Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A year later , Tolstoy , another peasant-lover , would clear out of Moscow complaining of city life with its ‘ stench , stones , luxury , poverty , debauchery , . |
| 3 | The Smolensk Power Station at Desnogorsk , 350km south west of Moscow consists of three RBMK light water graphite moderated reactors of 3200 MW(th) . |
| 4 | The active centre of HPr consists of a histidine residue , at position 15 ( His15 ) , the target of phosphorylation , and Arg17 . |
| 5 | The village of Poulton consisted of only seven cottages at the time of the Domesday survey . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | to affect your , you know , it 's a big extra demand on your time over that period , first of February to end of May . |
| 8 | The lid of the casket is made of silver and on the lid is a map of Ireland made of gold . |
| 9 | ‘ It was sweet of Giles to think of it . ’ |
| 10 | The 1515 ex Euston on the 13th of January consisted of a three coach Sprinter and a two coach Sprinter coupled together . |
| 11 | I consider that Bingham L.J . 's rationalisation of the failure of Morris to disapprove of Lawrence is of some significance . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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. |
| 14 | It is likely that several per cent of Jupiter consists of helium . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To A. M. Fairbairn , preaching was ‘ when the man possessed of God speaks of the God Who possesses him ’ . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | ‘ The myths of Gallifrey tell of the Dark Times . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | How typical of Iris to think of such a detail at a time like this . |
| 26 | Your worships , legal aid was granted er on the thirteenth of September to affirm of burglary . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | Does not he understand that it is action , not words , that the elderly , sick and disabled of Britain require of him ? |
| 30 | The hoarding at the entrance to the sliproad leading off the A643 five miles out of Mainz warned of the penalties which could be imposed on any unauthorized personnel attempting to gain illegal entry into the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant a mile further down the road . |