Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard though he tried , Floyd could make nothing of the inward half and Couples , having gone to the front with a birdie at the ninth , was never caught again . |
| 2 | His opening 76 in reality had been his practice round because of his late arrival , and he could make nothing of the greens in his outward 36 yesterday , starting at the tenth . |
| 3 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 4 | When his own practice begins he will find that his clerk has arranged conferences for him , and before the conference he will often know nothing of the questions that are likely to be put to him . |
| 5 | In fifty minutes or so , you will have an extraordinary experience : you will know nothing of the baglady to begin with , but you will know everything you need to know by the end . |
| 6 | Twenty-four hours ago her life had seemed straightforward and uncomplicated , and now she was staying with a family she did n't know , invited to a wedding where she would know none of the guests — and extraordinarily attracted to a man with blue eyes . |
| 7 | Pearn and I were very concerned to ensure that the troops who would liberate Burma should know something of the country and its people , for the army that fought the retreat in 1942 had had little time to learn any of the background . |
| 8 | Anyone who has not seen Karajan 's Berliners in full cry — the CD videos will rectify this omission in the fullness of time — can at least catch something of the wonder of the spectacle in the piece Neville Cardus wrote about the first of the 1961 Beethoven concerts in London . |
| 9 | It means the standard theory of the fundamental force underlying beta decay , the weak interaction , will need something of an overhaul . |
| 10 | Neither did we know anything of the controversy at high levels over the relative merits of area versus precision bombing , but what we did notice was that during the winter of 1943/44 , morale amongst the aircrews was not exactly at its highest level . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Dubrovlag ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know anything of the sort . ’ |
| 13 | Science can not know anything of the kind of necessities with which causes compel effects and does not need to suppose that there are any . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 15 | When he was asked on 3 June to protect the Catholics in Moorfields , he is said to have replied : ‘ You do not know anything of the business . |
| 16 | It will do nothing of the kind . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'll do nothing of the sort . |
| 18 | 'I 'll do nothing of the sort , Aunt Nessy , ’ the young parson said now . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll do nothing of the sort , ’ said her uncle firmly . |
| 20 | But Joe knew that Ashdown would do nothing of the kind . |
| 21 | Has age mellowed you , or do you still feel something of the vigour of the same emotions ? |
| 22 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 23 | You should however show something of the audience , particularly in the early stages of the lecture , otherwise someone viewing the recording has no idea who the speaker is talking to . |
| 24 | ‘ I assumed you 'd do something of the sort . |
| 25 | Persistent asexual lineages of organisms with large genomes would therefore present something of a paradox , and they do not seem to occur , at least in animals . |
| 26 | The tremendous variety of metal artefacts in use during the Roman Occupation of Britain does present something of a challenge to the detector user in the identification and evaluation of his finds . |
| 27 | The above example may appear something of a curioso , but it illustrates another example of the distinction between what we have referred to as the ‘ traditional ’ approach and the public choice approach to public finance . |
| 28 | And so it does n't matter how young we are , how old we are , it does n't matter what our background is , it does n't matter what our cultural experiences are , it does n't matter anything of the , of the outward about ourselves , every single one of us can be , and must be born again ! |
| 29 | But old habits die hard and I did n't do anything of the sort , but sat there pleasantly planning my new wardrobe , with the clothing coupons and the sum of money that a grateful Government had allowed me . |
| 30 | ‘ I wo n't do anything of the sort ! ’ |