Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [conj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole question of the burden of proof was nicely summed up in the Esso case by Lord Hodson where he said : It has been authoritatively said that the onus of establishing that an agreement is reasonable as between the parties is upon the person who puts forward the agreement , while the onus of establishing that it is contrary to the public interest , being reasonable between the parties , is on the person so alleging … |
| 2 | I am very conscious at the time of writing that an Inventory , prepared over a number of years by experts from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Scotland , is being printed and will be published soon . |
| 3 | The idea is that properties of an object , such as the shape and colour of a thing , could , in principle , exist on their own ( ’ in time' — as opposed to in some more Platonic way ) apart from anything else , whereas good does not have the same possibility of existing as an independent object . |
| 4 | The concept of normalisability also forms the basis of a rather different way of determining whether an anomaly has a grammatical or semantic origin . |
| 5 | Once the Occupational Standards are finalised , an awarding body ( or possibly more than one awarding body ) will look at ways of assessing whether an individual can meet the Occupational Standards or not . |
| 6 | The task of discovering whether an ageing individual has a drink problem requires considerable tact and sensitivity . |