Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many defendants have been fined of more than a thousand pounds , simnplky because they earned reasonable salries . |
| 2 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 3 | A number of firms may also have had problems in achieving the synergies expected of newly formed structures . |
| 4 | The first personal computer program which met the standards expected of today 's products actually ran on the IBM PC and was called DO-IT , but that 's another story . |
| 5 | I think I 'm sort of rather reminded of when somebody said that Ronald Regan was going to stand for erm President . |
| 6 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 7 | so it is salutary to be reminded of just how good a composer he could be , how inventive , how much sheer skill he had . |
| 8 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 9 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 10 | In 1922 the English critic James Agate was reminded of how totally uneducated the average cinema audience was by the fact that a rendering of Mendelssohn 's violin concerto between films received very full attention . |
| 11 | As they had passed by Du Cane Road , where the entrance to Wormwood Scrubs prison was , she had been reminded of how many times she had been there , visiting either her husband or one of the older boys . |
| 12 | The weekly ritual slaughter was too gory a ceremony for her to watch , though every time it took place she was reminded of how it always fascinated her daughters when they were children . |
| 13 | One is reminded of how those huddled in the dock at Nuremberg pointed towards the bunker . |
| 14 | ( Readers might be reminded of Now Try This — 2 , Chapter 2 ) . |
| 15 | It 's come of again . |
| 16 | The panel of forecasters polled by The Economist each month currently has an average forecast of only 0.8% growth in Japan . |
| 17 | The maps have been a big hit with government departments and firms with large vehicle fleets , a market once considered of only peripheral interest by Mr Honey . |
| 18 | It is probably fair to say that full-time tribunal chairmen are considered of roughly equal status to circuit judges , with Presidents , regional chairmen and lawyer members of appellate tribunals roughly equal to High Court judges . |
| 19 | ( 13 ) If notice of the court-ordered meeting has to be given by advertisement then the explanatory statement must be set out in full in the advertisement or , as is more likely , notice must be given of where members can obtain a copy free of charge ( CA 1985 , s426(3) and ( 5 ) ) . |
| 20 | For example , in the course of the only natural conversation that occurred on the topic of rape , the following account was given of how rape is evaluated : |
| 21 | This same point was made earlier during the discussion of general applications , and examples were given of how it can assist with such things as planning , exploring relationships , putting particular aspects of an organisation into context , etc ; in other words , using it as a basis for creative thinking and logical deduction . |
| 22 | Can some account be given of how it does so which does not commit us to the theory that there are two distinct elements in visual perception , something two-dimensional , picture-like , on the one hand , and a judgement , on the other ? |
| 23 | At the end of the instruction manual , details are given of how to form the angles for five , six , eight and 12-sided frames , useful for mirror or picture framers who wish to experiment . |
| 24 | It was just on a minute on page seventy-nine , I think we want to get the support of local M Ps , one a has I think , has been just indicated , is contradictory , it might be better to say , ‘ although the document indicated that local authorities would be expected to undertake extra , an extra , or extra duties , the resources needed are , no indication was given of how there would be extra resources , or something like that , you see it 's contradictory at the moment , it says there 's no indication of the role , and then says that they would need resources , and actually if you look through the document , you will see from time-to-time it is indicated what local authorities are expected to do , for instance recycling of litter and the lot , and I think that that might be actually picked up by M P's and say , ‘ Well , what actually have you , do you mean to say ’ , well , what we 're really saying , are we not , that here is an indication of things that we 're expected to do , but as usual , of course , the government has n't indicated what erm where the resources were coming from . |
| 25 | The Directive contains several references to ‘ the conservation of the countryside ’ although nowhere is any definition given of precisely what was meant by this term . |
| 26 | A much fuller theory has been developed of how motions of this type can be generated through the action of the mean shear on initially isotropic fluctuations , but the details are not apparent without the mathematical analysis . |
| 27 | Reports were received of well attended events held in India , Sri Lanka , Ghana and Papua New Guinea . |
| 28 | Solicitors ' Practice Rule 10 deals with commission received by solicitors in the following terms : ( 1 ) a solicitor shall account to his client for any commission received of more than £10 unless , having disclosed to the client the amount of the commission or , if the amount can not be ascertained , the basis of calculation of the commission , he has the client 's agreement to retain it . |
| 29 | That a study be undertaken of how business managers perceive their effectiveness to be affected by access to , and use of , information of different kinds . |
| 30 | There are also anomalous areas of volcanism on , or near , mid-oceanic ridges ; Iceland , for instance , is formed of unusually thick oceanic crust produced by very high localized rates of volcanic activity on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . |