Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] of [noun sg] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money may , for example , be used as a measure of value enabling comparisons of value to be made between different objects such as houses or cattle . |
| 2 | In " The retreate " , a complex linguistic and pragmatic site is displayed , and it is deixis which largely holds this together , enabling frames of context to be created , and leading the reader around and into the work . |
| 3 | Every action which is accepted as kindly , every individual act of devotion and sacrifice , whether made in the havoc of war or in times of peace , every act of generosity and in fact every good thing which has resulted from the endless struggle to uphold the decision to master the violent and lustful urges which are a legacy from the evolutionary process , will play its part in providing units of goodness to be enshrined in the Created God . |
| 4 | On the contrary , many followed Malthus in believing that availability of food would always tend to limit population growth , and that the ‘ iron law of wages ’ would prevent the poor from achieving a standard of living allowing diseases of malnutrition to be banished . |
| 5 | Integrating this equation gives and taking limits of integration to be gives . |
| 6 | Computer-controlled resistivity systems have been further developed : in particular an electrode pad for core imaging has been completed in collaboration with Nottingham Polytechnic , allowing sections of core to be imaged automatically . |
| 7 | We constantly come across situations where colleagues treat us as if we were just raising points of sexuality to be difficult , or as a piece of axe-grinding . |