Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might compare this ethical relation to Cixous ' remarks about the need to love the other or Kristeva 's recent preoccupation with love which , from this perspective , hardly involves the sudden apostasy of which she has been accused , but rather as for Levinas consists of a way of formulating a ‘ responsibility for the Other , being-for-the-other ’ . |
| 2 | [ For November 1985 conviction of two French agents for bombing and other developments see pp. 34565-68 ; for repatriations of Mafart and Prieur in December 1987 and May 1988 see p. 36295 ; for April 1991 visit to new Zealand by Roland Dumas see p. 38153 ; for July honouring of Mafart and further French nuclear test in Pacific see p. 38345. ] |
| 3 | But when the King of Toledo heard of the hurt which he had received at the hands of the Cid , he sent to King Don Alfonso to complain thereof , and the King was greatly troubled . |
| 4 | A year later , Tolstoy , another peasant-lover , would clear out of Moscow complaining of city life with its ‘ stench , stones , luxury , poverty , debauchery , . |
| 5 | The Smolensk Power Station at Desnogorsk , 350km south west of Moscow consists of three RBMK light water graphite moderated reactors of 3200 MW(th) . |
| 6 | The active centre of HPr consists of a histidine residue , at position 15 ( His15 ) , the target of phosphorylation , and Arg17 . |
| 7 | The village of Poulton consisted of only seven cottages at the time of the Domesday survey . |
| 8 | Designed long ago , the defences of Famagusta consisted of towers and wallwalks , battlements and arrow slits , without proper seating for cannon , or for the ventilation that cannon demanded . |
| 9 | to affect your , you know , it 's a big extra demand on your time over that period , first of February to end of May . |
| 10 | The lid of the casket is made of silver and on the lid is a map of Ireland made of gold . |
| 11 | ‘ It was sweet of Giles to think of it . ’ |
| 12 | The 1515 ex Euston on the 13th of January consisted of a three coach Sprinter and a two coach Sprinter coupled together . |
| 13 | I consider that Bingham L.J . 's rationalisation of the failure of Morris to disapprove of Lawrence is of some significance . |
| 14 | These were times of change and Keys in his History of Eastington speaks of Hicks as the man ‘ whose water wheels and steam engines shut down many of the cottage looms that had made wealthy many of the Clutterbuck family ’ . |
| 15 | What is the House of Commons to make of the reports of serious on-going disagreements between , on the one hand , Mr. Ian Burns and other most senior officials in the Home Office and the Metropolitan police , as represented by Mr. Bill Taylor , and , on the other side of this subject of how to deal with Ireland-originating situations , Mrs. |
| 16 | It is likely that several per cent of Jupiter consists of helium . |
| 17 | In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church . |
| 18 | The late sixteenth-century diplomat James Melville of Halhill wrote of the ‘ Italian posset ’ given to the king ; the leading churchman , and one of the main contenders for power , David cardinal Beaton , archbishop of St Andrews , was of course the major suspect . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr Fraser of Wiltshire complained of bad language in an edition of the Channel 4 programme , Tonight With Jonathan Ross … the offending word arose in reply to a question about whether or not Paula Yates was going to have any more children . |
| 20 | Every East European town of any size seems to be disfigured by these viciously utilitarian structures and several suburbs of Prague consist of nothing else , as though the provision of other amenities were no concern of the planners . |
| 21 | To A. M. Fairbairn , preaching was ‘ when the man possessed of God speaks of the God Who possesses him ’ . |
| 22 | Is the kingdom of God spoken of in the New Testament simply ‘ the moral organisation of the human race ’ , or does that conception owe more than the Liberals themselves realised to their own enlightened and optimistic view of the development of Protestant culture in their own day ? |
| 23 | ‘ The myths of Gallifrey tell of the Dark Times . |
| 24 | In 1275 the first statute of Westminster spoke of Edward 's concern to improve the lot of both the church and the realm generally : the statute was issued |
| 25 | The Board of the National Bank of Yugoslavia consists of the governors of the national banks of the republics and provinces , each of whom has an equal vote . |
| 26 | A friend of Baxter said of his preaching , ‘ In his sermons there was a rare union of arguments and motives to convince the mind and gain the heart ; all the fountains of reason and persuasion were open to his discerning eye ’ . |
| 27 | How typical of Iris to think of such a detail at a time like this . |
| 28 | Your worships , legal aid was granted er on the thirteenth of September to affirm of burglary . |
| 29 | There could , indeed , be no two opinions as to the right of every one of the great national subdivisions of Europe to dispose of itself , independently of its neighbours in all internal matters , so long as it did not encroach upon the liberty of others . |
| 30 | One frustrated delegate , the leading French politician , Paul Reynard , could assert in exasperation that ‘ the Council of Europe consists of two bodies , one of them for Europe , the other against it ’ . |