Example sentences of "of [verb] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is necessary , therefore , to make as attractive as possible the opportunities and challenge of singing or playing in church . |
| 2 | This copy together with the duplicated log files , provides the means of recovering and rebuilding in the event of damage to the Working-Set . |
| 3 | But th , we go get a er , report from the counselling agency on the type of , of er , question that 's been posed , and I would expect that that agency would be providing help and guidance , er , along the lines of suggesting and working with the individual on problems of the type , which I 'm sure you have at the front of your mind . |
| 4 | It could be the result of using or working on certain materials , e.g. lead ; of labour in a harmful environment , e.g. damp , ill ventilated , fume or dust filled ; of harmful working postures ; or of the repetitive use of particular muscles or organs . |
| 5 | 1792 It being Represented to this Meeting that their is unlawful combinations and Meetings held by the Weavers in the Island , particularly in the Parish of Kilchoman , for the purpose of shortening or cutting off the usual measure called the Islay Ell , which has for time Immemorial been the Standard Measure given by the Weavers with every Species of their Manufacture , and for reducing the measure to the English yard , and for continueing the prices for the English yard as high as that for the Islay Ell |
| 6 | It may be as fleeting as a look of acknowledgement when passing the patient 's bed ; or it may be less transient , for example helping the patient through the stages of accepting and coping with chronic illness ; or when a patient has a mental illness , it may be the major emphasis for most interactions . |
| 7 | When I began to be seen around camp with a new face , I was subjected to a lot of nudging and winking from those who did n't know the facts , and people came up to me with knowing smiles on their faces , saying , ‘ I see you 've got a new boyfriend ! |
| 8 | At the coal face , the butties were responsible for the actual mining processes , overseen by colliery company officials ; the butties were in charge of organizing and paying for the winning of coal , though not in all cases for its transport to the pithead . |
| 9 | Whilst women 's role as mothers was of paramount importance to society — particularly after the exile when maternity , for various pragmatic reasons , became the means of transmitting and establishing in biological terms , as it were , religious and ethnic identity — it would seem logical , given our culture — nature opposition and the fact that culture seeks to control and impose upon whatever has been construed as natural , that something had to be done in cultural terms about the natural function of childbirth . |
| 10 | Australian captain Woodfull is hit by a ball form Larwood in the Adelaide Test : a violent eruption of booing and shouting by spectators was triggered |
| 11 | It had all gone — the thin veneer of self-confidence , the determination that she had been so proud of acquiring and nurturing since that first audition in Vienna . |
| 12 | There 's a lot of banging and crashing on this tape . |
| 13 | There are two main methods of representing and reasoning with diagnostic knowledge . |
| 14 | After a restless night of tossing and turning on lumpy , wet French soil , Charlie was woken at four , and in turn kicked Tommy , who simply turned over and went straight back to sleep . |
| 15 | If the traditional methods of scything and grazing by sheep were re-introduced , management committees would save on cutting costs and encourage the growth of wild flowers . |
| 16 | He would want to distance himself and Ramsey in horror from any possibility of having harboured a murderer , but while the possibility still remained of profiting by a theft , holy or unholy , he would want to retain the appearance of valuing and believing in the thief . |
| 17 | And you learn about the real necessity of acting and thinking for yourself . |
| 18 | Previously , picketing had taken the form of pushing and shoving on both sides , but the confiscation of union banners and the pickets ' public address system by the police led to the throwing of stones and bottles by strikers . |
| 19 | Strawson begins his discussion with an account of what he calls the ‘ reactive attitudes ’ which we display to others whenever we treat them as responsible moral agents , capable of forming and acting on intentions . |
| 20 | Among these were the freedom of association , of forming and participating in political parties , and of expression and movement . |
| 21 | Three Ballycastle men are on trial accused of aiding and abetting in the murder . |
| 22 | Later , under the 1907 provisions for the medical inspection of children , parents ( and again the responsibility usually fell on the mother ) were told what was wrong with their children but were left with the task of seeking and paying for treatment , dependants being excluded from the provisions of the 1911 National Health Insurance Act . |
| 23 | The housekeeper was in charge of mending and looking after all the linen from the various parts of the house . |
| 24 | This was tedious work , involving , as you can imagine , a great deal of toing and froing on our part . |
| 25 | The figures represent the amount of fronting and raising to [ e ? ] of the vowel in words like pipe and line , the maximum score being 200 , which represents a large proportion of extremely non-standard realizations . |
| 26 | The index scores in table 5.2 show the amount of fronting and raising to [ e ? ] on a three-point scale of the vowel in words such as pipe and line . |
| 27 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 28 | Instead of frowning while listening to your explanations he had nodded and smiled . |
| 29 | In between promise and entry lie not only the stories of Isaac and Jacob , but the long story of Joseph and the other sons of Jacob , a period of 430 years spent in Egypt by their descendants , most of it in slave labour , a dramatic escape from the Pharaoh and his army , and forty years of wandering or living in the wilderness of the Sinai peninsula . |
| 30 | There was a lot of shouting and shuffling amongst the newcomers , most of whom were feeling bored and restless and had spent too long in the country already . |