Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv] [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Hebrew scriptures , God is of course overwhelmingly conceived using male figures of speech . |
| 2 | Yes of course maybe play acting when they 're doing that they 're more conscious of the way they 're speaking and they probably want to make it right with what they think it should be . |
| 3 | The act of investment usually involves abstaining from current consumption in order to acquire assets , which raise the productive potential of the economy , and therefore the possibilities for future consumption . |
| 4 | Foraging for food in the depths of winter often means travelling through deep snow , and this takes its toll of the goat population . |
| 5 | Although the responsibilities of leadership certainly entail ensuring that the company is going somewhere , and can maintain its relative position , an even greater responsibility is to ensure that the company continues to survive . |
| 6 | In the case of a sale of leasehold property where the lessor 's licence to assign is required , the form of licence sometimes requires signing of a counterpart licence by the seller , and frequently by the buyer too , whereby the latter explicitly becomes responsible for the tenant 's covenants in the lease ; this is a reminder in case the seller must execute the document . |
| 7 | Will the Secretary of State specifically consider protecting the new body 's budget against the extraordinary awards made recently to landowners for not planting trees on sites of special scientific interest ? |
| 8 | Indeed , while the process of innovation is itself multidisciplinary , the technological insights at the root of innovation often involve bringing together knowledge from a number of different fields of science . |
| 9 | What is important is that cells in area MT of monkey always responded according to the illusory direction of movement of the chevron perceived by a human observer rather than to the physical direction of movement of the component gratings . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , or fortunately , depending on your point of view , these towers of power usually seen gracing the backline of mega guitarists cost a severe amount of wonga . |