Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also much more vulnerable than Constance dreamed of , and was frequently hurt by what he saw as her deliberate hostility . |
| 2 | But it seems that their notoriety was such that no waste disposer would take them , albeit Europe disposes of some 20000 tonnes of lethal chemicals a year , most not nearly so well wrapped . |
| 3 | Although Dalgliesh knew of Alice Mair 's reputation as a cookery writer he had never read any of her books and had no idea to what culinary school , if any , she belonged . |
| 4 | Although Hutcheson thought of himself as defending the reality of moral distinctions , and the genuineness of a morally good benevolence which was not egoistically based , other thinkers were not happy with his treatment . |
| 5 | Sophia had , in a sense , married beneath her , for although Mark came of a good clerical family he was without private means . |
| 6 | PRICES in Italy have gone up and stayed up , although Nikki Keep of Italian Country Homes says sensible sellers are now open to offers . |
| 7 | If Philippe knew of — or even suspected — the existence of this story , this would have been adequate reason to abolish a powerful movement whose knowledge of it could give the descendants of the Merovingians excuse to usurp the throne , claiming direct lineage from Christ . |
| 8 | If Mercury consists of a largely iron core and a largely silicate mantle , then the core would account for about 80% of the mass and about 40% of the volume , which would make Mercury richer in iron than any other planet . |
| 9 | I wonder if Athelstan thought of that ? ’ |
| 10 | Meanwhile , at Erfurt , many of the princes and the archbishops of Mecklenburg and Salzburg and the bishops of Merseburg , Worms and Bamberg proceeded to designate Philip as imperial defender until Frederick came of age . |
| 11 | Rosemary smiled , and their talk went on , until Leith spoke of the urgency of finding another job . |
| 12 | Picasso 's extensive series of variations on Las Meninas was produced in 1957 , but even if Gironella knew of them when he himself began to work on versions of Velázquez ( which is highly unlikely , as Picasso 's paintings were not exhibited until 1959 ) ; even though their interest in the art of the past at that point in their careers was for both , perhaps , a rejection of abstraction ; and even though both can in some way be defined as exiled from their Spanish roots , as outsiders looking in — — yet the results are widely divergent . |
| 13 | Ipswich knocked out Hightown last week in a tense but skilful game , while Chelmsford disposed of the mighty Slough after a penalty shoot-out at Chelmer Park . |
| 14 | The desire is to bind Germany into a new federal European order , while Genscher speaks of Germany ‘ assuming new responsibilities ’ . |
| 15 | Clarissa was horrified lest Charles thought of identifying himself with such a call . |
| 16 | Iago returns to the process , with a series of hints and insinuations , having asked whether Cassio knew of Othello 's love for Desdemona : ( thus insinuating the possibility of harm ) . |
| 17 | Baghoomian organised Basquiat 's last show in New York , and after Basquiat died of a drug overdose in the spring of 1988 , just a few months after that show closed , Baghoomian claimed a fifty percent share of all the works in Basquiat 's estate , numbering in the hundreds . |
| 18 | Equality before God leads of necessity to equality before the law . |
| 19 | What she does n't realise is that this is the widow of the doctor who shot himself after Claire complained of sexual abuse at his hands . |
| 20 | Their Lancastrian sympathies had resulted in the forfeiture of their land early in the 1460s , when much of it was granted to Gloucester , but the de Veres had subsequently reached an accommodation with the new regime and had regained their land before Gloucester came of age . |
| 21 | Their Lancastrian sympathies had resulted in the forfeiture of their land early in the 1460s , when much of it was granted to Gloucester , but the de Veres had subsequently reached an accommodation with the new regime and had regained their land before Gloucester came of age . |
| 22 | As Pierrefeu says of him , after his appointment to the Supreme Command : |
| 23 | ‘ As Marc said of women , there 's love and love . ’ |
| 24 | With his teachings and observances they could sing and dance , laugh and exult before God — as David did of old , as other psalmists did , as Miriam the prophetess and Moses himself did in his own Victory Song over the Egyptians . |
| 25 | ‘ When Freud spoke of civilization ’ , Smith writes , ‘ he had in mind the process of ‘ modernization ’ and the characteristics of urban life in the industrial capitalist cities of his own time' . |
| 26 | When Eleanor died of fever at Nottingham , in the autumn of 1290 , Edward was grief stricken and journeyed to bury her in Westminster . |
| 27 | As Galadriel says of her Mirror ( I , 378 ) : it ‘ shows many things , and not all have yet come to pass . |
| 28 | For in a monarchy , as Beethoven remarked of Handel , one knows to whom one must bend the knee . |
| 29 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 30 | As Pacey said of Dudek — he could never say it of Layton ! — ‘ ( his strength ) lies in his serious attempt to give as purely as possible the experience which is pure and isolated in his own mind , ’ a view which is offended by the notion of ‘ popular culture ’ and the torch-carrying it requires . |