Example sentences of "[adv] of [v-ing] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Lou Macari saga moves into its second week , Celtic had the task yesterday of facing league leaders Hibs under caretaker manager Frank Connor . |
| 2 | Alternatively , some subjects may be best served by the building up of circulating subject collections , for which special allocation would generally be made . |
| 3 | ‘ As I was saying , Christina , I can assure you that Tropical Island Interiors will take all the worry and stress out of furnishing Crystal Springs Hotel . ’ |
| 4 | Until 1910 the chief sponsor of the union was the Liberal Party , which saw political capital to be made out of organizing farm workers in the Tory rural strongholds , but in that year a strike in the Norfolk village of St Faith 's evoked accusations of a Liberal sell-out and provoked the membership to cut its ties with the Liberal Party . |
| 5 | Apple appeal Graham Rice takes the graft out of choosing apple rootstocks and varieties as he visits a specialist fruit tree nursery . |
| 6 | It 's clean , quick and simple — taking the mess out of cutting flower stems because it retains all the cut stems in the glass decanter until you actually want to discard them . |
| 7 | New techniques take the strain out of treating groin hernias |
| 8 | While this saves the lenders thousands on administration bills , it does tend to take the thrill out of falling interest rates . |
| 9 | A new service for golfers on the Algarve coast aims to take the hassle out of booking tee times on holiday courses . |
| 10 | Whereas the view of mid-century literature as preromantic was effectively demolished by Northrop Frye there is a danger now of regarding women writers as pilgrims on the way to modern feminism , or at least to some recognizable place in the history of women 's writing . |
| 11 | What is important is the recognition that curricular decision-making is a process of assigning value and particularly of resolving value conflicts — a practical rather than theoretical activity . |
| 12 | But instead of reading aeroplane comics and moping around you should be making sure your pride and joy is in a fit state to survive the winter — and ready for any of those all too infrequent sharp-edged days that appear out of nowhere and vanish just as quickly . |
| 13 | Even young Mr Yardley had to be a possibility , if Mrs Doran was right and he had been ‘ hanging around ’ the tent instead of pursuing job opportunities in Burford . |
| 14 | Instead of using paint brushes or photographs , she articulates her genitalia . ’ |
| 15 | So instead of specifying case frames ( or indeed semantic features ) for each individual word , Schank only needs to provide case frames for the primitives . |
| 16 | Instead of attacking trade unions , why does not the right hon. and learned Gentleman attack unemployment ? |
| 17 | Instead of raising samurai stipends , daimyo , who were in straits themselves , shifted the burden to their followers by , in part , withholding the stipends . |
| 18 | Before the changes contained in the Children Act 1989 came into effect the LEA , when contemplating prosecution , had to consider the appropriateness or otherwise of instituting care proceedings under section 1 ( 2 ) ( e ) of the Children and Young Persons Act ( CYPA ) in the juvenile court ( on the ground that a child was ‘ not receiving full-time education suitable to his age , ability and aptitude ’ ) , instead of or as well as prosecuting ( see Education Act 1944 section 40(2) ) . |