Example sentences of "of [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument in favour of plumping looks at first sight convincing enough : in the later stages of the count your own party will stand a chance of benefiting from the transferred lower preferences expressed by supporters of other parties , whilst those parties will not benefit from the transferred lower preferences of your own supporters since they wo n't have expressed any . |
| 2 | The transactional desktop element allows networked personal computers running MS-DOS or Windows to run the client portions of Open/OLTP downloaded from the server . |
| 3 | I can now consider that the new system of sponsoring foreseen by the Lawn Tennis Association no longer contains appreciable restrictions of competition and therefore the file will be closed . ’ |
| 4 | A waft of singing sounded from the church , like a great collective musical groan , with an overtone of keening — the final psalm . |
| 5 | As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well . |
| 6 | His fit of coughing echoed across the landscape , an early morning salute , as he often put it in his ‘ Jottings ’ , to an old man still courageous enough to face death at the hands of a packet of filter-tips . |
| 7 | And so you 're , er , have actually , you 're at or whatever , erm , it would be nice to think , and I 'm not exactly sure , my geography 's not that good at that particular part , but you , you sort of tend to look at it , and say , right if he 's in and out , and it 's ten o'clock and somebody says they can see him at eleven , you know , and there 's this tendency , to say , well erm , O K. Yes ? |
| 8 | We 've got to get a much better system of subsidising housing for everybody , so that those in real need get a bigger share of the cake than the people who are living in very big houses , with very big incomes , and getting tax relief at the higher rate . |
| 9 | Such an insider 's account will therefore hopefully achieve the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ MacDonald ( 1987 ) demanded of postmodern ‘ anthropology at home ’ , while ‘ practical mastery ’ of the ethnographic field should reduce the problems faced by McCabe and Sutcliffe ( 1978 ) , who set out to pursue participant observation on the police and found that ‘ it would be necessary for anyone wishing to fully understand the process of policing to take into account the difficulties in gaining access and an understanding of just what was going on ’ . |
| 10 | The type of binding chosen for any individual volume must always be related to the type and size of the book and its estimated length of retention . |
| 11 | What followed was a display of tumbling combined with erotic exhibitionism . |
| 12 | Police are investigating two more cases of carjacking bringing to four , the total number of such robberies in the past week . |
| 13 | He accused them of failing to face up to the implications of the voters ' choice should this happen , and of preferring to hide from the truth . |
| 14 | The fact is , I sort of got conned into this . ’ |
| 15 | The possibility of publication was raised by Thorneycroft who suggested not only that it would demonstrate the thinking that had been done , but tactically that it would ‘ in some degree pre-empt any White Paper which the Socialists may be thinking of producing based on Longford ’ . |
| 16 | Having worked in racing stables for a number of years , I went to India with every prospect of enjoying racing despite the absence of luxuries like The Sporting Life . |
| 17 | Men with periodontitis had more than a twofold increased risk of dying compared with men who had no periodontal disease at baseline . |
| 18 | Interestingly , most people 's attitudes towards this appear quite accepting ; often , the anticipation of dying seems to be less traumatic than dealing with the problems associated with ageing itself . |
| 19 | It illustrates something that those of us who work in the field of evolutionary biology sort of grow to live with , which is that anything which casts doubt on Darwin will get a good blow up in the press , on television , and so on . |
| 20 | Equally well , rather than disappoint you , the assistant may say ( hat the item is not in stock at present but may be in next week — after several weeks of returning to ask about it , you may suddenly realize that the item never is coming in . |
| 21 | The degree of supercoiling imposed on the viral genome in vivo is not known , but our experiments show that a moderate superhelical density can exert an stabilizing effect on the open complexes formed at the P A2b and P A3 promoters , which should be important in facilitating the transition into elongation complexes . |
| 22 | And the process by which the contextualizing is carried out would itself invite interrogation and theorization ; Marxists committed to ‘ cultural materialism ’ would be impatient of a form of contextualizing founded in the history of ideas . |
| 23 | An electrically heated wire is cooled by the flow , the rate of cooling depending on the velocity . |
| 24 | With one or two exceptions deaf drivers were unable to obtain insurance and they were therefore in danger of becoming barred from driving . |
| 25 | Brierly , the first Special Rapporteur on the Law of Treaties , proposed the rejection of all the traditional methods of becoming bound to a treaty in favour of a single , less formal concept of acceptance . |
| 26 | Its purpose is best served if the person concerned can take up this attitude , be with it for as long as is required , and then let it go again when stepping back into ordinary life , then there is no risk of becoming over-identified with it . |
| 27 | When she was sixteen , in the age of Gucci shoes and Lambrettas , and being taken by her father on birthday treats to his favourite trattoria in the King 's Road ( white lavatory tiles and low-slung lights , waiters singing ‘ O Sole Mio ’ and her father embarrassingly ordering due cannelloni per favore and molto formaggio for my daughter' ) , Molly was conscious of becoming attracted to men with a lot of black hair round the bracelets of their wrist-watches . |
| 28 | Already the trade showed signs of becoming restricted to the immediate neighbourhood of Reading , whose clothiers seem to have controlled most of the output of Berkshire . |
| 29 | The enclosed experiments will , I doubt not , excuse this my freedom in endeavouring to give him this opportunity of becoming acquainted with you . |
| 30 | Was he human , semi-human , immaculately conceived or was he just a human being who recognised that evil was becoming widespread in the world , and that mankind was in danger of becoming dominated by those who had much to lose if it were suppressed ? |