Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Office of Innovation ’ ( OI ) transcends the interests of individual departments , thereby allowing for cross-fertilization of ideas among divisions . |
| 2 | A draft Article allowing for amendment of treaties through subsequent practice of parties ( not third parties ) was rejected at Vienna as likely to promote uncertainty and instability in the performance of treaties . |
| 3 | Dave and Alice Fernie were walking like a-couple of children down the private side of Boundary Drive . |
| 4 | The hypothesis was that firms were decentralizing in search of reserves of labour , and probably cheaper labour since wages were likely to be lower in areas with high unemployment ( 1976 , pp. 71 — 4 , 102 ) . |
| 5 | Similarly , if a firm 's name keeps on appearing on behalf of plaintiffs against major local factories , you can be fairly sure that they are retained on behalf of a union . |
| 6 | In particular , if one compares the provisions relating to recovery of expenses in section 10(3) of the Act of 1957 with those in Schedule 10 to the Act of 1985 it is clear that the whole scheme has been rewritten and amended in accordance with recommendations in the Law Commission Report on the Consolidation of the Housing Acts ( 1985 ) ( Law Com . |
| 7 | Prior to the reform , dealing in government securities had taken place on the floor of the London Stock Exchange between brokers ( acting on behalf of clients in an agency capacity ) and jobbers ( acting on their own behalf as principals ) . |
| 8 | I am writing on behalf of organisations in Bath and Wiltshire which provide residential services to people with learning difficulties . |
| 9 | Paul Ride and Michael Wainwright made their plea while waiting for news of appeals to Iraq 's Supreme Court . |
| 10 | ‘ Whilst the service has been very high , we are investigating with Eurodollar of ways to further increase customer satisfaction , ’ explained . |
| 11 | Owing to shortage of teachers in nurse education , and the number of learners , we are gradually returning to learning by discovery , with the teacher acting as guide , counsellor and facilitator — in other words , the learner is doing . |
| 12 | The European Commission are working for radical cuts leading to abolition of subsidies throughout the Community and we strongly support their efforts . |
| 13 | However , attempts to translate the Geographical Information Systems Tutor ( GISTutor ) ( Raper and Green 1989 ) into a number of European languages have encountered two main difficulties : first , the local adoption of English for spatial terms ( and therefore concepts ? ) due to the English lexicon of most commercially available GlS , and second the difficulty of providing for translation of terms with no direct counterpart . |
| 14 | This is one of the reasons why anyone who works for himself should make sure that he is fully covered by insurance providing for loss of earnings during a long-term illness , as well as insurance against the possibility that he might not be able to work again after such an illness . |
| 15 | Some people become ‘ procedure police ’ at meetings ; they dodge joining in discussion of matters under consideration by constantly raising ‘ points of order ’ . |
| 16 | Former Cray Research Inc chairman John Rollwagen has withdrawn his name from further consideration for the number two post at the US Commerce Department after the Securities & Exchange Commission asked him to participate in an insider trading probe centring on sale of shares in Cray Computer Corp ahead of that company 's announcement that it had lost its only Cray 3 order . |
| 17 | There was , of course , little precedent on which the statute dealing with participation of non-residents in the Hungarian economy was based . |
| 18 | The assassination on May 10 of Col. ( retd ) Luis Fontaine , the former head of DICOM-CAR , a specialist intelligence unit dealing in repression of opponents of the previous dictatorship , was thought to be the work of right-wing elements . |
| 19 | Dermavate is , as I say , it 's more potent , it 's probably not so suitable for keeping going with , but for jumping on top of things in a hurry , it 's fine . |
| 20 | Campaigning for carriage of cycles on public transport ( we do n't like people having to use cars to get their bikes into the countryside ! ) ; |
| 21 | This can be created by planting coloured and oakleaf lettuces , parsley and chives as edging in front of groups of red and green Swiss Chard , gold and purple podded French beans , red-purple flowered Asparagus Peas and yellow courgettes . |
| 22 | Although it is currently the practice of Customs to allow the vendor to deduct input tax attributable to a TOGC ( which is an " outside-the-scope " supply ) , it appears this practice might be changing in view of changes to s15(2) VAT Act 1983 and Reg 32 of the VAT ( General ) Regulations 1985 ; the changes are intended to put the right to deduct input tax in respect of certain outside-the-scope supplies onto a statutory footing . |
| 23 | Bush repeated on Oct. 24 the comparison of Iraqi President Saddam Hussain with Hitler and denounced the " rape of Kuwait " and Iraqi " crimes against humanity " , while at a rally on Oct. 30 ( campaigning in support of Republicans in the mid-term congressional elections on Nov. 6 ) he gave warnings of the possibility of a US military offensive , urging the US public to " stay together in support of our kids halfway around the world " . |
| 24 | Hands shaking in anticipation of words of dazzling insight and originality , I put the record on . |
| 25 | The Cathedral , begun 1160 , has a beautiful Romanesque façade ( 1196–1204 ) with a narthex , galleried and arcaded with screen gable and , beside it , a tall bell tower with typical Italian openings , increasing in number of lights towards the top . |
| 26 | In the late 1980s it was felt that low profitability , partly arising from discounting of bonds by syndicate members in the grey market , necessitated a reform of primary market procedures . |
| 27 | In building up its stable of branded prescription drugs , Medeva has bought a number from SmithKline Beecham , including Dexedrine , which can be regarded as a UK equivalent of methylphenidate , and the products Normax and Micralax , which are used to treat constipation arising from use of opiates in severe pain cases . |
| 28 | I believe we should support responsible organisations campaigning on behalf of animals for two reasons : |
| 29 | These binocular cells can be made to fire by impulses arriving by way of fibres from either eye but there is normally a bias in favour of one eye or the other , the so-called ocular dominance of the cell . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Alan Blumlein of EMI in Britain was working in ignorance of developments in America ; his concept was to record two optical channels on cine film . |