Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not extraordinary that the Leader of the Opposition is incapable of understanding that we might frequently find that monetary and interest rate policies were wholly inappropriate to the requirements of this country if we join a single European currency ? |
| 2 | A will apparently has the function of bequeathing but it might also be intended to please or to repudiate — and to a historian , though that was not the intention , it may function as information . |
| 3 | So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production . |
| 4 | Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything . |
| 5 | The Copenhagen school had made a special point of emphasising that one ought never to think of quantum mechanical systems without also annexing to them the array of classical measuring instruments with which it was proposed to make the observations . |
| 6 | The fear of losing control of a class lurks just below the surface even for teachers with ‘ good discipline ’ , and for many this puts the brake on changes to their own way of teaching that they might otherwise like to try . |
| 7 | Thomas Meehan , one-time caretaker of the Bartram Garden , stressed his early dedication , ‘ So earnest was John Bartram in the pursuit of learning that he could scarcely spare time to eat and might often have been seen with food in one hand and a book in the other . |
| 8 | It also enabled moderate Republicans to avoid an open break with Bush on the issue , and saved the Democrats from a potentially damaging veto battle which they seemed one vote short of winning and which would again have highlighted for white voters the identification of Democrats with minority issues . |