Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One often reads of jealousies , of quarrels , of friendships , of instances of patronage , of pique and of loyalty which illuminate some aspect of a man 's character , of the nature of the society in which he lived or of the system in which he worked . |
| 2 | For instance , winking groups with other ways of warning or of doubting or of sharing complicity , depending on a context which is a matter not of physical description but of the form of social intercourse . |
| 3 | ‘ The only estates in land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An estate in fee simple absolute in possession ; ( b ) A term of years absolute . |
| 4 | ( 1 ) The only estates in land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An estate in fee simple absolute in possession ; ( b ) A term of years absolute . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) The only interests or charges in or over land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An easement , right or privilege in or over land for an interest equivalent to an estate in fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute ; ( b ) A rentcharge in possession issuing out of or charged on land being either perpetual or for a term of years absolute ; ( c ) A charge by way of legal mortgage ; ( d ) … any other similar charge on land which is not created by an instrument ; ( e ) Rights of entry exercisable over or in respect of a legal term of years absolute , or annexed , for any purpose , to a legal rentcharge . |
| 6 | ( 6 ) A legal estate is not capable of subsisting or of being created in an undivided share in land or of being held by an infant . |
| 7 | relates to specific matters relating or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say , is not of a general nature relating or of concern to that company ; and |
| 8 | relates to specific matters relating or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say , is not of a general nature relating or of concern to that company ; and |
| 9 | So if it was , you would n't know that of course if you 'd picked up the phone , would you ? |
| 10 | If he is really concerned to increase the number of homes available to rent , why will he not recognise that of the 700,000 empty properties , 100,000 are in the council sector and 600,000 are privately owned ? |
| 11 | Reynolds said , ‘ You say that of all the people who worked on the project , none of them are still here ? ’ |
| 12 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 13 | A Consumers ' Association report found that of the 32 tour operator 's policies surveyed , all but four fell short of its recommended levels of cover . |
| 14 | A recent Institute of Directors ' survey of 200 successful female executives found that of the 87 per cent who claimed to have encountered career obstacles not experienced by male colleagues , difficulty with childcare , at 37 per cent , was the biggest factor . |
| 15 | Emile Zola declared that ‘ our artists must find the poetry of stations as their fathers found that of forests and rivers ’ and the station has been securely enshrined in every aspect of art and culture . |
| 16 | A National Opinion Poll survey found that of those who expressed a desire to give up smoking , over a third were very keen to stop [ 3 ] . |
| 17 | In a study of his four published Song Books , I found that of the forty-two tunes I could identify ( four I could not ) , some 60 per cent are ‘ traditional ’ , mostly of rural origin ( the bulk Scottish ) , while only about 12 per cent come from comic music hall songs and about 25 per cent from bourgeois sources ( parlour ballad , light opera ) . |
| 18 | They found that of those males who reported acute sickness or chronic sickness without any limiting effect on activity , a larger proportion of the lower than the higher socio-economic groups consulted their doctors ; there was no consistent trend in the case of the females . |
| 19 | Devlin and O'Cathain found that of 122 children consecutively referred , 22 became dry after a structured interview ( with the child alone as well as with a parent ) , advice on personal hygiene and cleanliness training , daily bladder exercises , and provision of a ‘ star chart . ’ |
| 20 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 21 | Wright and West , in a study of all incidents recorded by the police as genuine rapes or attempted rapes in six English counties over a five-year period from 1972 to 1976 , found that of a total of 297 cases , fellatio was attempted or demanded in 30 incidents , cunnilingus in 13 , buggery in 12 and other sexual acts usually involving masturbation in 35 . |
| 22 | A study in 1971 found that of 132 political states only 12 were true nation-states in which everyone had the same native tongue . |
| 23 | She listened carefully to the details of the Palestinian woman 's story , of how Jewish gangs had murdered a truckload of Arab villagers shortly before Um Al-Farajh was surrounded and of how the Jews then destroyed Mrs Zamzam 's home , the village and even the little Muslim cemetery beside it . |
| 24 | Here they gave poetry readings in the 800-seat auditorium ; a measure of the man he was becoming and of the distinguished company he kept . |
| 25 | It should be well located and of sound and durable construction ; it should not have too many drawbacks , and these can be wide ranging — the most obvious examples are traffic noise ( particularly from motorways or airports ) , inconsiderate neighbours , shared access , pubs and car parks , and vandalism . |
| 26 | Resource owners ' initial ignorance of the kinds of commodities consumers will buy and of the relative prices which can in principle be obtained for these commodities gradually diminishes . |
| 27 | Moreover of the children of the strangers … shall ye buy and of their families … and they shall be your possession . |
| 28 | Are they well installed and of good quality ? |
| 29 | At the level of whole societies , written language serves the functions of record keeping and of storing both information and literary works . |
| 30 | This was t I mean when you think about it er it was good fun and er eventually people realized what was happening and of course they knew what was happening but that went on for a long long time . |