Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Synod will divulge a degree of flex no , quite seriously , a degree of flexibility and we 're grateful both to Eileen and er , to John for allowing that degree of flexibility to take place . |
| 2 | Knowing that the village is close at hand , that the inn and the villagers will be awake for hours yet of summer light to welcome me , I linger , enjoying that expectancy of pleasure that is perhaps the most pleasurable part of a journey home . |
| 3 | ‘ I was enjoying that cup of tea , ’ he said mournfully . |
| 4 | Hollywood had always been able to recruit actors who could authentically depict urban working men and by the end of the silent era Bickford and Beery had almost achieved perfection in suggesting that kind of independence that grew out of a tough upbringing and an even tougher manhood . |
| 5 | After five terms I moved into Surrey to become head of the history department in Wallington County Grammar School for Boys and to work away for five years at doing what grammar schools were most proud of : helping boys to win awards at Oxford or Cambridge , urging ever-growing numbers of them successfully through public examinations , encouraging that sense of discipline and order which characterized the traditional Public and grammar school , wearing a gown , sustaining the prefect system . |
| 6 | What change of perception in the security situation has led to our accepting that diminution of capability . |
| 7 | You 've got ta keep using that sort of imagination to actually keep seizing people 's imagination . |
| 8 | It is in the context of such liturgical and meditative patterning of the Passion narrative that the two most powerful meditations attributed to Rolle should be studied in order to understand their full potential for helping that transformation of consciousness which is at the heart of mystical experience . |
| 9 | In particular I think it should be recognised that the role of the unions , NALGO and G M D in helping that process of change has been quite fundamental and for that reason , because we appreciate and value the essential way in which the unions have contributed to the process of changing the organisation I consider that the they much trailed proposals from the opposition groups to cut , or in the other case , to reduce the NALGO office are quite misguided . |
| 10 | ‘ We must not start accusing each other of murder . |
| 11 | Flashing that kind of money in this kind of joint could lead to either of two things , a uniformed policeman or a chippie . |
| 12 | Maintaining that sum of money ( which 20 years ago was the threshold of affluence ) is like trying to keep a snowball in your pocket by waiting until winter comes . |
| 13 | But to be honest I should n't be eating that sort of thing anyway , so |
| 14 | Obituaries stressed his standing as master silversmith , ‘ very instrumental in bringing that Branch of Trade to the Perfection it is now in ’ . |
| 15 | Difficulty in maintaining coherent flow of thought . |
| 16 | ( B ) Various C-terminal deletion r74s were assayed with r30 using each amount of protein shown in Fig. 2A. 1 . |
| 17 | This spreading effect means that insurance risk is often confused with Broadway risk , A corporation that says , " let us spread the-risk by not putting all our eggs in one basket " is using neither type of risk effectively . |
| 18 | If Thatcher ends up opposing that sort of modernisation of institutions , then she will deserve to be denounced as simply reactionary and perverse . |
| 19 | They all laughed as Nikos relieved the momentary tension by producing another bottle of wine and proceeded to fill fresh glasses . |
| 20 | Erm I 'd like just to re remind the county if I could about the question I did put in my opening er remarks that er we would like some view from them as to whether if their if their strategic exceptions policy is n't er ultimately included in the structure plan they would object to the principle of us er pursuing this sort of approach through our local plan . |
| 21 | Although no such crops are as yet commercially available , agrochemical companies are actively pursuing this line of research and a number of potential developments have been discussed by Chaleff ( 1986 ) and Buck ( 1989 ) . |
| 22 | In imputing this degree of credulity to people who live far away in foreign cultures , is the anthropologist liable to be careless in the way he asks his questions ? |
| 23 | Well the growth area section in ten , part of that is again , again , maintaining this level of service , er so if I move on to er the savings under paragraph nine , bottom of the pink sheet . |
| 24 | About 200 people reported seeing some kind of craft landing near the base in 1980 . |
| 25 | Unfortunately it is often the case that writers do not allow themselves to be so free in autobiographical disclosures as to say exactly how they felt on seeing some work of art . |
| 26 | ‘ For the first time since the start of the recession , ’ said Mr Hayward we may be seeing some glimmer of light , particularly as the figures tie in with the slight decrease in receiverships this quarter and with recent reports of an increase in business optimism . |
| 27 | So the net welfare gains of allowing free movement of capital are equal to area 8 plus half the shaded area . |
| 28 | This leaves areas 2 and 5 as net welfare gains of allowing free movement of labour . |
| 29 | Although Said rejects them , and Foucault characteristically does not mention them , the most effective ploys that have recently been played in this project of articulating another form of knowledge , of redefining the basis of knowledge as such , derive from a different although related body of work to that which Foucault describes — namely the phenomenological tradition of Heidegger , Levinas , and Derrida , which , seemingly like all twentieth-century European philosophy , also traces its apparent origins back to Husserl . |
| 30 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality . |