Example sentences of "[verb] of " in BNC.

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1 To judge from Egypt , the traditional bell-wether of the Arab flock , they are failing to do so .
2 communication between school and University needs to be clearer to eliminate problems in timetabling of examinations , school and University holiday schedules , etc .
3 Many defendants have been fined of more than a thousand pounds , simnplky because they earned reasonable salries .
4 The poet who would go on in ‘ East Coker ’ to write of poetry as ‘ a raid on the inarticulate ’ now pulls back from his earlier position in his wish ‘ to avoid employing the terms Romanticism and Classicism ’ , and concludes that ‘ we are still in the Arnold period ’ .
5 The wealthy , as if trying to secure their dead not only against body-snatchers , but against decay itself , encased them in immense coffins , lined with lead , which six men could scarcely carry , leading Dickens to write of ‘ a blind monster with twelve human legs , shuffling and blundering along . ’
6 By March 1944 Hickson , as Secretary to the Cambridge Board which was then reviewing its future organisation for the post-war period , was sufficiently assured to write of the Rural Areas Committee :
7 To illustrate this I propose to write of three other areas I have visited , Australia , Pakistan and USA .
8 ‘ Battles are won primarily in the hearts of men , ’ Monty was to write of Alamein twenty-five years on .
9 Yet Leapor is able to write of these things with good humour and to maintain a quiet hope .
10 It would be impertinent of me to write of Zuckerman .
11 To write of you a story of such mervayle
12 GRAEME Donald is wrong to write of ‘ the noble deeds of the Germanic Saxons ’ in his piece on ‘ the night of the long knives ’ .
13 Mary and Sarah 's comparative affluence was by no means typical of conditions in Frome in the 1820s and 1830s , however , William Cobbett , visiting the town in 1826 , the year John Titford 's wife Ann died , talked with a perverse kind of delight about the ‘ irretrievable decay of the place ’ ; four years later it was the turn of a Bridgwater grocer , Thomas Clark , to write of Frome in his journal in the following terms :
14 It is fashionable , nowadays , to write of ‘ isms ’ — racism , sexism and ageism , to name but three .
15 If I were to write of Milton Friedman : ‘ the absence of self-consciousness and the resulting presence of an egocentrically unified perspective seem to be associated with an inability to shift perspective in concept formation problems ’ , I do not suppose that many psychologists would accept such an application of the language of psychology .
16 In the increasing number of critical surveys of the English novel published during the present century Conrad is the sole writer ever to be included in the safe , accepted procession from Fielding to Henry James and beyond who could , to some degree , be considered to write of adventure in the traditional sense ; and it is always made perfectly clear that Conrad 's moral and philosophical probings constitute his true value , his story-telling expertise being , by implication , no more than a means to an end .
17 Against critics who had accused him of choosing to write of the sea and lonely islands in order to have greater freedom for his imagination , he protested that his own youth had worn ‘ the sober hue of hard work and exacting calls of duty , things which in themselves are not much charged with a feeling of romance ’ and that if he had any ‘ romantic feeling of reality ’ it was disciplined by ‘ a recognition of the hard facts of existence shared with the rest of mankind ’ , a recognition which , he believed , tried to make the best of the hard truth and to discover in it ‘ a certain aspect of beauty ’ .
18 It is misleading to write of Aquitaine as though it were one vast feudal jungle where vassals rebelled against their lords , nephews fought against their uncles , and all done with a passionate ferocity which left little or no room for effective ducal government .
19 Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’
20 It was Metzinger who , in his Note sur la Peinture of 1910 , was the first to write of the fact that Picasso and Braque had dismissed traditional perspective and felt free to move around their subjects , studying them from various points of view .
21 It was a more than intellectual comprehension ; and to write of it she must strive to become that meeting .
22 The waitress looks at her pen , as if willing it to write of its own accord .
23 It was probably this occasion which prompted Lloyd George to write of Balfour : ‘ I confess that I underrated the passionate attachment to his country which burnt under that calm , indifferent , and apparently frigid exterior ’ ; upon which Balfour 's latest biographer has somewhat severely commented : ‘ By ‘ passionate attachment to his country , ’ Lloyd George , presumably meant Balfour 's backing for him as Prime Minister … ’
24 It is therefore quite wrong for Maurice Cowling , whose account of the crisis is by far the best , to write of ‘ The King 's decision to make Baldwin stay in office . ’
25 To write of male artisans is tautologous .
26 Alright to go a third of the way round you 'll go one third of and we know how to write of .
27 Well you 'll see that in that apology Milton appears to be conscious of the very point that I am trying to make , that is to say it might be considered out of place in this prose work to speak of myself in direct factual terms , although a poet — a poet intending to write of things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme — a poet soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , in other words where we ca n't or are n't really invited to make out his individual identity very clearly because it is his role as poet that concerns us , there he clearly feels it would be proper .
28 Chemical company fined twice for polluting of Irish Sea
29 Note that it is not possible to apply for a family assistance order ; the court must act of its own volition .
30 Figure 12.1 Causes of absenteeism
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