Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to the possibility of seeing something of the Sicilian town . |
| 2 | They would never have understood , would have perhaps backed away from the possibility of seeing anything but the smiling , assured , beautiful and wealthy Alyssia Stanley . |
| 3 | He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk . |
| 4 | This is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘ union ’ and is part of the Hindu philosophy of self-discipline which teaches self-control , with the aim of becoming one with the impersonal god force . |
| 5 | At the time of writing none of the other firms is quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market or the Stock Exchange . |
| 6 | Mr Gillance said : ‘ He turned to dishonesty in the hope of providing something for the two of them because by then they were in debt . ’ |
| 7 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 8 | Bingham wants to hand over to his successor a highly competent squad capable of doing something in the European Championships and the basis of it is certainly there . |
| 9 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 10 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 11 | We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month , but if we did , but now that we 've got someone interested in the house |
| 12 | The earlier cases do not make any reference to the possibility of arresting someone for the sole purpose of questioning him or her with a view to obtaining a confession . |