Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advances in health care have meant that most of them are seldom heard of here . |
| 2 | If you are also thinking of replacing your heating system , having better standards of insulation may also mean that you can specify a less powerful ( and less expensive ) boiler . |
| 3 | ‘ You are n't thinking of going out into the jungle to exercise for old times ’ sake ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My lady , you are n't thinking of running off with a pedlar ? ’ |
| 5 | You are n't thinking of refusing ? ’ |
| 6 | You are not made of ice . |
| 7 | If you are not told of the risk that you run , you might be able to complain of an unfair dismissal if you are sacked following a recurrence of the same conduct . |
| 8 | ‘ You are not to think of making do with a collation on Ash Wednesday ’ , he said to me . |
| 9 | You also have Ford Motor , Thomson and Bull backing the PowerPC , so you are already assured of sales of hundreds of millions . |
| 10 | You are already possessed of a substantial household , and have here been visited with a second . |
| 11 | You some of you are already thinking of easy things to ask . |
| 12 | ‘ You are perpetually talking of my ‘ great inexperience ’ , Mr Stevens , and yet you appear quite unable to point out any defect in my work . |
| 13 | You are now thinking of a grey elephant in Denmark . |
| 14 | You complain how seldom I attend you , and when you are always talking of matrimony or this low-born raw girl it must needs lessen the pleasure of approaching you . |
| 15 | If you delay it until he/she is two or three years old , it is probably because you are subconsciously thinking of discipline as something unpleasant rather than a positive way of giving direction and equipping the child for |
| 16 | It is important that you do read these pages and indeed all the relevant parts of this brochure since they form the basis of your agreement with us and so that you are fully informed of your rights and obligations and can relax knowing that your holiday is covered by our Holiday Guarantee . |
| 17 | Because of course it may seem , and very many people objected to him , that , if you adopt his sort of subjectivist views , erm you are perhaps deprived of any rational basis upon which you can criticize and condemn the actual way in which human beings conduct their affairs and organize their society . |
| 18 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 19 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 20 | Because if you are actually thinking of it coming towards you head on |
| 21 | The next section will also be very useful earlier , when you are merely thinking of returning to work . |
| 22 | We are not to suppose of this machine that when a chocolate bar does not come out there exists a causal circumstance which necessitates the failure . |
| 23 | We are not speaking of children or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood . |
| 24 | The draft regulations seek to achieve that equality of treatment in practice and we are not introducing of our own accord any requirements on citizens of other member states which we do not require of our own citizens . |
| 25 | ‘ We are not talking of excesses or cruelty by soldiers on soldiers in the heat of battle . |
| 26 | We are not talking of resurrection experiences here but of people needing to see for themselves what has been reported to them , so that the fact becomes obvious and denial or alternative explanations are less credible . |
| 27 | We are not talking of a few fanatical terrorists , we are talking of a nine million-strong nation in the heart of the Balkans . |
| 28 | We are not told of the use or otherwise of anaesthetics , nor of any benefits flowing from such research . |
| 29 | The impersonal imagery is essential if we are not to think of God as a person like ourselves . |
| 30 | But we are n't made of steel . |