Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [v-ing] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had but I had no intention of giving Miranda the impression I was disorganized . |
| 2 | They now have a marvellously sympathetic partnership and Veronique has no intention of giving Michael the mare back ! |
| 3 | Where this occurs in hard corals without the formulation of dividing walls the colony can , eventually , take on the convoluted patterns characterised by brain coral colonies . |
| 4 | Dr Noyan and his colleagues believe that the act of stretching coordinates the spontaneous movements of the smooth muscle of the lymph node , a process they call frequency stabilisation . |
| 5 | However , with changing attitudes in society , questions are being raised about the morality of denying girls the opportunity to sing in a cathedral choir . |
| 6 | There was , of course , no question of denying India the freedom which had so often been promised in the irresponsibility of opposition . |
| 7 | Hendrik Scholte eyed the stranger suspiciously — hotel-keepers invariably did — and was on the point of showing Vincent the door when his wife intervened . |
| 8 | The recent controversies over both the Maastricht amendment and Workfare serve to betray the Conservatives ' real economic aim of making Britain the low wage centre of Europe . |
| 9 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |
| 10 | Later , eugenicists stressed the importance of teaching women the criteria by which to choose a mate . |
| 11 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 12 | Whitehead ( 1978 ) and Williams ( 1977 ) have both offered perceptive critiques which suggest that , at the very least , Britton 's notion of writing modes the expressive , poetic and transactional — and his categories of audience should not be regarded as unproblematic . |
| 13 | I was full of joy at the prospect of meeting Agnes the next day . |
| 14 | He had three further drives for Lotus in 1969 : in South Africa he was sixth on the grid and dropped out with damaged gears ; on his first Nürburgring , he qualified twelfth and fell victim to a shunt on the first lap — one of his very rare accidents , for Mario has a finely honed sense of doing things the safe way . |
| 15 | Sometimes these accidents are caused by laziness , but more often they are the result of someone not realising the significance of doing things the right way . |
| 16 | In any plausible way of forming Jupiter the hydrogen and helium are initially well mixed at a molecular level . |
| 17 | Another way of approaching foot the bill will be suggested below . |
| 18 | In the example of positive excitation of winding A the stator and rotor teeth are aligned under poles 3,7 of section X and poles 1 , 5 of section Y , as illustrated in Fig .1 .6 . |
| 19 | President Clinton has promised to present Yeltsin with ‘ an aggressive and quite specific plan ’ when the two men meet at the beginning of April ; the Group of Seven leading industrial nations is discussing ways to help ; and yesterday the EC Commission floated the idea of offering Russia the prospect of greater trade access when its political and economic circumstances allow . |
| 20 | Furthermore , Matthew stresses that the task of telling men the good news and ‘ baptising them into the possession of the Holy Spirit will only De theirs after the cross and resurrection have given them a gospel to proclaim and a Spirit to receive ( 28:19 ) . |
| 21 | Consultants are only one source of pricing information the customers have learned to use . |