Example sentences of "i [vb base] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is not permissible to take into account what was said by the Financial Secretary , I remain of the same view . |
| 2 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 3 | The more I read of the early months of Nicholas MacMahon the more convinced I became that I too was rearing a prodigy . |
| 4 | It was , therefore , with sadness that I read of the British Olympic Association 's petty , bigoted decision to withhold recognition of the Paralympics team . |
| 5 | There is , I am glad to say , no direct allusion to the activities in which you engage in the Koran or in the Hadith of the prophet , although from what I know of the blessed Muhammad — may God rest him and grant him peace — it is not something of which he would approve . |
| 6 | Only I know of the old door hidden behind a crumbling shed . |
| 7 | I know of the hon. Gentleman 's interest in and concern about this ; they are shared by many others . |
| 8 | I know of the hon. Gentleman 's interest in the subject . |
| 9 | " From what I know of the previous accounts the Winter Marsh investment — or error of judgment — is one of the main causes of the group 's present financial difficulties . " |
| 10 | ‘ If ever I succeed ’ he writes ‘ in bringing our native kings back to life in my songs , and Arthur who waged wars even under the earth , or if I tell of the splendid heroes of the table rendered invincible by their bond of comradeship and , oh if inspiration would but come to me , if I smash the Saxon phalanxes beneath the impact of the British . ’ |
| 11 | But that 's one of the strengths I suppose of the social work qualification , that it is a generic one so |
| 12 | The bells have far more impact , and tempos are more extreme — to the benefit of the first two fast movements , but to the detriment I think of the following two slow ones ( which reminded me why I had not responded more positively first time round ) . |
| 13 | Well , with this mental disease I have , I think of the many other artists suffering mentally and I tell myself that this does not prevent one from exercising the painter 's profession as if nothing was amiss . |
| 14 | I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all . |
| 15 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 16 | I think of the vast amount of work I 've got planned for six weeks , makes me wish it was about ten . |
| 17 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 18 | I think of the eclectic women on baby blankets , bare beside picnic baskets and one another , pleased to be sated by nothing more than a book and a cigarette , a glass of cider and a chat or a piece of quiche , meatless , of course . |
| 19 | When I read Ash , I think of the younger Coleridge , reciting with gusto his epigram upon Donne : |
| 20 | I think of the three forms — poems , novels , short stories — and the short story stands mid-way between the other two . |
| 21 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 22 | I think of the visiting in a Scottish west coast crofting community described by Alasdair MacLean in Night Falls on Ardnamurchan . |
| 23 | The later history of the Daily Express suggests not : when the Express became hostile in the 1920s , Younger raged " when I think of the large sum of money this office has put into that gutter print it makes my blood boil " . |
| 24 | Whenever I come across it now , I think of the huge commercial gain awaiting the person who can provide it . |
| 25 | What I mind of the last war it was too busy then . |
| 26 | Well there seems to be a slight mismatch there , and perhaps some of this mismatch is also a part of , with the confusion I have of the various shifting policy of York , in term in terms of their requirement , there has been in the in the not too recent recent past York were saying they had an additional requirement beyond need which they termed their concealed requirement , although it might not be a concealed dwellings , as we might otherwise describe them , of one thousand six hundred , and that has progressively come down to seven hundred as presented at this enquiry . |
| 27 | These Golf tickets came in 1st and 2nd class as well , the example I have of the 1st class issue is No. 10 , hardly worth printing . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most lasting memory I have of the past year is a conversation with a small nine year old boy in Liberia in West Africa in August . |
| 29 | And er what I see of the modern teacher I 'm probably looking out with three different eyes , they do n't seem to come up to the same standing as those men were , at all because one thing that I I remember very vividly about them all , and they were family men , what I call family men . |