Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Test ace Sarfraz accused of holding woman captive |
| 2 | What this HCF consists of has been seen in different ways . |
| 3 | Furthermore , in their returns to the research team , administrators in some LEAs spoke of 5 per cent as their target population for statements , while elsewhere it was considered that as many as 18 per cent could require a statement . |
| 4 | Around 1560 Millbottom consisted of a corn mill under the control of a Stroud clothier , William Webb . |
| 5 | Reports from Tehran on 22 September told of an attack that day on the city 's Mehrabad airport , which , like a number of others around the world , was used partly for civil and partly for military purposes . |
| 6 | Schizophrenic Clive Wells was appearing at the Old Bailey accused of killing a 63-year-old man when he gave specialist nurses the slip . |
| 7 | The bulk of the USSR 's purchases in Latin America consists of primary agricultural produce , for example , tropical crops such as coffee and cocoa , and , most notably , grain and meat . |
| 8 | The run-off from the pig factories is so high in nutrients and so voluminous that in warm summers the entire Adriatic stinks of rotting algae and dead fish . |
| 9 | It is tempting in today 's church situation to say of Smith what his contemporary Wordsworth said of Milton . |
| 10 | In 1981 , an amendment by the US Congress permitted an annual US kill of 20,500 dolphins in tuna nets , completely overturning the original intention of the Act . |
| 11 | The second Duma consisted of the same as before plus a few Social Democrats . |
| 12 | Seedlings of Platypodium elegans ( Leguminosae ) also in central America die of damping off as a function of distance from the mother in their first year , when the mortality rate can be up to 81% . |
| 13 | It is hard to be sure how much of this dark stuff Sinclair believes — as it is hard to be sure how much Eliot believed of the lore which accompanies the dark stuff of The Waste Land , another London poem . |
| 14 | ‘ My dear Tom spoke of the place as an undeveloped shambles with Matt living there alone , although I 've now heard that he and Silas accommodate a few guests . |
| 15 | Some ideas can readily be recalled to consciousness , and these Freud thinks of as in the preconscious . |
| 16 | The Ventral Nerve-Cord consists of a series of ganglia lying on the floor of the thorax and abdomen . |
| 17 | Rather , to adopt the method involves accepting that there is a ‘ reality ’ , which is as it is independently of what anyone may think of it , but which suitably organized inquiry is fated to discover eventually ; around the early 1870s Peirce speaks of reality as the final cause of inquiry . |
| 18 | As shown in Fig. 2 , the structure of CyP with bound CsA consists of an eight-stranded antiparallel β- sheet , two α- helices , and a series of loops and turns , as previously observed for uncomplexed CyP and a tetrapeptide/CyP complex . |
| 19 | These fictions had ceased before a whisky-sodden Brown died of erysipelas at Windsor Castle , 27 March 1883 . |
| 20 | She returned to the hospital in the early hours of Saturday 4 July complaining of increased chest pains . |
| 21 | This marriage was advantageous to him in that it introduced him into the local society but it was to last only three years , for in 1573 Jane died of smallpox at the age of 20 . |
| 22 | Reports in late January spoke of a stalemate in the autonomy talks and of the effectiveness of the government 's economic blockade of Kurdistan [ see pp. 38458 ; 38598 ] which was enforced by a heavily fortified military line across north-eastern Iraq , running from Qasr-e-Shirin on the Iranian border east of Kirkuk and south of Arbil to the Turkish border west of Zhako . |
| 23 | They found many candidates for admission to the colony , and in 1922 Makarenko wrote of them : |
| 24 | We had known one another less than a year , all Paris knew of our passion , and he chose three months in the company of Du Camp ! |
| 25 | In 1918 Eliot wrote of the need for artists to be at once very primitive and very sophisticated ; he praised Lewis 's Tarr as being ‘ like our civilization criticized , our acrobatics animadverted upon adversely , by an orang-outang of genius , Tarzan of the Apes ’ . |
| 26 | In 1908 Russell wrote of how the club movement sought to emulate the schools , ‘ the special pride of the country ’ . |
| 27 | Stamford Raffles was exactly the sort of British imperialist Marx approved of : a product of the Enlightenment , a scientific positivist , humane social reformer , emancipator of slaves and suppressor of abuses . |
| 28 | In January 1875 Huxley spoke of the recent work on the ship and its relevance to geology , he was particularly interested in the way in which debris accumulates at the bottom of the sea because this would help in the interpretation of fossils . |
| 29 | In a similar way , F(t) may be described as the inverse Fourier transform of G ( ο).; |
| 30 | Tragic six-day-old Natalie died of a brain haemorrhage when Alan slumped forward , squeezing her skull . |