Example sentences of "[to-vb] of the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents will be interested to know of the sort of records that will be kept on their children . |
| 2 | ‘ The majority of people do not care to hear of the torture of elephants . |
| 3 | Thirdly , there is no difference in kind which entitles us to think of the concepts of civilizations other than our own as static and imprisoning . |
| 4 | One has only to think of the variety of positions that can be taken with respect to qualitative and quantitative research . |
| 5 | One has only to think of the range of services to which an old person may or may not be entitled to see that , even if power is in general exercised responsibly , old people and their informal carers are particularly vulnerable to professional neglect , abuse of power or , more often and more excusably , to inexpert or biased assessment . |
| 6 | Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool . |
| 7 | Over 4,000,000 fuze parts , gauges , gains , stampings for rifle and field , and naval guns , bomb forgings etc , were made to order of the Ministry of Munitions . |
| 8 | First , if restriction on liberty is the defining feature of punishment , what are we to make of the experience of children who have to go to school and adults who have to work for a living ? |
| 9 | It was in those far-off days as they strolled through the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , that people first began to speak of the death of images . |