Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [v-ing] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cramped and cold in his hide , he listened as the sounds of the day fell from him into silence one by one , until he could hear the measured pacing of the watch on the walk between the gate-towers . |
| 2 | Is it a major historical turning-point , implying the complete re-fashioning of the economy , of production and of the geography of production ? |
| 3 | To meet the immediate problems , the vital priorities were the proper progressing of the manufacture of designs for nearly 6000MW of plant planned or under construction by the former undertakings , and the acceleration of work in progress on sites . |
| 4 | ft was the mindless pacing of a caged animal . |
| 5 | Truth , justice , charity itself demanded the rigorous safeguarding of property dedicated to God and the saints . |
| 6 | In other terms , knowing is not represented as the direct experiencing of a phenomenon here , but rather , as with the passive of perceptual verbs , as the condition for attibuting a characteristic to someone . |
| 7 | It is probably ample to accommodate the spontaneous arising of DNA or RNA . |
| 8 | This is because those two theories postulate a particular event — the spontaneous arising of a self-replicating entity — as occurring only once in about a billion years , once per aeon . |
| 9 | Readiness for war , as well as the actual waging of war , becomes a principal political concern , military leaders acquire a more prominent place in the political system , and the economy is geared increasingly to military needs , giving rise to what has been called the ‘ military-industrial complex ’ as one of the main centres of power and of economic growth . |
| 10 | The fact that we give each other little clues , invitations and propositions , gives a transparency to our motives , but it also builds excitement and suspense about the actual unveiling of each coming together . |
| 11 | The actual arranging of transactions with a counterparty in the UK is also not covered ; however , the better view is that arrangements are only made in the UK if the overseas person physically comes into the UK and , if he does not , the overseas person exemption is , therefore , not needed . |
| 12 | But if we look at what we now know to be the case — which is that Saddam Hussein has an enormous war machine , that he was a tremendous threat in the region — how , without going to war , and through the mere sustaining of sanctions , do you reduce that threat ? |
| 13 | The mere recounting of difficult feats , here of forensic science though any arduous achievement will do , well told in unfolding detail will grip a reader nine times out of ten . |
| 14 | It is the brief unveiling of a dusty |
| 15 | There is no corresponding concept in Western science , and much confusion has resulted from the naive equating of this ‘ energy ’ with the concepts of physiology ( such as nerve impulses ) and physics ( heat , electricity , electromagnetic radiation ) . |
| 16 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
| 17 | And erm my father and Michael had got to know the maids in in the Plas but Michael had grabbed the the the the good looking of the parlour maid and my father had to make do with the cook . |
| 18 | The door next passed to a specially constructed machine , which cut the three grooves for the hinges : these were then fixed by screws , after which the door was ready for testing in the gauge , the latter consisting of a metal frame providing a replica of the door opening in a coach . |
| 19 | I , I actually think they probably did use up all that was possible available to them at the time , and so , in some ways , this is against the spirit of the policy , although the policies have been changed , and I hear what Councillor said about improvement to the place , and so I do n't think we 'd serve any useful purpose in stopping these people doing this , because they 're probably not the people who were responsible for the flagrant disobeying of the rules at the time . |
| 20 | She notes the confusion of an audience sensitized to auratic art at the 1978 unveiling of the new cast of Rodin 's Gates of Hell . |
| 21 | and is that the thinking that lies behind the eventual getting of Terry Wogan and Angela Rippon ? |
| 22 | Employers demanded that unions bargain with them on an industry-wide basis and their pressure was critical for the eventual securing of the industrial union principle of organisation . |
| 23 | They are proud of their contribution to the essential safeguarding of our country . |
| 24 | The capacity to recircuit neurophysiologically the ongoing experiencing of the senses in such a way that the subject becomes ‘ aware ’ of its situation through introspection of this analogue . |
| 25 | Instead , after the first flaring of fame had died down to a steady glow , and he had enjoyed the sexual fruits that it offered , he stayed in his two-room West 11th Street apartment , together with Anne and Karina again , dressed in the faded jeans and threadbare leather jackets he had always worn . |
| 26 | These degrees are composed of two elements , the first consisting of seminar instruction in three courses extending over two or three terms , the second of the writing of a dissertation on a topic approved by the Faculty . |
| 27 | In the present case the argument was at one stage canvassed that requesting the receipt with the consequent obtaining of fingerprints , should be regarded separately from the main issue , that it amounted to a separate trick within a trick . |
| 28 | The morbidity was the occasional overbalancing of his intense sympathy , his greatest passive power … . |
| 29 | With regard to the national economy in such a state of affairs , the principal slogan was not concern for its lasting restoration … but the immediate securing of produce , even at the cost of undermining the productive forces . |
| 30 | This enabled him to bring together the Judaism of his upbringing and the Roman Catholicism and Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in which it was set in Montreal ; the former dominating of course . |