Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do him the credit of suggesting that it was not of his invention . |
| 2 | When Modigliani was working , Zbo could not resist peeping through the door once or twice to watch , with the excuse of seeing that everything was all right . |
| 3 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |
| 4 | the difficulty , for the father , of accepting that he was no longer the only decision maker ; |
| 5 | He seemed incapable of accepting that she was very lonely . |
| 6 | The burden of proving that it was not reasonably practicable would appear to fall on the defendant . |
| 7 | This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed . |
| 8 | It is a condition of booking that you are adequately insured on your holiday . |
| 9 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 10 | At the end of the road the huge bulk of the church with its soaring walls of smoke-blackened brick looked as much out of keeping as it was out of scale with this small domestic self-sufficiency . |
| 11 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 12 | Waking bright and early the next morning I reached for a copy of Delicacy as the most economical means of establishing whether I was still alive . |
| 13 | ‘ In the first place , there is the doctrine , which may now perhaps be regarded as a rule of evidence , that , if a voluntary disposition in favour of the husband is impeached , the burden of establishing that it was not improperly or unfairly procured may be placed upon him by proof of circumstances raising any doubt or suspicion . |
| 14 | We did her the favour of pretending that she was not talking about her own lack of brains . |
| 15 | Well , yes , it 's very interesting , but I 'm not sure it 's working in the same direction as almost implied by your question of implying that there was almost too much . |
| 16 | Well it 's very interesting , but I 'm not sure it 's working in the same direction as almost implied by your question of implying that there was almost too much . |
| 17 | Recognise that addictive diseases affects different people in different ways and it is very variable in its intensity but that all share the denial of believing that they are not addicted : the crucial test of addiction is not whether one can stop the use of an addictive substance or behaviour but whether one can happily stay off and not be drawn back to it or to something equally addictive . |
| 18 | The evaluation and assessment of test data on completely new products or packs and the problem of deciding whether they are sufficiently stable or whether they adequately protect the product under market conditions is more difficult . |
| 19 | Watching him , teasing him , tickling him in the place he liked between his front legs , Nails idled the afternoon away , pushing out of his mind the horrors that lay in wait : the busybody care people poking their noses in , the job he had no fat chance of getting when he was out of school on his ear , no more riding at Biddy 's , no nothing at all , not even any certainty of keeping in touch with batty Firelight and her pushy baby . |
| 20 | You are kind of dozing but you are not asleep because you ca n't get to sleep because there is a needle sticking in your arm and you have got a drip going on and they come and change the bag and you are constantly feeling sick . |
| 21 | But by way of indicating that they were not , and could not be , the final truth , he appended a series of objections to his lecture course . |
| 22 | In fact , he has continually made a point of recording that he was not a boy from the wrong side of the tracks , as some tried to indicate , but that his mother/grandmother made sure they were well provided for . |
| 23 | They are on the point of asking if I am all right . |
| 24 | Now I offer that as a little illustration of the difficulties of saying that there are deep national dispositions between one nation and another , which exist inside in some sort of permanent , rock-like way . |
| 25 | This might lead us to conclude that in the case where taxes can not bear the additional charges resulting from depreciation accounting ( which is another way of saying that there is not the political will to impose them ) , in order to retain control of the charge to revenue accounts , the existing system will remain . |
| 26 | James 's message had been meant for herself , an oblique way of saying that he was no longer interested . |
| 27 | I am afraid that he is getting very near to the Nuremburg defence of saying that he was only obeying orders . |
| 28 | They 're sort of saying that you are really testing your |
| 29 | Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but |
| 30 | I do a lot of sketching when I 'm out , of real people in the street . |