Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the group most demanding of provision is that of adults with severe learning difficulties who are newly resident in the community . |
| 2 | The Chancellor will need little reminding of the importance the industry attaches to negotiating satisfactory arrangements for excise duty ‘ harmonisation ’ . |
| 3 | I mean I … you know I do talk quite openly to my pupils which is a little daring of me because the situation in Cyprus is a little different from here … |
| 4 | Present-opening sessions are generally unpredictable affairs , the pictures being shot with mobile camera on a catch-as-catch-can basis with the sound mostly consisting of the rustling of wrapping paper being undone and the excited squeaks of the recipients . |
| 5 | And yet all that makes something much more intensely demanding of this , their Mother debut . |
| 6 | ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’ |
| 7 | However , only one in nine households is ‘ typical ’ , most consisting of just a man and a woman . |
| 8 | Mr Tarrant — kindly portrayed in The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans as Mr Stodham — later introduced Edward to Mr Noble ( the father of his future wife ) who was slowly dying of a malignant , tubercular throat disease but was still actively engaged as ‘ Paul Pelican ’ , an influential journalist and critic . |
| 9 | If there is some improvement , persist for another month or two — the Candida is slowly dying of starvation , and it may take a little while to finish it off entirely . |
| 10 | The Saturday Benediction was slowly dying of indifference . |
| 11 | More importantly , I can see that I am very effectively disposing of all the apparent or alleged similarities between Daniel Miller and myself . |
| 12 | This time he is holding water-birds against a strange background apparently consisting of snakes ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 13 | You 've been such a good and loyal friend to me all these years , and I know it was wrong of me to ask something so demanding of you , but … ’ |
| 14 | Much slapping of rifle butts . |
| 15 | Certainly much touching of the penises , penile erection , and display occur between young male geladas and the behaviour is commonly used in greeting behaviour . |
| 16 | While this is obviously demanding of professional time and effort , it need not be particularly difficult to achieve , and the investment should repay itself with dividends . |
| 17 | Management skills and systems development to ensure efficient use of resources in a more dispersed service and better targeting of health need |
| 18 | The conservation measures put forward by the British and Belgian colonial authorities were highly demanding of labour and moreover symbolised the logic of expropriation and more general exploitation by the colonial powers . |
| 19 | 17.64 At age 11 , the same requirements should apply , but with the addition of two short timed tasks , one perhaps consisting of a factual account or description and the other of a short imaginative piece of prose . |
| 20 | Extensive grassland based systems are especially sparing of energy use ( 14 ) and could well assume an increasing importance not only for this reason but also because the rate of expansion of production has now declined to around 2% per annum in lowland agriculture and may not increase ( 15 ) . |
| 21 | Erm Gascoigne Woods this er this great big erm dump of of coal waste that 's gon na be er left in the Selby area a mile long consisting of millions of tons of of spoil from the tip . |
| 22 | To be so accepting of whatever came her way was to be comfortable but also to be dead . |
| 23 | However , the incident is highly revealing of the concern felt in Cuba about the difficulties of persuading Moscow to make a substantial commitment . |
| 24 | We 're only disposing of the vehicle his spirit used for its journey on earth . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The trout are literally dying of old age , ’ said fishery spokesman Aidan Barry . |
| 26 | So opening of these channels will hyperpolarize the membrane , and as a result of that opening what we see is an inhibition of action potentials . |
| 27 | Much twinkling of booted feet , much strict twirling , heads held high , hands splayed in the small of backs , firm grips and spins . |
| 28 | They are sandwich-boards for Oedipal tendencies , eagerly disposing of the father — they reject authority , law , the land — and reverting with fervour to the embrace of the all-mothering sea . |
| 29 | Some manoeuvring , much flapping of the backward |
| 30 | There is , I know , much gnashing of teeth , banging of beer glasses etc. about the non-appearance of the Ogwen & Carneddau and Llanberis guides , but both these tomes are at least on the horizon now . |