Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | And what does the Duchess think of Johnny this morning ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For newcomers , the Jordan team has already really caught the eye , and remarkably all the established teams are a little bit frightened of them . |
| 6 | In biology , for example , modules with practical classes are usually assessed 75/25 , the coursework component consisting of laboratory reports . |
| 7 | Instead I found the field stripped of strawberries |
| 8 | This usually comprises coursework on the basis of a formal curriculum consisting of lectures and practical work . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In certain circumstances , the customer 's consent will never constitute a defence to breach of fiduciary duty . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The feedforward circuit has a retina consisting of fifteen inputs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | In poetry , a foot consisting of one long syllable followed by two short . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Each multi-faceted eye has a central horizontal strip consisting of rhabdoms sensitive to both colour and polarisation . |
| 21 | There was nothing of course , only a & int smell compounded of dust and dry mould . |
| 22 | The familiar frowsty smell compounded of soot and chicken meal met her . |
| 23 | He puts forward an ethic consisting of habits of mind and of behaviour to which he thinks one will inevitably move to the extent that one has rational insight into the human situation and is under the control of that rational part of one 's nature which gives one unity as a personality . |
| 24 | So far only Britain 's two new ‘ super-divisions ’ , based in Germany and England , plus one Dutch-commanded multi-national airmobile division consisting of German , British , Dutch and Belgian troops , along with a German division and an American division are coherent forces based in the central region . |
| 25 | This brought together in a simplified form a number of remedies obtainable from a Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division consisting of two or three judges . |
| 26 | But they get their money stopped of course . |
| 27 | If you are inexperienced in using a silicone gun , it is a good idea to have a couple of trial squeezes of the trigger , in order to get the ‘ feel ’ of the pressure needed to achieve an even bead of silicone on the panel edges . |
| 28 | He took a cardboard box and from it drew a toy consisting of two monkeys with bright brown fur and boot-button eyes . |
| 29 | The project aims to rectify this omission for England over the period 1650-1914 by the construction of national rent index , and then to investigate two further problems : a regional breakdown of the index to see of there was a space-related differentiated land market ; and secondly to focus attention on three periods of outstanding agricultural depression within the long run to see whether there was a time-related differentiation . |
| 30 | The description given of the family is full of these subjective statements , many of which can act as red herrings . |