Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a lot of people who know of a colleague who appeared to be the last person to go under — ‘ Jim always seemed such a jolly , easygoing chap ’ — until his absence one day was followed by news of his nervous breakdown , or heart attack , or suicide . |
| 2 | There are those whose impression of our faith is of a series of rules which all begin ‘ You must not … ‘ , and who think of a Christian with something to celebrate as a contradiction . |
| 3 | She belonged to that great majority of intelligent human beings who think of a book as something with which to beguile the hours of solitude of an evening . |
| 4 | Clearly mindful of the likelihood of a US military intervention against Castro ( on 10 April 1959 Izvestiia published an article entitled ‘ Those who dream of a repetition of Guaternala ’ ) , the Soviet Union took care throughout 1959 not to take any step which might jeopardise its negotiations with the United States . |
| 5 | Those who dream of a holiday on the Moon will be disappointed by the calculations of the ratios for rocket weight to transported load . |