Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evening breeze also brought the sounds of singing and he recognised the lusty bellowing of Ranulf . |
| 2 | You can occasionally pick up such things at local auctions , but it is largely a matter of searching until you find the right one at the right price . |
| 3 | And he 's so scared of ageing that he tries every anti-wrinkle cream available . |
| 4 | Benjamin was on the point of replying when we heard the clip-clop of horses ' hooves and saw Doctor Agrippa making his way slowly towards us ; his mount , a gentle cob , ambling along as if it was a balmy summer 's day . |
| 5 | During the hearing , he claimed that Chapman and the directors knew of this and accused the manager of lying when he told the commission he did not know . |
| 6 | The prisoners can each be sure of benefiting if they have a previously agreed pact never to confess , whatever the circumstances . |
| 7 | Its urgent overall rhythm commands the choreographer to keep the dancers moving forever onwards with greater intensity to the climax , whilst the shorter phrase rhythms give the Chosen Maiden and smaller groups such ways of moving that they hold the audience 's full attention until the fall of the curtain . |
| 8 | Hegel believed that a substance was exhausted by the sum of its predicates , which is another way of saying that he identified the categories of the German language with those of abstract thought , and those of abstract thought , in turn with those of Mind or Geist . |
| 9 | In reading , or being read to , one has the security of knowing that one has the ability to withdraw from the emotional situation as soon as one wishes or needs to do so . |
| 10 | Obviously we shall never know whether fossil species were capable of interbreeding until somebody invents a time machine , and we can go back and see for ourselves ! |
| 11 | They put up spinning-rods , and clutching a can of worms each , set off round the bank , in spite of admitting that they had no authority to do so . |
| 12 | ANY golfer will tell you that you stand little chance of winning unless you keep a close eye on the scorecard . |
| 13 | ( Of course , no utterances are safe from the post-Freudian trick of claiming that they mean the opposite of what they say , but in the interpretation of literary texts we must be given additional , fairly unequivocal evidence of a discrepancy between speech and meaning , as we are given for Iago , but not for Othello . ) |
| 14 | The solipsist is in the position of claiming that he has a language in which he describes his present and past experiences , and perhaps speculates about the future . |
| 15 | Obedience is part of the maker 's instructions , and there is no guaranteed success without it ; for obedience is a God-created way of ensuring that we learn the right habits of living in our early years . |
| 16 | Instead of realizing that they have a right to say , if God has no respect for persons , why should men be ? |