Example sentences of "[v-ing] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | communication between school and University needs to be clearer to eliminate problems in timetabling of examinations , school and University holiday schedules , etc . |
| 2 | Chemical company fined twice for polluting of Irish Sea |
| 3 | I think both have a place in the world , but I see Metropolitan Area technology used for connecting different types of data network , with Asynchronous Transfer Mode for internetworking of broadband networks . ’ |
| 4 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 5 | It was agreed to halt all depositing of industrial waste in international waters by 1995 , including sub-seabed disposal of nuclear waste . |
| 6 | Apart from this , all mineral workings , ancillary buildings depositing of waste and the construction of means of access to sites require planning permission . |
| 7 | The 43 nations attending the week long London Dumping Convention eventually agreed to end all depositing of industrial waste at sea by 1995 . |
| 8 | Was that caused by the same sort of sedimentation , the same sort of depositing of silt ? |
| 9 | When the day for her departure arrived nobody could be heard for the weeping and wailing of the girls . |
| 10 | Others drifted on , passed the squeeze-box man and the charity collectors , to the girl in black brogues and red ribbons wailing of lost love and wicked soldiers . |
| 11 | US ultimatum — Revised Soviet plan — Soviet and Iranian comment on launching of land war |
| 12 | Many years ago the workforce was predominately male but with the greater use of automation and assembling of sub-assembly-type work , female workers form a greater proportion of the total than , say , 50 years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ You can see if there 's any disease from browning of the plant and you can see how well they 've been dried — they must n't be crusty round the edges . |
| 14 | The Commons Committee made field visits to the areas highlighted by FoE , and reported that in Cumbria 's Whinlatter Pass ‘ Forestry Commission officials have observed extensive dieback of shoots on Scots Pine , evidenced by browning of needles … |
| 15 | Some of the illustrations require understanding of boxplots , introduced in chapter 6 , and line fitting , introduced in the previous chapter . |
| 16 | Tasks requiring understanding of negative numbers produced success rates around 30 per cent both for representation on a number line and for the question below : The presence of the diagrams allows the pupil to count to find the answer or to check an answer reached by computation . |
| 17 | There is , I know , much gnashing of teeth , banging of beer glasses etc. about the non-appearance of the Ogwen & Carneddau and Llanberis guides , but both these tomes are at least on the horizon now . |
| 18 | The loud tugging and pulling that followed — the instructions from the Colonel , instructions from the landlord , banging of levers , banging of latches — eclipsed any small performance Mrs Crump might have been inclined to give and when the company was finally re-seated she was wise enough to let it pass . |
| 19 | The loud tugging and pulling that followed — the instructions from the Colonel , instructions from the landlord , banging of levers , banging of latches — eclipsed any small performance Mrs Crump might have been inclined to give and when the company was finally re-seated she was wise enough to let it pass . |
| 20 | A barking ‘ kyak , kyak , kyak ’ , like yapping of small dog , less shrill and more resounding than similar call of Lesser Spotted . |
| 21 | Over half the exhibitors were in their thirties and forties , an age that was becoming of increasing significance to the Prince . |
| 22 | The psychological insights which he might once have applied were no longer applicable ; thus , like most people , like all of us would in a similar circumstance , the degree to which he could realistically perceive what was going on within his body and what was becoming of him came and went . |
| 23 | This information is increasingly becoming of local nature , C C T and L M S make it difficult for our national research department to deal with local issues . |
| 24 | Hypertext is becoming of some significance as an underlying structure in multimedia design and it is important , therefore , that we describe it , if only briefly , before we conclude our survey of the technological environment from which multimedia is emerging . |
| 25 | ‘ I had just reached the age where such things were becoming of interest to me , and it was n't too long after the Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth when my sister and I had collected as many photos as we could lay our hands on . ’ |
| 26 | However , although the polenier event is associated with cooling of the ocean , it may not have had a very large impact on the carbon dioxide balance . |
| 27 | The apparent lack of much volcanic activity over much of Mercurian history probably results from cooling of the outer mantle , because a planet with a large surface area to mass ratio should cool rather rapidly to fairly low temperatures . |
| 28 | Whether this temperature rise was mainly due to the " greenhouse effect " was a moot point , although the fact that 1990 was one of the coldest years in the stratosphere tended to reinforce the likelihood of this being the case , since cooling of the stratosphere was seen as a consequence of the greenhouse effect . |
| 29 | Because of the large excess of solvent present , evaporation , and hence cooling of the solvent drop , is negligible . |
| 30 | This is followed by a slower phase of subsidence promoted by cooling of this mantle material as heat is conducted up to the surface . |