Example sentences of "of [v-ing] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the Report refers to " English in the highest sense " as " the channel for formative culture for all English people , and the medium of the creative art by which all English writers of distinction , whether poets , historians , Philosopher , or men of science , have secured for us the power of realising some part of their own experience of life " . |
| 2 | Impressed by their officials ' strictures about the need for obeying government rules and directives as a means of maintaining some notion of good local government and the good opinion of Central Government , with a sense of loyalty and dependency towards their officials , and a feeling that their own integrity was at stake , they maintained the policy . |
| 3 | In addition , the use of neural net technology is being investigated as a means of including some learning features useful to the diagnostic process . |
| 4 | Apart from anything else , this gives the individual manager the best chance of building some capital , and the problem of a large organization as opposed to the self-employed lies in the area of capital accumulation . |
| 5 | There is general agreement about the principle of allowing some measure of independence to the province . |
| 6 | The younger age group have taken up conspicuous consumption , presumably as a means of recouping some esteem in terms of the apparently dominant and universalistic class criteria . |
| 7 | The reasonableness of bringing some element of quality into even a strictly hedonistic system may be brought out by the following thought experiment . |
| 8 | It is a way of bringing some kind of order to the many diverse things which the scriptures could be said to be about . |
| 9 | This would have the added advantage of bringing some employment to rural areas . |
| 10 | Try to swap too late , hold on too long and you get assassinated and that 's it ; that 's you back to the cave with twenty other flea-bitten reduced-statures and the bright idea of bringing some fire into the cave ! |
| 11 | In its basic form , as proposed by Leslie Wilkins ( 1964 ) , societal reactions to initial , and often minor , acts of alleged deviance , have the effect of producing some degree of isolation and alienation among those who commit such acts . |
| 12 | Erm you also dug holes for yourself by sort of bunging some stuff in the post . |
| 13 | The object is to give the intrant an opportunity of acquiring some familiarity with the running of a law office , so that when he later hears a reference to ‘ title deeds ’ or the ‘ Sheriff Clerk 's Office ’ he will have some notion of what is meant . |
| 14 | The research effort was also , at a process level , a way of gaining some control over work which was highly stressful and difficult to predict . |
| 15 | Thus , offenders who invoke their Protestant religion as a means of justifying some action get short shrift , although we came across only one instance where this was done . |
| 16 | Even the way in which Jews called their religious teachers ‘ rabbis ’ is suspected of applying some form of divinity to them . |
| 17 | But people who have trouble with emotional intimacy often use extra-marital sex as a way of keeping some distance from their mates . |
| 18 | On a point of library housekeeping , the simple stratagem of date stamping items left upon tables is a useful way of keeping some sort of check on the use of reference books . |
| 19 | In November 1977 , a meeting of interested individuals from different disciplines was called to discuss the possibility of establishing some sort of research programme . |
| 20 | At the end of last year , the FDA was persuaded that the Utah Medical Center had evolved a plastic and aluminium ‘ heart ’ ( known as the Jarvik 7 , after its designer , Dr Robert Jarvik ) which stood a chance of sustaining some kind of life , and permission was given for a series of seven experiments , employing the new toy , after which the instrument 's worth was to be reviewed . |
| 21 | While the evidence he cites shows that Y-cells may be capable of sustaining some form of pattern vision it does not show that they are responsible for it in the normal brain . |
| 22 | Since the Danish Government does not intend to had another referendum before the summer of 1993 , there is at the moment of writing some time left for cool deliberation by parliamentarians as well as by the public they serve . |
| 23 | He 'd had a couple of sessions with his union rep and had been told not to worry , it was just a way of filling some quota ; if anything , his job was probably more secure now than it had been before . |
| 24 | To complicate the picture even further , there are a number of other devices which , although not strictly security interests in the sense of vesting some type of proprietary interest in the creditor or which give him possessory control over assets of the debtor company , nevertheless act as security . |
| 25 | The defendant at the Crown Court instructs his advisers that he has assets or resources from which substantial compensation can be paid , in the hope of securing some mitigation of the sentence . |
| 26 | There are interim solutions , such as trade restrictions against Japan , but GM 's approach of granting some job security along with a gradual introduction of robots appears to be more constructive . |
| 27 | And you know if we were able to commit ourselves to two public , two meetings , three meetings of some sort in a year where we 're actually gon na do something and present some sort of front Par part of presenting some sort of front is to try to sell a few bits of pieces if we 're prepared to accept that we 're going to lose money . |
| 28 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |
| 29 | Do you want the exhibition to be a low-key means of getting some experience , or create and attract a lot of local media coverage ? |
| 30 | ‘ Where is he ? ’ asked Gabriel , suddenly aware of the chance of getting some work . |