Example sentences of "of [verb] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is rejected is the necessity or even possibility of maintaining or augmenting one 's social position through violence . |
| 2 | If , as we have suggested , the working woman 's goal was one of maintaining and protecting her family , abortion could be one means of attaining that end . |
| 3 | As the Chairman , Pat Retief in his Annual Chairman 's Review says , ‘ we must continue to be a profitable company if we are to be a good employer in the fullest sense , capable of maintaining and enhancing our portfolio of assets and maximising the development of the Group 's human resources . |
| 4 | Ianthe always hurried past the vet 's house , fearful of seeing or hearing something dreadful . |
| 5 | The thrill of seeing or touching something really old on a museum visit can be extremely important ( see Box 14 ) . |
| 6 | Once you are afflicted with this inverted mentality in which every thing that exists is a pale shadow of some abstract general principle , expressed in a compound-noun sandwich , you are incapable of seeing or saying anything clearly . |
| 7 | As a consequence of this there is , as we shall see , a whole trade devoted to the difficult task of catching and killing them . |
| 8 | Julia was clearly on the point of accepting but remembering her manners pointed out that since Ian had brought her she could hardly desert him . |
| 9 | We are incapable of accepting and handling our unique dignity and character . |
| 10 | He collapsed forward again in a fit of coughing that racked his whole body . |
| 11 | It helped him to dance , but for me , to dance is a way of allowing and encouraging ourselves to escape through our fingertips , eyelids , lungs and tips of our tongues . |
| 12 | It is simply a method of inhibiting or stopping your debtor from cashing in his assets and putting them out of your reach before you have had a chance to recover what is owed to you . |
| 13 | By the time they have reached their 40s , many former fatties have found a pattern of eating that suits them and keeps them slim . |
| 14 | and sort of guarded and slept I do n't I do n't know how she slept because it must have been very uncomfortable . |
| 15 | ‘ Although , when I was going he did give me a sort of squeeze and said I 'd got the loveliest mouth he 'd ever seen . ’ |
| 16 | But I mean , a lot of people do n't glorify on the jobs they do , I mean Dinda she said you know , it 's awful being the one who 's getting all the all day long , kind of explained and help them with their problems , sympathise with , with something that does n't work she 'd much rather be outdoors than being a or looking after , but she said you know , it 's , it 's a secure job and these days I think well I 'm not I run my own car and they do n't really think that |
| 17 | The microfilm copies currently available for loan from BLDSC are used extensively , but the costs of producing and storing them are increasing , and the British Library is investigating the possibility of selling copies , in a manner similar to Dissertation Abstracts ( Ince ) . |
| 18 | Patting a horse , instead of stroking or scratching it , only has a few valid uses : as a muscular relaxant and distraction ; and as a part of ‘ breaking-in ’ so that the horse gets used to things thumping around on its back before it is actually ridden . |
| 19 | Consider those stately columns , regard the coils of plaster vine that trail from the windowsills , meditate on the dados in the shape of fasces that stud its pitted hide . ’ |
| 20 | He would n't of come th wa on his Saturday before his birthday he would n't of come and seen me unless he thought he was getting something out of it . |
| 21 | you can also reclaim old floorboards for use as a new surface ; the hard work of stripping and sealing them is regarded by a floor that has more colour and character than new wood . |
| 22 | As well as the traditional function of protecting and furthering their members ' interests , they are also expected to play a role in the country 's development effort towards economic growth . |
| 23 | This was thought by trade unionists to be inconsistent with the leading decision of ten years before which had protected employers ' associations from conspiracy on the ground that the acts had been done ‘ with the lawful object of protecting and extending their trade and increasing their profits ’ without employing unlawful means , although the consequence had been to injure their competitors . |
| 24 | But whether the separation of powers doctrine implies the existence of that degree of checking or controlling which has come to be known as judicial review in the American sense is not easy to decide . |
| 25 | To make these issues more tractable , it is helpful to consider the historical value of the three types of information produced by businesses , its usefulness the business historian , and the cost of keeping and using it : |
| 26 | On May 24 Pakistan ordered a senior Indian diplomat to leave the country after he accused Pakistani intelligence officials of abducting and torturing him . |
| 27 | As far as the social element is concerned , a government should recognise the need to promote social cohesion by securing that all citizens have a standard of living that enables them to participate in the life of the community ; governments must take care that reductions in the social element of citizenship which they may regard as necessary in the area of economic policy do not result in sections of the population being excluded from citizenship and membership of the national community . |
| 28 | Every individual has to find her way of tapping and using her creative resources , whether her daily environment is a home or an office . |
| 29 | This role will involve further service development of the factory deep cleaning service with the aim of promoting and selling it on a nationwide basis . |
| 30 | Instead of simply proclaiming " art for art 's sake " they attempted to create a body of work which was on its own terms self-sufficient , with its own order and tradition , capable of embodying and communicating its own values . |