Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She listened carefully to the details of the Palestinian woman 's story , of how Jewish gangs had murdered a truckload of Arab villagers shortly before Um Al-Farajh was surrounded and of how the Jews then destroyed Mrs Zamzam 's home , the village and even the little Muslim cemetery beside it . |
| 2 | It should be well located and of sound and durable construction ; it should not have too many drawbacks , and these can be wide ranging — the most obvious examples are traffic noise ( particularly from motorways or airports ) , inconsiderate neighbours , shared access , pubs and car parks , and vandalism . |
| 3 | Are they well installed and of good quality ? |
| 4 | Over a 16-month period , 296 accidents were reported and of these , 285 were falls ( 3 were scalds , and 8 were abrasions caused by wheelchairs ) and the falls were most likely to occur among those who had suffered previous falls indoors , frequently because of impaired gait and balance , associated usually with a pathological condition . |
| 5 | Anyway I got to virtually the lat rung and of course I was smack up against the wall . |
| 6 | The figures are irregularly spaced and of varying heights , like those on the much earlier Argive fragment ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 7 | Is it because you believe it wrong to do so , or because you are afraid of being caught and of the consequences if you are ? |
| 8 | ( 2 ) The clerk of a licensing board shall , when lawfully required , make out a duplicate of any licence issued by him under this section and shall certify such duplicate to be a true copy of the original licence , and any such duplicate , duly certified as aforesaid , shall be sufficient evidence of the facts therein contained and of the terms of the original licence . |
| 9 | Inside it is richly decorated and of the typical open style dictated by the Jesuit Order . |
| 10 | How can nuclear weapons possibly be used except to destroy many lives — the lives of those on whom they are targeted and of those who fired the weapons in the first place ? |
| 11 | The vocational training in engineering and technological skills which young people receive in West Germany is more thorough , better organised and of a higher standard , the young people receive in this country . |
| 12 | The forced march through Siberia becomes increasingly desperate and hallucinatory ( in fact Ypsilanti is , from the outset , clear in his own mind that they will never find the emperor ) : when the regiment comes to cross the tajga in July 1918 , the forest takes on the appearance both of a paradise regained and of a place of horror , endless in extent , haunted by marauding tigers and ghostly tribes . |
| 13 | There are many , often very large areas , that are publicly owned and of great value to wildlife but these sites are not primarily managed for wildlife , although this is often an important consideration and some suffer considerable disturbance . |
| 14 | ‘ Pieter Huistra , Dale Gordon and Oleg Kuznetsov are n't included because of the three foreigner rule but we still have four non-Scots , so one will have to make way . |
| 15 | Children with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were included because of the current understanding , based on immunological studies , that acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma represent opposite ends of the same spectrum of disease . |
| 16 | Cisplatin was included because of experimental evidence that it further potentiates inhibition of thymidylate synthase , encouraging therapeutic results in pretreated breast and advanced head and neck cancer , and the recent demonstration of a good therapeutic index in metastatic colorectal cancer . |
| 17 | This was included because of the different sensitivity of the top and bottom of the optical RAM . |
| 18 | Four patients with Crohn 's disease who had previous operations ( three colectomies and one ileocolectomy ) , were included because of relapsing disease . |
| 19 | There is reference in paragraph two point two to the local ombudsman and I , I , I should perhaps add that during the year in question , there is one current matter er which er with the subject of the referral to the local ombudsman and that of course has not been included because of definition reasons in this report . |
| 20 | Productivity gains expected may be seriously constrained because of ingrained attitudes which cause human behaviour to change slower than the potential rendered by technology or even go in a direction directly opposed to the requirements of the system . |
| 21 | This practitioners ' society functioned until 1835 , when it was dissolved because of poor attendance by its members , while the College 's society continued to exist . |
| 22 | ( S. ) 521 ) This was a premeditated attack instituted because of a financial grievance which existed in the mind of the attacker . |
| 23 | Wilson had no time to miss him and his family or her other gentleman , who had joined their party , before the Brownings were back , similarly propelled by the fear that they might be trapped because of war . |
| 24 | In [ 13 ] this effect is accentuated because of the succession of stressed syllables ( " -creet door clicked shut " ) , and because of the accompanying clattering of consonants , especially the stops /k/ , /t ) , and /d ) . |
| 25 | In Bangkok , where he had served as governor , Chamlong was deeply respected because of what the Financial Times of May 8 described as " his uncompromising piety and idealism " . |
| 26 | Workers in Japan do tend to have fewer employers in the course of their career than in the West even though the comparison is somewhat distorted because of the concentration of lifetime guarantees in the large firm sector . |
| 27 | But a proposed clause in the new act to disallow for quota any film of low standard of production and entertainment value was dropped because of the difficulties involved in determining which films should be excluded . |
| 28 | Prosecutor Smither Thiara said : ‘ The charge has been dropped because of lack of evidence . ’ |
| 29 | With an almost unanimous vote at its 40th congress in Geneva , the party said that the word " communism " was being dropped because of all that had been done in its name . |
| 30 | Reuters Agency reported that Thilo Bode , manager of Greenpeace Germany , told reporters ‘ that campaigns would have to be dropped because of a dramatic fall in donations from the public . ’ |