Example sentences of "[to-vb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | To illustrate this I propose to write of three other areas I have visited , Australia , Pakistan and USA . |
| 5 | ‘ Battles are won primarily in the hearts of men , ’ Monty was to write of Alamein twenty-five years on . |
| 6 | Yet Leapor is able to write of these things with good humour and to maintain a quiet hope . |
| 7 | It would be impertinent of me to write of Zuckerman . |
| 8 | To write of you a story of such mervayle |
| 9 | GRAEME Donald is wrong to write of ‘ the noble deeds of the Germanic Saxons ’ in his piece on ‘ the night of the long knives ’ . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | It is fashionable , nowadays , to write of ‘ isms ’ — racism , sexism and ageism , to name but three . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was a more than intellectual comprehension ; and to write of it she must strive to become that meeting . |
| 19 | The waitress looks at her pen , as if willing it to write of its own accord . |
| 20 | 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 … ’ |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | To write of male artisans is tautologous . |
| 23 | Alright to go a third of the way round you 'll go one third of and we know how to write of . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On page 40 you will find a list of who to inform of your change of address . |
| 26 | I could almost see him ticking me off the list of people to inform of his change of address . |
| 27 | Nonsense can never be talked with impunity by anyone ; and when governments solemnly talk nonsense in the name of nations , harm is certain to come of it sooner or later . |
| 28 | When I asked my mother what she was doing , she replied : ‘ I thought if nothing were to come of your relationships , I could cut them out of the photographs ! ’ |
| 29 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 30 | By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country . |