Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Another bonus is that it leaves your hair smelling of mint rather than yukky ammonia ! |
| 3 | The ideological terms in which the affected groups perceive of the environmental crisis are not politically sophisticated — in fact they have very little political content at all . |
| 4 | And what does the Duchess think of Johnny this morning ? |
| 5 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 6 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 7 | The first two , on 4 and 5 December , were ad hoc groups consisting of the Prime Minister , Heseltine , Leon Brittan , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , John MacGregor , Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Sir Geoffrey Howe , Foreign Secretary and Sir Patrick Mayhew , Solicitor-General . |
| 8 | Psychological models derived from the observation of groups consisting of students can no longer be taken as representing general truths . |
| 9 | Later it could develop into music groups consisting of a variety of instruments and voices , bands , instrumental ensembles or dance groups . |
| 10 | He knew , in his heart , that he had always been a little bit frightened of it really … opening out the throttle … he remembered the feeling of queasiness that had always accompanied that burst of power . |
| 11 | For newcomers , the Jordan team has already really caught the eye , and remarkably all the established teams are a little bit frightened of them . |
| 12 | In biology , for example , modules with practical classes are usually assessed 75/25 , the coursework component consisting of laboratory reports . |
| 13 | Instead I found the field stripped of strawberries |
| 14 | This usually comprises coursework on the basis of a formal curriculum consisting of lectures and practical work . |
| 15 | Where students are following a joint honours curriculum consisting of two languages , two months must be spent additionally in the country of the second language . |
| 16 | In certain circumstances , the customer 's consent will never constitute a defence to breach of fiduciary duty . |
| 17 | As I suggested in the previous chapter , the creation of the European Economic Area and the looming enlargement of the Community make possible the development of an EEC consisting of some twenty to twenty-five freely cooperating nations . |
| 18 | For Hopkins , " an old crony of Wilson 's and a newcomer , a volunteer " sky pilot " who clad himself in semi-clerical , semi-nautical garb consisting of a discreet black habit with a seaman 's jersey and a gold crucifix " , he evidently had nothing but contempt . |
| 19 | The insurer 's decision on whether to provide cover , and if so how much , depends on what the insurer thinks of you and your customers ' credit ratings . |
| 20 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The feedforward circuit has a retina consisting of fifteen inputs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | anapaest ( US anapest ) In prosody , a foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable : I am " mon/arch of " all/I sur'vey . |
| 25 | True blank verse is written in iambic pentameters ( that is , each line is divided into five metrical feet , each foot consisting of two syllables with the stress on the second syllable ) . |
| 26 | In poetry , a foot consisting of one long syllable followed by two short . |
| 27 | In poetry or prose , a disyllabic foot consisting of one short , followed by one long syllable ( classical scansion ) or with stress on the second syllable ( English poetry ) . |
| 28 | Each multi-faceted eye has a central horizontal strip consisting of rhabdoms sensitive to both colour and polarisation . |
| 29 | We shall also be introducing later ( Section 19.5 ) the spectrum functions which are the Fourier transforms of correlation functions . |
| 30 | As well as the frequency spectrum , one can define wave number spectra — Fourier transforms of the space correlations . |