Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neuroscience , which depends upon a materialist CTP for the explanatory force of its explanations of the mind , can not , therefore , sustain any claim to be explaining or advancing our understanding of the basis of perception , or of the mind . |
| 2 | In the general election the Labour Party made sweeping gains , more than doubling its share of the seats in the Dáil at the expense of Fianna Fáil , which won its lowest number of votes since the 1920s , and Fine Gael , which suffered its worst result since 1948 . |
| 3 | Put on , on the bottom of the blank line , rather than putting it top of the total line . |
| 4 | On the face of it , this is a month when you should be concentrating on your future and accepting your share of the limelight . |
| 5 | So he said to himself : ‘ This is the place where I was simply terrified ! ’ and remembering his fear of the previous day , he promptly shied again although he had not been hurt the day before . |
| 6 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
| 7 | The Commission 's recommendations for the extension of DNA profiling must be accompanied , as the Commission 's own researchers proposed , by the safeguard that legal aid should be provided in all cases to a defence expert to carry out an assessment of the evidence by replicating the tests conducted by the prosecution and considering their interpretation of the results . |
| 8 | My occasional presence at Summerchild 's front gate , keeping Millie from her pious labours on the birthday book and obstructing his view of the cracked step , evidently never reached a sufficient level of generality to impinge upon him . |
| 9 | I held up my hand very much in the manner of Salvius the tribune greeting Glabriolix the slave and giving him news of the Emperor 's dog , Pertinax . |
| 10 | This probably calls for a basic two-part structure , with part one detailing your assumptions , deductions and conclusions , and giving your analysis of the problems , while part two looks at possible alternative courses of action and spells out your ‘ solution ’ . |
| 11 | After being so intimately associated with Christ and hearing his parables of the Kingdom and private commentary interpreting those stories , his disciples still expected the Kingdom to come in the material and nationalistic terms of the Old Testament ( Acts 1:6 ) . |
| 12 | He began to whistle , and taking his hands of the handlebars he negotiated the last half mile home without touching them again . |
| 13 | Alliance also did well , winning 44 seats and increasing their share of the vote from 6.8pc in 1989 to 7.7pc . |
| 14 | A growing number of staffs within and across schools and the specialist services are now engaged in developing such joint approaches , meeting as teams in school-based discussions and workshops , with the explicit aims of pooling their expertise , sharing and increasing their understanding of the factors that may lead or contribute to children 's learning difficulties , and finding their own most appropriate solutions to them . |
| 15 | In a preliminary report released yesterday , the company notes a particularly good performance by its commercial division in maintaining sales in Europe and increasing its penetration of the Pacific rim markets . |
| 16 | He stretched across her once more to shut the lead door , his arm in front of her face and blocking her view of the box . |
| 17 | Herr Genscher proposed a number of joint German-US measures , including blaming Serbia for the fighting and suspending its membership of the CSCE . |
| 18 | However , his permanence at The Oval was assured , and following his handover of the captaincy to Peter May in 1957 he gave a further 22 years ' continuous service to Surrey , being Chairman of the Cricket Committee from 1968 to 1973 , culminating his year of the Presidency in 1982 . |
| 19 | We all assumed that because of the , yeah the media pressure , at least talks would start , but I think possibly the management thought that because of this one-sided pressure , you know it seemed at the time that nothing nice was being said about the management , you know you can almost understand them being reluctant to go into a room and offering their side of the argument . |
| 20 | This challenge can be very threatening to men and to white people , partly because changing your interpretation of the world is an uncomfortable experience , and partly because a change of attitudes inevitably causes social change , and this in turn brings about a shift in power relationships . |
| 21 | Comparisons with the 1914–18 career of Monty should be viewed with the knowledge that this outstanding man was gravely wounded while leading his platoon of the Royal Warwicks early in the conflict and this slowed his promotion considerably . |
| 22 | The cases equally indicate the boundary beyond which the church was seen as abusing its definitions of the sacred . |
| 23 | ‘ Dear God , we pray that as well as suffering whatever part of the general physical unpleasantness involved in the Iran-Iraq war you may judge to be rightly his , you can find a spare area in his suffering , er , anti-create , for Mr R. Khomeini , late of Tehran and Qom , to experience at least some of the , umm , despair and continual worry currently being undergone by the novelist Mr S Rushdie , of Bombay and London , heathen and smart-alec though he may well be . |
| 24 | The Government made clear when introducing its reform of the housing benefit scheme in April 1988 that it will be adapted to provide community charge rebates for low-income groups . |