Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pron] in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since citizenship has become a fashionable and acceptable word , it is easy to slip into the habit of using it in preference to ‘ individual rights ’ or ‘ human rights ’ , but it is important to bear in mind the desirability of keeping the private sphere of the life of the individual separate from his role as citizen , an essentially political role and status . |
| 2 | R. J. Campbell even had the honour of seeing himself in wax at Madame Tussauds . |
| 3 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 4 | Beware , however , of drowning yourself in pages of notes . |
| 5 | The intention is to speed up the taking of kick-offs and to stop the time wasting practice of kicking the ball dead instead of keeping it in play from the kick-off . |
| 6 | Yet to take those responsibilities seriously has huge resource implications which would make any government wary of enunciating them in legislation of a more comprehensive and precise kind than currently exists . |
| 7 | What is being suggested is that dreams in themselves have no absolute meaning or import — so that the idea of analysing them in terms of standard sets of criteria becomes a nonsense — but that the reaction of the dreamer to his or her dream can be very significant . |
| 8 | The selection of projects from the list of proposals for inclusion in the R&D programme is a matter of ranking them in order of benefit to the company . |
| 9 | The selection of projects from the list of proposals for inclusion in the R&D programme is a matter of ranking them in order of benefit to the company . |
| 10 | At a certain point in his investigations , at the harbour in Trieste , the narrator imagines the pleasure felt by the midshipman who at that moment is explaining the lay-out and workings of his ship to two visitors , giving all the parts of the ship and all the instruments their proper names , which ‘ have no synonyms ’ ( Del Giudice 1983 : 44 ) ; and muses further on his own dreams of navigation , envying the midshipman ‘ the way in which he concentrates on the angle and the height , and his habit of considering himself in relation to something ’ , above all ‘ the exactitude of the chart ’ ( 45 ) . |
| 11 | If we analyse the street-comer activity of doing nothing in groups in the light of always hoping that something will happen , then the creation and the putting into effect of ‘ ideas ’ by the group can be seen as one of the most significant group experiences . |
| 12 | The thought of having anything in common with William horrified him . |
| 13 | Because we do not have a suitable track on which to run a World Superbike round , the idea of running one in England under the Irish flag of convenience was hailed as a lucrative alternative , beneficial to the ACU and MCUI . |
| 14 | In Damascus some western diplomats argue that the Syrian army will keep out of any fighting , having achieved President Hafez Assad 's political aim of putting him in alliance with Egypt and Saudi Arabia . |
| 15 | He was in any case visibly touched that I should have gone to the lengths of copying the essay ; but in those days no other method of putting him in possession of it was available . |
| 16 | And certainly some Libyans , fearful of showing themselves in need of education , were willing to accept an officer 's definition of the rules which governed their transactions . |