Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other men raised doubts about the rightness of the war itself : the poet Gower spoke of ‘ this false war ’ ; the chronicler Walsingham , no mean chauvinist in his day , by the 1380s referred to ‘ this useless royal war ’ . |
| 2 | As the poet Gray said of Grasmere in the Lake District : ‘ This little unsuspected paradise , where all is peace , rusticity and happy poverty . ’ |
| 3 | One could well say of the event horizon what the poet Dante said of the entrance to Hell : " All hope abandon , ye who enter here . " |
| 4 | Enough of the old wall existed in the fourth-century for the poet Ausonio to speak of the ‘ town of two walls ’ . |
| 5 | Did you , like the girl Bettelheim speaks of , dwell on different stages at different times , according to your need ? |
| 6 | She had been horrified at the botch Ruth made of it and Ruth had begun to wish that she had taken a few of Hester 's proffered lessons . |
| 7 | The apostle Peter speaks of the mutual submissiveness of wives and husbands , just as Jesus himself was submissive in his time on earth to death . |
| 8 | The genus Glossopteris consisted of arborescent and herbaceous plants with roots adapted for growth in semiaquatic environments . |
| 9 | IT WAS manager Mike Walker 's birthday but , more significantly , it was the day Norwich came of age as Championship challengers . |
| 10 | Some people will want to quarrel with this analysis ; but for our present purposes its accuracy is less important than the use Miller makes of it . |
| 11 | The same argument applies to the example Gandhi cites of the madman who kills indiscriminately . |
| 12 | The example Jakobson gives of this process is the last stanza of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ : The marked sound repetitions in this verse suggest , Jakobson argues ( ‘ Words similar in sound are drawn together in meaning ’ ) such connections of meaning as these : raven , being contiguous to and similar in sound ( /r/ — /v/ — /n/ ) to never , appears as the embodied mirror image of this ‘ never ’ ’ ; the parallelism in sound between never flitting and lifted nevermore underlines the Raven 's significance as an image of ‘ everlasting despair ’ , and so on ( pp. 371 — 2 ) . |
| 13 | We have already seen some of the emphasis on this in the account Luke gives of Pentecost . |
| 14 | Even more daringly , the prophet Isaiah says of God : |
| 15 | The prophet Jeremiah spoke of people saying ‘ Peace , peace ; when there is no peace . ’ |
| 16 | The almost total dependence of the media on the western news agencies Reuters and AFP meant that the image Tanzania received of events in Africa and the rest of the world was largely determined by those organizations . |
| 17 | The image Hitler portrayed of himself at the Nuremberg Rally was clearly consonant with the wide acceptance of the broad principles of legal discrimination and racial segregation , and with the satisfaction generally felt at the ending of the open brutality and pogrom-like anti Jewish disturbances of the vulgar anti-Semites . |
| 18 | In an attractive , sunny setting close to the centre of Westendorf , the Hotel Austria consists of two buildings . |
| 19 | Sitting weeping in the bathroom Agnes demanded of herself how she could have been so responsive to every whim of Magill 's mood and so dull but demanding and clumsy with Maxim … |
| 20 | The Llewellyn Alexander Gallery is once again holding A Salon Des Refuses of work which was not hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition . |
| 21 | If animals are given Pavlovian conditioning with a compound CS consisting of separable components , the amount of strength gained by one of these components after a given number of training trials will be less than would be acquired if that component had been trained alone . |
| 22 | But it does n't have to be exercise with a capital E. Think of it more as activity . |
| 23 | However as a doctor Donal knew of the importance of regular check-ups and in July , 1991 , his worst fears were confirmed . |