Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do let us have a balance of such benefits against any alleged remote risks of lindane accumulating in the body fat of those who have the luxury of body fat . |
| 2 | And she 's got kiwi fruits and peppers and all sorts of things growing in the garden . |
| 3 | Here again he sees all sorts of factors dating from the distant past as limiting and distorting potentialities . |
| 4 | The association of thrust faulting on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau with normal faulting in its highest regions has been interpreted as suggesting that it has attained its maximum elevation , and that consequently it is tending to grow outwards rather than increase in altitude . |
| 5 | The elections to a new 205-member House of Representatives resulted in a victory for the Nepali Congress , which formed a new government in late May , and marked the final stage of a 15-month democratization process which had resulted in the destruction of the old panchayat system , under which political parties had been banned and most political power had rested in the hands of the monarch , King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva [ see p. 37856 for chronology of events leading to the adoption of a new constitution in November 1990 ] . |
| 6 | I also did a great deal of amateur acting with the Progress Theatre in Reading . |
| 7 | Some people have great difficulty in solving problems and making decisions and waste a great deal of time ruminating on the same thoughts without ever coming to a clear conclusion . |
| 8 | And that was someone from Nottingham University who spent a great deal of time grumbling about the bus service from Mansfield to Edwinstowe . |
| 9 | Even though , as readers of the fabliaux , we may spend a good deal of time smiling at the preposterous ingenuity of gross deceptions and misdeeds — in other words things that are generically wrongs in terms of conventional Christian morality — we have already seen that substantial elements of positive Christian spirituality and conventional morality are widely represented amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 10 | ‘ At my age you do n't need much sleep by night , and I spend a good deal of time sitting by the bedroom window , smoking my pipe and watching the sea … |
| 11 | Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance . |
| 12 | Her love sighs were suddenly interrupted by a commotion outside , the screams of women mingling with the deep gruff shouts of some of the convent 's labourers and porters . |
| 13 | Rincewind pounded down an alley , paying no heed to the screams of rage coming from the picture box , and cleared a high wall with his frayed robe flapping around him like the feathers of a dishevelled jackdaw . |
| 14 | However , it is certainly the perception of people working in the field that the level of sign language skill exhibited by hearing people , even those who function as interpreters for deaf people , is much lower than it should be . |
| 15 | One method was simply to set fire to a ‘ train' of gunpowder leading to the charge itself , the length of the train corresponding roughly to the time delay before the charge exploded ; a later method involved a kind of fuse of goose quills filled with gunpowder . |
| 16 | Heavy job losses in the City have had a huge impact on the lifestyles of people working in the finance sector . |
| 17 | The country 's trade deficit was offset , in part , by the bulk of imports coming from the socialist bloc so that " hard " foreign exchange was not used . |
| 18 | At the end of the row , their backs turned to all these visual riches , was a ring of donkey-boys squatting on the ground . |
| 19 | They have used a ring of gas expanding from the remnant of Supernova 1987A to determine the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud ( LMC ) , a ‘ satellite ’ galaxy of our own Milky Way . |
| 20 | Mike Cairns , director of the charity , said that elderly dementia sufferers were subject to a variety of methods of restraint ranging from the crude tying-down and locking up of the elderly to the more subtle use of drugs . |
| 21 | Daily defecation was maintained by daily administration of laxatives beginning on the evening of the clinic visit . |
| 22 | In late August González had been granted extraordinary powers which gave him total control over central government , federal agency and state company finances and the administration of enterprises operating under the Public Works and Defence ministries . |
| 23 | What structuralism studies about cultural phenomena is something not available ( or at least not manifestly available ) to the consciousness of people participating in the phenomenon under study . |
| 24 | Any ‘ stable world ’ it presents is further overwhelmed by the progressive revelation that each narrator exists only as an imaginative device of a subsequent one , in a succession of evasions leading towards the unnamable author and the depths of an impulse to articulate , which can neither rest nor ever consummate its desires . |
| 25 | It is also important to create what I call a maternal genealogy to add to the paternal lineage which the current histories of art canonise — the succession of geniuses passing on the Olympic torch down the ages , man to man . |
| 26 | The little pulls of wind playing with the leaves were getting stronger now , shaking the petals from the wild roses and throwing them at the diners as if they were confetti . |
| 27 | ‘ … for many years after the time named in this Ramble , Great College Street — beyond the terrace of houses extending to the entrance of Messrs. Goodall 's existing premises — was totally impassable even as a footpath in the winter . |
| 28 | His gaunt son , who could not have been older than 12 , stood slumped over a hunting rifle , gazing at the plumes of smoke rising from the green expanse which runs along the fringes of Sarajevo 's old quarter . |
| 29 | I looked down on those falls — ‘ the smoke that thunders ’ as the Africans used to call them , with the white plumes of spray towering above the bushes and trees ; and I thought of David Livingstone trudging , the first modern white man to find them . |
| 30 | Charlie read and re-read his banal offering , aware that although he extolled Tommy 's courage during the battle he made no mention of Trentham fleeing from the enemy . |