Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The switch of tactics on the part of the war-tax resistance movement which can be dated back to 1977 is potentially of great significance because it provided the conditions in which a broad-based political campaign may be mounted , calling for a statutory right of tax diversion and relying on litigation as an auxiliary and subordinate weapon , instead of depending exclusively on litigation to try to bring about a change in the law directly . |
| 2 | First is the difficulty of depending substantially on parents ' responses . |
| 3 | And then dreams he of smelling out a suit ; |
| 4 | The diligence of cheering up . |
| 5 | Her mother had made some scones and pies in her afternoon leisure and picked some flowers in case the child came back in need of cheering up , so they ate some supper and then went out to the headland . |
| 6 | A bit of cheering up . |
| 7 | To most animals , the clarity of each image is at least as important as the number per second , and many have found ways of sharpening up the picture . |
| 8 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 9 | That phrase is read narrowly to convict the accused of handling rather than theft , handling being a more serious offence than theft . |
| 10 | FIGURE 2 It soon became apparent when I started working on this quick landscape sketch that the Polychromos Pastels are equally well suited to a more painterly method of handling too |
| 11 | This is likely to be useful if your scanner is capable of handling more than one sheet at a time , since you can rad a whole batch of pages at a go . |
| 12 | The Fellow will be expected to have a strong quantitative background in Industrial or Financial Economics or similar research discipline and be capable of handling very large computerised data sets . |
| 13 | The systems will initially include two CPUs and be capable of handling about 150 transactions per second , the paper said . |
| 14 | Their experience of programming and software engineering enables them to accept the need for discipline and good design , and to understand the problems of handling really large documents . |
| 15 | The only thing that I noticed which would annoy me if I were a glider pilot was that , engine off , the propeller does have a habit of rotating slightly . |
| 16 | in respect of each and every incident of loss 3% of the cost ( as at the date the claim is notified to the Society ) of re-building as new the whole of the Private Dwelling and its outbuildings |
| 17 | While the portrayal of both normality and deviance may be stereotyped in curriculum texts , we have no way of quantifying how far they are internalized by pupils . |
| 18 | All econometric models are vast simplifications of reality , entailing several layers of approximation , and the economic theory available may in any case be very limited , or controversial , or capable of quantifying in only a rough-and-ready fashion . |
| 19 | If the fear of encountering yet another Nirvana soundalike is too great , then try tuning into Walt Mink 's upbeat pop charge . |
| 20 | Sliphouse manager at Barlaston , Paul Bentley , claims : ‘ A number of developments — notably the introduction of high intensity magnets and finer , stronger sieves — have enabled us to reduce the incidence of specking very significantly . ’ |
| 21 | I was thinking when Daniel was down here that erm Paul you know and all his girlfriends , various girlfriends , for a long time now and I said something to Daniel well you know are you sort of courting yet ? |
| 22 | It has a well-defined head with compound eyes and antennae ; a thorax bearing three pairs of legs , the result of fusing together three segments ; and a segmented abdomen which , while it no longer has limbs on each segment , retains little stumps as signs that it once possessed them . |
| 23 | That day , he received three members of the moderate Carlist faction in Salamanca , and informed them of his intention of fusing together Falange and the Traditionalist Communion . |
| 24 | But even internally within the EC , protectionism is highly damaging , both economically and politically , for the notion of sponsoring either national or EC-wide champions distorts fair competition and the level playing field . |
| 25 | There is no easy way of rooting out deviants in society ; but certainly the special conditions of the late fifties onwards gave deviants full rein . |
| 26 | That they do not know what you seek as well as your intention of rooting out any trace of an ancient order . |
| 27 | ‘ Grey cases ’ ( the majority ) where uncertainty remained high as to whether sexual abuse had occurred were characterized by perpetrator denial ; by an absence of medical investigation or medical evidence ; by no police involvement or follow-up and by allegations of touching only . |
| 28 | He had a habit of singing joylessly about the house , and my colleague was one day amazed to hear what she thought was ‘ Drink to me Only ’ ; she had , however , little time to be surprised at this sensuality , for more careful listening revealed that the words were all about hell-fire and damnation . |
| 29 | That night , as she waited for the band to strike up her opening music , Rory felt none of the usual tingle of anticipation which made the whole business of singing so pleasurable . |
| 30 | ‘ A little birdie tells me you have n't been doing a great deal of singing recently . |