Example sentences of "[to-vb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To write of male artisans is tautologous . |
| 2 | In his most persuasive ( but unrepeated ) experiment , he trained a group of pigeons in a loft into which he experimentally made the wind blowing from the south to smell of olive oil , and the wind from the north to smell of turpentine ( another group had the directions of the smells reversed ) . |
| 3 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 4 | I loathed my father 's new house , which seemed always to smell of damp washing , but her visit had clearly enlivened my mother . |
| 5 | They always seemed to smell of singed feathers when they came back . |
| 6 | They even seemed to smell of wild animals . |
| 7 | The interior of Armstrong was beginning to smell of wet dogs and that just added to my bad mood . |
| 8 | It is possible , of course , to conceive of alternative biochemistries and other liquid states . |
| 9 | It would not be possible to conceive of Ultimate Concern apart from particular modes of religious discourse . |
| 10 | It is thus possible to conceive of certain functional properties that can be defined as being geometry controlling or geometry checking . |
| 11 | If social psychology were to become a historical discipline , then it would make as little sense to conceive of pure and applied historical social psychology , as it is to talk of pure and applied history . |
| 12 | Despite the common cause announced in the introduction to the volume it is difficult in the present state of the art to see how the different methods and purposes can be said to constitute a unified and coherent approach to the literary text and thus to conceive of literary pragmatics as an " antidote to the fragmented specialization so characteristic of the humanities in the 20th century " ( dust jacket ) . |
| 13 | It is indeed difficult to conceive of bad faith which would not automatically render applicable one of the two traditional control mechanisms . |
| 14 | It is impossible to conceive of dialectical materialism without atheism , and it is this which underlies Marxism as an ideology . |
| 15 | It is perfectly possible to conceive of different types of ontological individuals , but there is no such " principle of individuation " as might enable us to pronounce any given type as basic in an absolute sense . |
| 16 | However information from this survey is used to assess the capacity to benefit of various groups of students , including those who entered first degree courses on the basis of non-standard entry qualifications . |
| 17 | INVITATION TO LAUNCH OF MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE |
| 18 | NEC Corp is forecasting unconsolidated net profit of $430m in the fiscal year just started , up from an estimated $344m for the fiscal 1993 just ended ; the company sees strong demand for semiconductors in the US and Southeast Asia , and looks to launch of new personal computers , and domestic economic recovery around this summer following the government 's economic package , including the expected supplementary budget , NEC said . |
| 19 | ‘ I have learned all I wish to know of American women . |
| 20 | Experimental results showing the involvement of RNA and protein synthesis in memory formation could readily be accommodated to the new molecular thinking , but what really raised the temperature of the whole enterprise were reports that began to appear of bizarre memory experiments involving planaria . |
| 21 | The question of the sort of relations between journalists and politicians which could be considered proper was to remain of great importance in determining the changing role of the press . |
| 22 | As of now , IBM Corp is offering an anti-virus service to its UK customers : this comprises updates to anti-virus programs four times a year — these provide users with ‘ install-and-forget ’ automatic protection on MS-DOS , OS/2 and Microsoft Corp 's Windows operating systems , and can detect viruses in the memory , on floppy and hard disks ; if viruses are found in the memory , they are disabled , but if found on disks the user is given a recommended course of action on-line ; other services consist of detection tools for any new viruses ; access to an anti-virus bulletin board , from which the latest products and documentation can be downloaded ; phone support desk ; and customer alert service to forewarn of known or threatened virus outbreaks ; prices will be amended on an annual basis , but for one to 250 machines , the service is £1,000 , on 3,001 to 5,000 workstations it is £12,000 . |
| 23 | Though Microsoft might be posturing , licensing WABI to HP , IBM and USL also reportedly exposes Sun to risk of legal action by Insignia . |
| 24 | Numerous stories began to circulate of American machinations and claim-jumping at the expense of the British . |
| 25 | Practice — Discovery — Public interest immunity — Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) ordering Police Complaints Authority to disclose documents to appellant — Implied undertaking to use documents only for appeal — Appellant 's conviction quashed — Police Officers involved in appellant 's case bringing libel action against newspaper publishers — Publishers seeking access to documents in order to plead justification — Claim of public interest immunity by Police Complaints Authority — Whether implied undertaking adding to claim of public interest immunity — Balance of public interests — Whether implied undertaking to be varied |
| 26 | It is necessary , therefore , to treat of Private and Public Bills separately . |
| 27 | A key element here is ‘ the principle of bounded rationality ( which ) lies at the very core of organization theory , and at the core , as well , of any ‘ theory of action ’ that purports to treat of human behaviour in complex organizations ' ( Simon , 1957b , p. 200 ) . |
| 28 | Behaviourists , for example , want only to treat of overt behaviour as the data for psychological research and this is as much a theoretical specification of what , for them , is to count as data as experience and meaning are for non-behaviourists . |
| 29 | A significant part of Regional Geophysics staff time was also devoted to support of geological mapping projects . |
| 30 | If so , it is to be hoped that their contribution to support of old people , and their need for support themselves , will be more sensitively and generously appraised than in the past . |