Example sentences of "have [verb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has heard of stressed executives who suffer peptic ulcers and ulcerative colitis . |
| 2 | EVERYONE who grew up in the Sixties has heard of Transcendental Meditation and its founder the Maharishi , the giggling Indian guru who guided the Beatles through their flower power phase . |
| 3 | Thus Richard Dyer has argued of gay machismo that , by taking the traditional signs of masculinity and ‘ eroticising them in a blatantly homosexual context , much mischief is done to the security with which ‘ men' ’ are defined in society , and by which their power is secured' ( ‘ Getting Over the Rainbow ’ , 61 ) . |
| 4 | Lord Scarman has said of inner city riots that ‘ public disorder usually arises out of a sense of injustice , ( Scarman , 1986 : xiii ) , and as the Woolf report recognized , this is as true in prisons as it is in the inner city . |
| 5 | The inhabitants of the village … are annoyed and their property and persons endangered by a practice which has prevailed of late years of great numbers of persons resorting from Brighton to Patcham under pretence of a holiday on palm Sunday filling the Ale Houses and Beer Shop , getting intoxicated , becoming riotous and creating disturbances in the village street . |
| 6 | As a demob-happy Member of the House , may I ask the Secretary of State whether he realises the absolute shambles that he has made of Territorial Army recruitment ? |
| 7 | I wonder if she has thought of alternative means of transport ? |
| 8 | This is not entirely unconnected to another feature of the economies of many Third World countries that has become of great salience in recent years , namely their foreign debt and the eff–ct that servicing that debt , particularly in times of rising and unpredictable interest rates , has on economic and social planning . |
| 9 | and the need for an ensured market for products is so important to recoup costs , that government contracting has become of crucial importance to the survival of large corporations . |
| 10 | Most recently national insurance , long regarded as ‘ a forgotten tax ’ , has become of increasing importance to taxpayers , and thus to their advisers . |
| 11 | Could you find out what has become of SHELLEYAN ORPHAN ? |
| 12 | Indeed , it has seemed of recent times , that all England needed to do to win in Dublin was just to turn up . |
| 13 | This course has proved of great value to students with little or no knowledge of the ancient languages , especially those whose interests are mainly in English or other European literatures , or in art history . |
| 14 | The forecast from Livorno has spoken of increasing winds and I laid out all the chain before we rowed ashore ( feeling curiously British and eccentric using oars among so many outboards ) for the pasta and wine we had been promising ourselves since mid-morning . |
| 15 | The IMF has spoken of fundamental weaknesses underlying an economy dependent for survival on aid and dragged down by graft . |
| 16 | It had first been established in 1979 , and was renewed for three years in 1989. * Evidence has emerged of continued " pirate whaling " in the south Atlantic . |
| 17 | It has remained of particular interest because its canon seven was the first to declare the marriage of clerics not only unlawful but invalid . |
| 18 | B. Chrystal has complained of broken glass in Bloomiehall Park . |
| 19 | I was a little concerned though when the makers of ‘ MiniMag ’ asked what experience she 'd had of articulated vehicles and she replied , ‘ I 've spent my life driving Daddy 's horse-boxes . ’ |
| 20 | Here , he would have heard of poor Mansfield 's terrible death following a naphtha fire in a derelict building in St Pancras , as well as of G. F. Wilson 's new processes for producing cheap glycerin soaps and ( Price 's patents ) candles from low-grade fats , and of Abel and Spiller 's progress at Woolwich Arsenal on organo-nitrate explosives . |
| 21 | YOU MAY not have heard of serial killer and cannibal Ed Gein , but you 've probably seen his movies . |
| 22 | He interrogates everyone : a Rouen merchant who amazes him by not having heard of mint sauce , and a canon of Evreux who informs him that in France the men read too much , while the women read next to nothing ( o rarer still Emma Bovary ! ) . |
| 23 | Joseph Ellis , a future Chairman for fifteen years , was to write : " Without the BDDA the Board would have died of financial starvation . " |
| 24 | If I had n't found a way out we 'd both eventually have died of cold or drowning , or both . |
| 25 | ‘ Actually , ’ Vanessa began , not bothering to lean closer or lower her voice , ‘ the chicken these wings came from must have died of old age . ’ |
| 26 | And Juan — as Alejandro ( who as one who lived in a glass house and was in no position to hurl polo balls ) pointed out — might well have died of sexual excess . |
| 27 | We would not have dreamed of changing companies unless we both moved . |
| 28 | When he asked if he could see her again the next day , she would not have dreamed of declining ; they saw each other for about a fortnight , and her enthusiasm for him increased with each meeting , though he said not a word of any interest in the whole two weeks . |
| 29 | For a start , making love does not have to consist of vaginal penetration ; and time spent reassuring , cuddling , caressing , fantasising and laughing together can be enjoyed for its own sake , or to reduce the tension so that you can relax sufficiently to enjoy intercourse . |
| 30 | An American retaliatory strike would either have to be launched before the incoming missiles arrived — a policy that would put nuclear war on a hair trigger and increase the chance of a mistake — or would have to consist of submarine-launched missiles which are only accurate enough to cities . |