Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pers pn] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the best way of describing it is that it will put you at peace with yourself — which is what is intended . |
| 2 | The best of describing it is If you are joint tenants , say it 's a house and there 's of you , you both own all the property . |
| 3 | The interesting implication of disregarding them is that in so far as the STV can operate and be judged as a PR system , it is not at all because it provides for transfers of votes , but because it is used in pluri-member constituencies in which candidates of more than one party can be voted for effectively . |
| 4 | Half the fun of viewing them is that subjects come up at random . |
| 5 | Another way of putting it is that whereas structure denotes a relationship between the elements of anything , tension denotes our experience of structure . |
| 6 | Another way of putting it is that even though the academic community is founded on a culture of critical discourse ( see Chapter 7 ) , normally it gives little thought to the criteria by which its critical judgements come into play . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe the best way of putting it is that if you were abroad and on the town , Con would find a licensed brothel where the girls all had health checks , while the riff-raff might sometimes take the risk of picking up a likely-looking tart in a bar . |
| 8 | Well , another way of putting it is that this might be an additional er policy that that would help us as well as er |
| 9 | An order was made under section 4(2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 postponing publication or report of certain details of the proceedings until after the conclusion of all 24 numbered indictments in a schedule , when it would be announced in open court by Judge McMullan that the order had expired ; the order stated that the purpose of making it was that it was adjudged to be necessary to avoid a substantive risk of prejudice to the administration of justice in other pending proceedings . |