Example sentences of "of [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yoma 's former husband Ibrahim al Ibrahim , appointed by Menem as Chief of Customs at Buenos Aires international airport , along with a former government official , Mario Caserta , had also been accused of drug laundering in the same report . |
| 2 | Examples included too many groups of activities running at the same time and an emphasis on individual work which could not be sustained in sufficient depth for all the children in the class . |
| 3 | Mailer 's novel has as its running theme the notion of ‘ Alpha ’ and ‘ Omega ’ — two states of mind coexisting in the same person . |
| 4 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |
| 5 | The result of this process is a discrimination tree , any of whose sub-trees contain a set of words beginning with the same phonemic description . |
| 6 | From all directions people were still pouring out of the maze of the Old City and heading towards one of the three gates of the Jama Masjid — three seething crocodiles of humanity heading towards the same walled courtyard . |
| 7 | By being doctrinaire and parochial , it is easy to have a whole host of companies competing in the same home market ; but how many will be effective ( or even in business ) in ten years ' time ? |
| 8 | The sale of weapons belonging to the former East Germany to Finland and Uruguay was confirmed by a German Defence Ministry spokesman on Jan. 3 . |
| 9 | The requirement is equally complied with if he receives a document of title from his seller and then transfers to the innocent sub-purchaser a different document of title relating to the same goods , Mount v. Jay ( 1960 Q.B. ) . |
| 10 | The other caught up round the corner and there were two shadowy forms , skimming silently along together , two waverings of light bouncing and jolting to the fore , and two points of red winking at the same level behind , travelling on . |
| 11 | Problems may arise in respect of expatriates working in the same location on longer-term postings or even local company employees who are dissatisfied with their rates of pay in comparison with salaries and/or bonuses earned by fixed-term contract workers . |
| 12 | Yeah well this is , th this is it I mean th th there are often a lot of things happening at the same time er er some of which as you just sort of hinted at are sort of er erm of a psychological er er have a psychological factor in them which all add to it do n't they ? |
| 13 | According to the Washington Post of Oct. 21 the number of guestworkers living in the former GDR had gone down to 85,000 and the German government was offering US$2,000 and a free flight home if they would leave . |
| 14 | The measured settling velocities are converted into ‘ equivalent sedimentation diameters ’ , or the diameters of spheres settling at the same rate as the natural particles being tested ( Gibbs , Matthews & link , 1971 ) . |
| 15 | There is nothing in the Bill which gives the slightest safeguard against that sort of asset stripping by the same companies to which sections of the National Bus Company were sold . |
| 16 | It was still possible that this was thermonuclear fusion taking place in a mass of gas moving in the same direction as the current , but other measurements made this seem very unlikely . |
| 17 | Family Membership ( £10.50 ) covers two adults and any number of children living at the same address this new category needs to be publicised . |
| 18 | The difficulties of co-ordinating the work of counties and districts , or regions and districts , has not been confined to questions of status relating to the former county boroughs . |
| 19 | Comparisons of prey assemblages of predators hunting over the same area ( Append . |
| 20 | In some cases within the present study the very close correspondence in the titles of some pairs of theses originating in the same university at different times ( e.g. see numbers 156 and 347 ) , suggests that such repetition may have occurred . |
| 21 | Designing , implementing and understanding a brand new architecture , such as the blackboard system , is complicated enough without trying to solve the problems of speech processing at the same time . |
| 22 | There is no good evidence for the widespread and effective use of any methods of family planning outside a few élite or urban groups until the end of the eighteenth century ( Wilson 1984 , Livi-Bacci 1986 ) , and even then appliance methods do not become important for another century . |
| 23 | Some people have great difficulty in solving problems and making decisions and waste a great deal of time ruminating on the same thoughts without ever coming to a clear conclusion . |