Example sentences of "act of [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who can not write have less power than those who can : their acts of naming are restricted to those who will listen to them , those in the immediate locality . |
| 2 | Equally , a crude general rule condemning all acts of killing is preferable to any other possible rule . |
| 3 | Dr Norris said the physical act of stopping is a relatively minor part of the process . |
| 4 | But there is nothing to argue about here , as the act of quantifying is not intended to be predictive , explanatory or theoretical : it is a methodological tool that is used by those who wish to make accountable statements about the distribution of linguistic forms in real speech communities in cases where this is not evident without quantification . |
| 5 | Again , it seems to follow that the perceptual experiences that observers have in the act of seeing is not uniquely determined by the images on their retinas . |
| 6 | It was something that you had to swallow whole , like a stone of uncomfortable size , and the act of swallowing was called Faith . |
| 7 | We witness the protagonists drawing their own parallels between their story and Homer , Byron 's ‘ Manfred ’ , Poe and thrillers , but in a way which suggests that the act of narrating is not separated from events . |
| 8 | Through the figure of the drop of ink , at once miraculous and homely , the act of telling is transformed into a gesture of showing . |
| 9 | Even if the act of punishing was cheap , and of being punished expensive , this would still not be sufficient to guarantee stability , because of the problem of the ‘ free rider ’ . |
| 10 | To you the task is daunting ; the act of studying is hardly one of compulsive fascination . |