Example sentences of "of [v-ing] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , at some future data an exercise would be undertaken by the Organization and Methods section to examine the feasibility of using one document to produce the updating information required by both the Payroll Master File and the PMIS . |
| 2 | Williamson 's advice to the organizational designer is to operate in a discriminating way , that is only after making a comparative assessment of the costs of using one organizational form rather than another . |
| 3 | There is even an echo of the testing time of his twelfth year in the fourth book in the sequence , The Betrayer , when he has to find a way of helping one of the Confederates , involved in a misguided conspiracy against the young Emperor , without being disloyal to his ruler . |
| 4 | What Scunthorpe managed last season Scarborough achieved despite the disappointment of seeing one of their most sustained periods of pressure relieved with the Steve Clarke goal which gave Chelsea the lead . |
| 5 | Bending and brushing away overhanging thorn branches , I sidled through the water in vain hopes of seeing one of the otters that lived here , according to Mrs Knelle . |
| 6 | He told me that he made a point of seeing one pantomime a year . |
| 7 | A former Ministry of Defence worker , has been found guilty of accepting one and a half million pounds in backhanders from arms companies , in what 's thought to be the biggest ever corruption case . |
| 8 | When Nizan repeatedly asserted that peace was " indivisible " , his intention was to highlight the inadequacy of " localising " disputes between nation states , of allowing one nation to use force against another with impunity . |
| 9 | And in the process of unloading one of the bundles , it split open and the manager found the cannabis concealed inside it . |
| 10 | Her eyes met Bert 's , found no reflection there of what she was thinking — probably against her will , Alice believed ; and , so as not to meet Alice 's , lowered themselves to the business of eating one golden crisp fatty chip after another . |
| 11 | Genetic recombination is analogous to the process of producing one functional motor car by combining the engine from one broken-down car with the gearbox from another . |
| 12 | Let's be honest with ourselves ; I 'm a small but vital link in the business of producing one of the most important daily newspapers in the world . |
| 13 | Instead of adopting one or other of these policies , they have tried to hide their difference beneath an uneasy and evasive compromise . |
| 14 | Quite apart from the injustice of adopting one policy for the public sector and another for the private , such tactics have often proved counterproductive and created more battles and delays , ultimately making sites more difficult to sell . |
| 15 | Even if the laws of psychophysics are empirical laws in the sense of correlating one type of observation or experience with another , they are not laws about the relationship between experience and that which lies outside of experience and is its trigger or basis — ‘ pure ’ , objective , material energy . |
| 16 | They concluded that , especially in relation to fluvial processes , explanations that ignore the role of human activities run the risk of eliminating one of the most significant variables and perhaps an appropriate note on which to end this chapter is their affirmation that ( Graf , Trimble , Toy and Costa , 1980 , p. 281 ) : |
| 17 | PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world . |
| 18 | Right from indie godhead McGee 's Madonna invite to the fact that Therapy ? — once a hopeless band from Belfast — are on the verge of becoming one of the three most important new bands in Britain . |
| 19 | At Forest , in the nightmare season 81–82 , he had fallen into all the usual high earning traps , plus the unusual one of becoming one of the city 's leading gay scene makers . |
| 20 | It was presided over by Ernest Ayliffe who had retired as President at the beginning of Congress , but had accepted the honour of becoming one of the BDDA 's first " Grand Councillors " . |
| 21 | The proportion of heads ( and , therefore , the chance of becoming one ) was higher in primary education , where schools were much smaller , but there were hardly any senior teachers or scale 4 posts . |
| 22 | In a more radical dynamic , containment , in the very process of repressing one kind of subversive knowledge , actually produces another . |
| 23 | This practice of matching one picture or pattern to another identical one is also given in the game of Lotto and in playing pairing games such as Snap . |
| 24 | The now illegal practice of scuffing one half of the ball is no longer designed to allow the spinner to grip the thing , but to assist swing bowlers . |
| 25 | For example , having gone straight ahead without referring to the chart gallery I created the default Pie Chart and was dissatisfied because I could find no way of exploding one of the slices . |
| 26 | The cost to the firm of employing one additional worker in a competitive labour market is the prevailing money wage ( W ) . |
| 27 | The possibilities of employing one discourse as a metaphor for another are first explored in Out . |
| 28 | The Department of Industry was consistently lukewarm to the concept of favouring one particular inner-urban area . |
| 29 | Even among left-wing clergy the idea of endowing one man with absolute power is abhorrent . |
| 30 | The promise is to provide standards transparency instead of picking one ( or any of the five million we 've come up with so far ) . |