Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun] of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This AE recalls a sales manager who tuned in to AEs ' telephone conversations , thereby gaining snippets of information about their private lives which he would not hesitate to use . |
| 2 | The Federal Assembly on April 20 voted by a large majority to accept a proposal to rename the state the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( CSFR ) , thereby ending weeks of controversy over the issue . |
| 3 | For some of them , eagerly selling six-packs of beer on street corners , the new Berlin is full of opportunities . |
| 4 | Even fewer can appreciate in advance the effect , not just of the structures , but of the constantly moving stresses of traffic on them . |
| 5 | Bush promised legislation " this year " setting specific goals and timetables for the reduction of acid rain pollution , a long running source of disagreement between the two countries . |
| 6 | In order to encourage the winter tourist industry , it had a winter fair featuring exhibitions of interest to farmers , and many winter sport events . |
| 7 | There was a pressing , gently swaying wall of vegetation in a thousand shades of green . |
| 8 | Even if Bernard Stasi may be right in describing Jack Lang 's cultural policy as a ‘ spectacular performance played behind closed doors for the amusement of the prince and his obliging friends ’ , it will be a challenge to succeed him , the longest serving Minister of Culture of the Fifth Republic . |
| 9 | Orton was the longest serving prisoner of conscience in Africa . |
| 10 | It 's already causing howls of outrage from the industry . |
| 11 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 12 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 13 | In mathematics education , we need to re-examine our approaches to ensure pupils see mathematics as for , and about , everyone , thus promoting recognition of mathematics as an activity we can all engage in . |
| 14 | ‘ All mom and dad talk about is politics , I 'm already getting kind of sick of it , ’ she said . |
| 15 | To consider the hypothesized eastward moving segments of lithosphere in Mongolia and China as involving ‘ micro-plates ’ is to employ the term ‘ plate ’ in quite a different sense from its original definition . |
| 16 | oh just shoving sheets of plate into a , a machine that comes down and it take , it goes out the other end and you put another one in all day long |
| 17 | The zonal administrators would co-ordinate policies and plans , thus reducing pressure of work on ministries in Thimphu . |
| 18 | We constantly come across situations where colleagues treat us as if we were just raising points of sexuality to be difficult , or as a piece of axe-grinding . |
| 19 | They watched the horses follow the tractor round the ever narrowing stand of corn in the centre of the field , and the tinkers who came to get work stood by with dogs and shot the rabbits that came surging out . |
| 20 | Picking himself up , he threw his arms around the yeoman who was still plucking shreds of apple off his jerkin . |
| 21 | The Silmarillion might then have come to look like ( for example ) The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise , written late but preserving intensely moving fragments of verse from some much older time now lost ; even the editorial matter would then reinforce the effect of age and darkness ( a device Tolkien used on a much smaller scale for The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ) . |
| 22 | Mantzouranis was arrested on March 2 , 1989 , and charged with illegally handling $2,000,000 of Bank of Crete funds . |
| 23 | Ordained in 1879 in Ripon Cathedral , he served his curacy at St Katherine 's Parish Church , Northampton , before later becoming Vicar of Swadlincote in Derbyshire . |
| 24 | How many Welsh coaches , for example , see their role as not only achieving success for their clubs but also furnishing players of quality for the new multiplicity of Welsh squads ? |
| 25 | Just a willingness to be available for a few hours to suit you — within an agreed rota — to walk around the reserve helping people enjoy their visit and also avoiding problems of pressure on sensitive reserve areas . ’ |
| 26 | He is busily carving slices of meat from the carcass of a multi-legged Chaos Spawn . |
| 27 | All the C&P businesses are now using Cost of Quality as one of their criteria of success . |
| 28 | I would like to record my thanks to the members of all sites who have given such enthusiasm and interest to this problem , this topic and that the erm County Council is now resourcing rights of way in a way which we felt was necessary and I would thank our staff for their persistence , patience and their continuing efforts with great er verseatue we I am grateful Chairman . |
| 29 | Therefore some support can be given at relatively little cost to oneself , and without really testing feelings of duty to their limits . |
| 30 | But thanks to pioneering research here at the John Radcliffe hospital , often involving transfusions of blood to the unborn baby , these children have survived . |