Example sentences of "of [verb] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And adults do not need to be on the verge of shouting or crying for these mechanisms to be involved . |
| 32 | However , the diversity of the range of information and its potentially extensive scope do require consideration of the methods by which the data may be collected and thereby offers an opportunity for the development of more creative ways of defining and discussing with older people these various areas of their lives . |
| 33 | There is an elaborate system of inspecting and reporting at the local level , and monitoring at the national level by the Council for the Care of Churches , and at diocesan level by Diocesan Advisory Committees . |
| 34 | And apart from certain specialised domains ( the lexicon of skateboarding or knitting for example ) you will also find few words whose source is a text written by somebody working class , or black , or for that matter female . |
| 35 | Nausea of vomiting or retching with great anxiety . |
| 36 | The BLISS survey , compiled in spring this year , also found examples of understaffing and under-resourcing on wards . |
| 37 | The noises of scuttling and rustling on the concrete floor . |
| 38 | It will also be a time of rejoicing and feasting in the Messianic banquet ( Matt. |
| 39 | Second , despite the state 's vast law-enforcement apparatus it appears increasingly incapable of securing and maintaining for its citizens the wholesomeness and amenity of their physical environment , or even the long-term physical well-being of the citizens themselves . |
| 40 | If the latter , is it the case that we are acquainted with the concepts of trumping and revoking through attending to these feelings , and have somehow managed to devise a game with activities which are as perfect an expression of them as , say , Pablo Picasso 's 1937 painting of a Weeping Woman is an expression of grief ? |
| 41 | In short , do we get at the concepts of trumping and revoking through attending to our feelings , or through attending to the use , in the game , of the trump-cards ? |
| 42 | Carp are capable of growing and thriving in both small and large lakes . |
| 43 | Some people go out armed for hours of waiting and watching with flasks of hot tea and coffee but , with a good pair of binoculars , badgers can be watched in comfort from the roadside . |
| 44 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 45 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 46 | Austrian parents do not have to suffer the embarrassment of going and asking for charity just to send their children to school looking like everyone else . |
| 47 | Yes , I mean this is the point I 'll be developing later , later in , in , in the lectures , I 'm currently spending a lot of time kind of researching and thinking about this , but i i it 's ultimately the question of genes affect behaviour and more and more I come to the to the view that they probably do so erm through what we call our emotions , that our genes kind of erm guide us to do so and things through various subjective feelings like when we 're hungry , we , we know we 're hungry and it 's a subjective feeling of hunger . |
| 48 | There is no absolute way of describing or engaging with the world ; only an infinite number of ways of doing so . |
| 49 | Others may buy UnixWare with the intention of adding or upgrading to a NetWare network in the future . |
| 50 | Drug use can put us at risk of getting or passing on HIV through unsafe sex and through sharing works |
| 51 | It 's so refreshing to see a motley crew of urchins , trendies and ravers like Sunscreem making total unself-conscious idiots of themselves on a stage instead of prancing and preening like twats . |
| 52 | Times of meals , flexibility about times of rising and going to bed . |
| 53 | Given the conventional wisdom that any change in tax affairs should be put into effect before 5 April , allied to Bernard 's natural impulsiveness and Laura 's love of buying and doing up old houses , the haste with which the Ashleys moved out of Britain in the spring of 1978 is easily understood . |
| 54 | From motherhood onwards , women are automatically slotted into the role of nurturing and tending to the needs of others . |
| 55 | The reasons for the difference in treatment of gilding and silvering by the Romans is not clear . |
| 56 | Basil realized the importance of providing and caring for " 'the right tools for the job " and the Art materials should be presented in an attractive way . |
| 57 | I would welcome any information on this and I am particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has experience of facilitating or participating in any such evaluation . |
| 58 | By sheer force of will she ignored the sounds of pattering and gnawing near the body in the corner . |
| 59 | I was happy to agree with this because it seemed to me that teachers were not ready for all the problems of assessment of speaking and listening for pupils aged 14 to 16 , and for the profile component to be given a 20 per cent weighting would be a considerable step forward . |
| 60 | Our inclusion of speaking and listening as a separate profile component in our recommendations is a reflection of our conviction that they are of central importance to children 's development . |