Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue of parental concern had been resolved , at least for the time being , and Rick and his department could proceed with their curriculum development without the spectre of parental complaint haunting them . |
| 2 | Yet in spite of the increasing number of school libraries ( and the growing number of professional librarians running them , albeit still an unsatisfactorily small number ) the public library can and still does offer a useful user education service to schoolchildren . |
| 3 | This is an understandable reaction to some of the less interesting programmes of what turns out in practice to be a kind of " library drill " : aimless trots through catalogues and reference books by pupils carrying work-cards or slips of typed paper setting them questions to answer which nobody apart from a desperate teacher-librarian would ever think to ask . |
| 4 | To finish , we should emphasise that the kind of short-term contract working we have observed in manufacturing is a specific phenomenon . |
| 5 | For all the talk of ‘ cuts ’ , state spending on health has increased by nearly a third in real terms since 1979 , and as a share of total public spending it has moved from 14 per cent in 1978 — 9 to 16 per cent in 1988 — 9 . |
| 6 | She was n't aware of his putting the comb aside , only of strong hands turning her so that she lay across his knees . |
| 7 | His presence at Bath indicates the town 's prosperity and perhaps reflects the concentration of rich villas surrounding it . |
| 8 | Ruth jerked round , the sheer force of that voice turning her . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a breath of fresh air having you around , ’ I said . |
| 10 | Their salinities vary according to how long ago their waters were left to evaporate , and the amount of fresh water entering them annually ; of the four main lakes , Deep Lake , the deepest ( 34 m ) and most salty , has a mean salinity of approximately 280ppt , roughly eight times that of sea water and similar in density to Dead Sea water . |
| 11 | At corner Inn the ostlers were the only visible representatives , and the doors were still closed ; but at the village a number of the natives were astir , and came to a little stone pier where a boat 's crew were exchanging for the coin of the realm the sparkling treasure netted in the night season , and many of the lodgers would have the freshest of fresh herrings waiting them for breakfast . |
| 12 | There are a couple of French soldiers following us , but fortunately I do n't think they can speak German . ’ |
| 13 | He looked up at the circle of menacing faces surrounding him . |
| 14 | He was a chronic liar and had delusions of sexual conquest involving her and another psychiatrist . |
| 15 | Through the waves of dizziness that made consciousness ebb and flow she was vaguely aware of voices , of being transferred to someone else , then of careful hands lowering her into waiting arms . |
| 16 | One interesting feature of this discovery seems to me that it 's been a combination of different individuals approaching it almost laterally , in a sense , because you 're not an astronomer , particularly , are you ? |
| 17 | The other acts as a pickup coil producing a voltage proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux linking it . |
| 18 | Blind off the sub-base with a layer of coarse sand allowing it to fill the remaining holes . |
| 19 | But they will have to beat off a challenge from French millionaires Monaco , who head a posse of foreign clubs shadowing him at Forest . |
| 20 | With even-handed ridicule , John Mortimer spends much of this novel making you laugh at both . |
| 21 | To prevent incidents of this nature recurring it was felt desirable to have the intricate boundary between the two manors properly staked out . |
| 22 | Mr Dewar said he abhorred the thought of civil disobedience adding he had been assured by Scotland United members that this was not part of their strategy . |
| 23 | … the obligation [ entails ] two principal elements ; first , the existence of a relationship giving access , directly or indirectly , to information intended to be available only for a corporate purpose and not for the personal benefit of anyone , and second , the inherent , unfairness involved where a party takes advantage of such information knowing it is unavailable to those with whom he is dealing . |
| 24 | The real problem with assessing popular sentiment over the 1790s is the interplay of contradictory forces shifting it between radicalism and loyalism . |
| 25 | A policewoman with long experience in dealing with sexual abuse did express the opinion that policemen can sometimes be more effective than women in encouraging very young male victims to talk about their experiences : and this policewoman was in favour of male colleagues joining her at the RUC 's specialist sexual abuse unit . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose , McAllister , if you 're going to be of any real use to me — ’ He was interrupted by Rose bursting in , a Greek chorus of depressed-looking women following her . |
| 27 | Right at the very beginning , in the prayer which arises from the memory of Christ 's anguish in the garden of Gethsemane when the narrator remembers " swattest blod for angwysche " , the shorter version identifies this sweat with that which marks the healing and turning point of human fever conflating it with the sweat of human anguish struggling against evil . |
| 28 | If the firm does badly they can leave , but this will necessitate a loss of human capital assuming they have accumulated some firm-specific skills . |
| 29 | It 's funny how er th trends change , but that was a was quite a common occurrence was that , men feeling ashamed of what they 'd got but trying er er in terms of these magazines giving them as if they were doing you a favour . |
| 30 | some of these kinds telling you about how they write a poem , if I was going |