Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also put more emphasis on public worship , prayers , and the sacraments than most of his contemporaries , and played down the role of preaching as a means of edification ; for these reasons , Hooker has been seen by some ecclesiastical historians such as Peter Lake as ‘ close to the ideological origins of Arminianism ’ . |
| 2 | When Boniface was consecrated bishop by Pope Gregory II in 722 , it was not to a particular see , but to a very wide commission of preaching to heathens , such as , for instance , the Aquitanian St Amand had had in northern Gaul during the previous century . |
| 3 | The didactic approach of preaching to ‘ learners ’ ( rather than ‘ students ’ ) and of spoonfeeding them with preset values and objectives is gradually being replaced by a much more human approach where students are enabled to question and study , and to add to knowledge themselves as they extract the best from individual learning experiences . |
| 4 | I do n't know whether it 's a case of preaching to the converted , but it 's fun |
| 5 | It draws attention to the centrality of preaching in the New Testament . |
| 6 | They are said to have reproved Jesus during his early days of preaching in Galilee . |
| 7 | The oil price and supply uncertainties of the 1970s and more recently in 1991 triggered awareness of the problems of depending on imported energy supplies . |
| 8 | Our behaviour plan can then be built around the ‘ bits ’ instead of depending on vague intentions . |
| 9 | In short the level of cooperation between banks and their more important customers is much more extensive in Japan , thus mitigating the problems of depending on external loans . |
| 10 | Intense personal involvement is another outcome of depending on local knowledge ; and that also carries costs , as we have shown . |
| 11 | You know often they do n't stay through the whole meeting but if they 've got specific points to bring up you know th you know it 's flexible really you know sort of depending on what 's going on really . |
| 12 | Any figure at which the assessor of damages arrives can not be other than artificial and , if the aim is that justice meted out to all litigants should be even-handed instead of depending on idiosyncracies of the assessor , whether jury or judge , the figure must be " basically a conventional figure derived from experience and from awards in comparable cases " . |
| 13 | They realized that the old technique of depending upon the trained observer 's overall impression to characterize the natural vegetation of an area was unreliable . |
| 14 | Following consultation with Assistant Managers and Officer members in Bank of Ireland throughout the country in respect of the rumoured implementation of Performance Related Pay , it was agreed that the Bank be contacted for the purpose of elaborating on the views as expressed by the members at those meetings . |
| 15 | A lifetime 's habit of apologising to the person who treads on one 's toe is hard to break ; and ( in common with most middle- aged and middle-class women ) I have hardly ever encountered overt hostility from strangers , and never been ‘ chucked out ’ before . |
| 16 | ‘ You know how it is , ’ he would say to their hosts , on the pretext of apologising for arriving late , ‘ She could n't find a thing to wear . |
| 17 | Instead of apologising for the article , the Mirror , in an act of ‘ pure undiluted hypocrisy ’ , published a second article ‘ Maggie 's Clay Test ’ and a leader on the subject the following day . |
| 18 | The restoration and re-furbishing were completed in time for a great service of re-hallowing on 27th July . |
| 19 | And interestingly , one review by Mawer contains the only mention of the Newbolt Report to be included in the Review during the whole of the inter-war period , and this solely in the context of attributing to the Report responsibility for generating a good deal of subsequent discussion of grammar . |
| 20 | He made the mistake of attributing to the press the importance that they themselves give to newspapers and journalists . |
| 21 | Now suppose we have a supersaturated solution of some substance , like hypo in that it was eager to crystallize out of solution , and like carbon in that it was capable of crystallizing in either of two ways . |
| 22 | If this does n't work , the spadefoot has a second line of defence ; it has a disagreeable odour and taste — the New Mexico spadefoot has the curious distinction of smelling like unroasted peanuts . |
| 23 | When I grew up , young people had various ways of intimating to each other a desire to become better acquainted , but playing footsie-footsie was not generally one of them . |
| 24 | I also know he was never tired of gazing at me as I lay on my front . |
| 25 | Thus , from a letter of 1867 : " most philologists lack that elevating total view of antiquity , because they stand too close to the picture and investigate a patch of paint , instead of gazing at the big , bold brushstrokes of the whole painting and — what 's more — enjoying them … " ; and " … our whole mode of working is quite horrible . |
| 26 | In the garden of the Adam and Eve , Theodora drank sherry and gave herself the pleasure of gazing at the spire of the cathedral . |
| 27 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 28 | I got me a surefire , old-fashioned American way of dealin' with all them Bruce Lee fanatics . |
| 29 | Instead of plumping for shop-bought toys , build up a useful box , filled with everything from buttons to old magazines , which children can glue together to make their own sculptures . |
| 30 | Ernest 's words were drowned in the call which went up from the ship , and the outburst of cheering from the Flamingo 's passengers . |