Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 2 | ‘ And I just do n't see the point of pressing on through that muck . ’ |
| 3 | The Progressive Democrats had been on the brink of walking out of Prime Minister Albert Reynolds ' government team over an accusation of dishonesty he made against their leader , Des O'Malley , last week . |
| 4 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 5 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 6 | But the real significance of the demonstration is that for the first time high-powered personal computers are capable of keeping up with normal speech without … the … speaker … doing … this . |
| 7 | Time magazine was another way of keeping up with Western life . |
| 8 | You were sort of dallying about from one foot to the other . |
| 9 | And that 's the kind of singling out of one group of workers , and making a special case for them , that she really disapproved of . |
| 10 | Possibly their bruises were simply the effect of ejecting on to hard sand from a fast aircraft . |
| 11 | As noted above , a majority of Oxfordshire teachers are in favour of going on to second round of reviews and reports . |
| 12 | Despite this perceived impotence , a majority of teachers are in favour of going on to another round of reviews and reports . |
| 13 | And obviously longer term if you can get er a victory tonight then obviously it sets you up with a reasonably good chance of of going through from this group because two home wins , a couple of away games to go , and i it would set you up nicely . |
| 14 | This thought , of why Jasper consented to let her sleep here , instead of going up to another room , or asking her to go , made her mind swirl , as if it — her mind was nauseous . |
| 15 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 16 | It 's quite good on D'Urbino and Speckle particularly ; if you were ever thinking of going back to that monograph . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I thought of going out for some choc bars , ’ he would say , adding sotto voce as his daughter ran for her anorak , ‘ and I thought we might drop off at the gym/piano teacher's/library on the way … ’ |
| 18 | The mere signal of takeover intentions normally engenders a rise in the share price , hence a lessening in the advantages of selling out to another party . |
| 19 | He declared on television that " Poland 's painful but necessary programme of getting out of economic catastrophe can only be realized with the understanding of the majority of the nation " and that " the country had made its choice " . |
| 20 | It decreases the possibility of , of getting out of that situation because you 've got so many other people against , against whom you 're competing for work . |
| 21 | The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room . |
| 22 | Apart from the fact that it divested its foundry business some four years ago — and has no intention of getting back into that game — Motorola can supply 88000 parts at a $850 apiece . |
| 23 | So are they looking for it to lead to a , sort of getting back to last week 's terminology , a restoration or , or are are they actually , do they know that they 're getting involved in a revolution ? |
| 24 | Consequently , science should contain within it a means of breaking out of one paradigm into a better one . |
| 25 | Not to exaggerate the cat 's breeding abilities , it must be recorded that from the age of eight until twelve years there is a gradual decline in the number of kittens produced in each litter , so the reproductive apparatus is beginning to show signs of slowing down at this stage , and only the strongest and healthiest of moggies can stay the full course . |
| 26 | It is useful for the client to set him/herself specific homework assignments to complete before the following session — the notion of reporting back to one person , or a group , acts as an incentive for action . |
| 27 | In all , over 300 tons of stores will be delivered into Safra this way , with individual aircraft capable of dispatching up to twenty-four one-ton containers per sortie . |
| 28 | The occult even stoops to necromancy , the claimed practice of calling back into temporary life a dead body for the purposes of extracting information out of its spirit . |
| 29 | Their career opportunities consist of a fairly good chance of moving up to senior technician , and a very slim chance of becoming a lab director . |
| 30 | Raising the level of skills amongst British workers is so crucial , not only to any immediate programme of moving back to full employment , but also to maintaining and improving Britain 's long-term performance , that the question of training can not be left to the free play of market forces . |