Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mice showed symptoms of poisoning by the Alexandrium toxins produced by phytoplankton , but comparisons with known Alexandrium toxins proved negative . |
| 2 | Yet this was a period when the English Civil War was at its height ; from the coins themselves we would never have suspected that such a large proportion of minting in the war years of 1639–47 was the result of a commercial agreement between the two countries and not just of the high levels of expenditure caused by the war . |
| 3 | Huge stiffened but graceful garlands were hung from twenty-four tiny hooks set round the gallery parapet , and were constructed so cleverly that they gave the impression of winding around the gallery pillars . |
| 4 | Although the City Council paid the bill for dry cleaning he never forgot the smell or the indignity of walking through the City streets on a summer evening drenched in manure . |
| 5 | More frequently , the cause of problems can be traced to an excessive desire to stick to policies or to a lack of understanding by the planning officers of the realities of life for developers and occupiers of property . |
| 6 | ‘ Richardson had a chance of qualifying in the world championships but he failed and now he has won his place the officials think that their choice was justified , but it was not . ’ |
| 7 | Vecchi was a small timer who earned some kind of living around the pool rooms . |
| 8 | Next time you visit Fenland Aviation Museum , make a point of looking at the photograph albums pertaining to the Merlin 's strip-down . |
| 9 | Charlton 's seven-year love affair with the Irish shows no signs of heading for the divorce courts . |
| 10 | Perhaps she thought of turning on the car lights , but decided not to ; it would waste time , and it would n't be much use because the car was angled away from the fire escape . |
| 11 | I also suspect that all the major players will shortly move to 400dpi as their base resolution , it 's probably only a question of waiting for the engine manufacturers to get production rolling for the new CCITT Group IV facsimile standard and then taking the excess . |
| 12 | In a tract written in defence of the petitioners , Lord Somers , the Junto chief , bitterly inveighed against the House of Commons , accusing it of encroaching upon the executive powers of the Crown by seeking to impose punishments without the King 's authority . |
| 13 | I can honestly say that the most painful bit of going to the blood donors is the next day when you come to rip the sticky plaster off your arm ( even more so if you 've got as much hair as Arthur Upton ! ) so , if you 've never been — give it a go . |
| 14 | He lost five of the first seven holes in the afternoon and was in danger of going into the record books as Wentworth 's bloodiest casualty . |
| 15 | When the time comes , the hon. Gentleman will have the pleasure — if he holds his seat — of staying on the Opposition Benches . |
| 16 | FRED 2 proposes a limited amendment ( the insertion of three new paragraphs ) to SSAP 15 that will permit companies , where they consider it appropriate , to use the same basis of accounting for the tax implications of pensions and other post-retirement benefits as for the obligations themselves . |
| 17 | The exposure draft proposes an amendment to SSAP 15 to allow companies to use the same basis of accounting for the tax implications of pensions and other post-retirement benefits as for the obligations themselves . |
| 18 | There 's not much chance of wearing through the Vibram soles of these Veta V Daisy Roots though . |
| 19 | The Association also acts as an information centre for all aspects of teaching in the member schools . |
| 20 | As we approach the end of the diet and exercise programme , it is important to decide at this stage how you intend to proceed afterwards.If you have a significant amount of weight to lose you have the choice of continuing on the diet menus as included in the daily plans or you can follow the diet contained in my Complete Hip and Thigh Diet . |
| 21 | The value of linking with the cable companies has other , more traditional , advantages . |
| 22 | I had no idea what I was looking for and certainly no intention of starting on the filing cabinets . |
| 23 | The relatively less marked advantage for American banks of issuing in the euro markets explains the fall in issuance by American banks in the late 1980s and into the 1990s . |
| 24 | The probable sequence of events in erecting such a structure would begin with the excavation of the flat-bottomed wall-trenches dug into the chalk which , judging from the evidence of signs of pecking on the trench sides , were made with a pointed tool . |
| 25 | erm we 're not expecting to see a huge amount of discounting in the summer months , so erm because the capacity that was on the market this year is going to very much match the demand from customers |
| 26 | Characteristically one finds chills with a sensation of ice water running in the blood vessels , this leads to an intensely hot fever with a sensation of boiling in the blood vessels , then comes the sweat and prostration with marked chilliness . |
| 27 | As for the militias , however zealous and heroic , they had no chance of triumphing over the Nationalist armies . |
| 28 | Apart from the huge expense of acceding to the health workers ' demands , defeat for the Government would have brought in its train a series of demands from other workers which it would have found hard to resist . … |
| 29 | The Italians lost in the league on Sunday but they 're still confident of progressing to the quarter finals of the Cup winners ' cup by holding on to their one goal advantage . |
| 30 | Their function is simply that of dealing with the business aspects of terrace life and of negotiating with the outside world . |