Example sentences of "[adj] of [v-ing] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Braley , the former Coopers & Lybrand trainee who attempted to sell confidential BCCI documents while on secondment to the Serious Fraud Office , has been found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice . |
| 2 | Last month a jury at Oban Sheriff Court found Iain Swan Ferguson , 50 , of 2e Scalpay Terrace , James Smillie , 34 , of 28e McCaig Road , both Oban , and Frederick Vennard , 45 , of 11 Lorn Road , Dunbeg , guilty of conspiring to defraud the Sun Alliance Insurance Company by setting fire to Ferguson 's partly-built bungalow at Taynuilt . |
| 3 | The defendants were found guilty of plotting to overthrow the monarchy and threatening the security of the state . |
| 4 | He is serving a 20-year sentence imposed in 1988 by a military court which found him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 5 | In a trial held in October 1990 , 38 members of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam ( NUFLVN ) resistance movement were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment after being found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 6 | The instructions which come with a video recorder tend to be expressed in an amiable pidgin Japanese , but the citizen who misunderstands them suffers no worse fate than that of failing to record the programme that he wants , unless and until his ten-year-old grandson can be prevailed upon to work the thing for him . |
| 7 | Tory Party chairman Sir Norman Fowler accused Labour of trying to exploit the issue . |
| 8 | The breathless warning she would have uttered earlier would at least have had the ring of sincerity , but now she was only too conscious of having to play a part . |
| 9 | If you want to be sure of having deterred the enemy , you have to fire first . |
| 10 | Do n't be ashamed of having to re-write a sentence or paragraph several times to make your meaning still clearer . |
| 11 | One company commented that the attitude to the information in such studies as it purchases is often one of ‘ how interesting ’ , rather than one of seeking to put the information to use . |
| 12 | Yet , if a lack of time-cues or a difficulty in perceiving them were important in some cases , then a possibility that has not yet been tested is one of attempting to promote the presence of 24-hour rhythms in a patient by increasing external time-cues or by administering sedation and intravenous feeding on a daily schedule . |
| 13 | Rank 's wilful demolition of his own dream suggests he had simply had enough of trying to create a niche for British films in the American market . |
| 14 | Analogously , if one had produced a computational model whose performance mapped onto the kingfisher 's behaviour one could not thereby be certain of having captured the bird 's psychology . |
| 15 | This of course is something I was aware of having witnessed a news conference with Miss Graf in mid-week , in which she very politely criticised her absent rivals saying that none of the top ranked players needed the vast amounts of money to be gained by playing in lucrative exhibition events . |
| 16 | As might be expected , secondees were aware of having lost the cosiness of the familiar and expected . |