Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [v-ing] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Audit Commission pointed out that 4 million people would be lifted out of the penury of having to pay it and that it would be possible to concentrate on those who can genuinely afford to pay but who do not . |
| 2 | Salvidge proposed to delete these insulting words but could not even find a seconder ; nine MPs were present , including Younger , Sanders and Neville Chamberlain , all of whom must have approved of the resolution or seen the futility of attempting to amend it . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Blake is my employer , ’ Charity said stiffly , saving Matthew the embarrassment of having to come up with a reply , and herself the embarrassment of having to hear it . |
| 4 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |
| 5 | It turns out , however , that the eviction of Iraq from Kuwait by force is not a simple military matter , and that in the process of trying to bring it about , the US has been leading the coalition towards tactical objectives , and perhaps strategic war aims , which are much wider . |
| 6 | ‘ It takes away the problems of having to leave it often to a junior member of staff to make that decision , ’ a hospital spokeswoman said . |
| 7 | It has also been suggested that people buy the book because they have read reviews of it or because it is on the best-seller list , but they do n't read it ; they just have it in the bookcase or on the coffee table , thereby getting credit for having it without taking the effort of having to understand it . |
| 8 | Beales said : ‘ I was sure you would say that , but I 've taken the precaution of declining to give it to your men . |
| 9 | But I , I , I I ou really I , I know I 'll have to be thrown into the situation of having to do it |
| 10 | This put Doctor Who 's recording schedules back by one week , but few would deny the worth of having done it . |
| 11 | It would certainly give a new twist to the arms race ; indeed some of Reagan 's advisers appeared to be recommending SDI precisely because they thought the Soviet economy would collapse under the strain of attempting to emulate it . |
| 12 | I still do n't like the idea of having to take it , but it 's just something you 've got to do . |
| 13 | These indications of the importance of small firm production and the extent of subcontracting make it vital to recognize the place of a differentiated structure of production in assessing the causes of Japan 's rapid economic growth . |
| 14 | For the nineteen of us who were to be awarded our white képis , there was the certainty of a place with one of the Foreign Legion 's Regiments , and the satisfaction of having made it this far through basic training . |
| 15 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 16 | So , for the moment , if you want a higher resolution page printer it really is a case of going to find it rather than having it thrust at you . |
| 17 | I should replace it , but usually it only takes a bit of tinkering to get it going again . |
| 18 | How the whole process is cheaper and easier than your probably imagine , and with our state of the art equipment there 'll be no danger of having to replace it in years to come . |
| 19 | People who can allow themselves to know about their envy at least give themselves a chance of attempting to handle it relatively wisely . |
| 20 | Colt had already shut the sound from his head , and the Colonel showed no sign of having heard it . |
| 21 | Yeah , I thought these things that I do n't wear that I like the material of , it 's good material , it 's a matter of trying built it up |
| 22 | Have , have you had a problem of remembering to turn it on , remembering the batteries |