Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is convenient that , in addition to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence , the Cabinet should include at least one , and preferably two , Ministers without Departmental duties who can act as Chairman of Standing Committees . |
| 2 | Er we want to er develop a training programme for part of selling skills training programme for partners and senior senior managers , senior er members of staff . |
| 3 | In Cleveland to the North , we have a deprived area er by any standard which is making valiant efforts to make provisions to retain er its own population as part of regenerating county Cleveland . |
| 4 | Certainly , the notion that limited liability is of itself a denial of the very skills and integrity being held out by a professional to the rest of the world may be outdated in the light of the size and type of projects now being undertaken as part of surveying practice . |
| 5 | In some countries HIS have been developed as part of strengthening health management ( SHM ) moves . |
| 6 | December : Barlow Clowes misses DTI deadline for submission of monitoring returns . |
| 7 | If the plaintiff is going to seek additional damages for loss of earning capacity this , too , must be specifically pleaded in order to give the defendant proper notice ( Chan Wai Tong v Li Ping Sum [ 1985 ] 2 WLR 396 ) . |
| 8 | Cover is in respect of the Insured 's Legal Liability and will therefore include negligent breakdown and cover for loss of hiring charges payable to the owner of the plant . |
| 9 | The Institute of Psychiatry at the Royal Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals in London reports that men who live alone are more prone to alcoholism or social phobias ( such as fear of meeting people ) . |
| 10 | According to commentators Gorbachev had been opposed to the formation of the party , for fear of allowing conservatives to create a power base and of exacerbating splits in the CPSU . |
| 11 | At the same time , although the government did not have the resources to finance adequate re-capitalisation , it was unwilling to close mills for fear of creating unemployment . |
| 12 | Attempts to " cool " the economy were made partly for fear of rising inflation ; in October 1989 the Finance Minister , Daim Zainuddin , acknowledged that rapid economic expansion had fuelled inflation from 2.5 per cent in 1988 to 4 per cent in 1989 with only a marginal change expected in 1990 . |
| 13 | The commissioners said they denied Mr Stone 's request to use this floor for fear of disrupting museum visitors . |
| 14 | The College does not want to use security guards for fear of disrupting college life . |
| 15 | Although the US 1988 Indian Gaming Act allowed casinos on reservations only with the agreement of the local state , the authorities had been reluctant to act against the St Regis establishments for fear of violating treaties guaranteeing the sovereignty of the reservation . |
| 16 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 17 | This is coupled with a situation where the local authority , having in the first place backed a particular scheme such as mink-farm construction on Trondra , is reluctant to make a U-turn in its attitude for fear of incurring compensation costs . |
| 18 | ‘ Only mama shall know our secret — she has already expressed the intention of concealing the nature of my illness , for fear of arousing alarm . |
| 19 | Already exhausted from her night 's activities , she was also acutely aware that she must give no sign of tiredness for fear of arousing suspicion . |
| 20 | For fear of seeing walking |
| 21 | A proposed programme of resettlement from the most overpopulated areas was shelved for fear of raising peasant expectations and unleashing dangerous mass migration . |
| 22 | David Broder argues PACs are a threat to the democratic ideal leading to gutless government , which avoids taking controversial stances for fear of losing PAC support . |
| 23 | In the England of Edward I , if the great feudatories had refused payment for fear of losing caste , by the reign of Edward III all were ‘ now prepared to accept wages for military service ’ . |
| 24 | He was told about Sutton and Penge depôts which he visited and found well run , particularly Penge for fear of losing face with the Corporation , who maintained high standards . |
| 25 | Most of the DTB 's terminals are located in Germany , as the banks have discouraged the use of trans-frontier terminals for fear of losing broking business to non-German firms . |
| 26 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 27 | High levels of tension can lead to rigid control ; some people when learning to relax report being afraid to go too deeply into the exercises for fear of losing control . |
| 28 | And while he was reared on metal and later discovered punk — but did n't necessarily subscribe to the attitudes for fear of losing individuality — he appreciates the blues . |
| 29 | An experienced teacher may be wary of revealing uncertainties for fear of losing status in the eyes of colleagues , or perhaps the chance of promotion . |
| 30 | Although Crawford had intended to do only one series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , for fear of becoming typecast , the impact of Frank Spencer persuaded him to make another six episodes , which were broadcast at the end of 1973 . |