Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [conj] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is rejected is the necessity or even possibility of maintaining or augmenting one 's social position through violence . |
| 2 | Ianthe always hurried past the vet 's house , fearful of seeing or hearing something dreadful . |
| 3 | The thrill of seeing or touching something really old on a museum visit can be extremely important ( see Box 14 ) . |
| 4 | Once you are afflicted with this inverted mentality in which every thing that exists is a pale shadow of some abstract general principle , expressed in a compound-noun sandwich , you are incapable of seeing or saying anything clearly . |
| 5 | Clearly while we do have gliders that spin , it is vital to give pilots enough experience to recognise what is happening and to make the right moves instead of panicking and doing nothing . |
| 6 | Not only does it look good to have ‘ published works ’ on your CV , the process of researching and creating something new keeps you in touch with developments in your field , and you may make contact with experts . |
| 7 | Bobby Robson was there to assess World Cup candidates , but nothing positive emerged from 90 minutes of scuffling that made one almost yearn for the more measured boredom of Rangers ' European Cup exit in Munich three days earlier . |
| 8 | Or is it , as Leslie Dick suggests , that contemplating one 's own self-destruction or mutilation is actually a way of perceiving and relishing one 's wholeness — self-destructive fantasies as a kind of warped feast of narcissism ? |
| 9 | He had made that mistake already , by accepting Vincente Minnelli 's offer and he knew , at the end of the day , it was not right ; that Sixties way of thinking that rejected anything that had the stamp of establishment on it was also his philosophy . |