Example sentences of "[adj] of [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Morceli says he is ‘ 80 per cent ’ confident of providing himself with the perfect 23rd birthday present by eclipsing Eamonn Coghlan 's ten-year-old mile mark of 3min 49.78sec but Norman believes other records will also tumble , with Colin Jackson in the 60m hurdles and Murray providing the British challenge . |
| 32 | you 'd be better of posting it at a post box when you go cos they pick them up . |
| 33 | It is revealing in how clear f was and yet I managed to stop short of naming it as racism . |
| 34 | He stops short of handing it over himself , but gives it to me to give to her . |
| 35 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
| 36 | Meanwhile , on the other side of the door he was impatiently eyeing , Karen and I were locked in a windowless room about five feet by three , with no possibility of escape short of flushing ourselves down the lavatory . |
| 37 | For some unaccountable reason the horses drawing the cart stopped just inches short of crushing him to death . |
| 38 | Much of Muskie 's political fame was earned from his leadership in environmental affairs , which was now being eroded not only by Nixon 's proposals but also by a Ralph Nader report on air pollution which strongly criticized Muskie 's role in the past and just stopped short of accusing him of selling out to industrial polluters ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |
| 39 | The truth , she mused , as others had done before her , was an elusive element , and — short of shooting them in the kneecaps , or intermittently holding their heads under water there was little one could do to persuade people to reveal it . |
| 40 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 41 | How else , short of applying it to humans , could one test whether a particular extract contained the carcinogenic material ? |
| 42 | I 'm quite weary of doing it with a , with a full set and everything it 's , it 's , it 's , awfully tiring for taking the system |
| 43 | De Maizière , who had also accused the CDU on Aug. 27 of enriching itself to the tune of DM26,000,000 at the expense of the east German party ( an allegation he later withdrew ) , on Sept. 11 accused Kohl and the CDU of deliberately discrediting him . |
| 44 | But even if they did not , the style demanded players of exceptional calibre — who were becoming increasingly rare — and a manager capable of moulding them into an effective outfit ; in this no one measured up to Chapman . |
| 45 | Similarly , we could postulate some alien being capable of seeing nothing at all in the range of wavelengths we call ‘ light ’ but able to see a whole range of colours in the ultraviolet or infrared . |
| 46 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 48 | There is great potential in the land around the port in Belfast and it is important that , when that land is sold , it is sold to a company capable of developing it to the best advantage of the people of Belfast and Northern Ireland . |
| 49 | This strategy is capable of converting them from the least profitable product group to the most profitable — for a time . |
| 50 | The central-local relationship is dynamic and multi-dimensional , and no one model seems capable of portraying it in its entirety . |
| 51 | The plant forms a dense , tall tuft , capable of withstanding plenty of disturbance in the tank . |
| 52 | He was quite capable of flattening everything in his path when he gave vent to one of his rare but terrifying fits of temper . |
| 53 | A window box is more than capable of supplying you with some of the flowers you may want to press , and you can buy other flowers from a florist to supplement what you grow yourself . |
| 54 | Critical for hooking Alphas and VAXes , DEC said the platform would be protocol-independent , capable of handling everything from multi-vendor PC LANs to multi-vendor mainframes . |
| 55 | ‘ I came to my senses , ’ she said , economising with the truth until she felt more capable of handling it with any degree of calm . |
| 56 | The intellectual influence of the barbarians was , however , felt in the Hellenistic world only to the extent to which they were capable of expressing themselves in Greek . |
| 57 | The term conversation is widely used , in a non-technical sense , and people seem capable of distinguishing it from other kinds of talk . |
| 58 | Although Dicken 's Barnaby Rudge was a historical novel , set several decades before the period in which it was written , few modern readers are capable of distinguishing it from the author 's non-period writings . |
| 59 | ‘ Ten per cent of all plants are capable of leaving you with a red itchy rash or skin swelling , ’ adds Steven Wright . |
| 60 | Once this idea is accepted in principle , it remains to ask at what stage a grasp of the mutual dependence between social theory and social science might be capable of helping us with the problem of holism . |