Example sentences of "[verb] [det] of " in BNC.

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1 She intended to slap Elisabeth on the back , but she was too late ; Elisabeth had made a dash for fresh air and Mitzi 's arm met that of Elisabeth 's chair .
2 At its greatest extent in the late eleventh century the Croatian kingdom reached down to the Neretva , where its frontier met that of medieval Serbia .
3 The description fits that of Fräulein Müller 's maid , the woman called Rachel . ’
4 A fundamental difficulty will always remain that of substantiating the complaint .
5 Now the other side of that was a plea which came from our switchboard supervisor , which I 'll come onto in a moment , where she said people will often think that of her telephonist , but in actual fact , it 's because they have n't got the right information from people at this end , so there is another side to that story .
6 A leading Western authority on the reincorporation of the nationalities into the Soviet Union opined that of all the minorities the Belorussians had the weakest urge to set themselves apart .
7 Scott had heard little of the Judge 's summing up or , indeed , of his comments after the life sentence had been passed .
8 He laid much of the blame on the growth of incomes outstripping that of consumer goods production , and attributed this primarily to mistakes in granting autonomy to state enterprises and in regulating the co-operative sector .
9 Finally , a dense catalogue section itemises each of the sculptures , complete with technical and bibliographical data , and includes the texts of crucial documents relating to the discovery and reproduction of the wax originals .
10 What arguments can be used to support each of these viewpoints ?
11 As early as 1950 Norbert Weiner had predicted that automation would result , within twenty-five years , in a depression that would make that of the 1930s seem like a pleasant joke , and in 1965 an Oxford University professor was quoted as saying at one of the OECD conferences :
12 What is there about the river terrace site in the drawing which met each of Chief Onlaf 's requirements ?
13 Sweeney 's encounter with ‘ the epileptic on the bed ’ parallels that of Nausicaa not with Odysseus but , more shockingly , with ‘ Polypheme ’ .
14 It is funded by a poll tax called the licence fee , although a ) the consumer is thus charged for services he/she does not require ; b ) the output often parallels that of TV and radio stations supported by advertising , and c ) its audience share is dropping .
15 Not so Muhammad Ali , who was without doubt the most socially important sporting figure after Johnson , and his career parallels that of his predecessor in many ways .
16 By some measures incomes are more equally distributed in Japan than in the West , and in ‘ employment income = = Japan 's degree of equality parallels that of some of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe ’ ( Boltho 1975 p.163 ) .
17 The employment profile of this group parallels that of the known sector but emphasises the fact that most had never worked or had only had a ‘ work experience ’ employment rather than lost their job because of heroin use .
18 The study of the visible marks used in writing from the point of view of their shape and size rather than their use in a particular system , which is covered by graphology ; this distinction parallels that of phonetics and phonology .
19 Martin leaned forward , his face touching that of the angel 's , as he raised his arm to strike .
20 Mr Reeves thinks little of such an idea and would rather see conventional pools built .
21 Its reputation as a seat of learning precedes that of Altdorf , although it has been overshadowed by the new capital over the last few centuries .
22 A few men at a time could have manipulated each of these stones into position , yet the collective force of the place feels not reduced accordingly .
23 I bring each of you on a guided tour of my past and you each remain tight-lipped .
24 The latter , in addition to recording the histories of Anglo-Saxon kings and churchmen , chronicled that of Glastonbury Abbey at the request of its monks , and several other monasteries , including Abingdon , Ely , Evesham , Peterborough and Ramsey , also had histories written at about this time .
25 Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University .
26 In the context of the mid-1970s and later , this meant that the DoE 's role increasingly became that of policing the spending of local governments .
27 Its feathers were turquoise and tipped with crimson , and towards sunset each day its beaked profile became that of Osiris , looking towards the Nile .
28 Kenya 's dilemma then became that of finding how to make foreigners welcome whilst forcing them to bring their own capital .
29 Harvard had dealt in 2 million shares by early afternoon , and the main problem became that of finding sellers to match buying orders from account traders , i.e. investors who were buying then selling the shares quickly in the hope of making an instant profit .
30 His voice sank and became that of a sleep-talker .
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