Example sentences of "of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that it was possible to make up a test focused at the middle of the target attainment range with a minimum of trialling . |
| 2 | For party occasions he delivered a skit sermon called ‘ Under the Juniper Tree ’ which could reduce his audiences to helpless laughter by its caricature of the most platitudinous and pontificating type of preaching . |
| 3 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 4 | You who exercise a ministry of preaching and teaching , do preach the cross as the starting point of hope and peace . |
| 5 | But one can be too political about mission , or the work of preaching , as contemporary churchmen would have called it . |
| 6 | When Boniface was consecrated bishop by Pope Gregory II in 722 , it was not to a particular see , but to a very wide commission of preaching to heathens , such as , for instance , the Aquitanian St Amand had had in northern Gaul during the previous century . |
| 7 | He had a strong sense of responsibility to his vocation of preaching and loved to compare himself to St Paul . |
| 8 | In his reflections on the religious census of London , Mudie-Smith insisted that ‘ the outstanding lesson of the Census is that the power of preaching is undiminished ’ . |
| 9 | They had , however , no doubt about the sacred nature of preaching . |
| 10 | On the other hand , others , like Joseph Parker , to whom Gladstonian Liberalism and Protestant Christianity were one faith , were not therefore accused of preaching the ‘ social gospel ’ . |
| 11 | From here he sent out young men committed to his style of preaching . |
| 12 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
| 13 | His style of preaching is clearly seen in his books such as A Call to the Unconverted and The Saint 's Everlasting Rest which were prepared from sermonic material . |
| 14 | His style of preaching contrasted greatly with the average clergyman of the day who would discourse drowsily on the virtues of doing good . |
| 15 | The essence of preaching or prayer is that it asks for a response now , not later . |
| 16 | Above all , the congregation will hear the voice of the Lord through the preaching , but what kind of preaching is desirable in these new churches ? |
| 17 | It draws attention to the centrality of preaching in the New Testament . |
| 18 | He was warned in advance , but , as a former soldier , felt ‘ God has chosen me to go on this forlorn hope of preaching his Blessed Gospel in his country , and I should discourage those who are coming after me if I should be afraid and fly . ’ |
| 19 | The didactic approach of preaching to ‘ learners ’ ( rather than ‘ students ’ ) and of spoonfeeding them with preset values and objectives is gradually being replaced by a much more human approach where students are enabled to question and study , and to add to knowledge themselves as they extract the best from individual learning experiences . |
| 20 | He also put more emphasis on public worship , prayers , and the sacraments than most of his contemporaries , and played down the role of preaching as a means of edification ; for these reasons , Hooker has been seen by some ecclesiastical historians such as Peter Lake as ‘ close to the ideological origins of Arminianism ’ . |
| 21 | They were suspicious of preaching and the personal interpretation of scripture by the laity , and placed great stress on the sacraments as sources of grace . |
| 22 | Presentees were , however , not infrequently the objects of popular hostility whether for doctrinal differences , style of preaching or the fact that the people were not sufficiently involved in the choice . |
| 23 | They are said to have reproved Jesus during his early days of preaching in Galilee . |
| 24 | The mystery of preaching |
| 25 | He resigned from Whitefield 's and intended to resign from Parliament , and went to lecture at Yale University on ‘ The Romance of Preaching ’ . |
| 26 | In 1658 he was appointed vicar of Datchet , Buckinghamshire , where the parishioners complained that he was an absentee , but he was exonerated by the trustees for the maintenance of preaching ministers . |
| 27 | We pray that you will protect your people from squabbles , over matters which are not relevant to your commission of preaching and teaching the gospel throughout the world , so that in this decade of evangelism , your church may be united and strengthened , and not divided and weakened . |
| 28 | The character of the Nun 's Priest is a complex of knowledge , attitude and sympathy : knowledge of learning , literature and the ars praedicandi ( " art of preaching " ) , attitudes of detachment from but understanding of the rarefied world of speculative learning , and of sympathy towards the commoner run of humanity for whom this learning is mystifying and in practical terms irrelevant . |
| 29 | As a preacher who cultivated an accessible style of preaching , as a monastic legislator , and as the convenor of a number of major church councils , he was perhaps the most influential product of Lérins . |
| 30 | I do n't know whether it 's a case of preaching to the converted , but it 's fun |