Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pos pn] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no fear of his not knowing she did not like it either as , leaning back in his chair , he began easily , ‘ I propose , after much thought , ’ he added silkily , charm there in abundance , ‘ to … ’ he paused , and even smiled ‘ … to take you over as my girlfriend . ’ |
| 2 | Both the problem and the interest of the sociology of culture can be seen at once in the difficulty of its apparently defining term : ‘ culture ’ . |
| 3 | Throughout the period , the District appeared to develop a policy of containment of its gradually mounting deficit and became habituated to an existence of permanent indebtedness . |
| 4 | She took a sip of her coffee and said , ‘ You seem to be making quite an issue of my not telling you , and I ca n't think why — especially if , as you say , you hardly knew Elise . ’ |
| 5 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 6 | Second , differentiation theory as developed here envisages no mechanism for generating acquired equivalence , whereas secondary generalization between two stimuli on the basis of their both having associations with some other , common event is at the heart of the mediation theory . |
| 7 | Elaine and Ethel and Nell and Mary — the Girls , as the two nans called them , fondly sometimes , but more often in despair of their ever growing up . |
| 8 | Iraq on Feb. 15 announced an offer to withdraw from Kuwait , complying with UN Security Council Resolution 660 , provided that ( i ) there was a complete ceasefire ; ( ii ) all subsequent resolutions on the conflict were annulled and economic sanctions lifted ; ( iii ) coalition forces withdrew completely from the region within one month of a ceasefire being declared ; ( iv ) Israel withdrew " from Palestine and the Arab territories it is occupying in the Golan and southern Lebanon " , or that in the event of its not doing so the UN passed against Israel resolutions identical to those passed against Iraq ; ( v ) Iraq 's " historical rights on land and at sea " were guaranteed ; and ( vi ) the " political arrangement to be agreed " should proceed from " the people 's will and in accordance with democratic practice " , and not on the basis of " the rights acquired by the al-Sabah family " . |
| 9 | In the unlikely event of our ever having a socialist Government again could not we expect to return to those appalling figures of industrial anarchy ? |
| 10 | There is evidence of their closely co-ordinating their activities . |
| 11 | Rivers — to return to that earlier example — appear throughout the new albums , but there is no sense of their actually curving through a realised dramatic landscape . |
| 12 | Developed with expert knowledge of the original Indian text , it creates a sense of well-being and fulfilment that improves every aspect of your day-today living . |
| 13 | As it is , I think every hour that passes increases the risk of your not seeing your daughter again whether you pay the ransom or not , and that by paying you may well be signing her death warrant . |
| 14 | With children there is a problem of their not appreciating the danger , or not being able to read . |
| 15 | I got the impression that Jean-Claude had been so certain that his relationship with his sister was the most singular she would ever make , that the mere fact of their not living under the same roof would do nothing to erode what they had together . |
| 16 | The Pre-Raphaelites were a specializing formation with ambiguous and eventually alternative relations with a rising commercial bourgeoisie : dissident but at some levels representative of their still forming cultural ( decorative ) intentions . |