Example sentences of "waste of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 2 | What a waste of all the good work that has been done in India ! |
| 3 | Is n't it rather a waste of all we feel to ignore it ? |
| 4 | Help reduce the amount of waste of all kinds produced during your work . |
| 5 | But it still makes me bitter and angry at the waste , the terrible waste of all that love I had . |
| 6 | There are arguments for suggesting the landings at Tarawa were unnecessary , much in the way the Dieppe raid on the French coast the previous summer is considered by some historians to have been a waste of many Canadian and other lives . |
| 7 | The treatment plan is not equipped to deal effectively with waste of such high chemical toxicity , and so much of it is passed out in the Yellow Creek to be carried away into the Cumberland River , with the result that the creek has become severely polluted . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a chance to understand why women are not making it up the professional or corporate ladder , ’ Ms Gompels added , ‘ which does seem to be a waste of such a valuable resource . ’ |
| 9 | To be here in Spain and not see things at close quarters was a great waste of such beauty , and she had no intention of asking Mitch to tag along either . |
| 10 | It was n't just the money or the hard work , though the waste of that was difficult enough to accept . |
| 11 | In it we can see reflected the ecological , psychological , spiritual damage and the massive human waste of this war . |
| 12 | But I do feel that it is , it would be a complete waste of this Committee 's money , when we 've many better things to spend it on , to join this low pay unit . |
| 13 | A royal charter granted in 1257 to Roger de Merlay for his lifetime , that his own woodwards should have exclusive custody of the vert in his woods , provided however that the king 's foresters should still have custody of the venison there , and that de Morlay 's woodwards should be answerable to the Justice of the Forest , or at the Forest Eyre for any waste of those woods . |
| 14 | It was abhorrence of waste of any kind of resource that motivated him . |
| 15 | Such limitation on women 's powers cuts into all classes and races : it is a sad waste of half of our country 's potential ; but the government goes further — some groups of women are positively discriminated against . |