Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [conj] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sick with longing for his wife , Diana , and worn out with the public issues of doctoring that had apparently lost her to him , he had agreed . |
| 2 | Their day , however , had not been that good ; they had put in many hours of searching and had only made two finds of any note . |
| 3 | Company Programmes have a successful 15 year record of designing and delivering carefully tailored organisational and management development courses . |
| 4 | This is a severe example of a kind of reviewing that has consistently created a line of demarcation between British and European ( or American ) taste . |
| 5 | These will include the relative gravity of the offences alleged in the two sets of proceedings ; the degree of connection , on facts or law , between them ; the degree of prejudice which the defendant may suffer , in the shape of adverse publicity or in other respects , if the lesser matters are brought to trial first ; the likely time-spans of the two sets of proceedings ; the possibility of hardship to the defendant in being required to divert attention and resources to the defence of the lesser charges whilst the graver are in preparation ; the risk that if the lesser charges are postponed the lapse of time may render a fair trial of them more difficult ; the desirability in the public interest of ensuring that charges properly brought are pressed to a conclusion . |