Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent weeks Bakatin had come under criticism from senior military and KGB officers for his perceived failure to tackle the current crime wave , and for suggesting decentralization of control of limited contingents of Interior Ministry troops to republican governments . |
| 2 | As a result of seeing part of knowledge as the whole , ‘ rationalists ’ , Oakeshott contends , over-estimate their abilities to define and solve problems , whereas reason proper indicates the need for caution in assessing the scope of human capability . |
| 3 | The graphics are mean and moody , allowing freedom of exploration with the minimum of mapping , the setting is realistic and gives a real feeling of being there , and the puzzles — you 'll be scratching you head for weeks . |
| 4 | On Oct. 9 , 1989 , the then Economy Minister , Néstor Rapanelli , signed a decree allowing freedom of action for foreign companies to buy into Argentina without prior government approval ; however , areas such as the media were to remain closed to foreign investment . |
| 5 | A report from Israel on June 23 said that the remaining Ethiopian Jews were to emigrate on commercial flights , following the interim government 's decree ( on June 21 ) allowing freedom of movement for all citizens . |
| 6 | The UN Security Council met repeatedly during August in response to the Gulf crisis and passed five resolutions [ see box ] , moving on from its first and immediate condemnation of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait ( Resolution 660 on Aug. 2 ) , to impose mandatory sanctions ( Resolution 661 on Aug. 6 ) , and later to allow states to use their naval forces for " measures " to ensure implementation of such sanctions ( Resolution 665 on Aug. 25 ) , while also rejecting the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait ( Resolution 662 on Aug. 9 ) and demanding freedom of departure from , and consular access to , foreign nationals in Kuwait and Iraq ( Resolution 664 of Aug. 18 ) . |
| 7 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 8 | English Nature , the government 's official watchdog on nature conservation , was criticized at the time by environmental groups for entering into the deal with Fisons , and for allowing extraction of peat on a site of special scientific interest [ see ED 57 ] . |
| 9 | Criticism from the Vatican during the papacy of Pope John Paul II had also resulted in one of Arns 's auxiliary bishops , Mgr Luciano Mendes de Almeida , who was also president of the Bishops ' Conference , becoming Archbishop of Mariana in the largely rural state of Minas Gerais , while other progressive Brazilian bishops , including Arns , had lost their seats on Vatican councils and other responsibilities to conservatives . |
| 10 | Only a week after becoming chairman of BP in 1990 , Robert Horton announced sweeping organisation changes that led to over 1,000 job losses . |
| 11 | Omitting part of sentences on the assumption that an earlier sentence or the context will make the meaning clear is known as ellipsis . |
| 12 | Asclepiodatus can , therefore , be seen as beginning his career in the service of Guntram , for whom he acted as referendary , transferring to Childebert in 593 , and then becoming patricius of Provence under Childebert 's sons . |
| 13 | Ordained in 1879 in Ripon Cathedral , he served his curacy at St Katherine 's Parish Church , Northampton , before later becoming Vicar of Swadlincote in Derbyshire . |
| 14 | One gets the strong feeling that he would not ( in the unlikely event of his standing as a candidate ) have stood much chance of becoming Professor of Poetry at Oxford if Lewis and Tolkien had had anything to do with it . |
| 15 | October 19th — stock markets around the world crash , representing loss of confidence in banks . |
| 16 | Yet , after becoming dean of York in 1406 he did one more reshuffle of his holdings , then never changed them again . |
| 17 | The aim is to improve dietary tolerance to phenylalanine by inducing breakdown of phenylalanine in the gut before absorption . |
| 18 | A pipe band coached by Forties platform manager Brian Lynch capped a memorable season by becoming champion of champions in their class . |
| 19 | And since even a polygonal story should have at least two sides in all international farewell orgies , how about packing it in and having a bash at normal behaviour eh , so as to get bashed again as whipping boy despite my morseled-out attempts to break free or go shiating on , turning the other cheek to sheer cheek as sitting target for the unclear missiles of affreux dizzy acts or as wailing wall of blame beyond the demarcation line or bowstring frontier that will boomerang back and much joy may it give me. ( 102 ) |
| 20 | It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement . |
| 21 | United Distillers ' International region acquired a majority shareholding in Union de Empresas — Mexico 's largest imported spirits company — during the year , gaining control of distribution in this strategically important market . |
| 22 | Katharine Hancock , trading manager of Friends of the Earth , says : ‘ We welcome this kind of move from a mainstream manufacturer . ’ |
| 23 | The use of Article 49.3 of the Constitution ( enabling adoption of legislation without a vote unless the opposition tabled and won a vote of no confidence ) to push the final draft of the 1992 budget [ see p. 38544 ] through the National Assembly early on Nov. 16 renewed controversy over certain aspects of the Constitution , critics pointing out that almost all sections of the budget had been adopted without a vote . |
| 24 | Mr Kenneth Baker probably wisely turned down the offer of becoming Secretary of State for Wales but it was a serious proposition . |
| 25 | Follow this , keeping edge of wood on left and take next left fork which runs up on to a shoulder where another path joins from left and then ascends shoulder steeply ( f ) . |
| 26 | No one could accuse me of delaying consideration of allegations of miscarriage of justice when they have been presented to me . |
| 27 | The slow dance was quickening , swirling them back and back through the darkening woods and stabbing gorse of memory to the sheep trying to escape the cold night and , beyond that , to the ways in which each of them , Forest girl and Forest boy , had first joined body with another . |
| 28 | It is this capacity to which RE must seek to relate , enabling transference of skills from the general to the religious sphere of enquiry . |
| 29 | She first noted what she calls a ‘ plague mentality ’ enveloping discussion of Aids in 1984 , and conceived the Masque of the Red Death trilogy of albums ( completed in 1988 ) and the Plague Mass as a dramatic revenge on the inaction or malice of those in government and the church — or among the ‘ decent people ’ who were propagating the idea that a biomedical condition was a moral verdict . |
| 30 | Schick ( 1972 p. 16 ) states that ‘ budgeting always has been conceived as a process for systematically relating expenditure of funds to the accomplishment of planned objectives ’ . |