Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the example given above , for instance , the value of the site for which planning permission for housing development was given might be increased by virtue of the fact that it was refused on the second site . |
| 2 | Norman MacAskill , Inverness , said the Conservatives ' case for re-structuring councils was fraudulent , as the majority of those who wanted single-tier councils saw it as part of the move to a Scottish parliament . |
| 3 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |
| 4 | The other Edinburgh alternative for buying gear was the prestigious Jenners shop which was too expensive for most hill gangrels . |
| 5 | For Jeremiah , the result of obeying God was that the prophet came into conflict with many people and our passage this evening told how he was beaten and chained overnight . |
| 6 | Lehzen was blamed , probably wrongly , for the queen 's ineptness in the Lady Flora Hastings [ q.v. ] affair , and fear of losing Lehzen was a major contribution to the queen 's stubbornness in the ‘ bedchamber crisis ’ of 1839 . |
| 7 | A further indictment of editing practice was provided by BBC 2 's Brass Tacks programme of 30 November 1985 . |
| 8 | What does seem more difficult to believe , however , is that the practice of carrying firearms was habitual among Hooligans . |
| 9 | For just one fleeting moment , Robbie visualised a long warm sultry afternoon in her cabin or on Water Gypsy 's deck , with the subtle torture of knowing Fen was close at hand but totally unavailable . |
| 10 | The rent was low , 7 guilders a month ; the expense of buying furniture was the problem . |
| 11 | He was more concerned with the work in hand and he pointed out to Jackson that the expense of making trials was great . |
| 12 | Furthermore , all patients that were perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody positive before treatment remained positive after treatment , and no apparent decrease in staining intensity was noted . |
| 13 | With the new structure plan/local plan system , the preparation of planning proposals was done in two stages : draft and final , with exposure to public consultation . |
| 14 | Dr Linebaugh has suggested that much so-called criminal activity on the part of working people was identified in the process of transformation of the wage from a form in which money constituted a substantial part of the wage to one based wholly on it . |
| 15 | Viscount Dilhorne would also have dismissed the case because the function of granting leave was administrative and not judicial . |
| 16 | so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’ |
| 17 | The same kind of yelping small-mindedness was shown when Thatcher refused to allow Roy Jenkins to take part in the Cenotaph service . |
| 18 | Ianthe smiled uneasily , feeling that some kind of guessing game was being played between them and that she ought to play her part by making a suggestion as to what the work could have been . |
| 19 | The perceived difficulty of ending marriages was doubtless one of the reasons for the increased concern with wife-battering which was of major import in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 20 | This introduction of tenure as a component of planning policy was not wholly new . |
| 21 | Yet their experience of studying physics was far from exciting . |
| 22 | He refused all these , ‘ not on the ground that he was not employed to go there , but on the basis that he thought the opportunity of earning overtime was not good ’ . |
| 23 | The principal vehicle for implementing change was the dissemination of the company plan mapping out the route to cost competitiveness through work reorganization . |
| 24 | Liking , let alone loving , had never been a requisite for the majority of men whose capacity for making love was triggered more by the physical attributes of a woman than the quality of her personality or character ! |
| 25 | The LDP 's previous proposal for voting reform was to replace the Japanese system with a first-past-the-post system . |
| 26 | But , at the same time , if the main part of the planning system was to remain , some limit to the liability to compensation for planning restrictions was essential . |
| 27 | Capellan hands directed the operations , Capellan machinery accomplished the construction , but it was by and for the humans of Earth , her nearest neighbour , that the great work of habilitating Mars was undertaken . |
| 28 | This appears especially curious as the issue of providing powers was assuming considerable national importance for the WEA which in 1929 was pressing for retention of its Chapter III providing powers during the Board of Education 's review of the 1924 Regulations . |
| 29 | The journey through the zone of gusting time was terrifying . |
| 30 | His business prospered , but his rise to prominence in printing circles was attributable to his contacts with the Tory party . |