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Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	In 1658 he was appointed vicar of Datchet , Buckinghamshire , where the parishioners complained that he was an absentee , but he was exonerated by the trustees for the maintenance of preaching ministers .
2	Such outbursts by Dr Jenkins seems to me yet another example of preaching socialism while thriving on the rewards of the capitalist system of government .
3	There 's a , I mean there 's a school shop and they sort of sell back pack , might have got back pack there .
4	Outlook , page 31 World Markets New York : Programme buying and a rush of panicky short-covering saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average finish at a record 2,754.56 , up 40.84 Tokyo : A flood of sell orders from investment trusts redeeming funds for clients brought a sharp fall in the Nikkei average , down 256.6 to 35,366.37 .
5	In fact , the struggle was longer , on a greater scale , and with an outcome very different from that anticipated ; so that , as far as Eliot was concerned , the task , as his Notes towards the Definition of Culture ( 1948 ) made clear , was not merely that of rescuing the Christian religion but of salvaging culture itself .
6	Thirdly , rule-specification is a means of ‘ job enlargement ’ , a process of elaborating housework tasks so they take up endlessly increasing amounts of time .
7	The task is not one of excusing behaviour or of attributing condemnation to it — only one of rendering it explicable in terms of a revealed social order .
8	One important aspect of attributing differences to biology as opposed to attributing them to culture is that the second type of explanation leaves room for views to change , while the former appears to rule this out .
9	The central difficulty is that of attributing responsibility to the ‘ centre ’ in such a ‘ devolved ’ organisation as the typical trade union , bearing in mind the likelihood that ‘ unofficial action ’ will be taken at individual plant level without prior consultation with the union 's central organs .
10	One further consequence of attributing pre-eminence to quantity in relation to detection rates means that the ‘ prig ’ who ‘ clears his slate ’ ( admits to lots of crimes , no matter how trivial ) becomes a prized catch , simply because he helps the figures .
11	The first part of Heisenberg 's concluding sentence shows that he felt that such a view fell short of attributing reality to elementary particles .
12	Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time .
13	It may be , however , that the dictum is an overstatement of the true position and that the agency principle does not require that the act of one partner be that of all for all purposes , but merely deems that to be the case for the limited purpose of attaching liability to the firm for the acts and omissions of one of its members .
14	We came up with the idea of attaching nose rings to all our players and getting someone in the kop to give a hefty tug when necessary .
15	As Tamar sank back into her seat , Tempy took out a bottle of smelling salts and held them under her nose .
16	The researchers suggest that the micrometer trainees ' performance was more consistent because most had " mastered the skills involved to the point where they are secure " , while the invoicing trainees were often still in the process of mastering procedures .
17	Spread the arms , pull one hand then the other and you 'll soon acquire the skill of mastering loops , low — level skimming the surface , or rapid pull-outs from vertical dives .
18	Many teachers — and parents — believe that the core of mastering reading skill lies only in individual contact between adult and child .
19	For someone in the early stages of mastering Coke throat-burn like myself , this is impressive .
20	One successful method of mastering nerves is to act the way you would like to feel .
21	Consequently , the Rationalist is a dangerous and expensive character to have in control of affairs , and he does most damage , not when he fails to master the situation ( his politics , of course , are always in terms of mastering situations and surmounting crises ) , but when he appears to be successful ; for the price we pay for each of his apparent successes is a firmer hold of the intellectual fashion of Rationalism upon the whole life of society .
22	But fifth seed Ivan Lendl 's hopes of mastering grass looked more forlorn than ever after he was dispatched in straight sets by Byron Black of Zimbabwe .
23	But Ivan Lendl 's hopes of mastering grass looked more forlorn than ever after he was dispatched in straight sets by Byron Black of Zimbabwe .
24	Some day the queen 's ministers will have to stop advising her to undertake another and yet another journey through the phantasmagoria of cheering crowds and empty ceremonies which mock the memory of a power that was but is no longer .
25	The streets were full of cheering crowds finally free of their racial tags — finally South Africans , nothing more and nothing less .
26	Meanwhile , billionaire Ross Perot looked anything but a loser as he appeared before a crowd of cheering supporters , danced with his wife to the tune Crazy and pronounced Clinton had won .
27	Kenneth Matiba received a hero 's welcome from thousands of cheering supporters when he returned to Kenya on May 2 after 10 months in London .
28	But , like the hundreds of cheering spectators , he was still miffed David was n't chosen to go to India on the winter tour .
29	Hundreds of cheering people lined the route to catch a glimpse of the man who , like those champions of " true " , Christian Spain , had put the infidel to flight .
30	Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances .