe is like ? |
| 27 | I do n't know what the cause of this tension was . |
| 28 | Erm and then of course there would be a I do n't know what the rates of interest are or the payback period but the erm of course the longer the payback period the more it costs you in the end so . |
| 29 | Do you know what the term of that contract is ? |
| 30 | But by tomorrow evening , I think , I shall know what the quality of life is — shall perhaps even have discovered how it killed Summerchild . |