Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also remarked with astonishment a sort of combat between God and her without being able to determine whether God was more occupied in seeking in the secrets of his wisdom the means of exercising her by suffering than she was disposed to suffer for his love ; for she showed an incredible avidity for crosses and an invincible patience over her trials and over every affliction which Almighty God sent to exercise her love and fidelity . |
| 2 | In their view , two things were required to give Britain the prospect of security in the atomic era : first , the atomic bomb itself ; and second , the means of delivering it at strategic ranges . |
| 3 | But one can also think of style as manner irrespective of such external connections , by identifying distinctive patterns of language use in a text simply as a means of differentiating it from other texts , on the general assumption that such distinctive patterns must be a part of the text 's overall effect . |
| 4 | But it would be very odd if a corporation had no means of protecting itself against wrong ; and if its property is injured by slander it has no means of redress except by action . |
| 5 | But it would be very odd if a corporation had no means of protecting itself against wrong ; and if its property is injured by slander it has no means of redress except by action . |
| 6 | Toothed whales usually travel in pods and hunt fish and quid by pursuing them at high speed . |