Example sentences of "of [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told in my training at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that Patrick Manson , one of the school 's founders , was unsuccessfully sued by a Chinaman for loss of living when he worked in Amoy , China . |
| 2 | It was during those months of waiting that she felt in her heart that her husband was once again seeing Camilla . |
| 3 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 4 | The clay tablets of the Knossos temple archive record such large quantities of produce that it seems as if the temple was at the very centre of the organization of the Minoan economy . |
| 5 | In this case , it is another way of saying that we wish to be governed neither by elected representatives nor by our own countrymen . |
| 6 | All of which is a roundabout way of saying that what matters in this world is asking the right questions , rather than knowing the right answers . |
| 7 | Right , so me and Jim had a chat the other day just looking at the the roadside entries and the counts and I was sort of saying if we work on the basis that we want between ten and twelve people , twelve people maximum |
| 8 | And I mean he took a lot of rehousing cos he come from a a a family that had n't really cared for him . |
| 9 | I become aware when parts of my body become tense and , more importantly , I know now how to ‘ relax ’ them , and when my body is saying that it has had enough I am able to leave things till tomorrow instead of insisting that they have to be done today . |
| 10 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 11 | He says he was thinking of chasing but they shot at him again . |
| 12 | So I was able to release these two successfully , and had the satisfaction of knowing that they approved of the site I 'd chosen . |
| 13 | This means that you have the peace of mind of knowing that whatever happens to general interest rates , your return will remain the same . |
| 14 | Still hammering away , the Institute has the satisfaction of knowing that it has at last brought home to the Ministry of Health , within whose purview this question comes , that things are not what they ought to be , and Dr Eichholz , who has just retired from the Chief Inspectorate of Special Schools , is at its request making a special enquiry . |
| 15 | As it is there are thousands of girls like me , and at least we have the comfort of knowing that he belonged to no one , and can belong to no one . |
| 16 | All voiced sounds are likely to lose a certain amount of voicing when they occur at the end of a word or at the beginning . |
| 17 | " A more thorough understanding of how teachers can evolve new ways of working as they move from tacit knowledge to practical principles will also contribute to making in-service education more effective . " |
| 18 | Allied to , but different from , acknowledging the need securing commitment is a matter of ensuring that everyone connected with the operation is personally committed to maintaining standards . |
| 19 | The palaces of meaning that she built with Friend in the endless night inside her — what were they for ? |
| 20 | A group of , say , four machines gives you a pretty good chance of hitting where you want at least once every turn . |