Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The list shows how easy it was at the time ( 1860 ) to raise money for a line intended to run from Craven Arms to Montgomery , and what a number of persons , sufficiently well-disposed to the district to advance such large sums would be deprived of all chance of recouping themselves by completing the line , if the policy of closing it was adopted . |
| 2 | An arsenal of political treacheries was employed to impede our progress , from the medium-range one of accusing us of lacking the right political perspective , to the more insidious long-range ones of accusing us of divisiveness , bringing men into feminism by speaking about the war in Ireland and , even on one occasion , attempting to show an exhibition — the famous , ‘ Bin Lids and Barricades ’ . |
| 3 | Apart from making sure that permanent mains-voltage lights are installed by a competent electrician , the main way of protecting yourself against getting an electric shock from garden lights is to install an RCD . |
| 4 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 5 | ‘ Here you have the sea so I think we have ways and means of — if it came to it — of stopping them from entering the harbour landing . |
| 6 | When you are working with documents which display these difficulties , make a point of clarifying them by rewriting the passage in your own words . |
| 7 | Last week , workers accused union officals of blackmailing them into accepting a package which would give each former employee a week 's wages for every year of service . |
| 8 | Existing contractual arrangements are inadequate as a means both of attracting sufficient high calibre practitioners to work in London and of rewarding them for providing an appropriate range of services . |
| 9 | Nor of preventing him from publishing the letters . |