Example sentences of "of [v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glaring difficulties of attaching an imagistic label to minimalist/formal of conceptual artists such as Serra , Anselmo , Sonnier , Nauman , Morris and Long are ignored . |
| 2 | ( The offence would be one of administering a noxious thing with intent to injure or annoy contrary to s.24 of the OAPA . ) |
| 3 | As we have seen ( Chapter 3 ) , Cunningham [ 1957 ] 2 QB 396 held that on a charge of administering a noxious thing under s.23 of the OAPA recklessness was defined as : did the accused himself foresee the consequence ? |
| 4 | Accordingly every politician was confronted with the sometimes unpleasant duty of suggesting a suitable replacement for a deceased minister after a delicate balancing of the claims of potential candidates . |
| 5 | Quite apart from the habit of medieval monarchs of using a restricted number of names ( e.g. , Edward in England or Alfonso in Spain ) , it was not unusual for ‘ posthumous ’ coinages to be made in the name of a previous king . |
| 6 | This idea of using a homoeopathic potency of a poison to counteract the effects of that poison — in other words , isopathy — has been extended to study the effects of potencies of mercury in mercury poisoning . |
| 7 | The advantage of using a sound-based code with working memory is that it produces memories which are more durable than those based upon a purely visual code , and this gives us more time to calculate the meaning of the sentence . |
| 8 | It 's Stuart , instead of using a full stop between the two short sentences , you could use a conjunction to join them together , which would give you one sentence . |
| 9 | Rape consists of using a human being as an object only . |
| 10 | We will set ourselves the objective of increasing the degree of consonance still further , and therefore the bass will be kept consonant with all upper parts : Though the effect of this is quite good , indeed smooth and sonorous , the concept of using a bass consonant with all upper parts has produced chords which are either diminished 7ths ( chord 1 ) or contain major or minor chords . |
| 11 | practice of using a white number on a small blue plate hung on the first window pillar . |
| 12 | With entries up 20 per cent , the organisers are looking at the possibility of using an additional hall for the event . |
| 13 | We must beware of using an excessive number of motifs . |
| 14 | The problem of drawing a legal line between moral outrage and individual freedom has become intractable at a time when one person 's obscenity is another person 's bedtime reading . |
| 15 | Thus one might treat it as an argument that is designed not so much to challenge the meaningfulness of applying identity to objects qua ontological existents " out there " as to expose the difficulties of drawing a clear distinction between the numerical and the qualitative ( or species ) identity in relation to such objects . |
| 16 | The Forum has also outlined its goal of submitting a full specification of the technology to the influential Internet Engineering Task Force , IETF , by the middle of next year . |
| 17 | In 1662 the English government allocated £2,000 to meet the costs of maintaining a Russian ambassador during his short stay in London ; and two decades later another , after much argument , forced his hosts to allow him £100 a week — twice as much as he had originally been offered . |
| 18 | Tripartisme was then at an end , and the problem of maintaining a stable government in the new Republic then became extremely difficult . |
| 19 | But he would not countenance a " Party within a Party , " and the NAC had to face up to the consequences of maintaining a separate party in Parliament . |
| 20 | He was in turn replaced by Sydney Box who , while reinstating Black 's policy of maintaining a broad range of films and enlarging the script department , run by his wife Muriel , to develop original stories and train new writers , gave a twist to the company 's film production that looks more like deference to Rank 's demand for moral uplift than a full-hearted pursuit of the popular audience . |
| 21 | CLIVE DID NOT like the idea of spending the early evening with Amelia Dorf 's crowd of goat rapists and rich sickies , but as an entrepreneur he knew the importance of maintaining a personal relationship with his best customers . |
| 22 | In general the tactic of maintaining a parallel organization within the unions was a failure . |
| 23 | The Battle of the Boyne had shaken his confidence in James 's value as an ally and his admirals were well aware of the difficulty of maintaining a large fleet in the Channel , with no port east of Brest able to accommodate their large ships whatever the state of the tide and wind , while the English fleet had a choice of harbours from Plymouth to Chatham , and of splendid natural anchorages from Torbay , via Portland , the Downs and the Nore , to the Gunfleet , usable in any weather . |
| 24 | An outer β -strand in the protein G domain forms an antiparallel interaction with the last β -strand in the constant heavy chain domain of the immunoglobulin , thus extending the β -sheet into the protein G. The interaction between secondary structural elements in Fab and protein G provides an ingenious solution to the problem of maintaining a high affinity for many different IgG molecules . |
| 25 | Proposals to introduce mandatory re-entry programmes for nurses and health visitors linked to periodic relicensing are one way of maintaining a safe level of practice , and a logical step forward in promoting the importance of maintaining such safety . |
| 26 | Both political and economic factors influence the AL of maintaining a safe environment to a very great degree . |
| 27 | Nurses are concerned with the AL of maintaining a safe environment in relation to individual patients but , at the same time , must bear in mind the safety of others . |
| 28 | Fig. 6.9 The AL of maintaining a safe environment within the model for nursing |
| 29 | With rising prices the cost of maintaining a prosperous style of life also rose , and the growth both of the Labour party and of the trade unions perhaps destroyed hopes that charity could put an end to social and political divisions . |
| 30 | Kingfisher quoted the £30 000-£80 000 range , the large car-hire firm questioned mentioned their policy of maintaining a bottom limit of £30 000 , and the international mining conglomerate which responded to the survey stated a top limit of £100 000 . |