Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [indef pn] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could wank each other off — dry or using lots of lube — or press , rub and slap your dick against his dick , buns , face , chest , thighs … |
| 2 | Of course , it is natural to examine a text in the light of what we know of ambient domains — its author , the period in which it was written , and so on — and to regard it as exemplifying or representing something of more general interest . |
| 3 | It would have been better if we could have come at the weekend & seen something of the family , but Richard had long-standing plans involving friends of his who could only come ( from Macclesfield ) on Saturday . |
| 4 | Nor can a single moment be cited when Poland , even if only in comparison with Russia , has successfully represented progress or done anything of historical significance . |
| 5 | Nothing has changed ; he need n't think it has ; I do n't want to hear or see anything of him or his father — ever . |
| 6 | They swop over from one state ( usually over-eating or having lots of high-sugar , high-fat foods ) to another , quite separate , diet state ( under-eating , with little fat or sugar ) . |
| 7 | If you do not make a will , your partner has no right to look after your affairs or to inherit anything of yours . |
| 8 | Another 20 per cent said that it was ‘ a convenient way of buying ( you can get things how and when you want them , instead of having to wait , save or carry lots of cash ) ’ . |
| 9 | So which is ‘ real ’ , or do none of them possess any ultimate ‘ reality ’ ? |
| 10 | ‘ If you have one man killed , you are not justified in bombing cities or killing lots of others . |
| 11 | Indeed , you are permitted to make a faithful copy of a famous painting if you wish , as a means to master a particular technique or learn something of a process or style . |
| 12 | The National Health Service does operate its own convalescent facilities but there are also many private ones if you are covered by insurance or have plenty of money . |
| 13 | Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever . |
| 14 | I sought a way of fudging it , of drawing a two-dimensional picture that conveyed something of what it feels like to move from point to point in the nine-dimensional genetic space of Biomorph Land . |
| 15 | Below : Amblestone is a charming Victorian-style conservatory that offers plenty of space and light . |
| 16 | Larousse Gastronomique is considered the bible for chefs but now Larousse has produced a new , practical cookbook that offers lots of inspiration and advice for the enthusiastic amateur cook . |
| 17 | Handling a long-wheelbase Land-Rover with its trailer over rough ground is an art that needs plenty of practice . |
| 18 | Most sailing clubs will have a few catamarans clustered together in one end of the dinghy park , but if you are keen to race one it is best to choose a club that has plenty of water space and specialises in a large multihull fleet . |
| 19 | Hulme explained , ‘ I 'm of the species that has lots of testosterone pumping around its body . |
| 20 | ‘ This is a new market for Guinness and one that has lots of potential but , though the Vietnamese drink plenty of beer , a black beer is virtually unknown . |
| 21 | Starts with a wolf-howl and then descends into galactic camp that has none of Betty Boo 's appeal , but all of her ideas ( that 's both of them ) . |
| 22 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 23 | This device will rid the disk of all data , including viruses , so it is a worthwhile investment for any organisation that uses plenty of floppies . |
| 24 | Not only can responses be fixed in a way that reveals something of the foundations which underlie them but the method itself can also act as a catalyst for the kinds of looking that lead to increased perceptual awareness . |
| 25 | This brought home to me the fact that paying lots of money for an established defender ( central ) is a massive risk . |
| 26 | IT 'S DIFFICULT to know whether Joe Bear 's statement ‘ we 're out of tune but you 'll just have to put up with it ’ is an apology or the title of the first song , as Huggy Bear embark upon a set that includes lots of shouting , inept but enthusiastic attempts to play their instruments and generally deconstructs the rock myth with the viciousness of a tantrum in the nursery . |
| 27 | All our respondents agreed that the new qualifications should be based on a structure of mandatory and optional units , though the strong view was expressed that this should be done in a way that allowed plenty of flexibility . |
| 28 | So everything in between has an unfulfilling lack of immediacy , and instead of being drawn more vividly into the drama ( which is presumably the principal justification for recording live ) we experience a remoteness that characterizes none of the studio recordings with which this version has to be compared . |
| 29 | It was idealistic and austere ; its classic authors were George Orwell , who died in January 1950 , and his friend Arthur Koestler ; its spirit was resolutely decent and fiercely anti-totalitarian , its chosen mode a polemical prose that lost nothing of its edge by being cast , at times , into argumentative fictions like Animal Farm ( 1945 ) , though its true forte was the article ; and its best poet , Dylan Thomas , was manifestly a survivor from an earlier age . |
| 30 | Erica , although knowing none of this , had grown more scathing , with her outsider 's eye . |