Example sentences of "of [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found himself with the duty of helping to make a vital decision for the Church of England at a moment in its destiny . |
| 2 | A general agreement to increase the volume of bilateral trade was signed as well as a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint fishing company . |
| 3 | The polygenic nature of ageing contains a baleful message for gerontologists ; it is most unlikely that engineering of a few genes or intervention in a handful of physiological pathways will prevent the process from occurring . |
| 4 | Mitsubishi , the other Japanese company implicated in the ‘ sting ’ operation , faces similar conspiracy charges and as yet has given no indication of wanting to reach a pre-trial agreement . |
| 5 | There 's a danger when you 're inexperienced of wanting to make a visible mark just in case people do n't notice you . |
| 6 | To this question the defendant answers ‘ No , ’ because at the time of his neglect the plaintiff was not in existence as a living person , had no separate existence apart from her mother , was not capable of suing to assert a legal right , and was not a legal person to whom he could be under a duty . |
| 7 | A BOY aged 14 has appeared before a court in Crewe on a charge of attempting to rape a 92-year-old spinster while carrying out a burglary . |
| 8 | the implication of attempting to establish a central research information centre to give advice to chief officers about research findings , [ or ] collect , collate and distribute research of interest to the police service , and maintain an up-to-date index of research would be very considerable . |
| 9 | Just as the press gave African nationalism its primary means of dissemination and propaganda , so today , along with radio and television , it gives politicians their prime means of reaching national audiences and of attempting to secure a national following . |
| 10 | The ‘ pro-Palestinian ’ faction has been suggesting that the National Front abandon the pretence of attempting to build a mass party . |
| 11 | A police search is under way for a businessman accused of attempting to export a military camera to the Soviet Union after he failed to appear for committal proceedings at Rugby Magistrates Court . |
| 12 | Parvis Yousefi was found guilty at Teesside Crown Court yesterday of four offences of attempting to obtain a pecuniary advantage , five of obtaining property by deception and attempting to obtain property by deception . |
| 13 | Parvis Yousefi was convicted of four offences of attempting to obtain a pecuniary advantage , five offences of obtaining property by deception and attempting to obtain by deception . |
| 14 | Dr Ormerod , who was on a working holiday in the Carpathians , is to be tried on charges of attempting to smuggle a Romanian citizen out of the country . |
| 15 | In October 1989 the government had accused the right-wing opposition of attempting to provoke a military coup by organizing four days of demonstrations in the city of Guayaquil , Febres 's powerbase . |
| 16 | I would simply suggest that we should not allow either sentimentality or a genuine concern for retaining decentralized powers in general to distract us from the major , and separate , task of attempting to determine a common policy for all education at all stages in the future . |
| 17 | So then it 's just a matter of waiting to get a good take , and if you do n't do it by take three , you do n't have any business doing it . |
| 18 | Becher et al cite the following methodological criticisms of inspections : lack of empirical evidence on which they are based : impossibility of getting to know a complex situation quickly ; failure to separate value judgements from evidence . |
| 19 | In distinguishing between ( a ) and ( b ) I may have given the impression of wishing to maintain a strict distinction between space and time as against the physical space-time . |
| 20 | By the end of the 1980S most of the large European companies were explicitly following the mid-1980s French policy of aiming to join a small league of world players . |
| 21 | The row that followed the announcement of a programme of drilling to find a suitable site for burying high-level waste — and resulted in the programme being called off two years ago — has led NIREX to abandon any hope of drilling to find the best geological formation for the intermediate waste . |
| 22 | The mean rate of crawling follows a similar pattern , although it does not actually reach zero until heat coma is entered at 27 ° C. |
| 23 | There was always the last resort of threatening to take a persistent defaulter to court , as wine merchant Henry Berry had done . |
| 24 | This miraculous event caused Massaccio immediately to repent his past life , and he became a Benedictine monk , dying at a great age with the reputation of having led a saintly life in his chosen monastery . |
| 25 | The " feeling of knowing " offered either when drunk , drugged , drowsy or asleep is no reliable indication of having achieved a real solution to a problem ; there are unfortunately no short cuts in that direction ! |
| 26 | The psychological structure for the talker requires , broadly speaking , two kinds of pretence : ( 1 ) an emotional one of having made a momentous decision and ( 2 ) a fictitious factual background . |
| 27 | But the Prime Minister also sought to reject the charge of having created a selfish society . |
| 28 | South Africa , for their part , dignified in defeat , can bask in the afterglow of their second coming , content in the knowledge of having bridged a great divide . |
| 29 | Serious rioting broke out in Los Angeles on April 29 after four white officers of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) were unexpectedly acquitted of having assaulted a black motorist , Rodney King , in March 1991 . |
| 30 | In the latter , pupils succeed or ‘ pass ’ if they reach certain levels of competence : they are expected to give evidence of having reached a particular level of performance regardless of how they stand in relation to their peers . |