Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The degree of supercoiling imposed on the viral genome in vivo is not known , but our experiments show that a moderate superhelical density can exert an stabilizing effect on the open complexes formed at the P A2b and P A3 promoters , which should be important in facilitating the transition into elongation complexes . |
| 2 | Already the trade showed signs of becoming restricted to the immediate neighbourhood of Reading , whose clothiers seem to have controlled most of the output of Berkshire . |
| 3 | From about AD500 the Christian Church introduced a practice of dating according to the nearest religious festival . |
| 4 | The foundations of interviewing lie in the mundane observation that individuals can report on what they feel , are , have , tell others about their lives , disclose what their hopes and fears are , offer their opinions , state what they believe in , say what they did last week , how much they spend on food , who they see regularly , and so on ; in short , they can impart masses of information about themselves . |
| 5 | How has a Montpellier fishwife so mastered the art of composition that with her basket of fish for the bouillabaisse she is presenting a picture of such splendour that instead of going to look at the famous collection of paintings in the Musée Fabre you drive off as fast as possible to the coast to order a dish cooked with just such fish ? |
| 6 | Carefully Sally moved against it and felt a sort of yearning begin in the sensitised area between her thighs . |
| 7 | generally erm and if we 're talking about the strategy we 've got ta sort of er sort out for ourselves whether we think the strategy of getting rid of the local tyrants and the evil gentry is the wa right way to actually achieve that the aims of getting rid of warlords . |
| 8 | They would have had more chance of getting established in the late 1980s . |
| 9 | However , it does have the merit of beginning to touch upon the multiple sources of these meanings : what I think ‘ popular ’ you may not . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman does not have to worry about the normal courtesy of staying to listen to the next speaker . |
| 11 | To Western eyes this method seemed restricted and undemocratic , but to the Soviets it was considered an orderly method of proceeding compared to the apparent chaos of Western politics . |
| 12 | It was stripped of this status when its majority Tatar population was deported to Central Asia , accused of having collaborated during the Second World War with the Nazi German occupiers . |
| 13 | Although the committee was expected primarily to identify people suspected of having collaborated with the Iraqi army , opposition sources quoted in the Guardian of Feb. 13 expressed the fear that such a committee might be used against dissidents , adding that , if this were so , such a body " would be very dangerous if there were no parliament " . |
| 14 | I would like you to watch me interview him ’ — immediately lets the class off the hook of having to participate in the normal way . |
| 15 | There the colonnade was wider and the slender arches more open ; standing in the deep shade , I looked out over the tree-tops and the sea to the languishing ash-lilac mountains … a déjà vu feeling of having stood in the same place , before that particular proportion of the arches , that particular contrast of shade and burning landscape outside — I could n't say . |
| 16 | In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle . |
| 17 | Borgman ( 1982 ) in a later article added that the older child ‘ who keeps in touch does not experience the guilt of having to choose between the adoptive and biological parents ’ ( p. 218 ) . |
| 18 | You may be better advised to start again , possibly finding your candidates by a different method , than risk the problems of engaging an inadequate candidate and being faced with all the disruption of having to go through the whole process at a later stage anyway . |
| 19 | Instead of having to go through the hoary old DOS prompt when you boot up , you 'll go straight into Windows . |
| 20 | Absorption or wet scrubbing as it is often called has however the disadvantage of having to dispose of the liquid effluent obtained , which may itself require treatment before disposal , and has led to the comment that we may be merely replacing one effluent problem by another by using this method . |
| 21 | The danger is that it is not enough , particularly after so many months of failing to respond to the economic crisis . |
| 22 | The pattern of staining differed in the deep lamina propria , where the density of TNF α+; cells was significantly greater in Crohn 's disease ( 118.2 cells/mm , 85.1 to 159 ) than in ulcerative colitis ( 28.8 cells/mm , 10.9 to 64.3 , p<0.0005 ) or controls ( 1.9 cells/mm , 0 to 3.8 , p<0.0001 — Fig 1B ) . |
| 23 | Jan. 1587 , lie bound to good behaviour Elizabeth Watson of Halling 20 shillings and William Symons 10 shillings , also Henry Bray , Yeoman 10 shillings , all of Halling to appear at the next quarter sessions at Maidstone and in the meanwhile to be of good behaviour . |
| 24 | Knowledge of this fact being the result of the finding , the to infinitive is required in order to evoke it in the subsequence of the event of discovering denoted by the main verb . |
| 25 | Jean Philippe Vernes , of BNP Securities , said although rumours in the French market are sometimes ways for punters to make quick money , some of the current ones are cases of stakebuilding based on the fundamental restructuring of the European financial services industry . |
| 26 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 27 | I have a lot of thinking to do over the next couple of months . |
| 28 | But instead of trying to adapt to the British way of life he rebelled against it and reverted to his African heritage . |
| 29 | Do any differences in ways of working arise from the organizational differences ? |
| 30 | The fact that monitoring and evaluation are built into this way of working adds to the efficient use of resources , particularly by breaking up activities and the focus of work in a long-term situation . |