Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many new cars are now capable of using unleaded petrol and most modern cars can be altered to take it at very little expense with no loss of performance . |
| 2 | The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community . |
| 3 | ‘ The Counterforce ’ — the title of this section — becomes a shorthand way of denoting textual disruption and thereby of distinguishing Pynchon 's activities from the tainted notions of synthesis and control . |
| 4 | Their task , as they saw it , was largely one of preserving internal stability while adroitly guiding the organization 's response to fast-paced external change ’ ( Waterman et al. , 1991 : 51 ) . |
| 5 | The authors go on to offer examples of students whose transition from college has been one of experiencing limited choice and often unsuitable placements . |
| 6 | Ideally someone in the ferreting party will be given the task of removing each rabbit as soon as it is caught up . |
| 7 | Taking the case at its highest against the plaintiffs I assume for the purposes of considering this point that either Mr. Twycross or his secretary took the opportunity of the presence of the son in the office to hand the letters in their envelopes to him for the purpose of delivery to the parents . |
| 8 | Aziz characterized the Gulf war as a " pan-Arab battle in which Iraq had assumed the responsibility of defending pan-Arab security as well as the Gulf region in particular " . |
| 9 | The ability to empathise , to connect with our own and each other 's inner strength , is a necessary part of giving healing massage or even when offering a shoulder to cry on . |
| 10 | This attitude seems to be the result of viewing judicial review as chiefly designed to protect the rights of the individual from unlawful interference by government . |
| 11 | But then it would have to face up to the fact that , by comparison with much of the rest of the world , it would grow steadily poorer with no chance of arresting that trend until well into the next century . |
| 12 | The reasons for this phenomenon is as follows : firstly , each lender has its own system of calculating gross interest and secondly , when base rates rise or fall , lenders are at liberty to delay or hurry up passing on the benefits/bad news to their customers . |
| 13 | And we shall see , furthermore , in the chapter on structuralism how far a Saussurean or semiotic theory of language in particular opens up the scope of literary theory , because it provides a means of theorising non-literary reality as well as literature itself . |
| 14 | Sheldrake sees these fields as being endowed with the property of traversing empty space or actually constituting it . |