Example sentences of "of [adv] [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Harpy is able to evade blows aimed through the bars of the cage , and missile fire is at a -30 penalty ; if you wish , missile fire has a 10% chance per missile of freakishly breaking open the cage door , allowing the Harpy out ! |
| 2 | She was a large woman , flushed with the exertion of constantly having to answer the door , and she still showed in her black hair , grey eyes and lovely skin , traces of her Irish forebears . |
| 3 | Assessment in Catholic Religious Education would have to take great care against falling into the trap of only aiming to develop that which readily lends itself to measurement . |
| 4 | Our transformation matrices are therefore 15 × 15 in size , and the advantage of only needing to consider the trace to derive the character X is apparent ! |
| 5 | It has had the natural result of generally tending to increase the harshness of punishment — and consequently the size of the prison population and the scale of the penal crisis . |
| 6 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 7 | But instead of just getting rid of jobs , as a ‘ committed expansionist ’ , Thornton started work on plans to keep the unwanted staff , whom he described as ‘ almost to a man , dedicated , hard-working folk ’ . |
| 8 | sort of just waiting to see what he was gon na do and then Stacey comes out , I ca n't sleep and I said get back in that bloody bedroom oh dear |
| 9 | The reason for this is straightforward , since if the established firm is in the position of already having sunk its fixed costs then it is naturally in a better position than the potential entrant , because the cost of the equipment is irrelevant to the decision as to whether to produce . |
| 10 | In many cases , the repercussions of not choosing to follow the message are not that extreme . |
| 11 | More significant is his predicament of not wishing to agree to Hollar 's request for Anderson to smuggle his politically-charged thesis out of Czechoslovakia , but , at the same time , not wanting to jeopardise their friendship . |
| 12 | Democrats are hence navigating , as one of them put it , between the Scylla of not wishing to undercut Mr Bush 's diplomacy and the Charybdis of not wishing to give him a blank cheque . |
| 13 | Democrats are hence navigating , as one of them put it , between the Scylla of not wishing to undercut Mr Bush 's diplomacy and the Charybdis of not wishing to give him a blank cheque . |
| 14 | Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved . |
| 15 | matter of not getting caught With your fingers in the till . |
| 16 | Only a handful of British companies were of a size to contemplate it , and among them there existed a curious air of parochialism , of not wanting to venture into foreign-language recordings , or markets which were unfamiliar . |
| 17 | Until Rose came he had reached the stage of not wanting to go out . |
| 18 | To her bewilderment , though , she suddenly experienced a most compelling feeling of not wanting to leave Mariánské Láznë next Tuesday ! |
| 19 | Thompson and West in a study of preferences for sheltered housing which included a sample of people of all ages who suffered from rheumatism and arthritis , found among these respondents ‘ a strong feeling of not wanting to impose on relatives ’ ( Thompson and West , 1984 , p. 318 ) , and the older respondents were even less willing than the younger to consider the option of being cared for by kin . |
| 20 | But Labour councillors rebutted the Conservative group 's allegation by accusing them of not wanting to face the truth . |
| 21 | The air is thick with dust , accumulated over years of not-remembering , years of not wanting to know . |
| 22 | There may also be an element of not wanting to change cosy ( although dilapidated ) branch structures , by bringing in new members . |
| 23 | ‘ There is something nicely paradoxical about advertising selling the unsaleable — selling the idea of NOT wanting to buy . ’ |
| 24 | No-one could accuse Winterbottom of not wanting to deliver . |
| 25 | However , he made the great mistake of not living to collect it . |
| 26 | Buswatch has the virtue of not attempting to score points off harassed operators , and one of the most interesting dimensions of this excellent report is a record of the responses given by bus company managers to some of the issues raised . |
| 27 | You have a reputation of not letting go of a thing once you have started and you would be delighted to discover that I am responsible for Ana 's blindness . |
| 28 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 29 | I accused him ( not very bitterly ) of not having sent the CND cheque . |
| 30 | And this raises the question of whether Havel 's talent had begun to be affected by the nervous strain of writing under surveillance and of not having seen any of his work performed since 1969 . |