Example sentences of "of [adv] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the 40% match-fee fine placed upon Pakistan for their slow over rate , this is little more than half of technically should have been applied , but Mr Hunte made certain allowances . |
| 2 | First , a star with a mass of roughly will end its cycle of thermonuclear burning with an iron core which is massive enough to collapse under its own gravitational self-attraction . |
| 3 | Some feedback now Jeff said okay he 's done this course before and he 's looking for feedback to see the level of his competence at this point , but everybody er I 'm sure you will agree by the end of tomorrow will have got feedback . |
| 4 | The grandson of today may have been the beloved teacher of centuries ago . |
| 5 | While the friend of today may become the foe of tomorrow and the friend of the day after that , there is another fundamental category opposition which lumps friends and foes together as " people like us " in contrast to strangers who are " people not like us " ; indeed they are not really people at all ! |
| 6 | Without the miniaturization that they bring , the powerful personal computer of today would have remained an impossibility . |
| 7 | The airlines of today would find it difficult to compete with the luxury of meal service on Luft Hansa in 1928 . |
| 8 | I expect young people of today would rate the fair rides of the early 1920 's quite tame affairs . |
| 9 | ‘ We do n't know yet whether the young players of today will have the same problems , ’ adds Sortland , who , despite the results , will not be advising children against taking up football . |
| 10 | It is always hoped that the point-to-pointers of today will become the National Hunt stars of tomorrow , but young horses will learn nothing if they are subjected to a bumping match every time they run . |
| 11 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 12 | Clearly the average ferreter of today could make no impression worth mentioning in that type of situation . |
| 13 | NOBODY who has seen the news on television of late can have remained unmoved by the harrowing pictures of the starvation that is afflicting parts of Africa , especially Ethiopia . |
| 14 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 15 | It 's a compromise between the straight-ahead disco that guarantees a toehold in the charts — the retread of Never Can Say Goodbye is a rather cheap cash-in on the success of Do n't Leave Me This Way — and the more varied explorations where their hearts probably lie . |