Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it was their wood , a place where they often came , Libby felt herself to be an intruder , she did not want to disturb the figure by the water , who was now breaking pieces of stick and dropping them at his feet . |
| 2 | Adding up everyone 's several sources of income and grouping it into a household income , related to where people live and the local rate , is a major exercise that our present income tax system is incapable of doing . |
| 3 | procedure for taking goods out of stock and transferring them to the shop floor |
| 4 | It is a way of thinking and expressing oneself in language that is radically different from conversational speech . |
| 5 | Right across the village , men and women stooped over , black forms against a world of white , shovelling great heaps of snow and tumbling them to the ground in frothy white cascades . |
| 6 | ‘ Like the council , ’ said Constance , ‘ benefactors of humanity and kidding themselves about the perfectibility of man — silly bastards . ’ |
| 7 | Although Stoy Hayward uses DOS versions of 1-2-3 , Mr Wise reports some interest in Windows : ‘ It 's mainly for ease of use , and for the increased ease of transferring a section of spreadsheet and pasting it into the middle of a document . ’ |
| 8 | Stage 4 : Care planning — Negotiating the most appropriate ways of achieving the objectives identified by the assessment of need and incorporating them into an individual care plan . |
| 9 | It has been an almost Darwinian process , of course , with those failing to shrug off the stereotype simply going out of business and removing themselves from the genetic pool . |
| 10 | If he has given no address for service , service may be effected by delivering the document at his residence or by sending it by first class post to his last known residence , or in the case of a proprietor of a business , by delivering the document at his place of business or sending it by first class post to his last known place of business ( Ord 7 , r 1 ) . |
| 11 | By making sure the pigment or glaze was transparent , I could gauge the build-up of colour while mixing it in the palette . |
| 12 | It was Louise who usually attended to Miriam , bringing her a ration of water and helping her nearer the fire at night . |
| 13 | When the British state began its policies of social interventionism from 1945 , it succeeded in fragmenting the local power base of unionism by centralizing the sources of welfare and making them at least in part available across the sectarian divide . |
| 14 | My master was in the habit , when he was particularly busy with his scientific work , of writing orders on pieces of paper and leaving them on the stairs . |
| 15 | Donna rubbed her eyes and got to her feet , picking up the piece of paper and putting it in her handbag . |
| 16 | Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol . |
| 17 | ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything . |
| 18 | After that it is a simple matter of pumping and reeling it to the net . |
| 19 | His control is through their commitment to forming a clear vision of success and turning it into reality , and that vision includes the highest standards of self-discipline . |
| 20 | For Labour , accommodation to the changing mood meant adopting the essentially green idea of assessing the environmental costs of growth and working them into the balance sheets ( which the Tories are also adopting ) , but it did not mean following the Greens in calling for a halt to growth . |
| 21 | He let only a moment go by before filling a teaspoon full of caviar and feeding it to her . |
| 22 | Although people sometimes think of unemployment as having lots of leisure , in fact leisure only has its real meaning when it 's set against work . |
| 23 | On the whole , this is to the great benefit of government , especially conservative governments which thrive on secrecy , paranoia , a paternalistic control of information and protecting us from outside harm . |
| 24 | Even whilst developing the modern immaterialist notion of consciousness , the eighteenth-century empiricists and others were attacking the dignity of intellect and assimilating it to sensory activity by treating thoughts as mere images . |
| 25 | Following the poem 's ritualistic treatment of history and treating it in accord with Eliot 's method for ritual 's interpretation , if we take ‘ enough cross-sections to interpret a process ’ , and the poem invites us to do so , then we must be aware of a general downward movement . |
| 26 | Subsequent research will then be devoted to determining its range of applicability and subjecting it to still further tests . |
| 27 | Practically , it means that students have to become used to expressing a point of view and exposing it to the critical evaluation of their peers , and in this way take on the ethical demands of rationality . |
| 28 | Having a point of view and putting it across to other people I think we 've |
| 29 | She worked furiously , grabbing up heaps of earth and scattering it over the dry , sun-baked grass and loose strands of hay so that the fire should have nothing to devour . |
| 30 | Toddler walks with her had been a superhuman test of patience as she squatted by every puddle , slowly stirring the water with sticks , and picked up myriads of stones , tenderly brushing them free of earth and inserting them with infinite laboriousness into pockets already grinding with pebbles . |