Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firms which sell the weapons , driven by profit , become very sly and can trick their governments into allowing export of goods which are illegal . |
| 2 | Stephen and Bloom are brought together in the final stages of Ulysses so that at last the space of desperation can be closed , the vertical pull of Stephen 's iron ambition , set against the downward sucking force of Blooms ordinariness . |
| 3 | The failure properly to deal with troublesome residues among the masses , such as by allowing circulation of elites or by meting out violence where appropriate , may lead to the growth of ‘ Paretian tension ’ in the masses , civil unrest , revolution and ultimately the entire replacement of the decadent elite by a new governing elite . |
| 4 | However , he sought to establish University Extra-Mural Groups or Societies rather than use the County Federation of WEA branches in the promotion of extension classes through gaining support of Women 's Institutes and other voluntary organisations . |
| 5 | Omitting part of sentences on the assumption that an earlier sentence or the context will make the meaning clear is known as ellipsis . |
| 6 | One shortcoming of the experiments reported here is that the effect of TAGH in inducing phosphorlyation of membranes in vitro was only detected at high doses of TAGH . |
| 7 | He was pallid , and with every mark of approaching dissolution , excepting loss of spirits . |
| 8 | The Datapath Magician is a very impressive piece of equipment and must rate as an absolute must either for those users wanting more colours than their 512K card can manage or for those who find the screen redrawing speed of Windows too slow . |
| 9 | The LSUG is an active body with user group meetings enabling exchange of ideas , experiences , hints , criticisms and recommendations . |
| 10 | This openness and variation in level of the track , now giving views over a mile or so of green tree-crowns , now limiting the sky and showing on every side a steeply climbing hillside of columns , would have made their walking pleasant had it not been for the unseasonable heat of the day . |
| 11 | Leaving the secretariat were Lionel Soto Prieto and Jaime Crombet Hernández Baquero ( both becoming Council of Ministers Vice-Presidents ) ; and José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera , who was appointed ambassador in Moscow ( replacing Julio Camacho ) . |
| 12 | They were used in the development of the syntax and collocational components of RM1 and provide data on which these should do well , while offering a naturally occurring distribution of segments . |
| 13 | A pipe band coached by Forties platform manager Brian Lynch capped a memorable season by becoming champion of champions in their class . |
| 14 | It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement . |
| 15 | This consists of an intricate , anastomosing pattern of streamlets , often resembling a series of overlapping , deltaic distributaries . |
| 16 | A first stage is to re-emphasise the individualising and atomising role of states , these representing an important part of Weberian theory and Marx 's early speculations on the state . |
| 17 | Katharine Hancock , trading manager of Friends of the Earth , says : ‘ We welcome this kind of move from a mainstream manufacturer . ’ |
| 18 | No one could accuse me of delaying consideration of allegations of miscarriage of justice when they have been presented to me . |
| 19 | But if the dualist has difficulties explaining ascription of experiences , so does the materialist . |
| 20 | Besides anchorites who were physically enclosed , there were also those who led eremitical lives of greater physical mobility , preaching and teaching , sometimes performing labouring tasks like road-mending or keeping care of bridges , sometimes living more haphazardly off the charity of others . |
| 21 | It is this capacity to which RE must seek to relate , enabling transference of skills from the general to the religious sphere of enquiry . |
| 22 | She first noted what she calls a ‘ plague mentality ’ enveloping discussion of Aids in 1984 , and conceived the Masque of the Red Death trilogy of albums ( completed in 1988 ) and the Plague Mass as a dramatic revenge on the inaction or malice of those in government and the church — or among the ‘ decent people ’ who were propagating the idea that a biomedical condition was a moral verdict . |
| 23 | Schick ( 1972 p. 16 ) states that ‘ budgeting always has been conceived as a process for systematically relating expenditure of funds to the accomplishment of planned objectives ’ . |
| 24 | Earlier in this chapter the three key elements of rational approaches were identified as : relating expenditure of funds to fulfilling organisational objectives , a zero-based approach to choice and decision making and a multi-year time horizon for budgetary decision making . |
| 25 | The Optical Mark Reader , produced by Johnson and Pinnock , at £5,000 to £6,000 , is a cheaper and more effective way of keeping track of students . |
| 26 | Furthermore the overall effect of this circulation is to link together into a widely ramifying network of relationships a great number of individuals of quite different status and quite different cultural background . |
| 27 | The government and the ANC are bickering over the preconditions for negotiation — matters such as the bringing home of exiles and the release of political prisoners . |
| 28 | The baseball fan at the beginning of the century — free of the possibly inhibiting influence of women spectators and close enough to the playing field in those tiny ball parks to take immediate action against erring players or umpires — was , by all accounts , an abysmal churl . |
| 29 | ANC-government meeting on violence — Indemnity allowing return of exiles |
| 30 | Finally , using lysis of erythrocytes , we ascertained whether the decreased luminal solubility of fatty acids and bile acids affected the cytolytic potency of the intestinal contents . |