Example sentences of "[verb] of the [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was something then , to be an artist , and there were people like Gaston around to recognise it , whereas the English , ba , what did the English know of the art of LIVING ? |
| 2 | We did n't even know of the existence of electricity until a couple of centuries ago . |
| 3 | The liquidator does not know of the existence of stock records in support of £50,620 , and XY Ltd , in taking over the stock , stated they did not have schedules/lists which would enable them to identify what they took over . |
| 4 | TOO MUCH , too soon is expected of the branch of computer science known as artificial intelligence ( AI ) . |
| 5 | The Crimean Tatars , however , were officially exonerated of the charge of disloyalty much later , in 1967 , and they were given no general right to return to their former homelands , not least because the territories they had left had now been settled by other nationalities . |
| 6 | The main result that emerges from such an existential self-analysis is that man owes his understanding of the meaning of being to the fact that he exists in an object-transcending manner , and is therefore able to conceive of the possibility of nothingness , i.e. of the world not existing at all . |
| 7 | Implicit in the new narrative 's challenging of the assumptions of realism and in its privileging of subjective reality and of figurative forms of expression , is a questioning of the rationalist , cultural tradition of the West . |
| 8 | I am , in some strange way reminded of the enigma of mortality and immortality , of birth , life , growth and ultimately death . |
| 9 | Our aim is to ensure that individuals of all backgrounds and means can live free of the fear of sickness , poverty and crime . |
| 10 | Technology serves as a ‘ background ideology ’ that takes on legitimizing power and Habermas writes of the fetishization of science as a ‘ new ’ ideology . |
| 11 | Eventually , Germany was led by ‘ a small group of powerful industrial , financial , and agrarian monopolists tending to coalesce with a group of party hierarchs into one single bloc disposing of the means of production and the means of violence ’ ( Neumann 1944 , p. 634 ) . |
| 12 | This is a real upholding of the dignity of baptism and the vocation of the people . |
| 13 | When a puppy is settled in the home with you it will soon indicate its willingness to play even though you may not approve of the choice of toy . |
| 14 | What will the law make of the output of expert systems when it comes to deciding the authorship and ownership of that output ? |
| 15 | What sort of estimate did you make of the time of death ? " |
| 16 | The simplest electronic flip-flop is a form of Set-Rest ( S-R ) bistable consisting of the pair of cross-coupled NOT gates shown in Fig. 2 . |
| 17 | Present-opening sessions are generally unpredictable affairs , the pictures being shot with mobile camera on a catch-as-catch-can basis with the sound mostly consisting of the rustling of wrapping paper being undone and the excited squeaks of the recipients . |
| 18 | The electorate did not need to be a democratic one , and as a general rule was not ; all that was needed was an electorate consisting of the men of substance , so that the government would be responsive to their choices . |
| 19 | At first sight it may appear that the general pattern of Soviet trade with the Third World , consisting of the export of capital goods and equipment in return for raw materials , could be applied successfully in Latin America . |
| 20 | An example was given of the type of index entry items that could be supported by the system : |
| 21 | Register of Professional Photographers and Buyers Guide : The listings in this register are classified by county and town and an indication is given of the type of work carried out . |
| 22 | No details were given of the date of execution . |
| 23 | Little more than a general impression can be given of the state of music in the churches outside Great Britain . |
| 24 | Many examples can be given of the pitfalls of question designing . |
| 25 | I thought , this is the last time I taste of the benisons of nature . |
| 26 | How , therefore , should we think of the uses of language , in a way that could provide functional accounts of linguistic structure ? |
| 27 | This does at least make him think of the kinds of life to be found in the sea . |
| 28 | That let us think of the understanding of action in individualist terms , typified by the rational choices of the individual microeconomic agent . |
| 29 | A multi-national research team led by Andrew Read of the University of Guelph in Ontario , Canada , and Koen van Waerebeek , University of Ghent , Belgium , monitored the landed catch of dolphins in a number of Peruvian ports during 1986 and 1987 , primarily at Pucusana and Cerro Azul . |
| 30 | We are receiving many worthwhile bids from schools wishing to become technology schools in response to the announcement we made of the availability of capital funds for this purpose . |