Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another bonus is that it leaves your hair smelling of mint rather than yukky ammonia ! |
| 2 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 3 | And what does the Duchess think of Johnny this morning ? |
| 4 | Psychological models derived from the observation of groups consisting of students can no longer be taken as representing general truths . |
| 5 | In biology , for example , modules with practical classes are usually assessed 75/25 , the coursework component consisting of laboratory reports . |
| 6 | Instead I found the field stripped of strawberries |
| 7 | This usually comprises coursework on the basis of a formal curriculum consisting of lectures and practical work . |
| 8 | Evelyn Tubb 's delivery of ( track 3 ) , accompanied by three viols , and later of ( track 18 ) is marked by her attention to textual nuance , at times singing of love as if merely a narrator , and at others with the passion of somebody overtaken by emotion . |
| 9 | If the Situationist project is flawed , as I believe it is , it is not because antecedent theories of libertarians , Marxists and Council Communists are ignored by them , but rather because they lacked the will to build on this tradition a systematic utopianism consisting of critique and plausible projections into the future . |
| 10 | Each multi-faceted eye has a central horizontal strip consisting of rhabdoms sensitive to both colour and polarisation . |
| 11 | We shall also be introducing later ( Section 19.5 ) the spectrum functions which are the Fourier transforms of correlation functions . |
| 12 | There was nothing of course , only a & int smell compounded of dust and dry mould . |
| 13 | The familiar frowsty smell compounded of soot and chicken meal met her . |
| 14 | He puts forward an ethic consisting of habits of mind and of behaviour to which he thinks one will inevitably move to the extent that one has rational insight into the human situation and is under the control of that rational part of one 's nature which gives one unity as a personality . |
| 15 | So far only Britain 's two new ‘ super-divisions ’ , based in Germany and England , plus one Dutch-commanded multi-national airmobile division consisting of German , British , Dutch and Belgian troops , along with a German division and an American division are coherent forces based in the central region . |
| 16 | But they get their money stopped of course . |
| 17 | The whole situation regarding the over-valuation of estates consisting of freehold and agricultural property by district valuers has now been highlighted , not only by the case of J Hedley Walton deceased v CIR , but also by the decisions of the Lands Tribunal in Exors of Lady Fox deceased v CIR . |
| 18 | It thrives on a muddy bottom , and therefore a base consisting of sand or loam should be provided . |
| 19 | The fact that small groups tend of necessity to comprise a membership of close kin favours the occurrence of kin selection and hence a high probability that cooperative behaviour will evolve . |
| 20 | Is there somewhere an MOD store , perhaps underground at Box Hill , a long wooden building smelling of oil and blankets , with row upon row of heads , snipers for the use of , gathering dust while the rosy , hand tinted complexions fade to chalk and grey plaster ? |
| 21 | It is governed by a board consisting of representatives from its founding members . |
| 22 | There is one in the shape of a beehive beside the terraces of Aberdour castle , with some 600 nesting-boxes formed of stone slabs . |
| 23 | The flavouring vegetables are 2 each of large carrots , leeks , onions and tomatoes ; a bouquet of herbs consisting of parsley stalks , a piece of celery , a bay leaf and a crushed clove of garlic all tied together ; 1 tablespoon of salt . |
| 24 | The course will be structured around 11 modules occupying 17 weeks of formal teaching consisting of lectures , tutorials and practicals . |
| 25 | Parkin secondly criticises the use which functionalists make of evidence which seems to indicate a consensus about the prestige ranking of occupations . |
| 26 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 27 | They were both so obsessed with the place , its gossip and rumours and intrigues , that they wanted to spend every possible moment together there , comparing notes , exchanging opinions : who was in , who out , what X said about Y's review of P's book about Q. Well , she was sick and tired of the place , tired of its beautiful architecture housing vanity and paranoia , glad to exchange its hothouse atmosphere for the real if smoky air of Rummidge . |
| 28 | All physical phenomena consisting of particles or energy are formed ultimately by the vibrating , ever changing activity of universal energy or consciousness . |
| 29 | The last time the writer heard of lead paint was in connection with an offensive toy from behind the Iron Curtain . |
| 30 | In addition to the two avant-garde poles represented for him by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , he has a minor category consisting of music that makes use of materials ‘ which fell by the wayside … waste products and blind spots … all that which did not fit properly into the laws of historical movement ’ ; the ‘ anachronistic quality ’ of this material ‘ is not wholly obsolete since it has outwitted the historical dynamic ’ . |