Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failing to do all the IMF wanted was one thing : escaping the exigencies of dependence on foreign credit , if only to continue financing of trade , was quite another . |
| 2 | It was granted for the following day and a deputation was formed consisting of Dr. Paisley , leader of the DUP ; Rev. William Beattie , deputy leader of the same party ; Cecil Harvey , Vanguard Unionist Assembly member from the Saintfield area ; and the present writer . |
| 3 | A committee was formed consisting of Messrs H. W. Anderson , A.F. Bowker , E.G. Brown , G. Couchman , A.H . |
| 4 | Yeltsin 's speech also covered the issues of land ownership , the need to counter crime and corruption , for which a group had been formed consisting of Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi , First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet , Sergei Filatov , Security Council Secretary Skokov and State Secretary Gennady Burbulis , and the need for an arms law to combat the " blatant pilfering of military property " . |
| 5 | In spite of these doubts , a powerful consortium using both corporate and national government funding has been formed consisting of such major electronics interests as Philips , Bosch , Thomson and Thorn EMI . |
| 6 | * Except for the top quality , Italian-produced no-cook pasta , such products should be avoided as they tend to taste of cardboard and have a similar texture . |
| 7 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 8 | There 's no decent men in it and there 's no nudity of men it , even when he 's in it all you got to see of him was waist-high , you got to see a clips of his bum . |
| 9 | The younger field men , doubtless reflecting their education in the natural sciences , tend to conceive of pollution as a relatively unproblematic phenomenon , as scientifically determinable , hence ‘ obvious ’ . |
| 10 | Baxter 's career at Raith Rovers flourished and it was only a matter of time before he became won of Scotland 's most sought after young stars . |
| 11 | My view was limited to sight of a wall , a tower over it , and a small patch of sky . |
| 12 | In the following year the public were lectured from the courts on the duties of parenthood when , expressing himself ‘ perfectly satisfied that these crimes can be traced to neglect of parents ’ , the Recorder of Bradford struck the familiar harmonies of discontent : ‘ Parents of this time , unfortunately , do not take sufficient care in bringing up their children . |
| 13 | Say he somehow got to know of Aldhelm 's coming , even so by avoiding he could only delay recognition , not prevent it , he would have to reappear in the end . |
| 14 | Most species have registered declines of around 50 per cent . |
| 15 | Even if the desire is never satisfied in any but the fantasy way , the man who constantly has such desires is to be condemned , for he is gaining satisfaction from a person whom he has divested of personhood and turned into a slave . |
| 16 | The Government 's recent decision to allow industrial tribunals to hear claims relating to breach of the employment contract may , however , bring this trend to a halt . |
| 17 | The guests assembled in the Salle des Maréchaux , what Mme Moulton described as ‘ the Grand Salon ’ , and at nine o'clock a small procession entered consisting of the Court officers , all in their evening costume of blue with velvet collars , followed by several attendants and then , in the middle , the Emperor and Empress . |
| 18 | No one surely needs reminding of the intimate ( and , on the face of it , incongruous ) relationship between advertising and surrealism — the surrealism of Magritte in particular . |
| 19 | Currently , Melody Maker , written by a verbose array of excitable young ideologues , is the most dissenting and innotative of the four general titles and the one most inclined to put some avant garde confection like the sugar Cubes on the front page before anyone else has heard of them . |
| 20 | Everyone has heard of stressed executives who suffer peptic ulcers and ulcerative colitis . |
| 21 | EVERYONE who grew up in the Sixties has heard of Transcendental Meditation and its founder the Maharishi , the giggling Indian guru who guided the Beatles through their flower power phase . |
| 22 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 23 | But who has heard of David Brewster , minor scientist and in his own way at least as powerful a visionary of the new age of science and industry ? |
| 24 | Most groups of pirate enthusiasts number around 10 , but New Scientist has heard of a group of 60 people swopping bootleg software . |
| 25 | Everyone in the Levant has heard of Ludovico da Bologna. , |
| 26 | No mention is ever made of any of the basic principles of homoeopathy and the undergraduate who has heard of the subject is likely to qualify with an inbuilt prejudice against it which will be difficult for him or her to overcome later on . |
| 27 | Hardly anybody in the big wide world has heard of us , let alone been influenced by our lives . |
| 28 | Ah , but Maranello has heard of him . |
| 29 | And the critic Richard Findlater , who later went on to become a dear friend , said , ‘ How dare the English equivalent of a national theatre employ a schoolgirl , whom none of us has heard of , and who ca n't do it ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I imagine everyone in Plumford has heard of Bill Coleby . ’ |