Example sentences of "of a [noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean th the , the analogy that occurs to me is of a dam holding back a raging torrent . |
| 2 | The ASB also published with the Foreword an exposure draft of a foreword carrying out the same role for Urgent Issues Task Force abstracts . |
| 3 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 4 | Whoever heard of a manufacturer signing up a has-been like Brian Harley and then advancing his caddie , who was hardly noted for his reliability , in the region of £7000 for his services ? |
| 5 | Mr Rafter looked over my shoulder while I drew a request item for a small boy — a picture of a witch jumping over a bonfire . |
| 6 | That certainly would fit very well with the familiar notion of a writer shaking off the anguished preoccupations of childhood and adolescence , free now in his maturity to put ironic distance between himself and that world , but it wo n't do . |
| 7 | The heart chakra , for example , has been seen in terms of a river curving around a conical hill with a church . |
| 8 | He asked himself whether an employee of a company carrying on the business of giving financial advice and of financial management to the public under the regulatory umbrella provided by FIMBRA owes a duty of confidentiality that extends to barring disclosure information to FIMBRA . |
| 9 | This was done by asking them to report the position of a dot moving round an oscilloscope screen at the moment of the experience . |
| 10 | Sometimes a commercial is deliberately written round a particular character , because he or she seems an absolute ‘ natural ’ for the product , but there is always the danger of a personality taking over a brand completely . |
| 11 | This provides a classic instance of a president taking on the legislature in the most important of policy areas and succeeding in imposing his will . |
| 12 | In this new position he could see a picture of a woman hanging on the wall opposite . |
| 13 | This potentially infringes the " undivided loyalty " rule , even if the information about B was unknown to the individual advising A. If the information was passed on to A the firm would , however , breach its duty of confidentiality to B. A final example is that of a broker/dealer carrying out an agency cross and matching the transactions of two clients . |
| 14 | I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand . |
| 15 | Some late night joy-riding fool of a soldier ripping up the beach with his big truck tyres ? |
| 16 | A later development was the combination of track circuiting , in which an electrical circuit is completed by the wheels of a train passing over a section of track , with ‘ lock and block ’ so that the electric-block instruments were controlled by the trains themselves and thus safety was doubly assured . |
| 17 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 18 | Short lengths of other internal streets have been identified but it is clear that , even though they intersect most often at right angles , there was no regular gridded system One strange omission is the absence of a street running down the west side of the supposed forum , which would have linked a known street further north with that running between the two military compounds . |