Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year ago , Everton 's only hope of salvaging anything from a miserable season evaporated when they lost at Stamford Bridge in an FA Cup tie . |
| 2 | Whole-tone harmony is part of many harmonic systems , is valuable in many circumstances , and is therefore worth a brief study by all composers , even if they have no intention of using it as a complete system themselves . |
| 3 | The possibility of using it as a tactical weapon against the king-duke was too valuable an asset to be abandoned . |
| 4 | The basic guidelines is erm if somebody is a danger to themselves or other people then perhaps there is some way of helping them with an enforced medication or hospital treatment . |
| 5 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 6 | As far as the Science Museum is concerned it 's a question of helping it with the whole game of raising finance and all the other things they have to do . |
| 7 | But even in Britain and France new ways of mobilising these savings , of channelling them into the required enterprises , of organising joint-stock rather than privately financed activities , had to be devised . |
| 8 | From a technical point of view the superiority of nephrite over the stones plentifully available for everyday tools would hardly justify the increased cost of ensuring adequate supplies or the enormously greater cost of shaping it to the correct form . |
| 9 | She felt delightfully relaxed and slightly unreal , and her mouth seemed incapable of shaping anything but a broad smile . |
| 10 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 11 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 12 | And to the possibility of seeing something of the Sicilian town . |
| 13 | But even if we allow that this can be a beneficial experience , we must question the wisdom of seeing it as the only valid way in which reading can be learned . |
| 14 | Clare 's newfound , short-term leisure meant that she now enjoyed cooking instead of seeing it as an added , rushed , three-times-a-day chore to fit in around earning her living . |
| 15 | They would never have understood , would have perhaps backed away from the possibility of seeing anything but the smiling , assured , beautiful and wealthy Alyssia Stanley . |
| 16 | It is often possible , then , to understand and so overcome spelling errors , once you understand why you are making an error and can work out a way of reminding yourself of the correct form . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , as the World Bank and other august proponents of the perpetual increase of global trade never tired of reminding us throughout the 1980s , many First World countries began to step up protectionist measures in that decade . |
| 18 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 19 | For the rest of us , coming to terms with our grey hair and living with it may be a practical way of encouraging us to come to terms with our chronological age and of easing ourselves into a new age group . |
| 20 | He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk . |
| 21 | Dewey , as is well known , divided knowledge into tens so that he could employ decimal notation ; when a particular subject turned out to have more than nine facets he had to group them together , often at the expense of logic , and if a new facet arrived in-conveniently there was no way of including it at an appropriate place in the hierarchy . |
| 22 | It is up to social workers and the legal system to find ways of supporting rather than hindering parents and children in the difficult task of building themselves into a new family . |
| 23 | Have you ever thought of knitting them on a larger scale ? |
| 24 | They are not capable of organizing themselves in a directional , creative manner . |
| 25 | After 1870 education for the Poles was seen as a way of bringing them within the German order , of lightening their Slav darkness by opening up to them the world of ‘ civilisation ’ . |
| 26 | In Kingsley 's social novels particularly , the diseases of the poor have a way of transmitting themselves to the other nation by way of their omissions — neglected ponds or the products of tailors ’ sweat-shops . |
| 27 | Accounting for the use of this form in any context will always imply relating the particular meaning actualized in the context to the permanent potential significate postulated for it in tongue , and will consequently involve : ( 1 ) showing that the common denominator of a before/after sequence is present ( the constant element evoked by to ) , and ( 2 ) showing how the speaker has fit the particular experience he is talking about into this potential by intercepting the operation of actualizing it at the appropriate moment ( the variable element expressed by to ) . |
| 28 | And then I wonder if another means of acquiring something of a scientific education might not be found . |
| 29 | This is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘ union ’ and is part of the Hindu philosophy of self-discipline which teaches self-control , with the aim of becoming one with the impersonal god force . |
| 30 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |