Example sentences of "[verb] of [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Downstairs what he ( he would ) called ‘ the lounge ’ is a beautiful room , much bigger than the other rooms , peculiarly square , you do n't expect it , with one huge crossbeam supported on three uprights in the middle of the room , and other crossbeams and nooks and delicious angles an architect would n't think of once in a thousand years . |
| 2 | Oethelwald is not heard of again after the battle and Oswiu re-established an overkingship of the northern Angles with his son , Ealhfrith , as co-ruler or sub-king over the Deirans ( Vita Wilfridi , chs 7 , 10 ) . |
| 3 | We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles — those of hard work , thrift and sobriety — and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic . |
| 4 | As predicted last week after the document was widely leaked , here 's what the changes will mean : Gloucestershire is at present made of up of the County Council and six District Councils . |
| 5 | Mention is made of how in the viewing of the mountains " … it is to be seen how the very naturall working of those flood falling from the height in winter stormes have broken down & worn such rifts & slitts in the rocks as hereby the dead leaders or mettall finnes or vaine have appeared unto us above ground which before were hid by the earth & stones formerly covring the rocks some 2 or 3 fathomes deep … " |
| 6 | The definition of public necessity was a comprehensive one , and prevented the too casual adoption of what Jehan had learned from Alexei were thought of elsewhere in the universe as simple technological advances . |
| 7 | Early in his career he was thought of primarily as a left-arm spinner , and made his debut for Barbados in 1941–2 as such . |
| 8 | Modern Delhi is thought of either as a city of grey bureaucracy , or as the metropolis of hard-working , nouveau-riche Punjabis . |
| 9 | He explained : ‘ It 's great to clatter the bowling about when you get the chance , but I do n't want to be thought of simply as a big hitter . |
| 10 | Must have got rid of nigh on a thousand acres all told . |
| 11 | Apart from a pile of fading wreaths and evidence of recent digging , the grave of Ireland 's most revered poet , spoken of today in the same bated breath as W. B. Yeats , is unmarked . |
| 12 | It can be seen that when the theory of road use charging , which has been spoken of exhaustively over the last few years , is translated into practical application , many problems will arise . |
| 13 | Ben Hall has spoken of how in the 1920s the United States ‘ was dotted with a thousand Xanadus ’ , luxurious cinemas in which people all too concerned with their own improvement could satisfy their curiosity about how other people had succeeded . |
| 14 | Her local newspaper , the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald , ended an account of her life with a prophesy which time has proved to be accurate : — ‘ Her memory , her deeds , and her example will live and be spoken of long after the generation who knew her personally will have passed away . ’ |
| 15 | Society viewed as a system for production and distribution , conceived of independently of the actors ' representations or justifications of the system , is what was later called the ‘ social formation ’ . |
| 16 | The economic strength of society is not something that can be peeled off and thought of separately from the quality of the life of those who are members of that society . |
| 17 | The man who came in was wearing range clothes and carrying a saddle which he let go of just inside the door and came on , looking straight at me , but not smiling like he was ready to say something friendly . |
| 18 | There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me ’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of ’ . |
| 19 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 20 | This means that ‘ organizational assessment is best conceived of not as a one-shot affair , but as an ongoing process ’ ( Miles , 1980 , p. 380 ) . |
| 21 | But environmentalists have pointed out that it is already being used by western companies to dump toxic materials with impunity which they can not dispose of legally in the west . |
| 22 | ‘ 6(1) A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection ( 1 ) above , where a person , having possession or control ( lawfully or not ) of property belonging to another , parts with the property under a condition as to its return which he may not be able to perform , this ( if done for purposes of his own and without the other 's authority ) amounts to treating the property as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights . |
| 24 | Section 6(1) introduces a deemed intention of permanently depriving the owner of his property when the person appropriating the property ‘ for the time being , ’ as one might say , intends ‘ to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; … |
| 25 | The concept is explained in s.6(1) : A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 26 | The Recorder held that since the bottles would be returned to the company , the defendants did not intend to treat the bottles as their own to dispose of regardless of the company 's rights . |
| 27 | Was the accused treating the goods as his own to dispose of regardless of the owner 's rights because the owner could get the machinery back only by giving in to the demands ? |
| 28 | It was held that he was treating the property as his own to dispose of regardless of the shop 's rights contrary to s.6(1) . |
| 29 | Section 6(2) states : … where a person , having possession or control ( lawfully or not ) of property belonging to another , parts with the property under a condition as to its return which he may not be able to perform this ( if done for purposes of his own and without the other 's authority ) amounts to treating the property as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights . |