Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers claim older women like Jean Gilliland may now have an improved chance of living longer and without the need for surgery or the side effects . |
| 2 | How willing were abolitionists to challenge both the accepted ways of acting publicly and by whom the action should be undertaken ? |
| 3 | Tempting , now that its cult has faded , to conclude that it is a phenomenon in the history of publishing rather than of fine writing . |
| 4 | That was the first time I was conscious that before the apocalypse I had never thought of visualising anywhere but in my stomach . |
| 5 | It is conceivable that some electors actually misled the pollsters , not in the sense of lying deliberately but in the sense of ‘ letting off steam ’ . |
| 6 | It 's only thirty miles away , but there 's no direct method of getting there because of the reef . |
| 7 | But the anterior of many other dinosaurs was aligned alongside and parallel to the posterior bone ( the ischium ) , instead of pointing forwards as with the saurischians . |
| 8 | Low standards of recording rather than of measuring may be the problem . |
| 9 | They do have a medical examination as part of the process of coming here and in the course of that medical examination it is sometimes disclosed that a woman is or is not a virgin , and that is sometimes noted on the medical report and from time to time some ECO 's have used that piece of evidence in making a decision about the relationship of the wife ; I have always condemned it and by and large it does not happen . |
| 10 | A covenant may very well have reference to the land , but , unless it is reasonably incidental to the relation of landlord and tenant , it can not be said to touch and concern the land so as to be capable of running therewith or with the reversion . |
| 11 | He gives the impression of recognizing rather than of discovering . |
| 12 | They are written in terms of what the student is able to demonstrate as a result of learning rather than in terms of what a student will have to do to achieve the competences . |
| 13 | His toes were warm and a good colour , and there was no sign of swelling above or below the plaster . |
| 14 | ‘ . But if rule-following is a practice , which must be public only in the sense of being a way of behaving rather than in the sense of being regulated by a community , how are we to derive from that thought the conclusion that the solipsist 's private language is impossible ? |
| 15 | It awaited the great mobilisation of savings that railway construction elicited and the parallel arrival of limited liability , but , as Professor Wilson has pointed out , " by advertising the opportunities of the stock market " the dealers of " Change Alley " helped in the long run " to widen the circle of investors as well as of speculators , by creating habits of investing rather than of hoarding and possibly levelled out extremes of fluctuation by increasing competitive bidding for stock " . |
| 16 | Similarly , people who at some time in the future will require foreign currency ( people such as importers , holiday makers , or those thinking of investing abroad or in foreign securities ) may prefer to wait before exchanging pounds into the relevant foreign currencies if they believe that the sterling price of these currencies is likely to fall ( the pound is likely to appreciate ) . |
| 17 | Metaphors of grasping call attention to the active process of thinking rather than to static and distinct thoughts , and make it easier to understand that we interpret and organize rather than passively reflect . |
| 18 | It enables them to gain experience of working collaboratively and of trying out a variety of roles and skills , including leadership , working to deadlines , accepting and offering criticism , negotiation and compromise . |
| 19 | Nearby launderette manager Philip Podmore said : ‘ She was terrified of working alone because of the lack of security . ’ |
| 20 | We argued in this chapter for an interactive model of these two kinds of processing rather than for a model in which syntactic and semantic analyses are carried out independently . |
| 21 | I suggest that they are involved in the sport of shooting rather than in the art of ferreting . |